Bush Accused of Rape

The woman who accused Clinton of rape swore under oath he didn't rape her; the woman who accused Bush of rape turned up with a bullet in her head.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2006/3/13/193803/-

 

Bush Disrespects US Flag

5397   PM:   Rockytop   [Quote]     -- 7:56am -- Thu, May 9, 19 pst
Rockytop
Them standing on Old Glory is self
explanatory



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Yes, it is.

http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/images/bush911.jpg

Bush's Iraq Letter

Yes, Bush  blamed Iraq for the 9/11 attacks and put it in writing in a letter to congress.

Dear Mr. Speaker: ( Dear Mr. President: )

Consistent with section 3(b) of the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002 (Public Law 107-243), and based on information available to me, including that in the enclosed document, I determine that:

(1) reliance by the United States on further diplomatic and other peaceful means alone will neither (A) adequately protect the national security of the United States against the continuing threat posed by Iraq nor (B) likely lead to enforcement of all relevant United Nations Security Council resolutions regarding Iraq; and

(2) acting pursuant to the Constitution and Public Law 107-243 is consistent with the United States and other countries continuing to take the necessary actions against international terrorists and terrorist organizations, including those nations, organizations, or persons who planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001.

Sincerely,

GEORGE W. BUSH



http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/03/19/sprj.irq.letter/index.html

Bush Excludes Military Ballot

Yes, it's true the Bush campaign sought to EXCLUDE some military ballots.



"Bush lawyers opposed this military ballot because it lacked a witness’s signature. The ballot, from a Democrat,
was sent to Citrus County, a central Florida county narrowly carried
by Mr. Bush."



Election Supervisor Susan Gill: “Okay. Here’s her
signature, which matches, but it appears there is no witness, and
it’s got a date signed.”



Rob Horton, Republican lawyer: “We are going to object
to that.” 



http://www.nytimes.com/images/2001/07/15/politics/absentee/nat_ABSENTEE_count_02.html

John Bolton Speaks

"In an op-ed last July, Bolton wrote that undermining the U.S. Constitution “is far more than just a quotidian covert operation. It is in fact a casus belli, a true act of war, and one Washington will never tolerate.” He charged that Trump had been duped by Putin in their meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit last summer."



“Let me just say from the outset that I don’t consider Bolton credible.” - George W. Bush, 2008


“Nothing can erase the ineffable sadness of an American presidency, like this one, in total intellectual collapse.” - John Bolton



https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/john-bomb-iran-bolton-the-new-warmonger-in-the-white-house?reload=true 



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"Trump got to experience Putin looking him in the eyes and lying, denying Russian interference in the election. It was predictable Putin would say that, as he has before (offering the gratuitous, nearly insulting suggestion that individual hackers might have been responsible).

Commentators observed that governments almost never straightforwardly acknowledge their intelligence activities. But attempting to undermine America's constitution is far more than just a quotidian covert operation. It is in fact a casus belli, a true act of war, and one Washington will never tolerate."



"For Trump, it should be a highly salutary lesson about the character of Russia's leadership to watch Putin lie to him. And it should be a fire-bell-in-the-night warning about the value Moscow places on honesty, whether regarding election interference, nuclear proliferation, arms control or the Middle East: negotiate with Russia at your peril."



https://www.smh.com.au/world/putin-looked-trump-in-the-eye-and-lied-negotiate-with-russia-at-our-peril-20170710-gx8ifi.html

UN Inspectors in Iraq

Yes, Saddam DID allow UN inspectors into Iraq. This report from "The Washington Post" notes that Bush urged UN inspectors to leave. Most readers understand, the inspectors would NOT be urged to leave Iraq were they not allowed to enter Iraq.



"The United Nations ordered its inspectors and humanitarian personnel out
of Iraq, and Bush urged foreign nationals to leave the country
immediately."



https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2003/03/18/president-tells-hussein-to-leave-iraq-within-48-hours-or-face-invasion/ff737af4-5d31-446a-9860-869f2bc6478e/?utm_term=.25c81d77a7e4



https://tinyurl.com/ydgrtfjs

Barbara Bush Blames Drink and Smoke

8499   PM:   Tejanobob   [Quote]     -- 5:16pm -- Wed, Apr 18, 18 pst

Tejanobob

Mrs. Bush told her doctor, before she died, that George W. is the way he is because she drank and smoked during pregnancy.

Bush and Putin - Soul Mates?

Bush looked into Putin's soul.

''I can understand the strategy on rapport, but it went too far,'' said
Mr. McFaul. ''I think there is plenty of good reason not to trust
President Putin. This is a man who was trained to lie.''

https://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/18/world/cordial-rivals-how-bush-and-putin-became-friends.html

Rent-A-Spook

In Kitty Kelley's "The Family," she quotes Austin political consultant, Peck Young. He says that young Bush was ''bulletproof.''

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Bush Disaster

''“With his unprovoked and disastrous war of aggression in Iraq and his monstrous deficits, Bush has set this country on a course that will take decades to correct,” said another historian. “When future historians look back to identify the moment at which the United States began to lose its position of world leadership, they will point—rightly—to the Bush presidency. Thanks to his policies, it is now easy to see America losing out to its competitors in any number of area: China is rapidly becoming the manufacturing powerhouse of the next century, India the high tech and services leader, and Europe the region with the best quality of life.”'' - http://hnn.us/articles/48916.html

“No individual president can compare to the second Bush,” wrote one. “Glib, contemptuous, ignorant, incurious, a dupe of anyone who humors his deluded belief in his heroic self, he has bankrupted the country with his disastrous war and his tax breaks for the rich, trampled on the Bill of Rights, appointed foxes in every henhouse, compounded the terrorist threat, turned a blind eye to torture and corruption and a looming ecological disaster, and squandered the rest of the world’s goodwill. In short, no other president’s faults have had so deleterious an effect on not only the country but the world at large.”

http://hnn.us/articles/48916.html

''Nouriel Roubini, a New York University professor nicknamed ''Dr. Doom'' for his dour views on the economy, says in this video that when President Obama came to power, he inherited a budget deficit of $1.2 trillion. When Bush came to power, the country had a surplus of $300 billion.

''We destroyed our fiscal sustainability before [President Obama] came to power,'' Roubini said. ''We had guns and butter and low taxes. It doesn't work. iI you want guns and butter, you should have high taxes during wars.''

Obama ''inherited a mess,'' Roubini added. ''We're lucky that this Great Recession is not turning into another Great Depression.''''


http://money.msn.com/mutual-fund/article.aspx?post=09d90714-2402-4772-a6c5-86d2af7ccaed


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Job Growth

Compare jobs growth under Bush to jobs growth under Obama.

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Bush Admitted to Torture

Bush admits to committing war crimes.

"WASHINGTON -- The American people have heard President Bush and his spokespeople say many times that the U.S. government does not engage in torture.



Whether Bush was believed or not is another story -- especially in light of the photographic evidence of the abuse of prisoners in Abu Ghraib. It's understood that many of the photos are too sadistically graphic to be made public.



Still, the official U.S. denials of torture continued until earlier this month when Bush acknowledged in an interview with ABC-TV that he knew about and approved "enhanced interrogation" of detainees, including "waterboarding" or simulated drowning.



"As a matter of fact," Bush added, "I told the country we did that. And I told them it was legal. We had legal opinions that enabled us to do it.""

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Who Has the Better Unemployment Record?

Much has been made of the unemployment rate continuing to go up after Obama took office in late January, 2009. So, I thought it would be a good idea to have a look at Bush's record and compare it to Obama's. Guess what.

It went up MORE during Bush's first 18 months than it did during Obama's! The right wingers don't want to talk about this fact.

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The Politics of God

I'd never heard of Welton Gaddy, a Baptist minister from Louisiana, but I caught this bit on MSNBC's Hardball Monday night. The guy impressed me.

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

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War Crimes

Retired General who investigated Abu Ghraib accuses Bush officials of "war crimes." From McClatchy News:

"WASHINGTON — The Army general who led the investigation into prisoner abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison accused the Bush administration Wednesday of committing "war crimes" and called for those responsible to be held to account.

The remarks by Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba, who's now retired, came in a new report that found that U.S. personnel tortured and abused detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, using beatings, electrical shocks, sexual humiliation and other cruel practices.

"After years of disclosures by government investigations, media accounts and reports from human rights organizations, there is no longer any doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war crimes," Taguba wrote. "The only question that remains to be answered is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account.""

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Disrespect for the Flag

United States Code: Title 4, Chapter 1
Section 8: Respect for the flag

No disrespect should be shown to the flag of the United States of America;
the flag should not be dipped to any person or thing. Regimental colors, State flags, and organization or institutional flags are to be dipped as a mark of honor.

[. . . ]

(g) The flag should never have placed upon it, nor on any part of it,
nor attached to it any mark, insignia, letter, word, figure, design, picture, or drawing of any nature.

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Bush Accused of Rape

It doesn't pay to cross Bush.

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Why Bush Must Go - By George McGovern

Why I Believe Bush Must Go
Nixon Was Bad. These Guys Are Worse.
By George McGovern
Washington Post; Sunday, January 6, 2008; Page B01

As we enter the eighth year of the Bush-Cheney administration, I have belatedly and painfully concluded that the only honorable course for me is to urge the impeachment of the president and the vice president.

After the 1972 presidential election, I stood clear of calls to impeach President Richard M. Nixon for his misconduct during the campaign. I thought that my joining the impeachment effort would be seen as an expression of personal vengeance toward the president who had defeated me.

Today I have made a different choice.

Of course, there seems to be little bipartisan support for impeachment. The political scene is marked by narrow and sometimes superficial partisanship, especially among Republicans, and a lack of courage and statesmanship on the part of too many Democratic politicians. So the chances of a bipartisan impeachment and conviction are not promising.

But what are the facts?

Bush and Cheney are clearly guilty of numerous impeachable offenses. They have repeatedly violated the Constitution. They have transgressed national and international law. They have lied to the American people time after time. Their conduct and their barbaric policies have reduced our beloved country to a historic low in the eyes of people around the world. These are truly "high crimes and misdemeanors," to use the constitutional standard.

From the beginning, the Bush-Cheney team's assumption of power was the product of questionable elections that probably should have been officially challenged -- perhaps even by a congressional investigation.

In a more fundamental sense, American democracy has been derailed throughout the Bush-Cheney regime. The dominant commitment of the administration has been a murderous, illegal, nonsensical war against Iraq. That irresponsible venture has killed almost 4,000 Americans, left many times that number mentally or physically crippled, claimed the lives of an estimated 600,000 Iraqis (according to a careful October 2006 study from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health) and laid waste their country. The financial cost to the United States is now $250 million a day and is expected to exceed a total of $1 trillion, most of which we have borrowed from the Chinese and others as our national debt has now climbed above $9 trillion -- by far the highest in our national history.

All of this has been done without the declaration of war from Congress that the Constitution clearly requires, in defiance of the U.N. Charter and in violation of international law. This reckless disregard for life and property, as well as constitutional law, has been accompanied by the abuse of prisoners, including systematic torture, in direct violation of the Geneva Conventions of 1949.

I have not been heavily involved in singing the praises of the Nixon administration. But the case for impeaching Bush and Cheney is far stronger than was the case against Nixon and Vice President Spiro T. Agnew after the 1972 election. The nation would be much more secure and productive under a Nixon presidency than with Bush. Indeed, has any administration in our national history been so damaging as the Bush-Cheney era?

How could a once-admired, great nation fall into such a quagmire of killing, immorality and lawlessness?

It happened in part because the Bush-Cheney team repeatedly deceived Congress, the press and the public into believing that Saddam Hussein had nuclear arms and other horrifying banned weapons that were an "imminent threat" to the United States. The administration also led the public to believe that Iraq was involved in the 9/11 attacks -- another blatant falsehood. Many times in recent years, I have recalled Jefferson's observation: "Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just."

The basic strategy of the administration has been to encourage a climate of fear, letting it exploit the 2001 al-Qaeda attacks not only to justify the invasion of Iraq but also to excuse such dangerous misbehavior as the illegal tapping of our telephones by government agents. The same fear-mongering has led government spokesmen and cooperative members of the press to imply that we are at war with the entire Arab and Muslim world -- more than a billion people.

Another shocking perversion has been the shipping of prisoners scooped off the streets of Afghanistan to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and other countries without benefit of our time-tested laws of habeas corpus.

Although the president was advised by the intelligence agencies last August that Iran had no program to develop nuclear weapons, he continued to lie to the country and the world. This is the same strategy of deception that brought us into war in the Arabian Desert and could lead us into an unjustified invasion of Iran. I can say with some professional knowledge and experience that if Bush invades yet another Muslim oil state, it would mark the end of U.S. influence in the crucial Middle East for decades.

Ironically, while Bush and Cheney made counterterrorism the battle cry of their administration, their policies -- especially the war in Iraq -- have increased the terrorist threat and reduced the security of the United States. Consider the difference between the policies of the first President Bush and those of his son. When the Iraqi army marched into Kuwait in August 1990, President George H.W. Bush gathered the support of the entire world, including the United Nations, the European Union and most of the Arab League, to quickly expel Iraqi forces from Kuwait. The Saudis and Japanese paid most of the cost. Instead of getting bogged down in a costly occupation, the administration established a policy of containing the Baathist regime with international arms inspectors, no-fly zones and economic sanctions. Iraq was left as a stable country with little or no capacity to threaten others.

Today, after five years of clumsy, mistaken policies and U.S. military occupation, Iraq has become a breeding ground of terrorism and bloody civil strife. It is no secret that former president Bush, his secretary of state, James A. Baker III, and his national security adviser, Gen. Brent Scowcroft, all opposed the 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq.

In addition to the shocking breakdown of presidential legal and moral responsibility, there is the scandalous neglect and mishandling of the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe. The veteran CNN commentator Jack Cafferty condenses it to a sentence: "I have never ever seen anything as badly bungled and poorly handled as this situation in New Orleans." Any impeachment proceeding must include a careful and critical look at the collapse of presidential leadership in response to perhaps the worst natural disaster in U.S. history.

Impeachment is unlikely, of course. But we must still urge Congress to act. Impeachment, quite simply, is the procedure written into the Constitution to deal with presidents who violate the Constitution and the laws of the land. It is also a way to signal to the American people and the world that some of us feel strongly enough about the present drift of our country to support the impeachment of the false prophets who have led us astray. This, I believe, is the rightful course for an American patriot.

As former representative Elizabeth Holtzman, who played a key role in the Nixon impeachment proceedings, wrote two years ago, "it wasn't until the most recent revelations that President Bush directed the wiretapping of hundreds, possibly thousands, of Americans, in violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) -- and argued that, as Commander in Chief, he had the right in the interests of national security to override our country's laws -- that I felt the same sinking feeling in my stomach as I did during Watergate. . . . A President, any President, who maintains that he is above the law -- and repeatedly violates the law -- thereby commits high crimes and misdemeanors."

I believe we have a chance to heal the wounds the nation has suffered in the opening decade of the 21st century. This recovery may take a generation and will depend on the election of a series of rational presidents and Congresses. At age 85, I won't be around to witness the completion of the difficult rebuilding of our sorely damaged country, but I'd like to hold on long enough to see the healing begin.

There has never been a day in my adult life when I would not have sacrificed that life to save the United States from genuine danger, such as the ones we faced when I served as a bomber pilot in World War II. We must be a great nation because from time to time, we make gigantic blunders, but so far, we have survived and recovered.

anmcgove@dwu.edu

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Bush Mis-Placing Money in Iraq

Any way you cut it, folks, Bush's misadventure in Iraq has been a total disaster:

"A financial review carried out by the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction (SIGIR), looking into large Iraqi Relief and Reconstruction Fund projects, has revealed that most of the $1.2 billion in funding that the U.S. State Department provided to DynCorp International to train Iraqi police is unaccounted for, CNN reported on Tuesday."

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Presidential Gibberish

Okay, maybe it isn't fair to poke fun at Bush for his mangled syntax, but I can't help myself. See if you can figure out what he's trying to say here. Direct from the White House.

"Because the -- all which is on the table begins to address the big cost drivers. For example, how benefits are calculated, for example, is on the table. Whether or not benefits rise based upon wage increases or price increases There's a series of parts of the formula that are being considered. And when you couple that, those different cost drivers, affecting those -- changing those with personal accounts, the idea is to get what has been promised more likely to be -- or closer delivered to that has been promised. Does that make any sense to you? It's kind of muddled.

Look, there's a series of things that cause the -- like, for example, benefits are calculated based upon the increase of wages, as opposed to the increase of prices. Some have suggested that we calculate -- the benefits will rise based upon inflation, supposed to wage increases.

There is a reform that would help solve the red if that were put into effect. In other words, how fast benefits grow, how fast the promised benefits grow, if those -- if that growth is affected, it will help on the red."

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