A bit off-topic? Just have a look what was in the quote I referred to: Bush family...Quote:
Originally Posted by TuskegeeBen
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A bit off-topic? Just have a look what was in the quote I referred to: Bush family...Quote:
Originally Posted by TuskegeeBen
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Originally Posted by Klondyke
I read the OP as being focused upon the "deeds" of GHWB, together w/ those deeds of his immediate off-spring, of which he (GHW) was of a profound influence,...in recent current events.
Reaching back in history, to the time, and deeds of Prescott Bush,...is a totally different (although related) topic of discussion. That's just my considered point of view. I meant no offense,...ok? :notworthy:
Blimey.Quote:
Originally Posted by CSFFan
Here's an interesting short read about the authors up close and almost personal experience.
Sorry about just the link.
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...hw-bush-family
But I'll bet some of those posters are up to the minute on US sports though, eh?Quote:
Originally Posted by aging one
That's because Obama is a gentleman and a diplomat.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cujo
Come Trump's demise, though, I think Obama will struggle to say anything honest and nice. It will be more like, "He managed, admirably, to cast off his orange hue and look slightly more natural during his presidency..."
:rofl:
Blimey at the obvious sarcasm? Why?Quote:
Originally Posted by cyrille
Your understanding of authorial intent is right up there with Chitty's appreciation of cuisine, so pardon me if I disagree with that assessment.Quote:
Originally Posted by Maanaam
Hopefully CSFFan can let us know.
And let's face it, voting for GWB would be far from the most inexplicable decision CSF has made. :D
Saying GWB was the greatest American president is absurd to say the least especially since he was a one term president. JFK, FDR, Eisenhower, Teddy Roosevelt, all far better presidents of the same century. My personal fav was Eisenhower for his warnings against the military industrial complex and the fact that he soaked the rich taxing their income at 90%. He presided over an America where the middle class was at its strongest. Has been a steady decline since he left office.
Good job nobody did then, eh?Quote:
Originally Posted by bsnub
GWB's Daddy was one of the rich financier / bankers that tried to overthrow elected Pres FDR in the 30's. They wanted a Fascist dictatorship, like their puppet in Germany at the time.
https://teakdoor.com/attachment.php?a...id=23969&stc=1
(General Smedley Butler is not a name most people know about, but is the sole heroic guy that averted Nazism in the US). https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/Na...-Overthrow-the
Horrible family, horrible Presidents. Unless you're part of the same clique, that is.
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Armed with French’s mutual testimony, Butler appeared before the McCormack-Dickstein congressional committee, also known as the Special Committee on Un-American Activities, to reveal what he knew about the plot to seize the presidency in November 1934. The committee at first discounted a large part of Butler’s testimony (even writing in their initial report that they saw no reason to subpoena men like John W. Davis, a former presidential hopeful, or Thomas W. Lamont, a partner with J.P. Morgan & Company).
However, with the testimony of French, and the erratic testimony of MacGuire, the committee began to further investigate the plot. The final reports of the committee sang a different tune, finding that all of Butler’s claims could be corroborated as factual. However, they also stressed that the plot was far from being enacted, and it was not clear if the plans would have ever truly come to fruition.
Quickly becoming known as the “White House Coup” and “Wall Street Putsch,” many major news sources derided Butler’s claims, as the committee’s final report was not made available publicly. Those implicated, ranging from the DuPont family to Prescott Bush, the grandfather of future President George W. Bush, laughed off Butler’s claims. Evidence of the validity of Butler’s testimony was not released until the 21st century, when the committee’s papers were published in the Public Domain. No one was ever prosecuted in connection to the plot.
Umm...Quote:
Originally Posted by cyrille
Lets not split hairs eh?Quote:
Originally Posted by CSFFan
That aitch is needed to distinguish GWHB from his son, obviously.
To distiguish the heroic invasions of both, perhaps not so different in its "just cause"Quote:
Originally Posted by cyrille
The truth behind US' Operation Just Cause in Panama
The more history that can be exhumed, the harder it will be for the US to hide behind noble intentions in the future.
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On January 31, 1990, the US invasion of Panama - dubbed Operation Just Cause - officially came to a close. While the US military has consistently lowballed the Panamanian death count of the short-lived affair, other observers have put the number of fatalities at several thousand.
As media watch group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) noted at the time, Just Cause saw the impoverished Panama City neighbourhood of El Chorillo pulverised to the point of being referred to by ambulance drivers as "Little Hiroshima". In other words, no surgical strikes here.
Indeed, the foray into Panama was the largest US combat operation since the Vietnam War. The US government trotted out various noble justifications for the operation, such as improving the lot of the Panamanians by hauling their dictator, General Manuel Noriega, off to the US to face drug-trafficking charges.
This was the same Noriega, of course, who had for years been a US favourite, occupying a prominent position on the CIA's payroll despite common knowledge of his involvement in the international drug trade.
When the general began to show signs of less-than-obsequiousness to US regional designs, however, he was rendered persona non grata by the self-appointed chaperones of the hemisphere.
Read more
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/op...085323562.html
...All things (of current events) considered,...it is clearly obvious...which entity...ultimately...came to occupy the winners' circle,...post...WWII...eh? :rofl:Quote:
Originally Posted by kmart
The eyes are always the mirrors of the Connecticut Yankee soul.Quote:
Originally Posted by kmart
Didn't realise Manuel was dead, thought he was in for the long haul, they just won't learn once bent over it pays to stay that way. Deary me where was I!
Some "make annexation" with a referendum, some operate in a "Just Cause", taking out the elected president...Quote:
US' Operation Just Cause in Panama
Does it make any difference? (don't mind the thousands deads...)
...when compared to tRump, GHW Bush was a shining example of American political savvy...to gay folks, however, he was just short of a nemesis who allowed evangelicals into the Republican tent and cemented their presence at the highest councils of state...what followed, of course, was delayed spending on the AIDS health crisis and his advice to those who loved in a non-Republican patrician way: change your behavior if you want to live...similar to Papal advice now I think of it...
FTFY. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by kmart
I'm well aware of him...Quote:
Originally Posted by kmart
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George HW Bush after Shootdown of Iranian Airliner by US Navy: “I Never Apologize for US” (video)
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Iran Air Flight 655 was a civilian jet airliner shotdown by US missiles on 3 July 1988 as it flew over the Strait of Hormuz at the end of the Iraqi imposed war on Iran. 290 innocent civilians (252 Iranians and 38 non Iranians) died when the US Navy shot down it.
December, 01, 2018
Speaking to a group of Republican ethnic leaders (7 Aug 1988), George H W Bush, at the time Vice President of the United States in the Reagan administration commented on a separate occasion, saying, "I will never apologize for the United States — I don't care what the facts are... I'm not an apologize-for-America kind of guy."
The quote, although unrelated to the downing of the Iranian air liner, has been attributed as such.
George H W Bush also defended his country’s atrocity against Iranian civilians at the United Nations by arguing that the US attack had been a wartime incident and that the crew of the Vincennes had acted appropriately to the situation.
The former US President died on Friday at the age of 94, a family spokesman said.
https://www.tasnimnews.com/en/news/2...ologize-for-us
I neglected to mention the book written by the LaRouchite Webster Tarpley...The Unauthorized Biography of George H. W. Bush. No matter what you think of the LaRouchites, it's an interesting book. Not to mention it's freely available to read online.
George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography « TARPLEY.net
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By Webster Griffin Tarpley and Anton Chaitkin
Table of Contents
Introduction American Caligula
Chapter 1 The House of Bush: Born in a Bank
Chapter 2 The Hitler Project
Chapter 3 Race Hygiene: Three Bush Family Alliances
Chapter 4 The Center of Power is in Washington
Chapter 5 Poppy and Mommy
Chapter 6 Bush in World War II
Chapter 7 Skull and Bones: The Racist Nightmare at Yale
Chapter 8 The Permian Basin Gang
Chapter 8b The Bay of Pigs and The Kennedy Assassination
Chapter 9 Bush Challenges Yarborough for The Senate
Chapter 10 Rubbers Goes to Congress
Chapter 11 United Nations Ambassador, Kissinger Clone
Chapter 12 Chairman George in Watergate
Chapter 13 Bush Attempts The Vice Presidency, 1974
Chapter 14 Bush in Beijing
Chapter 15 CIA Director
Chapter 16 Campaign 1980
Chapter 17 The Attempted Coup DEtat of March 30, 1981
Chapter 18 Iran-Contra
Chapter 19 The Leveraged Buyout Mob
Chapter 20 The Phony War On Drugs
Chapter 21 Omaha
Chapter 22 Bush Takes The Presidency
Chapter 23 The End of History
Chapter 24 The New World Order
Chapter 25 Thyroid Storm
Have never forgotten a particular High Times magazine cover from the mid or late 80s.
Can't find a copy online unfortunately...
Had a photo of GHWB in the middle of one of his many heated yet baseless speeches...
Titled: "George Bush: our superspy, lying, drug dealing president," or something close to that.
You are a cock! Have a lovely evening.............Cock!Quote:
Originally Posted by TuskegeeBen
Must have gotten his PR Machine/Legal team to scrub that one...Quote:
Originally Posted by hick
Did find this though...from Cannabis Culture, May 2017Quote:
Originally Posted by hick
George H.W. Bush: Biggest. Drug Lord. Ever.
https://www.cannabisculture.com/cont...rug-lord-ever/
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Niiice! I was almost sure you'd found it :)
Oh I was looking...no joy @ High Times though.Quote:
Originally Posted by hick
quote from that^^
“What I wish to point out … is how deep-seated the fear of passing judgment, of naming names, and of fixing blame – especially, alas, upon people in power and high position, dead or alive …”
– Hannah Arendt, “Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship”, 1964 (4)
another:
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However, this evidence is hidden away in relatively obscure books and websites. The mainstream media – and popular websites like Vice.com – shy away from that sort of thing – that old “fear of passing judgment” thing that Hannah Arendt was talking about. Plus nobody wants to be called a conspiracy theorist – you stop getting invited to all sorts of parties and denied memberships in all sorts of groups after getting that label. It’s amazing to me how human beings are so easily domesticated into a form of livestock – persuaded to avoid looking into the actual history of their rulers – with just a bit of name-calling.
If you compare baldy orange cunto with *any* previous President, he makes them *all* look good.
FFS he even makes Bush Jr. look intelligent.
Live stream. He put county over party...
http://www.clickondetroit.com/live/l...-at-us-capitol
^Read a few sentences of that and now... :puke:
Got caught up in the moment. Still no fan of the new world order.Quote:
Originally Posted by SKkin
That's pushing it. Slightly. At least Dubbya wasn't crass, rude, or nearly so arrogant.Quote:
Originally Posted by harrybarracuda
But yes, overall Trump makes all previous presidents look good.
...Millard Fillmore is smiling in his grave...Quote:
Originally Posted by Maanaam
Who?
Googled.
He can't be all that bad if he bedded his teacher :)
^From the looks of that pic, Carter's next in line...
followed by clinton.....
Well it's the way death usually goes...
i've noticed that too.....