Bush Family-Nazi Link (Better Believe it!)

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by John Buchanan, The New Hampshire Gazette, October 10, 2003

WASHINGTON - After 60 years of inattention and even denial by the U.S. media, newly-uncovered government documents in The National Archives and Library of Congress reveal that Prescott Bush, the grandfather of President George W. Bush, served as a business partner of and U.S. banking operative for the financial architect of the Nazi war machine from 1926 until 1942, when Congress took aggressive action against Bush and his "enemy national" partners.

The documents also show that Bush and his colleagues, according to reports from the U.S. Department of the Treasury and FBI, tried to conceal their financial alliance with German industrialist Fritz Thyssen, a steel and coal baron who, beginning in the mid-1920s, personally funded Adolf Hitler's rise to power by the subversion of democratic principle and German law.

Furthermore, the declassified records demonstrate that Bush and his associates, who included E. Roland Harriman, younger brother of American icon W. Averell Harriman, and George Herbert Walker, President Bush's maternal great-grandfather, continued their dealings with the German industrial baron for nearly eight months after the U.S. entered the war.

What's War Got To Do, Got To Do With It?

No Story?

For six decades these historical facts have gone unreported by the mainstream U.S. media. The essential facts have appeared on the Internet and in relatively obscure books, but were dismissed by the media and Bush family as undocumented diatribes. This story has also escaped the attention of "official" Bush biographers, Presidential historians and publishers of U.S. history books covering World War II and its aftermath.

The White House did not respond to phone calls seeking comment.

The Summer of '42

The unraveling of the web of Bush-Harriman-Thyssen U.S. enterprises, all of which operated out of the same suite of offices at 39 Broadway under the supervision of Prescott Bush, began with a story that ran in the New York Herald-Tribune on July 30, 1942. By then, the U.S. had been at war with Germany for nearly eight months.

"Hitler's Angel Has $3 Million in U.S. Bank," declared the headline. The lead paragraph characterized Fritz Thyssen as "Adolf Hitler's original patron a decade ago." In fact, the steel and coal magnate had aggressively supported and funded Hitler since October 1923, according to Thyssen's autobiography, I Paid Hitler. In that book, Thyssen also acknowledges his direct personal relationships with Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels and Rudolf Hess.

The Herald-Tribune also cited unnamed sources who suggested Thyssen's U.S. "nest egg" in fact belonged to "Nazi bigwigs" including Goebbels, Hermann Goering, Heinrich Himmler, or even Hitler himself.

Business is Business

The "bank," founded in 1924 by W. Averell Harriman on behalf of Thyssen and his Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart N.V. of Holland, was Union Banking Corporation (UBC) of New York City. According to government documents, it was in reality a clearing house for a number of Thyssen-controlled enterprises and assets, including as many as a dozen individual businesses. UBC also bought and shipped overseas gold, steel, coal, and U.S. Treasury and war bonds. The company's activities were administered for Thyssen by a Netherlands-born, naturalized U.S. citizen named Cornelis Lievense, who served as president of UBC. Roland Harriman was chairman and Prescott Bush a managing director.

The Herald-Tribune article did not identify Bush or Harriman as executives of UBC, or Brown Brothers Harriman, in which they were partners, as UBC's private banker. A confidential FBI memo from that period suggested, without naming the Bush and Harriman families, that politically prominent individuals were about to come under official U.S. government scrutiny as Hitler's plunder of Europe continued unabated.

After the "Hitler's Angel" article was published Bush and Harriman made no attempts to divest themselves of the controversial Thyssen financial alliance, nor did they challenge the newspaper report that UBC was, in fact, a de facto Nazi front organization in the U.S.

Instead, the government documents show, Bush and his partners increased their subterfuge to try to conceal the true nature and ownership of their various businesses, particularly after the U.S. entered the war. The documents also disclose that Cornelis Lievense, Thyssen's personal appointee to oversee U.S. matters for his Rotterdam-based Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart N.V., via UBC for nearly two decades, repeatedly denied to U.S. government investigators any knowledge of the ownership of the Netherlands bank or the role of Thyssen in it.

UBC's original group of business associates included George Herbert Walker, who had a relationship with the Harriman family that began in 1919. In 1922, Walker and W. Averell Harriman traveled to Berlin to set up the German branch of their banking and investment operations, which were largely based on critical war resources such as steel and coal.

The Walker-Harriman-created German industrial alliance also included partnership with another German titan who supported Hitler's rise, Friedrich Flick, who partnered with Thyssen in the German Steel Trust that forged the Nazi war machine. For his role in using slave labor and his own steel, coal and arms resources to build Hitler's war effort, Flick was convicted at the Nuremberg trials and sentenced to seven years in prison.

The Family Business

In 1926, after Prescott Bush had married Walker's daughter, Dorothy, Walker brought Bush in as a vice president of the private banking and investment firm of W.A. Harriman & Co., also located in New York. Bush became a partner in the firm that later became Brown Brothers Harriman and the largest private investment bank in the world. Eventually, Bush became a director of and stockholder in UBC.

However, the government documents note that Bush, Harriman, Lievense and the other UBC stockholders were in fact "nominees," or phantom shareholders, for Thyssen and his Holland bank, meaning that they acted at the direct behest of their German client.

Seized

On October 20, 1942, under authority of the Trading with the Enemy Act, the U.S. Congress seized UBC and liquidated its assets after the war. The seizure is confirmed by Vesting Order No. 248 in the U.S. Office of the Alien Property Custodian and signed by U.S. Alien Property Custodian Leo T. Crowley.

In August, under the same authority, Congress had seized the first of the Bush-Harriman-managed Thyssen entities, Hamburg-American Line, under Vesting Order No. 126, also signed by Crowley. Eight days after the seizure of UBC, Congress invoked the Trading with the Enemy Act again to take control of two more Bush-Harriman-Thyssen businesses - Holland-American Trading Corp. (Vesting Order No. 261) and Seamless Steel Equipment Corp (Vesting Order No. 259). In November, Congress seized the Nazi interests in Silesian-American Corporation, which allegedly profited from slave labor at Auschwitz via a partnership with I.G. Farben, Hitler's third major industrial patron and partner in the infrastructure of the Third Reich.

The documents from the Archives also show that the Bushes and Harrimans shipped valuable U.S. assets, including gold, coal, steel and U.S. Treasury and war bonds, to their foreign clients overseas as Hitler geared up for his 1939 invasion of Poland, the event that sparked World War II.

That's One Way to Put It

Following the Congressional seizures of UBC and the other four Bush-Harriman-Thyssen enterprises, The New York Times reported on December 16, 1944, in a brief story on page 25, that UBC had "received authority to change its principal place of business to 120 Broadway." The Times story did not report that UBC had been seized by the U.S. government or that the new address was the U.S. Office of the Alien Property Custodian. The story also neglected to mention that the other UBC-related businesses had also been seized by Congress.

Still No Story?

Since then, the information has not appeared in any U.S. news coverage of any Bush political campaign, nor has it been included in any of the major Bush family biographies. It was, however, covered extensively in George H.W. Bush: The Unauthorized Biography, by Webster Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin. Chaitkin's father served as an attorney in the 1940s for some of the victims of the Bush-Harriman-Thyssen businesses.

The book gave a detailed, accurate accounting of the Bush family's long Nazi affiliation, but no mainstream U.S. media entity reported on or even investigated the allegations, despite careful documentation by the authors. Major booksellers declined to distribute the book, which was dismissed by Bush supporters as biased and untrue. Its authors struggled even to be reviewed in reputable newspapers. That the book was published by a Lyndon LaRouche's organization undoubtedly made it easier to dismiss, but does not change the facts.

The essence of the story been posted for years on various Internet sites, including BuzzFlash.com and TakeBackTheMedia.com, but no online media seem to have independently confirmed it.

Likewise, the mainstream media have apparently made no attempt since World War II to either verify or disprove the allegations of Nazi collaboration against the Bush family. Instead, they have attempted to dismiss or discredit such Internet sites or "unauthorized" books without any journalistic inquiry or research into their veracity.

Loyal Defenders

The National Review ran an essay on September 1 by their White House correspondent Byron York, entitled "Annals of Bush-Hating." It begins mockingly: "Are you aware of the murderous history of George W. Bush - indeed, of the entire Bush family? Are you aware of the president's Nazi sympathies? His crimes against humanity? And do you know, by the way, that George W. Bush is a certifiable moron?" York goes on to discredit the "Bush is a moron" IQ hoax, but fails to disprove the Nazi connection.

The more liberal Boston Globe ran a column September 29 by Reason magazine's Cathy Young in which she referred to "Bush-o-phobes on the Internet" who "repeat preposterous claims about the Bush family's alleged Nazi connections."

Poles Tackle the Topic

Newsweek Polska, the magazine's Polish edition, published a short piece on the "Bush Nazi past" in its March 5, 2003 edition. The item reported that "the Bush family reaped rewards from the forced-labor prisoners in the Auschwitz concentration camp," according to a copyrighted English-language translation from Scoop Media (www.scoop.co.nz). The story also reported the seizure of the various Bush-Harriman-Thyssen businesses.

Still Not Interested

Major U.S. media outlets, including ABC News, NBC News, The New York Times, Washington Post, Washington Times, Los Angeles Times and Miami Herald, have repeatedly declined to investigate the story when information regarding discovery of the documents was presented to them beginning Friday, August 29. Newsweek U.S. correspondent Michael Isikoff, famous for his reporting of big scoops during the Clinton-Lewinsky sexual affair of the 1990s, declined twice to accept an exclusive story based on the documents from the archives.

Oh Screw the MSM, Cabal News and many, many other spewers of lies and witholders of truth. (Deception is a cardinal sin, don't ya know? Actually, it is so prevalent that the Christian Church does not recognize it as deadly, only venal a venal sin. Nevertheless, it is recognized by the mystical sects of all three major Abrahamic religions as a deadly or cardinal sin.)

If any should wonder at this, just take a look at our nation and the world. Take a long look at what the deception of the American people (not all of us) has done to our country, the Iraqis and the people of Afghanistan.

Unfortunatley, those of us who were not deceived by the Bush Family Evil Empire were not strong enough in number nor poltical power to stop the disaster in Iraq and elsewhere.

Will we be strong enough to stop the attack on Iran? If not, will we be ready to take action should such an attack occur?

Aftermath

After the seizures of the various businesses they oversaw with Cornelis Lievense and his German partners, the U.S. government quietly settled with Bush, Harriman and others after the war. Bush and Harriman each received $1.5 million in cash as compensation for their seized business assets.

In 1952, Prescott Bush was elected to the U.S. Senate, with no press accounts about his well-concealed Nazi past. There is no record of any U.S. press coverage of the Bush-Nazi connection during any political campaigns conducted by George Herbert Walker Bush, Jeb Bush, or George W. Bush, with the exception of a brief mention in an unrelated story in the Sarasota Herald Tribune in November 2000 and a brief but inaccurate account in The Boston Globe in 2001.

One has to wonder how this is possible? One has to wonder how this bunch can commit crime after crime against the constitution and international crimes of untold horror and rest assured that Congress will do nothing. That is a question I would like to see answered.

John Buchanan is a journalist and investigative reporter with 33 years of experience in New York, Los Angeles, Washington and Miami. His work has appeared in more than 50 newspapers, magazines and books. He can be reached by e-mail at: jtwg@bellsouth.net.

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Bush-Nazi Dealings Continued Until 1951 - Federal Documents
http://www.georgewalkerbush.net/bushnazidealingscontinueduntil1951.htm

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http://www.theolympian.com/home/news/20031019/frontpage/127827.shtml

Bush Grandfather Director Of Bank With Hitler Ties
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http://www.canada.com/news/world/story.asp?id=B4991F07-2A7B-49BC-A470-D14A355D2C9A

Bush Ancestor's Bank Seized By Government
by Jonathan D. Salant, Associated Press Writer
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/ap/ap_story.html/National/AP.V8053.AP-Prescott-Bush-N.html

President's Family Had Links To Bank With Ties To Hitler Supporter
by Jonathan Salant, Washington D.C., October 21, 2003
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/10/20/1066631359649.html

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Bad Week For Bush

From Ed HenryCNN White House correspondent


WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Despite a week when he was clearly playing defense on his Iraq war policy, President Bush nevertheless rallied the party faithful Thursday night with a mantra he has uttered many times before -- failure is not an option in Iraq.

"If I didn't think it was worthy, if I didn't think it was necessary, if I didn't realize and believe that it's important to defeat al Qaeda in Iraq, I wouldn't have sent our young men and women there in the first place," Bush said.

"I don't want it to be said 50 years from now, 'What happened to America in 2007? How come they forgot the lessons of September 11? How come they couldn't see the impending dangers?' "

And yet, Bush's message came near the end of a week in which his staunchest ally on Iraq, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, announced he was leaving the political stage, and a group of anxious House Republicans came to the White House for what was described as a "frank" exchange about the looming political dangers of the war.


'The president is in a bubble'

The week's developments prompted one of Bush's leading critics on Iraq, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, to charge Friday that "the president is in a bubble."

"He is isolated. Every day the ranks of dissatisfied Republicans grow," Reid, D-Nevada, said. (Watch how Bush's own party is pressuring him )

Presidential scholar Thomas Mann of the Brookings Institution said Bush "has fewer friends, and I think he is beginning to realize even a determined, principled president, who is bent upon doing what he views is the right thing, runs out of room if he loses support within his own political party."

The White House sought to downplay any ominous portent to the meeting with the Republican delegation, noting that the president frequently meets with lawmakers and is used to hearing criticism. House Minority Leader John Boehner, who was part of the legislative group that went to the White House, said, "There are no fissures in our conference."

But one of the participants in the meeting, Rep. Ray LaHood of Illinois, said he thought the president was "maybe sobered" by what members of his own party had to say.

"The fact is that I don't know if he's gotten that kind of opinion before in such a frank and no-holds-barred way," LaHood said.


British support may depart with Blair

Blair, who has seen his popularity plunge because of his steadfast support for the U.S.-led Iraq war, announced Thursday that he will resign June 27, ending 10 years as prime minister. Bush had an upbeat reaction to the news, saying he thinks Blair's expected successor, Gordon Brown, is "an open and engaging person" who "understands the consequences of failure" in Iraq.

However, Friday, in announcing his bid to lead Britain's ruling Labour Party, Brown seemed to put some distance between himself and Blair, saying that while "our obligations to the Iraqi people" will be met, "I do think that over the next few months the emphasis will shift."
(Watch what Brown brings to the table )

Brown cited the importance of political reconciliation, economic development and helping Iraqis "feel they've got a stake" in the country's future.

In a nod to antiwar Labour members, Brown also said, "I accept that mistakes have been made."


Bush bends a little

Amid this week's mounting pressure, though, there were signs of flexibility coming from the White House.

While Bush threatened to veto a new war funding bill approved by the House, which would fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan only through July, he also signaled he is willing to work with Congress on language setting benchmarks for the Iraqi government to meet.
(Watch how war funding could play out )

"I will continue to reach out to Democrats and Republicans to come up with a way to get this money to our troops as quickly as possible," Bush told Republicans at Thursday night's fund-raiser. "We don't want to put the men and women who wear our uniform in the midst of a Washington, D.C., debate."

The president also agreed Thursday to go along with demands from Democrats to add labor and environmental standards to proposed free trade agreements with Peru, Colombia, Panama and South Korea.

"It's the first sign that the president is willing to make significant concessions to the new political reality on Capitol Hill and adjust his positions on some critical issues," Mann said. "I think he will confront this choice again and again if he wants to salvage anything from his second term." (Watch why Bush is showing willingness to compromise )

However, the president still faces an uphill battle securing victories on domestic priorities such as immigration reform, which splits his party, and renewal of one of the major achievements of his first term, the No Child Left Behind education reform plan, which is now drawing conservative opposition.

Ironically, on both immigration and education, the president may get more help from Democrats than Republicans.


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Junior Can't Even Speak At A Small College....

....without protests.

It seems the administration knows that Junior isn't welcome anywhere, but with the military, where no on dare speak their minds, or at small out-of-the-way colleges.

Guess they can scratch small colleges from their list.

How the mighty have fallen.........

Bush Delivers Commencement Address While Students Protest War
May 11, 2007 4:23 p.m. EST
Linda Young - AHN Staff Writer

Latrobe, PA (AHN) - When a small Roman Catholic liberal arts college invited Pres. George W. Bush to give the spring commencement address it probably didn't anticipate that one of its students would choose not to finish a thesis to avoid graduating when Bush was the commencement speaker.

But that student wasn't the only one to join anti-war protests while Bush spoke at St. Vincent's College, Latrobe, Pa., on Friday.

Bush was warmly greeted inside the school gymnasium, but philosophy major Ronny Menzie, who chose to defer completing her theses, was outside on the road protesting with other students.

And students weren't alone in protesting Bush as the commencement speaker.

Some 30 current and former faculty of the tiny college signed an open letter criticizing Bush for his handling of the war, environment, poor and sick. They complained that linking Bush to the college tarnished its reputation.

But supporters said having Bush deliver the commencement address was an honor.

Bush advised graduates to serve their communities and help make the nation a better place to live saying that volunteering was important because: "You learn to take the initiative, instead of waiting for a government to step in."

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Ads By Generals May Be The Beginning Of The End....

If Bush means what he says about listening to the military, a series of ads featuring retired generals should produce critical mass on Iraq. Brought to us by Vote Vets, the first spot features former Iraq commander Maj. Gen. John Batiste.

Our ads are airing in states and districts of those Members of Congress who are very close to breaking with the President on Iraq, and joining the troops and American people…Mentioning them by name at the end, the local spots will call on them to “Protect America, Not George Bush.”

Batiste comes right out and says he left the armed forces in protest over Bush putting service members at risk for a failed strategy.

Following is a list of the elected officials the ads are aimed at. If one of them belongs to you, remember that nothing makes an impression on a public servant like a call from the folks back home.

They are:
Sen. Susan Collins, Maine Sen. John Sununu, N.H.Sen. John Warner, Virg. Sen. Norm Coleman, Minn. Rep, Mary Bono, Palm Springs, Calif.Rep. Phil English, Erie, Penn.Rep. John “Randy” Kuhl, Bath, N.Y.Rep. Jim Walsh, Syracuse, N.Y.Rep. Heather Wilson, Santa Fe, N.M.Rep. Jo Ann Emerson, Springfield, Mo.Rep. Tim Johnson, Urbana, Ill.Rep. Mike Rogers, Brighton, Mich.Rep. Fred Upton, Kalamazoo, Mich.Rep. Mike Castle, Wilmington, Del.

Future ads will feature Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton and our personal favorite, Gen. Wesley Clark.

Pony up some bucks, if you can, so the spots can be run nationwide.

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Wilkerson, Former Aide To Powell, Calls For Imeachment

This is huge!


On Thursday, May 10, 2007, Lawrence Wilkerson, speaking on National Public Radio, proposed impeaching President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. Here's the audio.

Wilkerson is a Retired Army Colonel, the former Chief of Staff at the State Department from 2002 to 2005 under then Secretary of State Colin Powell, a Vietnam War veteran, the former Acting Director of the Marine Corps War College at Quantico, and currently a teacher of national security at William and Mary College.

The program, On Point, was hosted by Tom Ashbrook, who focused the discussion on a need for greater public accountability for the Iraq War, but who maintained that the public was not outraged or interested. (Ashbrook should read some polls and invite on organizers of the impeachment movement.)

Also on the program was Ken Adelman, who promoted the war and said it would be "a cakewalk". Adelman argued a case for not holding public officials accountable.

Wilkerson said in early comments on the show: "This administration doesn't know how to effect accountability in my opinion." But he did not raise the possibility of impeachment until after a member of the audience had phoned in.

The first caller who was put on the air demanded an investigation of the lies that launched the war, and asked for accountability "all the way up." In response to Adelman's claims that history would hold people accountable, the caller said "I would love to have a job where, worst case scenario, my historical record is flawed."

Ashbrook framed the question in terms of alleged limitations of the U.S. political system, and Wilkerson replied: "Well I do think that that's a reality of our system. However, let me back up just a minute and say that I really do think that our founding fathers, Hamilton, Washington, Monroe, Madison, would all be astounded that over the course of our short history as a country, 200 plus years, we haven't used that little two to three lines in Article II of the Constitution more frequently, the impeachment clause. I do believe that they would have thought had they been asked by you or whomever at the time of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia 'Do you think this will be exercised?' they would have said 'Of course it will, every generation they'll have to throw some bastard out'. That's a form of accountability too. It's ultimate accountability."

After an interruption, Wilkerson continued: "The language in that article, the language in those two or three lines about impeachment is nice and precise – it's high crimes and misdemeanors.

You compare Bill Clinton's peccadilloes for which he was impeached to George Bush's high crimes and misdemeanors or Dick Cheney's high crimes and misdemeanors, and I think they pale in significance."

Ashbrook asked for some examples of such high crimes and misdemeanors, and Wilkerson replied: "I think that the caller was right. I think we went into this war for specious reasons. I think we went into this war not too much unlike the way we went into the Spanish American War with the Hearst press essentially goading the American people and the leadership into war.

That was a different time in a different culture, in a different America. We're in a very different place today and I think we essentially got goaded into the war through some of the same means."

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These people are unfreakin'believable!

Bush Hit-Woman BehindProsecutor Firings Has Long Historyof Purges to Protect Bush
Published March 19th, 2007 in Articles

Harriet Miers fired investigator in 1997 to cover Bush draft-dodge
by Greg Palast, from the original reports for BBC Television and the Guardian (UK)

The Mister Big behind the scandal of George Bush’s firing of US Attorneys is not a ‘mister’ at all. The House Judiciary Committee has released White House emails indicating that the political operative who ordered the hit on prosecutors too honest for their own good was Harriet Miers, one-time legal counsel to the President.

But this is not the first time that Miers has fired investigators to protect Mr. Bush.

In 1999, while investigating Governor George Bush of Texas for the Guardian papers of Britain, I obtained an extraordinary, and extraordinarily confidential, memo to the US Attorney’s office in Austin. It disclosed that, in 1997, Governor Bush secretly suggested to the chairwoman of the Texas Lottery Commission that she grant a contract to the client of a Bush ally.

The Governor’s back-door demand to the Lottery chairwoman was not so easy. Bush wanted the Lottery to grant a multi-billion dollar contract to GTech Corporation. But GTech hadn’t even bid on the contract - and a winner was already announced.

There was only way for the Chairwoman to carry out the fix: fire the director of the Lottery who had discouraged GTech from bidding because of its history of corruption.

The Chairwoman, Harriet Miers, did the deed: fired the Lottery director; Miers then ignored the winning bid — and gave Bush’s favored company the contract, no bidding, in perpetuity.


Miers and the Draft

Neither Miers nor President Bush have ever denied the contents of the memo [I’ve posted it here] despite repeated requests from the Guardian and BBC Television.

Bush’s attempt to appoint Hit-woman Harriet to the US Supreme Court in 2005 surprised many. Not me. Miers, personal and governmental lawyer for George Bush, had quite a file on her boss, and he must have been grateful for her discretion.

Most crucially, she knew why Bush so desperately needed to give GTech the lottery contract.

The heart of the matter was the then-successful cover-up of the Bush family’s using its influence to get young George Bush into the Texas Air National Guard and out of the Vietnam war draft.

The memo to the US Attorney reads:

“Governor Bush thru [name withheld] made a deal with Ben Barnes not to rebid because Barnes could confirm that Bush had lied during the ‘94 campaign [for governor of Texas]. Bush was asked if his father … had helped him get in the National Guard. Bush said no he had not, but the fact is his dad call then-Lt. Gov. [Ben] Barnes ….”

Lt. Governor Barnes, through a cut-out, called the Texas Air Guard commander and got Bush into the ‘top gun’ seat and out of the war.

You may recall that in 2004, years after we reported this story in Britain, Barnes confessed to the draft-dodge fix on 60 Minutes. [That was the report that brought down Dan Rather; but the Barnes confession was never challenged.]

What 60 Minutes missed is the creepy Miers involvement. Barnes, after he left the post of Lt. Governor, became a lobbyist — for GTech, the lottery company. By using his influence to get and keep the lottery contract for GTech, Barnes picked up quite a nice fee: over $23 million. With those millions in his pocket, Barnes kept a happy and lucrative silence about his saving little George Bush from the draft.

According to the memo from the US Attorney’s office, Barnes met with Bush about GTech and the lottery. Then,

“The Governor talked to the chair of the lottery [Miers] two days later and she then agreed to support letting GTech keep the contract without a bid.”

Note something else here: this information was sitting in the hands of the US Attorney. Yet, no action was taken in 1997 though we now know that, from Barnes’ confession in 2004, the accusation about his putting in the fix for young George Bush is true.

An insider told BBC TV that the US Attorney’s office and Justice Department, though under Democratic control, never acted because they discovered that Barnes, a Democrat, had not only manipulated the system to get George Bush into the Texas Air Guard, Barnes did the same for the sons of Democratic big wigs including Congressman (later Senator) Lloyd Bentsen and Governor John Connolly.

In other words, control over a US Attorney and what is called their “prosecutorial discretion” is worth its weight in gold to politicians. They can provide protection for cronies and exact punishment on enemies. And no one knows that better than “Justice” Harriet Miers and her boss, fighter pilot George W. Bush.

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This report is adapted from Greg Palast’s New York Times bestselling book, ARMED MADHOUSE: From Baghdad to New Orleans — Sordid Secrets and Strange Tales of a White House Gone Wild. New edition to be released April 24.

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Bush Doesn't Give A Damn What The Majority of Americans Think.

Hey, screw us!

What the hell do we know?

Pelosi: Bush has 'tin ear' on Iraq
By Rick Pearson
Tribune political reporter
Published May 5, 2007


As the White House and congressional leaders struggle to reach a compromise on a new war funding bill, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused President Bush on Friday of a war strategy that ignores the public's will and internal strife in Iraq.Appearing at Rep. Jan Schakowsky's Ultimate Women's Power Lunch, a fundraiser hosted by the North Shore Democratic congresswoman at a downtown Chicago hotel, Pelosi (D-Calif.) defined the Iraq war as "the biggest ethical issue facing our country."

She questioned the ethics of sending troops to war "under a false pretense without a strategy for success," without proper equipment and training and without "demanding accountability from the Iraqi government while we dishonored our commitment to our veterans here at home."

"In the elections, when the American people were calling for a new direction, the one place where they called for it in the clearest possible way was in the war in Iraq," Pelosi told an audience of about 2,000 people."They wanted the war to wind down," she said. "Instead, the president has escalated it. He has a tin ear in terms of listening to the people and a blind eye as to what is going on in Iraq."

Meeting earlier with reporters, Pelosi defended the Democrats' move to tie funding to a withdrawal strategy for U.S. forces. Republicans have contended the withdrawal timetables amounted to a script for insurgents or Al Qaeda to take over the country, fostering new opportunities for terrorism."We'll fight terrorism," she said. "There is absolutely no question about the Democrats' commitment to fighting terrorism."

Pelosi said recent White House warnings that Al Qaeda is active in Iraq involves only "a small percentage of the insurgents and militias and those who are fighting there."

"The Iraqis will take care of Al Qaeda and we will fight terrorism wherever it exists," she said.

"But that doesn't mean we have to have our troops dying in a civil war that is not making our country safer."

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), who attended the event, said that while "profound disagreements" exist on a new war funding measure, he believes there is "a constructive and positive attitude" about reaching a compromise by the end of May.

But Durbin also noted that congressional efforts to revoke the 2002 war authorization, proposed by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) would be fruitless because

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Bush? Apologize? When Pigs Fly

Junior will never apologize for anything he has done; not for the blood on his hands, the deception and fear-mongering, the war crimes and the dismantling of our Constitution...no, not any of it.

He isn't ashamed of anything he has done.

As a matter of fact, he plans on leaving the entire mess for someone else to clean up, just as he has always done.

Bush has a lot of apologizing to do
By Stanley I. Kutler


President Bush has reiterated his oft-repeated assertion that we must support the troops. He must not be allowed to monopolize "patriotism," "the flag," and "the troops." The rest of us can pay our respect to the idea of the nation, in our own mindful way, and as we see fit. On his own grounds, however, the president has a lot to answer for.

He can begin to support our troops by, first, apologizing to the family of Pat Tillman; second, apologizing to Jessica Lynch and her family; and third, apologizing to the soldiers and their families who are going through the enormous burden of three tours of duty.

He can then hold a photo op at Walter Reed Hospital, pledge to rid the hospital of its rat infestation, and then apologize to the wounded veterans and their families for his administration's lack of support.

The president likes to dismiss Congress -- meaning Democrats who are not loyal to his war -- for asserting its constitutional powers.

"Micromanagers," he scoffs, in his best patronizing manner. He insists that we listen to our military leaders, and not Congress/Democrats.

Well, he might remember that he removed Gen. George Casey and Gen. John P. Abizaid precisely because he did not want to listen to them. They did not tell him what he wanted to hear. Unfortunately for Bush, he cannot so simply dismiss Congress.

Stanley I. Kutler is a retired UW-Madison history professor and an expert on President Nixon and the Watergate scandal.


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The GOP Continues To Dig Their Own Graves

Right along side the soldiers, whose death warrants they voted for, again, today.

If these damn fools want to continue this insane military crime, let them finance it.

I sure as hell will not.

Interesting, I think, that the so-called moral, security party knows very little about either.................


House fails to override Bush on Iraq

By CHARLES BABINGTON, Associated Press Writer


The Democratic-controlled House failed Wednesday to override President Bush's veto of an Iraq war spending bill with timetables for troop withdrawals. Democrats later met with Bush and emerged undeterred in their determination to bring soldiers home.

"Make no mistake, Democrats are committed to ending this war," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (news, bio, voting record), D-Calif., said outside the White House. "We hope to do so in unison with the president of the United States."

Bush showed he also has little appetite for backing down on what he wants in war funding legislation — namely, no strings on the military effort in Iraq.

"I am confident that with goodwill on both sides that we can move beyond political statements and agree on a bill that gives our troops the funds and flexibility to do the job that we asked them to do," he said in a speech in Washington before The Associated General Contractors of America.

Congressional leaders from both parties, including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (news, bio, voting record), D-Nev., went to the White House to discuss follow-up war funding legislation, a day after Bush vetoed the first version because it would require U.S. combat troops to begin withdrawing by Oct. 1. Reid and Pelosi sat stone-faced on either side of the president as Bush made a brief statement before their talks began.

"Yesterday was a day that highlighted differences," the president said. "Today is the day where we can work together to find common ground."

He added: "I'm confident we can reach agreement."

That seemed a tall order.

The meeting, delayed by the override vote but slated to last an hour, broke up after only about 30 minutes. And both Republican and Democratic leaders came out not to declare progress but only to promise to work toward it.

"We really didn't discuss the deal," said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (news, bio, voting record), R-Ky.

"The president understands that there is a separate unit of government that he has to deal with, called the Congress," Reid said.

Negotiations were to start immediately, with Bush directing White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten, national security adviser Stephen Hadley and budget director Rob Portman to represent him on Capitol Hill.

"We've figured out the process in terms of how we're going to begin to move forward — that's progress," insisted House Republican leader John Boehner (news, bio, voting record) of Ohio.
The 222-203 vote in the House fell far short of the necessary two-thirds majority. Voting to override Bush's veto were 220 Democrats and two Republicans. Voting to sustain the veto were 196 Republicans and seven Democrats.

"The president has turned a tin ear to the wishes of the American people," Pelosi said during the hour-long debate beforehand. "The president wants a blank check. The Congress will not give it to him."

Rep. Jerry Lewis (news, bio, voting record), R-Calif., said politicians should not make military decisions.

"Now is not the time for the United States to back down in its war on terror," Lewis said.
Negotiations for a new spending bill could prove difficult. Both parties agree it should include benchmarks for progress in Iraq, but many Democrats insist they be tied to timelines for U.S. troop withdrawals if they are unmet. Bush and his congressional allies say such links are unacceptable.

Pelosi had told reporters Wednesday: "Benchmarks are important, but they have to have teeth in order to be effective."

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (news, bio, voting record) said before the vote that he hopes to have a new bill passed in the House in two weeks, with a final measure sent to the president before Memorial Day.

"We're not going to leave our troops in harm's way ... without the resources they need," said Hoyer, D-Md.

Hoyer would not speculate on exactly what the bill might look like, but said he anticipates a minimum-wage increase will be part of it. He said the bill should fund combat through Sept. 30 as Bush has requested, casting doubt that Democratic leaders will adopt a proposal by Rep. John Murtha (news, bio, voting record), D-Pa., to fund the war two or three months at a time.

The situation has Democratic lawmakers in a difficult position. Because they control the House and Senate, the pressure is mainly on them to craft a bill that Bush will sign, and thus avoid accusations that they failed to finance troops in a time of war.

The party's most liberal members, especially in the House, say they will vote against money for continuing the war if there's no binding language on troop drawdowns. The bill Bush rejected also contained a goal of a complete pullout by next spring.

"I think the Democrats are in a box," Rep. Eric Cantor (news, bio, voting record), R-Va., said in an interview. "We're pretty resolute on our side. We are not going to tie this funding to any type of withdrawal deadline or any type of redeployment deadline."

Some Democrats believe the GOP solidarity will crack over time, noting that polls show heavy public support for a withdrawal plan.

Numerous possible compromises are being floated on Capitol Hill, all involving some combination of benchmarks. Some would require Bush to certify monthly that the Iraqi government is fully cooperating with U.S. efforts in several areas, such as giving troops the authority to pursue extremists.

The key impasse in Congress is whether to require redeployments of U.S. troops if the benchmarks are not met.

Under one proposal being floated, unmet benchmarks would cause some U.S. troops to be removed from especially violent regions such as Baghdad. They would redeploy to places in Iraq where they presumably could fight terrorists but avoid the worst centers of Sunni-Shia conflict.

Rep. Rahm Emanuel (news, bio, voting record), D-Ill., the House's fourth-ranking Democratic leader, conceded Democrats have yet to figure out where they will find the votes to tie benchmarks to redeployments.

House Minority Whip Roy Blunt (news, bio, voting record) of Missouri suggested tying benchmarks to continued U.S. nonmilitary aid to Iraq instead. But that is an idea that many Democrats consider too weak.


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Gen. Odom Advises Bush to Sign Iraq Bill

Don't hold your breath, General. They are still making billions off this boondoggle and Junior doesn't want to admit that the war is lost.

This way, he can blame the loss of the war on the Democrats.

It's all politics all the time, with the Bushies

Retired Gen.: Bush should sign Iraq bill
By KASIE HUNT, Associated Press Writer

President Bush should sign legislation starting the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq on Oct. 1, retired Army Lt. Gen. William Odom said Saturday.

"I hope the president seizes this moment for a basic change in course and signs the bill Congress has sent him," Odom said, delivering the Democrats' weekly radio address.

Odom, an outspoken critic of the war who served as the Army's top intelligence officer and headed the National Security Agency during the Reagan administration, delivered the address at the request of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (news, bio, voting record), D-Calif. He said he has never been a Democrat or a Republican.

The general accused Bush of squandering U.S. lives and helping Iran and al-Qaida when he invaded Iraq.

"The challenge we face today is not how to win in Iraq; it is how to recover from a strategic mistake: invading Iraq in the first place," he said. "The president has let (the Iraq war) proceed on automatic pilot, making no corrections in the face of accumulating evidence that his strategy is failing and cannot be rescued. He lets the United States fly further and further into trouble, squandering its influence, money and blood, facilitating the gains of our enemies."

Odom said he doesn't favor congressional involvement in the execution of foreign and military policy, but argued that Bush had been derelict in his responsibilities. This week Congress passed an Iraq war spending bill that would require Bush to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq on Oct. 1.

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Bush on The Couch, Again

New York Magazine Puts Bush on the Couch
Posted by Jon Ponder Feb. 26, 2007, 7:14 am

Earlier this month, New York Magazine published a series of essays under the collective title, “Bush’s Mind: Analyzing the President.”

In 17 essays by experts in politcs and psychology, the magazine offers what it calls a “psychopolitical survey” of the inner George W. Bush.

Here are a few particularly insightful highlights:

A Decadent Aristocrat, by By Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression: Bush, like his mother, has an almost inhuman ability to identify his own advantage without the slightest regard to its cost to others.

Bush, like his mother, has an almost inhuman ability to identify his own advantage without the slightest regard to its cost to others. One reads in Lincoln’s diaries of how his heart bled for every soldier who died in the war he felt obliged to wage; one reads in Bush’s face and in his speeches an inability to conceive of other people as fully human, including the soldiers who die at his behest, a quality that renders him less than fully human himself. This heartlessness, unlike his achievement of the presidency, is the very hallmark of decadent aristocracy.

It is worth noting, however, that most aristocracy is not so far decayed; the queen of England, despite her less cuddly manner, is clearly more compassionate than W.

Bush’s upbringing in wealth and privilege is key to understanding him, and yet the public is blind to it. They take his mangled hookum and NASCAR Dad persona at face value. Conversely, Traditional Media types tend to bow and scrape in front of their betters, and I believe Bush’s high station in life is a factor in the nearly hands-off coverage he’s gotten in the Capitol.

First and foremostly, George W. Bush is the spoiled and pampered scion of one of an American dynasty that goes back to Pres. Pierce. His position in life, and his attitude about it, explains everything about the ease with which he has failed upward, all the way to the top.

Simplicity Himself, by By Franklin Foer, editor of The New Republic:

Bush mocks us before we can mock him. He mocks us with his palpable disdain for the news media, the Congress and, most of all, our votes in November 2006.

Where Nixon was a barrel of laughs, the Bush presidency simply isn’t very funny. There are no masterful Bush impersonators. Nixon’s comedic appeal resided in his dark interior life. When he spoke in public, you knew that you weren’t getting the full Nixon. Back in the private quarters of the White House, he was famously brooding over his enemies, sipping scotch, and talking to the portraits on the wall. The fact that the leader of the Free World was neurotic, paranoid, and palpably creepy made him a genuinely excellent premise for jokes.

Bush has none of these qualities. Even as his entire presidency has tanked, he shows no signs of acquiring psychological complexities. He remains the “simple,” “resolute” man that his hagiographers once venerated.

Mockery and satire are safety valves as old as society itself that enable the people to humanize their leaders. But Bush mocks us before we can mock him. He mocks us with his palpable disdain for the news media, the Congress and, most of all, our votes in November 2006. As any eight-year-old can tell you, mocking mockery is rarely effective.

Dad, the Bottle, Vietnam, by By Jonathan Alter, Newsweek columnist:

I see Bush’s behavior as the result of three major forces: the dad, the bottle, and the Vietnam War. For most of his life, Bush tried and failed to follow in his absent father’s footsteps. His father was a war hero; Bush a no-show Guardsman dodging Vietnam. His father did well in the oil business; Bush struck dry holes. His father got elected to Congress; Bush was defeated in 1978. A collection of Bush Sr.’s letters contains far more to Jeb than George W. Finally, in 1994, Bush was elected governor of Texas, but George and Bar were so upset that their anointed son, Jeb, lost the election that night for the governorship of Florida that they barely seemed to notice. You don’t have to be Freud to see that Bush has snubbed his father’s closest advisers (who turned out to be right) and hired men who held his father in contempt, like Don Rumsfeld (who turned out to be wrong).

If Bush were a Democrat, the Liberal Media would not rest until they knew whether or not the “former” alcoholic president was drinking again.

His Smile, by By Deepak Chopra, president, Alliance for a New Humanity:

One of the most unnerving things about George Bush is his smile. As the situation in Iraq has grown more calamitous, the smile hasn’t disappeared. It’s become markedly patronizing, saying, “I’m right on this. The rest of you just don’t understand.” A pitying smile. On the night of the State of the Union, the president kept his smirking to a minimum — a surprise.

It’s been pointed out that until he became president, Bush didn’t smirk. It’s grown into a disturbing tic, expressing a mixture of contradictory traits: smugness, disdain, self-consciousness, doubt.

It’s not the easiest smirk to read. People who read contempt in it are rightfully offended. They think of Bush’s most unpleasant attribute: his sense of entitlement. Having accomplished little in his life, he nevertheless expected the highest rewards. He wanted victory to come easily, as his birthright.

When it did come in 2000 — to the astonishment even of his family — the smirk said, “I told you so.”

His smile turns into a go-to-hell smirk whenever Bush hears a hostile question. He’s shielding himself from impudence while reining in his own simmering anger. He’s smirking to put you on warning. In a moment he might blow his top. Bush’s smile also tells us, almost guilelessly, that he isn’t suffering inside.

This fact maddens his critics the most. Lincoln suffered terribly during the Civil War, as Churchill did in World War II. Bush has to remind himself to put on a sad face when he talks about his war. The black dog, as Churchill called his depression, doesn’t nip at this president’s heels. Have we seen a more inappropriate smile from any politician since Nixon? I doubt it.
There is no temperament more ill-suited to leadership than the simpleton autocrat, and yet this is precisely the personality type the Republican Party has forced on the United States, and the world — twice.
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Nixon’s meglomania led him to blur the line of legality, for which he was forced to resign the preidency. For the good of the republic, and the assurance of a stable future for the democratic government Bush’s actions and policies have hobbled, he needs to be turned out and relegated to the sidelines from now on, as Nixon was.


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The American People Have A Moral Duty to Hold The Liars Accountable

The American People Must Never Dismiss the Lies that Led to the Iraq War

A. Alexander, February 19th, 2007

"Regardless of how we got into Iraq," Mister Bush's apologists and supporters say, "we have an obligation now, to stay until the 'job is done'."

That is a false argument designed to prevent an honest and rational analysis and debate regarding the war. It is like a father saying to his daughter, "Regardless of how you became pregnant, you are now with child and must marry your rapist."

Of course, George W. Bush and the Republicans would prefer the American people forgive the rapist, so to speak, because it absolves them of any responsibility for the dishonest and deceitful manner in which they led the nation to war. It releases Mister Bush and Cheney of any guilt in the death -- according to scientifically sound analysis -- of some 650,000 Iraqis and 30,000 dead and wounded US military personnel.

Mostly, however, the false argument allows the President and Republicans to continue their failed war forever.

In March, the United States will begin the fifth year of the Iraq War.

Four years on and there isn't a person alive who can explain what "victory" looks like or means.

Four years on and, when trying to define success, Mister Bush and Republicans can only offer vague terms and phrases (i.e. "When they stand up, we'll stand down" etc.)

Four years on and the reasons for continuing the war change as frequently as the reasons had for having invaded Iraq in the first place.

Simply forgetting how George W. Bush and a compliant Republican Congress got us into the war would be a gross miscarriage of justice. If Mister Bush and Dick Cheney aren't made to pay a heavy price -- politically and possibly criminally -- for their actions, what will prevent it from happening again?

If this war isn't ended and those responsible held to full account, how long will it be before the American people find themselves sending their kids off to die for another set of lies? When would the excuses and lies for wars end?

It is vital that the American people disregard the President and Republicans' false argument that the how and the why of the war be forgotten. Those responsible for the lies told that led to the senseless slaughter of tens of thousands of human beings, must be made to pay their debt.

The American people have a moral responsibility to the Iraqi people, the world, and America's dead soldiers to ensure justice is served - to make certain those responsible are held to account.

We have a moral responsibility to ourselves, as well!



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RICHARD HOLHT; a name to remember.

Feb. 26, 2007 issue - Robert Novak, as usual, had a scoop to unload—only this time, it was from the witness stand. Testifying last week in the trial of Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, the conservative columnist gruffly described how he first learned from two top Bush administration officials that Valerie Plame, wife of Iraq war critic Joseph Wilson, was a CIA officer. But then Novak injected a new name into the drama—one that virtually nobody in the courtroom knew.

Asked by one of Libby's lawyers if he had talked about Plame with anybody else before outing her in his column, Novak said he'd discussed her with a lobbyist named Richard Hohlt. Who, the lawyer pressed, is Hohlt? "He's a very good source of mine" whom I talk to "every day," Novak replied. Indeed, Hohlt is such a good source that after Novak finished his column naming Plame, he testified, he did something most journalists rarely do: he gave the lobbyist an advance copy of his column. What Novak didn't tell the jury is what the lobbyist then did with it: Hohlt confirmed to NEWSWEEK that he faxed the forthcoming column to their mutual friend Karl Rove (one of Novak's sources for the Plame leak), thereby giving the White House a heads up on the bombshell to come.

The trial of Libby—who is charged with lying about his own alleged role in the disclosure of Plame's identity—has revealed much about how government officials and journalists swap secrets. But Hohlt's outing was especially revealing. Unlike many of the high-profile Washington players who have populated the Plame affair, Hohlt is a Beltway power broker of a different sort. He works quietly, rarely makes the papers and likes it that way. Hohlt, 58, came to Washington more than 30 years ago as an aide to Sen. Richard Lugar. He now represents A-list clients like Bristol Myers, Chevron, JPMorgan Chase and the Nuclear Energy Association. At the same time, he raises buckets of cash for the Republican Party: he was designated a "Super Ranger," a fund-raiser who raked in more than $500,000 for President Bush's re-election.

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Clinton Warns Bush

2-15-2007

Sen. Clinton warns Bush on Iran force

By Devlin Barrett Associated Press

WASHINGTON -- Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton warned President Bush on Wednesday not to take any military action against Iran without getting congressional approval first.

"If the administration believes that any, any use of force against Iran is necessary, the president must come to Congress to seek that authority," Clinton said in a Senate speech.
Clinton, a member of the Armed Services Committee, voted in 2002 to give Bush the authority to use military force in Iraq -- a vote that has prompted some Democrats to demand that she repudiate.

Since then, the New York senator has become an outspoken critic of Bush's handling of the war. She said the new Democratic Congress must not let him make similar mistakes in the increasingly tense relationship with Iran.

"It would be a mistake of historical proportion if the administration thought that the 2002 resolution authorizing force against Iraq was a blank check for the use of force against Iran without further congressional authorization," Clinton said.

She also insisted the resolution authorizing force against those responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks did not allow for U.S. action now against Iran.

Clinton, who has come under fire from anti-war Democrats, excoriated the previous Republican-controlled Congress for not questioning the administration over the past six years.

"We continue to experience the consequences of unchecked presidential action." she said.
She later added: "This president was allowed for too long to commit blunder after blunder under cover of darkness provided by an allied Republican Congress."

Clinton spoke shortly after President Bush said he was certain the Iranian government is supplying deadly weapons used by fighters in Iraq against U.S. troops, even if he can't prove that the orders came from top Iranian leaders.

"I'm going to do something about it," Bush pledged, displaying apparent irritation at being repeatedly asked about mixed administration signals on who was behind the weaponry.
U.S. officials have said that Iran is behind attacks against troops in Iraq, an assertion denied by Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

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If Democrats are Afraid, I don't blame them.....

I only hope they can rise above it and do the right thing.

Various neocons have called for Democrats who voice dissent against Bush policies in Iraq, or anywhere else, should be tried for treason, hung or exiled. I'm not kidding.

My God, in Heaven, what century are we living in? These very same cuckoo birds are brought on TeeVee constantly, as experts in one damn thing or the other, so they can basically spout the Neocon line of B.S..

Russ Feingold was right when he said that, while Democrats regularly get accused of forgetting or not learning the lessons o f 9/11, The Bushites seem to have forgotten the lessons of 1776.

I think I am beginning to understand why some of these people say and do the things they do, other than the obvious depths of their insanity. They have, for so long, painted Democrats, Liberals, Progressives...anyone to the left of Attila the Hun, as panty-waist cowards, they have come to believe it themselves.

They have no fear of any kind of retaliation from the left.

I think that this time they are pushing the envelope too damn far.

Prediction from the mountain oracle: In the next 4 or 5 decades, the word "neoconservative" will be perceived as a dirty word, more so than the word "Liberal" has been

Children, can you see that this is where lying always takes you, to a place where you can no longer remember your own lies, let alone coordinate them with others;. to a time where everything is being dragged out into the sunlight, for closer examination.

Death by a thousand cuts.


George W. Bush is the kind of man who pushes a guy under the wheels of an oncoming car, then "earnestly" vows a campaign against dangerous drivers – and he does it all with a smile.

In the past, BuzzFlash has repeatedly called attention to the likelihood that Bush has made us all victims of his sociopathology.

A key characteristic of the sociopath is to be outwardly amiable and affable, while inwardly lacking empathy or any sense of accountability or guilt.

We are now engaged in a dangerous game of chicken with Iran, based on the same sort of spurious claims and strategy of focused distraction that marked the run-up to the Iraq War. It’s an ongoing shell trick of changing mission, altering the enemy, and puddle jumping from fear to fear.


It keeps Americans from focusing on Bush’s horrendous domestic policies, the near-bankruptcy of the U.S., an administration of endemic corruption and nepotism, and a foreign policy that has advanced no further than the tactics of the Roman Empire, except that the Romans were most often led into wars by leaders whose ruthlessness was at least matched by their competence.
All we have are leaders who excel at nursing their own egos, power, and financial well-being, with the rest of us being so much cannon fodder.

And their only real talent is the ability to endlessly lie and deceive.

As Carl Bernstein recently noted in a "Frontline" interview: "I think what we're talking about with the Bush administration is a far different matter in which disinformation, misinformation and unwillingness to tell the truth -- a willingness to lie both in the Oval Office, in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, in the office of the vice president, the vice president himself -- is something that I have never witnessed before on this scale."


It will be the work of investigative reporters to record all the different and contradictory "missions" and "goals" that Bush has used as an excuse for being in Iraq. The very word "mission" bestows some sort of noble gesture and task upon an utterly disastrous and failed policy, for which Bush will assume no real responsibility.

The only real missions in Iraq are to preserve the power bases of Cheney and Bush, war profiteering, and to control vast reserves of oil. As for democracy in Iraq, that was always one of the sham goals used to goad Americans into support for a war that they would never otherwise support, without the non-existent WMDs and all.


In Gulf War I, Bush the First claimed to be freeing both Kuwait and the Shias from Saddam’s cruel rule. Then Bush the First abandoned the Shias to be slaughtered by Saddam. Now Bush the Second is targeting the same Shias – and through them Iran – while supporting, in part, the Sunnis, the minority sect in the artificial nation of Iraq, who dominated power through Saddam. Meanwhile, they are scrambling to find enough puppet Shias to provide the facade of a functioning government.

This is only one tiny fraction of the diabolical absurdity of the Bush/Cheney fiasco in Iraq, where so-called "facts" and "goals" change on a daily, if not hourly basis.

Indeed, just shortly after the Busheviks held an "anonymous" high-level military news conference to claim that the Iranian government was behind attacks on GIs in Iraq – a charge that was refuted in unprecedented fashion by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (forcing Bush to backtrack in his February 14th "press conference") – the Pentagon revealed something truthful for a change.

A week after claiming that a helicopter crashed due to mechanical failure (which is their usual excuse for the rash of helicopter downings until the news dies down), they admitted it had been shot down by -- Iranians? No. By Shias? No. By Sunnis? Yes. Excuse us! According to the Associated Press, "At least seven U.S. helicopters have crashed or been forced down under hostile fire since Jan. 20."

And the Sunnis in Iraq, as with Al Qaeda, derive their major support from Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, not Iran.


The truth is that polls posted in the likes of the Washington Post reveal that the majority of Iraqis support attacks on American troops. What is Bush going to do, kill all the people he claims to be liberating? Now that Saddam is dead, they want to be liberated from Bush.

In this particular helicopter downing, seven GIs perished. The pilot of the Medivac chopper was a 28-year-old female Naval Academy graduate from Massachusetts, Jennifer Harris. She was one week away from returning stateside after three tours of duty in Iraq.

Jennifer Harris, a heroine who patriotically believed in the "Commander-in-Chief," is being buried this week in Swampscott, Mass.


A news report of the great sociopath’s most recent farce of a "news conference," included this phrase: "President Bush is cautioning members of Congress against taking any legislative action that could harm U.S. troops in Iraq."

Bush and Cheney continue to throw our troops under the wheels of cars and warn the Democrats not to try to save them from being run over.

If this isn’t the definition of murderous intent, what is?


A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL
BuzzFlash Note: Following the usual arc of the Cheney/Bush pathology, they will let the Democrats wade into the water and pass their vote of no confidence. Then Cheney and Bush will start the long-awaited war with Iran and declare that our GIs are in "harm's way" and Congress would be undercutting them if they try to stop either the war with Iran or Iraq.

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The Nazis, Fascists and Communists were political parties before they became enemies of liberty and mass murderers.