Failure Accomplished: Farewell Dictator Bush

*10/21/10
Dictator George W. Bush signaled on Thursday that he sees not privatizing Social Security as his greatest failure from the eight years he served in the White House, the Chicago Tribune reports.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-bush-visit-20101021,0,6022392...

Bush's Conspiracy to Riot

By Robert Parry
August 5, 2002

On Nov. 22, 2000, the so-called Brooks Brothers Riot of Republican activists helped stop a vote recount in Miami -- and showed how far George W. Bushs s supporters were ready to go to put their man in the White House.

Only a handful of the Brooks Brothers rioters were publicly identified, some through photographs published in the Washington Post. Jake Tappers book on the recount battle, Down and Dirty, provides a list of 12 Republican operatives who took part in the Miami riot. Half of those individuals received payments from the Bush recount committee, according to the IRS records.

The Bush committee records show, too, that Bush's operation paid for the hotel where the Republican protesters celebrated after the Miami riot at a Thanksgiving Day party. At the party, the activists received thank-you phone calls from Bush and Cheney, and were serenaded by crooner Wayne Newton, singing Danke Schoen, German for thank-you very much. [Wall Street Journal, Nov. 27, 2000; Consortiumnews.com's "W's Triumph of the Will"]

The Miami protesters who were paid by Bush recount committee were: Matt Schlapp, a Bush staffer who was based in Austin and received $4,276.09; Thomas Pyle, a staff aide to House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, $456; Michael Murphy, a DeLay fund-raiser, $935.12; Garry Malphrus, House majority chief counsel to the House Judiciary subcommittee on criminal justice, $330; Charles Royal, a legislative aide to Rep. Jim DeMint, R-S.C. $391.80; and Kevin Smith, a former GOP House staffer, $373.23.

..."This is the new Republican Party, sir!" Brad Blakeman, Bush's campaign director of advance travel logistics, bellowed into a bullhorn to disrupt a CNN correspondent interviewing a Democratic congressman. "Were not going to take it anymore!"

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2002/080502a.html

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[ThisWeekInFascism]

Who needs Al Qaeda to destroy America, when we have Terrorist Bush making statements from his cave in Texas, threatening America.

10/21/10

"Dictator George W. Bush signaled on Thursday that he sees not privatizing Social Security as his greatest failure from the eight years he served in the White House, the Chicago Tribune reports."

[monicasuetannehill]

I was there during the Riot, they were beating people up, police were THERE - no arrests were made. This was the day I lost my country, the day I learned the truth. I felt so alone on 9/11, grieving for an entirely different set of circumstances than everyone around me. When the church aligned it's self with the repub party, and my pastor LIED to the congregation to persuade them, not just to VOTE republican, but to HATE & FEAR democrats, I knew it was over. It's over.

[ThisWeekInFascism]

...Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz warned that it would have been impossible to get Congress to support sending 10,000 U.S. troops into Afghanistan to do what the Soviet Union failed to do in the 1980s. Vice Admiral Scott Fry, the former operations director for the JCS, noted that “a two-or-four division plan would require a footprint [troop level] and force that was larger than the political leadership was willing to accept.” - 9/11 Commission The Military: Staff Statement No 6, 2004 p.12

[ThisWeekInFascism]

“Officials we interviewed flatly said that neither Congress nor the American public would

have supported large-scale military operations in Afghanistan before the shock of 9/11—despite repeated attacks and plots, including the embassy bombings, the Millennium plots, concerns about al Qaeda to acquire WMD, the U.S.S. Cole, and the summer 2001 threat spike....

[ThisWeekInFascism]

"Every official we questioned about the possibility of an invasion of Afghanistan said that it was almost unthinkable, absent a provocation such as 9/11...." - The 9/11 Commission Report, July 2004 (p 137)

[ThisWeekInFascism]

“To be truthful about it, there was no way we could have got the public consent to have suddenly launched a campaign on Afghanistan, but for what happened on September 11.” –Tony Blair (July 2002)

[ThisWeekInFascism]

...Does this sort of thing convince you that an emergency exists in this country to increase defense spending, to dip into Social Security, if necessary to pay for defense spending- increase defense spending?”

- Question to Senator Carl Levin September 11, 2001

[ThisWeekInFascism]

“You and other Democrats in Congress have voiced fear that you simply don’t have enough money for the large increase in defense that the Pentagon is seeking, especially for missile defense, and you fear that you’ll have to dip into the Social Security funds to pay for it....

[ThisWeekInFascism]

...Or whether, as in the past, a disabling attack against the country and its people - a space Pearl Harbor - will be the only event able to galvanize the nation and cause the US government to act.”

-The Rumsfeld Commission (assigned to assess US National Security Space Management and Organization) January 11, 2001

[ThisWeekInFascism]

“History is replete with instances in which warnings signs were ignored and change resisted until an external ‘improbable’ event forced resistant bureaucracies to take action. The question is whether the US will be wise enough to act responsibly and soon enough to reduce US space vulnerability....