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THE IMPEACH CHENEY EFFORT
A FITTING MEMORIAL
BEDTIME STORY
The
first 80 years behind the Bushes
Bush at the Harvard Business School
List of Bush administration scandals
Bush
art: the graphics of despair
Bush
regime war crimes
Bush's
resume
Bush's drug and other problems
George Bush has always liked torture
George Bush debates George Bush
DSL: Dubya as a second language
Bush's military record
Bush & the Carlyle Group
Bush
book the media didn't want to hear about
Daddy Bush and Clinton and BCCI
What happened to Geronimo's skull?
Bush first term timeline
Bushwhacks
Sarcasm,
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THE
BUSH LEAGUE
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Dick
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Michael
Chertoff
Chris
Cox
Ari
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Robert
Gates
Alberto Gonzalez
Michael Hayden
Eric Keroack
Michael
Leeden
Donald
Murphy
Robert
Mueller
John
Negroponte
Paul
O'Neil
Theodore
OIson
Richard
Perle
John
Poindexter
Colin
Powell
Michael
Powell
Otto
Reich
Robert
Reilly
John
Rendon
Condoleezza
Rice
James
Roche
Donald
Rumsfeld
Karl
Rove
Stewart
Simonson
Clarence
Thomas
Ken
Tomlinson
John
Walters
BUSH BULGE
CARLYLE
GROUP
ENRON
HALLIBURTON
HARKEN
MANHATTAN
INSTITUTE
SKULL
& BONES
RESUME
FOR GEORGE BUSH
[From the blog of Marc Perkel, 2004]
Past work experience
- Ran for Congress and lost.
- Produced a Hollywood slasher B
movie.
- Bought an oil company, but couldn't
find any oil in Texas, company went bankrupt shortly after I
sold all my stock.
- Bought the Texas Rangers baseball
team in a sweetheart deal that took land using tax-payer money.
Biggest move: Traded Sammy Sosa to the Chicago White Sox
- With father's help (and his name)
was elected Governor of Texas. Accomplishments: Changed pollution
laws for power and oil companies and made Texas the most polluted
state in the Union. Replaced Los Angeles with Houston as the
most smog ridden city in America. Cut taxes and bankrupted the
Texas government to the tune of billions in borrowed money. Set
record for most executions by any governor in American history.
- Became president after losing
the popular vote by over 500,000 votes with the help of the Supreme
Court.
Accomplishments as president -
- Either lied or used extremely
flawed intelligence against the advice of many of our own military,
most of our allies, and most of the church leaders of America
to waste much of our wealth and many of our soldiers lives on
an unwise and unjust war.
- Spent the huge surplus left by
the Clinton administration and bankrupted our nation's treasury.
- Shattered record for biggest annual
deficit in history.
- Set economic record for most private
bankruptcies filed in any 12 month period.
- First president in U.S. history
to enter office with a criminal record.
- First year in office set the all-time
record for most days on vacation by any president in U.S. history
(25%).
- After taking the entire month
of August off for vacation, presided over the worst security
failure in U.S. history.
- Set the record for most campaign
fund-raising trips than any other president in U.S. history.
- In just two years in office over
2 million Americans lost their jobs.
- Cut unemployment benefits for
more out of work Americans than any president in U.S. history.
- Set the all-time record for most
foreclosures in a 12 month period.
- Presided over a 45% increase in
the loss of home ownership in America since the year 2000.
- Appointed more convicted criminals
to administration positions than any president in U.S. history.
- Set the record for the least amount
of press conferences than any president since the advent of television.
- Signed more laws and executive
orders amending the Constitution than any president in U.S. history.
- Presided over the biggest energy
crises in U.S. history and refused to intervene when corruption
was revealed.
- Presided over the highest gasoline
prices in U.S. history and refused to use the national reserves
as past presidents have.
- Cut healthcare benefits for war
veterans.
- Set the all-time record for most
people worldwide to simultaneously take to the streets to protest
against any person in the history of mankind.
- Dissolved more international treaties
than any president in U.S. history.
- The most secretive and unaccountable
administration in U.S. history.
- The wealthiest cabinet ever in
U.S. history. (the poorest multi-millionaire, Condoleeza Rice
had a Chevron oil tanker named after her).
- Presided over the biggest corporate
stock market frauds of any market in any country in the history
of the world.
- Created the largest government
department bureaucracy in the history of the United States.
- Set the all-time record for biggest
annual budget spending increases, more than any president in
U.S. history.
- First president in U.S. history
to have the United Nations remove the U.S. from the human rights
commission.
- Withdrew from the World Court
of Law.
- Removed more checks and balances,
and have the least amount of congressional oversight than any
presidential administration in U.S. history.
- Made the United States the least
respected member of the entire United Nations.
- Refused to allow independent inspectors
access to U.S. prisoners of war and by default no longer abide
by the Geneva Conventions.
- First president in U.S. history
to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002
U.S. elections).
- All-time U.S. (and world) record
holder for most corporate campaign donations.
- George W. Bush's biggest life-time
campaign contributor presided over one of the largest corporate
bankruptcy frauds in world history (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of
Enron Corporation).
-Spent more money on polls and focus
groups than any president in U.S. history.
- First president in U.S. history
to unilaterally attack a sovereign nation against the will of
the United Nations and the world community.
- First president to run and hide
when the U.S. came under attack
- Took the biggest world sympathy
for the U.S. after 911, and in less than a year made the U.S.
the most detested country in the world
- With a policy of 'disengagement'
created the most hostile Israeli-Palestine relations in at least
30 years.
- Changed U.S. policy to allow convicted
criminals to be awarded government contracts.
- Removed more freedoms and civil
liberties for Americans than any other president in U.S. history.
- In a little over two years created
the most divided country in decades, possibly the most divided
the U.S. has ever been since the Civil War.
- Entered office with the strongest
economy in U.S. history and in less than two years turned every
single economic category heading straight down.
Records and References
- At least one conviction for drunk
driving in Maine (Texas driving record has been erased and is
not available)
- AWOL from National Guard and deserted
the military during a time of war.
- Refuse to take drug test or even
answer any questions about drug use.
- All records of my tenure as governor
of Texas have been spirited away to my father's library, sealed
in secrecy and un-available for public view.
- All records of any SEC investigations
into my insider trading or bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy
and unavailable for public view.
- All minutes of meetings for any
public corporation I served on the board are sealed in secrecy
and un-available for public view.
- Any records or minutes from meetings
I (or my VP) attended regarding public energy policy are sealed
in secrecy and un-available for public review.
GREAT
THOUGHTS OF THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF
You can't be president
and head of the military at the same time - President Bush
to Pakistan President Musharraf
You know, when you give a man more money
in his pocket -- in this case, a woman more money in her pocket
to expand a business, it -- they build new buildings. And when
somebody builds a new building, somebody has got to come and
build the building. And when the building expanded, it prevented
additional opportunities for people to work.
GOP LAWYER SUES BUSH FOR WRONGFUL ARREST
AND ABUSE
THE BUSH WAR ON WHISTLEBLOWERS
SMOKING GUN ON BUSH REGIME AND TORTURE
BUSH REGIME SAYS HOLDING MERCENARIES TO
SAME STANDARDS AS OTHER U.S. CITIZENS WOULD HAVE 'UNINTENDED
AND INTOLERABLE CONSEQUENCES'
COULD BUSH PARDON HIMSELF?
YAHOO ANSWERS - Let's
say it was a Capital crime. And let's say the whole cabinet was
in on it. Could the president pardon his whole cabinet, resign,
and then the Vice-President (now president) pardon him?
No one really knows the answer because
it has never happened and been litigated. However, the majority
view is that a president can pardon himself (assuming he does
so prior to impeachment). Art. II Sec. 2 of the Constitution
states, in part, that the president "shall have Power to
grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States,
except in Cases of Impeachment." The purpose of this clause
was to insure the separation of powers by preventing the courts
from using the law as a legal blackmail against the president.
. . There is a minority view that the president cannot pardon
himself.
A FEW REASONS TO JOIN THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION
JON CARROLL, SF CHRONICLE
- I really, really want to be a member of the Bush administration.
I wish I'd realized what a cool job it was earlier, but there's
still time. Let's look at the perks.
For one thing, I could get a nickname.
I've never had a nickname. It could be Jon-Boy or Mr. Toasty
or Smallfoot . . .
That's another thing I could do as a member
of the Bush administration: I could lie. I could lie to Congress
and the FBI and pretty much everybody, knowing the president
had my back. . .
And, if all that fails, I'd still have
the Supreme Court on my side. . .
If I were a lawyer, I might worry that
a felony conviction would hamper my ability to practice law.
. .
Another advantage of being a member of
the Bush administration: ill-gotten gains.
And suppose I were to invite a pig to a
meeting of my top aides. If some disaffected ex-employee mentioned
my habit of bringing pigs into the room, I could say that I have
no recollection of any pig in the room. . .
Eventually, I might have to resign to spend
more time with my family. But I like spending time with my family.
It's pretty much a win-win for me.
FORMER US SURGEON GENERAL TELLS HOW
BUSH MUZZLED HIM
REUTERS - The first
U.S. surgeon general appointed by President George W. Bush accused
the administration of political interference and muzzling him
on key issues like embryonic stem cell research. "Anything
that doesn't fit into the political appointees' ideological,
theological or political agenda is ignored, marginalized or simply
buried," Dr. Richard Carmona, who served as the nation's
top doctor from 2002 until 2006, told a House of Representatives
committee. . .
Carmona said Bush administration political
appointees censored his speeches and kept him from talking out
publicly about certain issues, including the science on embryonic
stem cell research, contraceptives and his misgivings about the
administration's embrace of "abstinence-only" sex education.
. .
Carmona said he was politically naive when
he took the job, but became astounded at the partisanship and
manipulation he witnessed as administration political appointees
hemmed him in. . .
Carmona testified with two predecessors,
Dr. C. Everett Koop, who served under President Ronald Reagan,
and Dr. David Satcher, named by Clinton but whose term ended
under Bush.
Carmona said some of his predecessors told
him, "We have never seen it as partisan, as malicious, as
vindictive, as mean-spirited as it is today, and you clearly
have worse than anyone's had."
BUSH DIDN'T THINK ATHEISTS WERE COVERED
BY THE CONSTITUTION
POSITIVE ATHEIST - When George Bush was
campaigning for the presidency, as incumbent vice-president,
one of his stops was in Chicago, Illinois, on August 27, 1987.
At O'Hare Airport he held a formal outdoor news conference. There
Robert I. Sherman, a reporter for the American Atheist news journal,
fully accredited by the state of Illinois and by invitation a
participating member of the press corps covering the national
candidates, had the following exchange with then-Vice-President
Bush.
Sherman: What will you do to win the votes
of the Americans who are atheists?
Bush: I guess I'm pretty weak in the atheist
community. Faith in God is important to me.
Sherman: Surely you recognize the equal
citizenship and patriotism of Americans who are atheists?
Bush: No, I don't know that atheists should
be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots.
This is one nation under God.
Sherman (somewhat taken aback): Do you
support as a sound constitutional principle the separation of
state and church?
Bush: Yes, I support the separation of
church and state. I'm just not very high on atheists.
http://www.positiveatheism.org/writ/ghwbush.htm
JUNE 2007
BUSH REPORTED ACTING STRANGELY IN MEETINGS
WITH FRIENDS
THINK PROGRESS - Anne Geyer writes in the
Dallas Morning News about President Bush's strange behavior during
a recent meeting"
"Friends of his from Texas were shocked
recently to find him nearly wild-eyed, thumping himself on the
chest three times while he repeated 'I am the president!' He
also made it clear he was setting Iraq up so his successor could
not get out of 'our country's destiny.'"
This is the second time in recent weeks
that accounts have surfaced of Bush lashing out or "ranting"
in private meetings when responding to criticism of his Iraq
policy. Chris Nelson of the Nelson Report offered a similar account
earlier this month:
"Some big money players up from Texas
recently paid a visit to their friend in the White House. The
story goes that they got out exactly one question, and the rest
of the meeting consisted of The President in an extended whine,
a rant, actually, about no one understands him, the critics are
all messed up, if only people would see what he's doing things
would be OK. . . etc., etc."
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/31/bush-wild-eyed/
BUSH NAMES ANTI-GAY SURGEON GENERAL
ART JESTER, HERALD-LEADER, KY - The nomination
of University of Kentucky professor Dr. James W. Holsinger as
U.S. surgeon general has come under fire from groups that fear
his actions as a high-ranking official in the United Methodist
Church indicate he is anti-gay. Holsinger, 68, who holds UK's
Charles T. Wethington Jr. Chair in the Health Sciences and is
a former chancellor of UK's Chandler Medical Center and a former
state Secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services,
is being challenged for his role in decisions by the United Methodist
Judicial Council. That highest "court" rules on disputes
involving church doctrine and policies in the nation's second-largest
Protestant denomination.
In his role on the nine-member Judicial
Council, Holsinger has opposed a decision to allow a practicing
lesbian to be an associate pastor, and he supported a pastor
who would not permit an openly gay man to join the church. .
.
"Dr. James Holsinger has demonstrated
in the past that he harbors religious-based prejudice towards
homosexuals," said Jamie McDaniel, coordinator of Soulforce
Lexington, the local chapter of a national organization that
opposes the use of religion to oppress lesbian, gay, bisexual
and transgender people. . .
Holsinger's pastor, the Rev. David Calhoun
of Hope Springs Community Church in Lexington, is one of the
doctor's friends and supporters who said his interpretations
of church policy have been correct and reflect longstanding majority
opinion within the denomination. . .
Calhoun, a United Methodist pastor, noted
that Holsinger and his wife, Barbara, were members of Lexington's
First United Methodist Church, which asked them to set out and
start a new congregation. They founded Hope Springs Community
Church in a warehouse at 1109 Versailles Road. Calhoun called
it a socially diverse congregation with a "very vital recovery
ministry." It serves the homeless and those with addictions
to drugs, alcohol and sex; and it has a Spanish-language Hispanic
congregation with its own pastor. . . Hope Springs also ministers
to people who no longer wish to be gay or lesbian, Calhoun said.
"We see that as an issue not of orientation but of lifestyle,"
he said. "We have people who seek to walk out of that lifestyle."
http://www.kentucky.com/454/story/85442.html
MARCH 2007
DUBYA ON THE ROAD
We can never replace lives, and we can't
heal hearts, except through prayer. - Enterprise, Alabama, Mar.
3, 2007
You know, it's interesting to come back
down here to the Gulf Coast. I tried to think back about what
it was like the first time I came after the storm hit. And I
guess the -- my most vivid recollection is the piles of rubble,
literally debris stacked upon debris. It was -- it's hard to
believe then that I would be -- I had faith that I'd be able
to come to a home, but I had trouble visualizing. And then I
kept coming down and I watched the improvement, because of the
hard work of the local citizens, people like the Mayor here and
the Governor, who set a vision that was a hopeful vision. The
federal government's role has been to write checks. The Governor's
role and the Mayor's role is help to expedite the federal money
to the local folks. And today, we are able to sit in a homeowner
-- the word is home. Again, one of the things I like to say is,
when somebody walks in, welcome to my home. And it has a special
ring to it here in the Gulf Coast, because there was a time when
their home was totally destroyed. -- This entire passage has
a "special" ring to it - Long Beach, Mississippi, Mar.
1, 2007
I'm a strong proponent of the restoration
of the wetlands, for a lot of reasons. There's a practical reason,
though, when it comes to hurricanes. The stronger the wetlands,
the more likely the damage of the hurricane. - New Orleans, Louisiana,
Mar. 1, 2007
In return for federal money, we expect
local districts and states to measure, to have tests. The principal,
the good Doc asked me to go into the 4th grade class and say
to the kids, good luck on the test tomorrow. That was music to
my ears, because you don't know whether or not a child is reading
unless you test. -- Does he actually believe that? New Orleans,
Louisiana, Mar. 1, 2007
http://www.dubyaspeak.com/freshdubya.phtml
JANUARY 2007
GREAT THOUGHTS OF GEORGE BUSH
"I promise you I will listen
to what has been said here, even though I wasn't here."
- at the President's Economic Forum in Waco, Texas, Aug. 13,
2002
"We spent a lot of time
talking about Africa, as we should. Africa is a nation that suffers
from incredible disease." - Gothenburg, Sweden, June 14,
2001
"You teach a child to read,
and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.'' - Townsend,
Tenn., Feb. 21, 2001
"I glance at the headlines
just to kind of get a flavor for what's moving. I rarely read
the stories, and get briefed by people who are probably read
the news themselves." - Washington, D.C., Sept. 21, 2003
"I'm the commander - see,
I don't need to explain - I do not need to explain why I say
things. That's the interesting thing about being president."
- quoted in Bob Woodward's Bush at War
"I am here to make an announcement
that this Thursday, ticket counters and airplanes will fly out
of Ronald Reagan Airport." - Washington, D.C., Oct. 3, 2001
"Do you have blacks, too?"
- to Brazilian President Fernando Cardoso, Washington, D.C.,
Nov. 8, 2001
"This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating."
- as quoted by the New York Daily News, April 23, 2002
"It is white." - after
being asked by a child in Britain what the White House was like,
July 19, 2001
"I couldn't imagine somebody
like Osama bin Laden understanding the joy of Hanukkah."
- at a White House menorah lighting ceremony, Washington, D.C.,
Dec. 10, 2001
"I'm the master of low expectations."
- aboard Air Force One, June 4, 2003
"People say, how can I help
on this war against terror? How can I fight evil? You can do
so by mentoring a child; by going into a shut-in's house and
say I love you." -Washington, D.C., Sept. 19, 2002
"I wish you'd have given
me this written question ahead of time so I could plan for it…I'm
sure something will pop into my head here in the midst of this
press conference, with all the pressure of trying to come up
with answer, but it hadn't yet. . . - President George W. Bush,
after being asked to name the biggest mistake he had made, Washington,
D.C., April 3, 2004
- "My plan reduces the national
debt, and fast. So fast, in fact, that economists worry that
we're going to run out of debt to retire." - radio address,
Feb. 24, 2001
- "I try to go for longer
runs, but it's tough around here at the White House on the outdoor
track. It's sad that I can't run longer. It's one of the saddest
things about the presidency." -interview with "Runners
World," Aug. 2002
- "I trust God speaks through
me. Without that, I couldn't do my job." - to a group of
Amish he met with privately, July 9, 2004
-. "There's an old saying
in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -
that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you
can't get fooled again." - Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002
-. "Too many good docs are
getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to
practice their love with women all across this country."
- Poplar Bluff, Mo., Sept. 6, 2004
- "Our enemies are innovative
and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about
new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."
-ashington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004
FIFTY BEST QUOTES
http://www.billclevlen.com/bushisms.htm
~Compiled by Daniel Kurtzman
AT LEAST 90% OF ALL BUSH VOTERS HAD
PRE-MARITAL SEX
[We have extrapolated this fact
by assuming that all of the 5% of the American public that did
not have pre-marital sex were Bush voters, which leaves 90% of
those casting a ballot for Bush having violated the sanctity
of marriage and the abstinence only principles promulgated by
their leader]
AP - More than nine out of 10
Americans, men and women alike, have had premarital sex, according
to a new study. The high rates extend even to women born in the
1940s, challenging perceptions that people were more chaste in
the past. . . Even among a subgroup of those who abstained from
sex until at least age 20, four-fifths had had premarital sex
by age 44, the study found.
The study, examining how sexual
behavior before marriage has changed over time, was based on
interviews conducted with more than 38,000 people -- about 33,000
of them women -- in 1982, 1988, 1995 and 2002 for the federal
National Survey of Family Growth. According to [the] analysis,
99 percent of the respondents had had sex by age 44, and 95 percent
had done so before marriage.
[A researcher] said the likelihood
of Americans having sex before marriage has remained stable since
the 1950s, though people now wait longer to get married and thus
are sexually active as singles for extensive periods. The study
found women virtually as likely as men to engage in premarital
sex, even those born decades ago. Among women born between 1950
and 1978, at least 91 percent had had premarital sex by age 30,
he said, while among those born in the 1940s, 88 percent had
done so by age 44.
"The data clearly show that
the majority of older teens and adults have already had sex before
marriage, which calls into question the federal government's
funding of abstinence-only-until-marriage programs for 12- to
29-year-olds," Finer said. Under the Bush administration,
such programs have received hundreds of millions of dollars in
federal funding.
JOHN MCCASLIN, WASH TIMES - For several years, Inside the Beltway
has observed the mysterious bike-riding habits of President Bush.
Members of the White House press corps, who regularly accompany
the president deep into the woods of suburban Maryland or else
onto the dusty terrain of his Texas ranch, seldom if ever actually
see Mr. Bush atop a bicycle. The big question is why? Could something
secretive or covert be taking place that doesn't involve two
wheels? For instance, did Mr. Bush in 2004 really fall off of
a bicycle and cut his chin, upper lip, nose, both knees and right
hand (when his Democratic opponent, Sen. John Kerry, inquired:
"Did the training wheels fall off?"), or did something
more unusual cause his injuries? Was the president actually "enjoying"
a bike ride so much during a major terrorist scare in Washington
that the Secret Service, or so we were told, didn't bother to
tell him that his own wife, Laura, and Vice President Dick Cheney
had been rushed into a secure bunker? And how about the Sunday
morning not long ago when Mr. Bush's church attire was unusually
"bulky"? Immediately after the sermon, the president
in the space of seconds had shed his suit of clothes and appeared
in a brightly colored outfit that the White House insisted was
"bike-riding gear." 'I've never seen a man who hasn't
been drinking get out of a suit faster," noted Julie Mason
of the Houston Chronicle. Now, we learn of yet another bizarre
twist involving a presidential biking trek this past weekend.
Mr. Bush had been participating in an "extended" intelligence
briefing in the Oval Office with his national security team,
when suddenly a half-dozen young men and women showed up dressed
in the same colorful gear worn by Mr. Bush. The entire group,
including the president, immediately climbed into several heavily
protected vehicles and sped off. But wait, there's more, discovered
in the official White House pool report: "Four of them carried
rakes and brooms along with their riding gear; why they had the
rakes and brooms with them was unclear."
NOVEMBER 2006
BUSH'S SECRET HIGHWAY
JEROME R. CORSI, HUMAN EVENTS
- Quietly but systematically, the Bush Administration is advancing
the plan to build a huge NAFTA Super Highway, four football-fields-wide,
through the heart of the U.S. along Interstate 35, from the Mexican
border at Laredo, Tex., to the Canadian border north of Duluth,
Minn. Once complete, the new road will allow containers from
the Far East to enter the United States through the Mexican port
of Lazaro Cardenas, bypassing the Longshoreman's Union in the
process. The Mexican trucks, without the involvement of the Teamsters
Union, will drive on what will be the nation's most modern highway
straight into the heart of America. The Mexican trucks will cross
border in fast lanes, checked only electronically by the new
"SENTRI" system. The first customs stop will be a Mexican
customs office in Kansas City, their new Smart Port complex,
a facility being built for Mexico at a cost of $3 million to
the U.S. taxpayers in Kansas City.
As incredible as this plan may
seem to some readers, the first Trans-Texas Corridor segment
of the NAFTA Super Highway is ready to begin construction next
year. Various U.S. government agencies, dozens of state agencies,
and scores of private NGOs (non-governmental organizations) have
been working behind the scenes to create the NAFTA Super Highway,
despite the lack of comment on the plan by President Bush. .
. A good reason Bush does not want to secure the border with
Mexico may be that the administration is trying to create express
lanes for Mexican trucks to bring containers with cheap Far East
goods into the heart of the U.S., all without the involvement
of any U.S. union workers on the docks or in the trucks.
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=15497&this=stupid
PSYCHOTICS MORE LIKELY TO SUPPORT BUSH
ANDY BROMAGE, NEW HAVEN ADVOCATE - A collective "I told you so"
will ripple through the world of Bush-bashers once news of Christopher
Lohse's study gets out. Lohse, a social work master's student
at Southern Connecticut State University, says he has proven
what many progressives have probably suspected for years: a direct
link between mental illness and support for President Bush. .
.
The thesis draws on a survey
of 69 psychiatric outpatients in three Connecticut locations
during the 2004 presidential election. Lohse's study, backed
by SCSU Psychology professor Jaak Rakfeldt and statistician Misty
Ginacola, found a correlation between the severity of a person's
psychosis and their preferences for president: The more psychotic
the voter, the more likely they were to vote for Bush.
But before you go thinking all
your conservative friends are psychotic, listen to Lohse's explanation.
"Our study shows that psychotic patients prefer an authoritative
leader," Lohse says. "If your world is very mixed up,
there's something very comforting about someone telling you,
'This is how it's going to be.'". . .
"Bush supporters had significantly
less knowledge about current issues, government and politics
than those who supported Kerry," the study says. Lohse says
the trend isn't unique to Bush: A 1977 study by Frumkin &
Ibrahim found psychiatric patients preferred Nixon over McGovern
in the 1972 election. . .
For his part, Lohse is a self-described
"Reagan revolution fanatic" but said that W. is just
"beyond the pale."
GEORGE BUSH WOULD LIKE TO HAVE US STILL
FIGHTING VIETNAM WAR
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE - US President
George W. Bush, making his first visit to Vietnam, said that
one lesson of the bloody US military defeat here a generation
ago was that the United States must be patient in Iraq. "We'll
succeed unless we quit," promised Bush, the second US president
to visit post-war Vietnam, after talks with close ally Australian
Prime Minister John Howard on the sidelines of an Asia Pacific
summit in Hanoi. . . Asked whether the US defeat in Vietnam offered
lessons, the US president replied: "We tend to want there
to be instant success in the world, and the task in Iraq is going
to take a while.". . .
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/11/17/061117134723.b5pa72t9.html
DON'T LET YOUR KIDS GROW
UP TO BE BUSHES
THE BUSH BOYS illustrate the
danger of raising families on welfare. In fact, they are among
the nation's most successful public welfare spongers including:
- George, who has lived much
of his life on insider trading of one sort or another - some
of it just costly to family and friends as he stumbled from one
failed deal to another and but some of it - like the Harken affair
- raising the possibility of public fraud as well. Then there
is the cost to the people of Texas who helped finance Dubya's
baseball team with a sweetheart rental and purchase option agreement
as well as the use of eminent domain in order to make little
Bush rich.
- Jeb, whose failed S&L
deal cost us all $4 million.
- Jonathan, whose east coast
brokerage was fined in two states for violating laws with Jonathan
barred from public trading in Massachusetts.
- Neil, who joined the board
of the Silverado S&L, which eventually went bankrupt at a
cost of $1 billion to the American taxpayers.
So if you want your kids to
grow up straight and save some money, keep them away from that
Bush family.
BRITAIN HOLDS SECRET TRIAL TO AVOID
POSSIBLY REVEALING BUSH WAR CRIME
RICHARD NORTON-TAYLOR, GUARDIAN
UK - Two men are to be tried behind closed doors in an Old Bailey
courtroom in a move that will stop the public finding out whether
George Bush proposed what would have been a war crime and how
Tony Blair reacted. The evidence the government does not want
us to hear is in an official record of a meeting in Washington
in April 2004, when the situation in Iraq was deteriorating fast.
The memo, it has been reported, refers to Bush's alleged proposal
to bomb the Arabic TV channel al-Jazeera, and is said to reveal
how far Blair went in criticising US military tactics in Iraq
at a time when troops were bombarding Falluja.
David Keogh, a former civil servant,
is charged with unlawfully disclosing the memo. Leo O'Connor,
a former Labor researcher, is charged with disclosing a classified
document. The way the government went about demanding a private
trial, and the arguments used by the judge to allow it, are deeply
disturbing.
Sir Nigel Sheinwald, Blair's
foreign-policy adviser, who was present at the Washington meeting,
told government lawyers that the disclosure of the memo "could
have a serious impact upon the international relations"
of the UK, and was likely to have damaged the "promotion
or protection" of British interests, including those of
British citizens in Iraq.
Sheinwald signed a certificate
necessary to persuade the judge that the trial should be held
in secret before Keogh and O'Connor were charged at the end of
last year. We now know that, soon after the men were charged,
government prosecutors requested an adjournment of the pre-trial
hearings until April 2006. They said they needed a certificate
from the foreign secretary. Two weeks later Margaret Beckett
replaced Jack Straw. In June she signed the required certificate.
The government has not explained why Straw failed to sign one
when he was foreign secretary.
Beckett claims that the disclosure
of the memo would be as harmful now as when it was first drawn
up: disclosure would have a "serious negative impact on
UK/US diplomatic relations. The ultimate consequence ... would
be a substantial risk of harm to national security." Beckett
continues: "My assessment is that this risk is of such magnitude
to outweigh the interest of open public justice."
In his little-noticed ruling
the judge, Mr Justice Aikens, elaborates on these claims. The
contents of the memo would be read "throughout the world",
he warns - a prospect, it seems, too awful to contemplate. .
. "It is reasonable to conclude," he warns, that some
individuals, parts of the media, and "even some states",
might react "very unfavorably" to the memo's contents.
This might be "for no other reason than the topic under
discussion was US/UK policy concerning the state of Iraq at a
delicate time". And he comes with a trump card. He says:
"It is also legitimate, in my view, for the court to bear
in mind the ever-present threat to national safety which is posed
by the possibility of terrorist acts by extremists in the UK."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1921328,00.html
ASIDE FROM BEING A PROTO-FASCIST SOME
OTHER WAYS GEORGE BUSH IS DIFFERENT FROM PREVIOUS PRESIDENTS
GARRY WILLS, NY REVIEW OF BOOKS - The right wing in America likes
to think that the United States government was, at its inception,
highly religious, specifically highly Christian, and even more
specifically highly biblical. That was not true of that government
or any later government - until 2000, when the fiction of the
past became the reality of the present. George W. Bush was not
only born-again, like Jimmy Carter. His religious conversion
came late, and took place in the political setting of Billy Graham's
ministry to the powerful. He was converted during a stroll with
Graham on his father's Kennebunkport compound. It is true that
Dwight Eisenhower was guided to baptism by Graham. But Eisenhower
was a famous and formed man, the principal military figure of
World War II, the leader of NATO, the president of Columbia University­his
change in religious orientation was just an addition to many
prior achievements. Bush's conversion at a comparatively young
stage in his life was a wrenching away from mainly wasted years.
. . .
Bush was a saved alcoholic - and here, too, he had no predecessor
in the White House. Ulysses Grant conquered the bottle, but not
with the help of Jesus. Other presidents were evangelicals. Three
of them belonged to the Disciples of Christ - James Garfield,
Lyndon Johnson, and Ronald Reagan. But none of the three - nor
any of the other forty-two presidents preceding Bush (including
his father)­would have answered a campaign debate question
as he did. Asked who was his favorite philosopher, he said "Jesus
Christ." And why? "Because he changed my heart."
. . .
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/19590
BUSH REPORTED TO HAVE PURCHASED 99,000
ACRES IN PARAGUAY
Why might the president and his
family need a 98,840-acre ranch in Paraguay protected by a semi-secret
U.S. military base manned by American troops who have been exempted
from war-crimes prosecution by the Paraguayan government? - Wonkette
PRENSA LATINA - The land grab project of US President George
W. Bush in Chaco, Paraguay, has generated considerable discomfort
both politically and environmentally. The news circulating the
continent about plans to buy 98,840 acres of land in Chaco, Paraguay,
near the Triple Frontier (Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay) is the talk
of the town in these countries.
Although official sources have
not confirmed the information that is already public, the land
is reportedly located in Paso de Patria, near Bolivian gas reserves
and the Guarani indigenous water region, within the Triple Border.
. .
Concern increased last week with
the arrival of Bush" daughter, Jenna, and a source from
the Physical Planning Department saying that most of the Chaco
region belongs to private companies.
Luis D'Elia, Argentina´s
undersecretary for Land for Social Habitat, says the matter raises
regional concern because it threatens local natural resources.
STEVE O - It has been reported
that George W. Bush has recently purchased a 98,842 acre farm
in Northern Paraguay. What on earth does the President of the
United States need a 98,000+ acre farm in Northern Paraguay for?
On the surface it looks all very
innocent, but let's add the very quiet trip that Jenna Bush made
to the country earlier this month in which she met Paraguayan
President Nicanor Duarte and his family at their official residence.
She also met with U.S. Ambassador James Cason. Could it be that
our little drunken Jenna is all grown up and playing diplomacy?
This all still seems very innocent
on the surface, but now let's add the five hundred U.S. troops
that arrived in Paraguay with planes, weapons and ammunition
in July 2005, shortly after the Paraguayan Senate granted U.S.
troops immunity from national and International Criminal Court
jurisdiction. Neighboring countries and human rights organizations
are concerned the massive air base at Mariscal Estigarribia,
Paraguay is potential real estate for the U.S. military.
Does Bush plan on being charged
with something in the future? Does Bush foresee a collapse of
the United States and feels a strong need to have a place to
cut and run to, or does Bush just need a nice secret little place
other than Gitmo where he can send people he doesn't like?
http://www.teambio.org/2006/10/bush-family-98842-acres-and-a-mule/
BRING IT ON - Jenna Bush paid a secret diplomatic visit to Paraguayan
President Nicanor Duarte and U.S. Ambassador James Cason. There
were no press conferences, no public sightings and no official
confirmation of her 10-day trip which apparently ended this week.
. .
And Jenna's down there having
secret meetings with the president and America's ambassador to
Paraguay, James Cason. Bush posted Cason in Havana in 2002, but
last year moved him to Paraguay. Cason apparently gets around.
A former "political adviser" to the U.S. Atlantic Command
and ATO's Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic, Cason has been stationed
in El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Panama … basically
everywhere the U.S. has run secret and not-so-secret wars over
the past 30 years.
Here's a fun question for Tony
Snow: Why might the president and his family need a 98,840-acre
ranch in Paraguay protected by a semi-secret U.S. military base
manned by American troops who have been exempted from war-crimes
prosecution by the Paraguayan government?
WONKETTE - Here's a little background
on the base itself, which Rumsfeld secretly visited in late 2005:
U.S. Special Forces began arriving this past summer at Paraguay's
Mariscal Estigarribia air base, a sprawling complex built in
1982 during the reign of dictator Alfredo Stroessner.
Argentinean journalists who got
a peek at the place say the airfield can handle B-52 bombers
and Galaxy C-5 cargo planes. It also has a huge radar system,
vast hangers, and can house up to 16,000 troops. The air base
is larger than the international airport at the capital city,
Asuncion.
BUSH PARAGUAY LAND DEAL RUMOR UPDATE
TOM PHILLIPS, GUARDIAN - Meeting
the new couple next door can be an anxious business for even
the most relaxed home owner. Will they be international drug
traffickers? Have they got noisy kids with a penchant for electronic
music? As worries go, however, having the US president move in
next door must come fairly low on the list.
Unless of course you are a resident
of northern Paraguay and believe reports in the South American
press that he has bought up a 100,000 acre ranch in your neck
of the woods.
The rumors, as yet unconfirmed
but which began with the state-run Cuban news agency Prensa Latina,
have triggered an outpouring of conspiracy theories, with speculation
rife about what President Bush's supposed interest in the "chaco",
a semi-arid lowland in the Paraguay's north, might be.
Some have speculated that he
might be trying to wrestle control of the Guarani Aquifer, one
of the largest underground water reserves, from the Paraguayans.
Rumors of Mr Bush's supposed
forays into South American real estate surfaced during a recent
10-day visit to the country by his daughter Jenna Bush. Little
is known about her trip to Paraguay. . . Reports in sections
of the Paraguayan media suggested she was sent on a family "mission"
to tie up the land purchase in the "chaco".
Erasmo Rodríguez Acosta,
the governor of the Alto Paraguay region where Mr Bush's new
acquisition supposedly lies, told one Paraguayan news agency
there were indications that Mr Bush had bought land in Paso de
Patria, near the border with Brazil and Bolivia. He was, however,
unable to prove this, he added.
Last week the Paraguayan news
group Neike suggested that Ms Bush was in Paraguay to "visit
the land acquired by her father - relatively close to the Brazilian
Pantanal [wetlands] and the Bolivian gas reserves".
The US presence in Paraguay has
been under scrutiny since May 2005 when the country's Congress
agreed to allow 400 American marines to operate there for 18
months in exchange for financial aid.
At the time many viewed the arrival
of troops as a sign that Washington was trying to monitor US
business interests in neighboring Bolivia, after the election
of Evo Morales, a leftwing leader who promised to nationalize
his country's natural gas industry.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1928928,00.html
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