George Bush will go down in history with the likes of Pinochet, Marcos, Pahlevi, Noriega and other right wing thugs. Not quite in Hitler’s, Stalin’s or Mao’s league, but definitely a villain. Of course Rove himself won’t get any honorable mentions, either, which is perhaps part of his motivation to sprinkle perfume on the corpse.

There is NO DOUBT they would have gone to war regardless. I know this because 1.) Bush denied it; and 2.) Kristol denied it. Which means they definitely would have, Q.E.D.

Jonathan Bush (brother of George H.W.) was a Division President at Riggs Bank, which collapsed in 2004 after paying $41 million in fines for money-laundering and fraud. Riggs concealed illicit transactions for Saudi royals andformer Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. Riggs Bank held the account of Saudi Arabia’s US Ambassador Prince Bandar for whom Jonathan was longtime financial adviser, and whose wife sent more than $80 thousand in Cashiers’ checks to a San Diego address, that wound up funding two of the 9/11 hijackers.

William H.T. “Bucky’’ Bush (another brother of George H. W.) made more than $2.7 million through the sale of a company, Engineered Support Systems Inc., with millions of dollars in Iraq war contracts. He was also cited by the SEC for withholding bad news from shareholders while he cashed stock options worth $450,000.

George H.W.Bush-Involved with the CIA during the Bay of Pigs, longtime friend of the Bin Laden family, broker of the Iran/Contra scandal and deeply involved in the cover-uop with Dick Cheney.

George W. Bush-AWOL during his Texas Air National guard stint, two stolen elections, ignored warnings leading up to 9/11, started illegal war in Iraq, coddled his Saudi friends despite evidence of involvement in 9/11, more more profiteering for oil buddies, contractor friends. Ignored warnings and sat on the sidelines through two recessions, ignored Katrina victims, politicized every facet of gov’t, illegal wiretapping, torture etc.

Yeah, the Bush family sure has a REAL pro-America legacy, huh? (snark)

You can’t polish a turd.

Let the re-writing of History begin!!

* wears a size 14EEE high heels

I’m looking forward to the Heritage Foundation report proving the whole Bush Administration was Bill Clinton’s fault.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WugcAuQMP1s

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And what happened at President Bush’s very first National Security Council meeting is one of O’Neill’s most startling revelations.

“From the very beginning, there was a conviction, that Saddam Hussein was a bad person and that he needed to go,” says O’Neill, who adds that going after Saddam was topic “A” 10 days after the inauguration – eight months before Sept. 11.

“From the very first instance, it was about Iraq. It was about what we can do to change this regime,” says Suskind. “Day one, these things were laid and sealed.”

As treasury secretary, O’Neill was a permanent member of the National Security Council. He says in the book he was surprised at the meeting that questions such as “Why Saddam?” and “Why now?” were never asked.

“It was all about finding a way to do it. That was the tone of it. The president saying ‘Go find me a way to do this,’” says O’Neill. “For me, the notion of pre-emption, that the U.S. has the unilateral right to do whatever we decide to do, is a really huge leap.”

And that came up at this first meeting, says O’Neill, who adds that the discussion of Iraq continued at the next National Security Council meeting two days later.

He got briefing materials under this cover sheet. “There are memos. One of them marked, secret, says, ‘Plan for post-Saddam Iraq,’” adds Suskind, who says that they discussed an occupation of Iraq in January and February of 2001.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/09/60minutes/main592330.shtml

“The truth is that for reasons that have a lot to do with the U.S. government bureaucracy, we settled on the one issue that everyone could agree on which was weapons of mass destruction as the core reason,” Wolfowitz was quoted as saying in a Pentagon transcript of an interview with Vanity Fair.

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During his interview with Vanity Fair in early May, Wolfowitz cited several payoffs from the war, including removing the need for American forces in Saudi Arabia.

Those troops were sent to protect the desert kingdom against Saddam, whose forces invaded Kuwait in 1990. But their presence in the country that is home to Islam’s holiest sites enraged many Muslims, including al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

Within two weeks of the fall of Baghdad, the United States announced it was removing most of its 5,000 troops from Saudi Arabia.

“Their presence there over the last 12 years has been a source of enormous difficulty for a friendly government,” Wolfowitz said. “It’s been a huge recruiting device for al-Qaeda.”

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2003-05-30-wolfowitz-iraq_x.htm
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- Tom

Jeb Bush considers Senate run

Jeb Bush, former governor of Florida and brother to outgoing president George, is considering a Senate run, The Atlantic reported.

You think the propaganda was bad before? Just wait – did it disgust you the way the corpse of richard nixon was elevated to an “elder statesman”?

You ain’t seen nothin’ yet!

He was part of the team that took a post 9/11 president with unprecedented popularity (here in US and around world) and plunged him into the most unpopular president in modern times and perhaps US history.

Dur chimpfuhrer is now even more unpopular than richard nixon was right before he resigned and he has been this unpopular for an extended period of time.

Rove is just the public face on a criminal cabal – the mainstream media created the monster that is now widely known as “chimpy”.

Please don’t kid yourself – the same owners of the mainstream media will use those assets to prop up chimpy’s “legacy” and, like everything else, has little or nothing to do with kkkarl rove or any of the pundits that have been wrong about virtually EVERYTHING.

They must think we’re stoopid or have severe LTM deficits.

In the absence of the WoMDs, initially the neothugs just said that we’d invaded to spread democracy and that was sufficient reason…. But that was yesterday, this is today.

Cheers,