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Does Bush Believe McCain Was Tortured?

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:22:16 GMT

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clipper's remarks: What a bunch of ass-fucks BushCo is, John McSame included.

Clip Source: andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com

In all the discussion of John McCain's recently recovered memory of a religious epiphany in Vietnam, one thing has been missing. The torture that was deployed against McCain emerges in all the various accounts. It involved sleep deprivation, the withholding of medical treatment, stress positions, long-time standing, and beating. Sound familiar?

According to the Bush administration's definition of torture, McCain was therefore not tortured.

Cheney denies that McCain was tortured; as does Bush

These torture techniques are, according to the president of the United States, merely "enhanced interrogation."

No war crimes were committed against McCain.

so the false confessions that McCain was forced to make were, according to the logic of the Bush administration, as accurate as the "intelligence" we have procured from "interrogating" terror suspects.

When they are used against future John McCains, the victims will know,

that their own government has no moral standing to complain.

"McSame" Is More Than Just Political Humor

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 12:09:34 GMT

clipped by: BartendingBear
clipper's remarks: It's genuinely concise.

Clip Source: www.cnn.com

Our president has spent one-third of his entire two terms in office either at Camp David, Maryland, or at Crawford, Texas, on vacation.

Sen. John McCain takes weekends off and limits his campaign events to one a day.

It occurs to me that John McCain is as intellectually shallow as our current president

One after another, McCain's answers were shallow, simplistic, and trite. He showed the same intellectual curiosity that George Bush has -- virtually none.

John McCain graduated 894th in a class of 899 at the Naval Academy at Annapolis.

He no longer allows reporters unfettered access to him aboard the "Straight Talk Express" for a reason. He simply makes too many mistakes.

I am sick and tired of the president of the United States embarrassing me.

George Bush's record as a student, military man, businessman and leader of the free world is one of constant failure.

I fear to the depth of my being that John McCain is just like him.

Anti-Bush Graffiti From 25 Countries

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:22:29 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Reviled, as he should be, around the world.

Clip Source: matadorpulse.com

Curitiba, Brazil

Granada, Spain

Lisbon, Portugal

London, England

Sofia, Bulgaria

Berlin, Germany

War is terror

Colonia, Uruguay

Your dead, hungry, unemployed, disappeared [illegally imprisoned], lying cronies salute you.

Durango, Mexico

Wellington, New Zealand

Gullbringusysla, Iceland

San José, Costa Rica

Mentally ill in service of capital

Rome, Italy

Melbourne, Australia

Rosario, Argentina

Mito, Japan

Johannesburg, South Africa

Israel

Bangkok, Thailand

Bethlehem, West Bank, Palestine

Riga, Latvia

Victoria, BC, Canada

Belfast, Northern Ireland

Wrocław, Poland

Styria, Austria

Zanzibar, Tanzania

Bush mzushi, loosely translated: Bush is a rumormonger.

Bush Should Be Sent to The Hague

Sun, 27 Jul 2008 04:03:28 GMT

clipped by: BartendingBear
clipper's remarks: Sounds like a plan to me.

Clip Source: www.presstv.ir

Former Democratic candidate Mike Gravel says President George W. Bush should be taken to The Hague for war crimes rather than being impeached.

Former Democratic presidential candidate Mike Gravel

In a Monday video conference with Press TV, the former Alaska senator said President Bush does not 'deserve' to be impeached for invading Afghanistan and Iraq, which has resulted in the loss of 'millions of lives'.

"An Impeachment just means you would only take away his (Bush's) presidency. Well, he is almost done (with) his presidency. What really needs to happen is that these people have to be held accountable for the crimes they have committed," the 78-year-old Democrat said referring to the US president and Vice President Dick Cheney.

"If you impeach president and vice president, Nancy Pelosi is going to become president; that is not going happen," Gravel added.

Bush Library Donations - Selling Highest Level Access

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 13:33:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Diplomatic Contacts For Sale - Cheap! Inquire Within

Clip Source: thinkprogress.org

The Sunday Times reports Stephen Payne, a Bush pioneer and a political appointee to the Homeland Security Advisory Council, was caught on tape offering access to key members of the Bush administration inner circle in exchange for “six-figure donations to the private library being set up to commemorate Bush’s presidency.”

In an undercover video, Payne is seen promising to arrange a meeting for an exiled leader of Krygystan with Dick Cheney or Condoleezza Rice. (Not President Bush because “he doesn’t meet with a lot of former Presidents these days,” Payne says. “I don’t think he meets with hardly anyone.”) All it will take for him to arrange this high-level meeting, says Payne, is “a couple hundred thousand dollars, or something like that”:

PAYNE: The exact budget I will come up with. But it will be somewhere between $600,000 and $750,000, with about a third of it going directly to the Bush library. […]

Watch the startling video here.

Tags: it, doesn't, get, any, more, scummy, than, this

Bush & Friends May Still Hang Together - Literally

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 05:12:36 GMT

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clipper's remarks: If Congress won't do it, working lawyers and academia will.

Clip Source: www.abajournal.com

The dean of Massachusetts School of Law at Andover is planning a September conference to map out war crimes prosecutions, and the targets are President Bush and other administration officials.

The dean, Lawrence Velvel, says in a statement that “plans will be laid and necessary organizational structures set up, to pursue the guilty as long as necessary and, if need be, to the ends of the Earth."

Other possible defendants, he said, include federal judges and John Yoo, the former Justice Department official who wrote one of the so-called torture memos.

“We must insist on appropriate punishments,” he continued, “including, if guilt is found, the hangings visited upon top German and Japanese war criminals in the 1940s."

Velvel elaborates in an introduction to a series of articles published in The Long Term View (PDF). He writes “there is no question” that Bush and other officials are guilty of the federal crime of conspiracy to commit torture.

Tags: hang, them, high, for, treason

Iran Is Still Good Business For The US

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:39:42 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Imagine that!

Clip Source: www.cnbc.com

Nuclear weapons? No way. But there are plenty of items on Iran's shopping list the United States is more than happy to supply: cigarettes, brassieres, bull semen and more.

U.S. exports to Iran grew more than tenfold during President Bush's years in office even as he accused it of nuclear ambitions and sponsoring terrorists. America sent more cigarettes to Iran — at least $158 million worth under Bush — than any other product.

Other surprising shipments during the Bush administration: fur clothing, sculptures, perfume, musical instruments and military apparel. Top states shipping goods to Iran include California, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio and Wisconsin, according to an analysis by The Associated Press of seven years of U.S. government trade data.

The fact that the United States sells anything to Iran is news to some.

Though some trade with Iran is legal, some businesses prefer that people not know about it.

Short-Straw Economics

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:03:29 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Robert Reich talks turkey.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Now that gas is at $4 a gallon, people are deserting their cars for trains and buses and, where available, light rail. We haven’t seen a transition on this scale away from cars ever before.

What do you make of the argument that the only way to lessen our dependence on foreign oil is to tap more oil wells here — in Alaska and off the coasts of Florida and California? When you consider that the oil we pump goes into a global oil market, offshore drilling makes no sense. We take the environmental risk, but we’d have to share the negligible price gains with Chinese consumers and every other user around the world.

Then why do you think President Bush asked Congress last month to lift the longtime ban on offshore oil drilling? If I had to guess, I would say that President Bush is very close to the oil companies and wants whatever they want.

What do you think playground bullies grow up to be? Right-wing Republicans.

The German Press Talks Turkey About George Bush

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:14:36 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Nothing like crashing world opinion on the rocks of incompetence, thuggery, thievery, and greed.

Clip Source: impeachforpeace.org

Berliner Zeitung: "Rarely has an American president been less popular in this country. And rarely has one embodied the arrogance of power more convincingly than Bush.

Handelsblatt: "Bush junior wasn't up to the challenge following the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, because he let himself be pushed into an unwarranted war by listening to the wrong advisers, and thereby prevented a broad front against terrorism. Constructive Middle East policy was made more difficult, and the regime in Iran was strengthened.

Suddeutsche Zeitung: "In Germany, America is no longer seen as a country of individual liberty, as a reliable ally, and definitely not as a model. There are a large number of justified accusations leveled at Bush's policies. They include dangerous naivete, lies, and the sustained infringement of human rights.

in the thoughts and feeling of many Germans he is leaving behind a mixture of antipathy, ridicule, anger, and skepticism towards U.S. policies and towards America in general.

Petraeus Urges Diplomacy Toward Iran

Thu, 22 May 2008 20:54:07 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The question is... will ass-hat George Bush have the brains to listen to someone who might have something constructive to offer.

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, President Bush's nominee to lead U.S. forces in the Middle East and Central Asia, supports continued U.S. engagement with international and regional partners to find the right mix of diplomatic, economic and military leverage to address the challenges posed by Iran.

In written answers to questions posed by the Senate Armed Services Committee, where he will testify today, Petraeus said the possibility of military action against Iran should be retained as a "last resort." But he said the United States "should make every effort to engage by use of the whole of government, developing further leverage rather than simply targeting discrete threats."

BushCo's "Gross Incompetence" Cost Billions - Ex US Commander In Iraq

Sun, 04 May 2008 01:08:02 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Would someone PLEASE IMPEACH THESE ASSHATS!!! This ineptitude isn't criminal, but they have done more than enough that is. HANG 'EM HIGH!

Clip Source: rawstory.com

In a new memoir set to be published May 6, the former commander of US forces in Iraq provides new intimate details of the goings-on at high levels of the Bush Administration in the first year of the Iraq war.

His sharp tongued conclusion: "Hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars were unnecessarily spent, and worse yet, too many of our most precious military resource, our American soldiers, were unnecessarily wounded, maimed, and killed as a result. In my mind, this action by the Bush administration amounts to gross incompetence and dereliction of duty."

Sanchez commanded the US military in Iraq from 2003-2004. The three-star general was relieved of his commander in 2004 following the Abu Ghraib scandal, and in 2005, was told his career was over and he wouldn't be promoted to a fourth star.

What Will George W. Bush's Legacy Be?

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:54:07 GMT

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clipper's remarks: One phrase sums it up for me... anti-American.

Clip Source: www.theinformationparadox.com

How will the history books salvage anything positive from the last eight years of the George W. Bush presidency? With other presidents, scandal and success seem to be mixed, and if not mixed, an administration is usually labeled ineffective at worst. With G.W.B there is little from his time in office that can held up as a success or accomplishment, and more than a fair share of items that can be viewed as complete and utter failures. George W. Bush and his administration seem to have caused nearly irreparable damage on the world stage and unfortunate regression in domestic policy.

So what will we remember of George Walker Bush?

September 11, 2001

The Patriot Act

The Afghan War

The Iraqi Quagmire

Torture

Water Boarding

Abu Ghraib

Falsified intelligence

Suppression of climate science

Sinking economy

Soaring gas prices

Sinking public opinion

The Katrina debacle

Cheney shooting someone in the face

Wire Tapping

Loss of Habeas Corpus

Firing of U.S. Attorneys

Alberto Gonzalez

Scooter Libby

Enron

Blackwater

A Litany of BushCo. Lies About Iraq

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:11:20 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Video tape is a wonderful thing.

Clip Source: whatthe.blogetery.com

[Video]

Compilation of lies the Bush administration told leading up to the Iraq war, the lies they told during the war to cover up the initial lies, then the admissions of lying when they were all lied out! Watch how certain Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, Rice, and Wolfowitz were about things initially, only to later act as though there was no possible way to be certain.
They are trying to lie their way into war with Iran…DON’T BUY IT PEOPLE!

Is that a sneeze, President Bush, or...?

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:55:24 GMT

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Clip Source: www.myconfinedspace.com

Who Is The Real Patriot?

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:44:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I may not agree with his religion or some of his views, but I'd rather be in his fox-hole than Dick Cheney's or George Bush's.

Clip Source: www.blueridgenow.com

A young African-American man heard John F. Kennedy’s “Ask what you can do for your country,” gave up his student deferment, left college, joined the Marines for two years and then became a Navy corpsman. Elected class valedictorian, he was assigned for four years to Bethesda Naval Hospital where he helped care for Lyndon Johnson.

Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney used student deferments, avoiding active duty through family connections. Who’s the real patriot — one who sacrificed years or those who merely mouthed love of country?

Some of Wright’s comments are inexcusable and rightly condemned, but calling him “unpatriotic”? Wright’s church offers many services — housing, employment programs, scholarships, ministry to people with HIV/AIDS. “It’s (because of) his deep faith in God and his desire to be an agent of change in the world,” said Michael Pfleger, a South Side Roman Catholic priest. (Gleaned from AP and Chicago Tribune articles, April 4 ).