The tag 'Bush-George W' is associated with 165 posts.

More on the Increasingly Vitriolic (and Depressing) Debate on the “9/11 Mosque”

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ August 20, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Com­ment: In the increas­ingly Kafkaesque polit­i­cal land­scape in this coun­try, noth­ing high­lights the intel­lec­tual and moral bank­ruptcy of both sides of the polit­i­cal aisle than the debate over the “9/11 Mosque.” Con­ser­v­a­tive ele­ments have cor­rectly noted the links of Feisal Abdul Rauf and asso­ciates to the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood, as well as dis­turb­ing indi­ca­tions that his [...]

Bush Administration Arranged Tours for “Ground Zero Mosque” Imam

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ August 17, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Com­ment: The Bush admin­is­tra­tion hired Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf to work on behalf of the U.S. on two tours in 2006, 2007. The Obama admin­is­tra­tion has con­tin­ued the trend, employ­ing him on a tour of the Mid­dle East at the moment.
In FTR #721, we noted con­ti­nu­ity between the Bush and Obama admin­is­tra­tions with regard to [...]

Bush, Bin Laden Families Linked To Funding of Ground Zero Mosque

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ August 15, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Com­ment: Con­ser­v­a­tive com­men­ta­tor Pamela Geller has researched the fund­ing appa­ra­tus behind the con­tro­ver­sial “Ground Zero Mosque” project in New York City–the build­ing of a Mosque and Islamic activ­i­ties cen­ter two blocks from the site of the World Trade Cen­ter.
It turns out that the fam­ily and milieu of Abdul­lah Alireza are involved with the insti­tu­tions working [...]

FTR #716 Interview (#6) with Russ Baker, Author of “Family of Secrets”

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ July 26, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Decades of Bush fam­ily intrigue cul­mi­nates in Dubya’s eight year deba­cle; dis­as­ters over­tak­ing the US are the inevitable out­growth of Bush’s cor­po­ratist phi­los­o­phy and cor­rupt admin­is­tra­tive practice.

FTR #715 Interview (#5) with Russ Baker, Author of “Family of Secrets”

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ July 19, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Poppy Bush tabbed by Ger­ald Ford to head CIA as Kennedy assas­si­na­tion inves­ti­ga­tions pro­ceed; Dick Cheney, Don­ald Rums­feld, Karl Rove and Paul Wol­fowitz launch their careers cour­tesy of Poppy and Ger­ald Ford in same time period.

Heads Up: Another Member of THAT Family Waiting in the Wings

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ July 16, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Com­ment: Against the back­ground of six hours of inter­views on the sub­ject of Russ Baker’s remark­able recent book Fam­ily of Secrets, it is worth con­tem­plat­ing the pos­si­bil­ity that Jeb Bush might attempt to per­pet­u­ate the Bush family’s polit­i­cal dynasty. Con­cerned cit­i­zens should care­fully weigh the Bush polit­i­cal machine and its legacy–so amply illus­trated by Russ [...]

FTR #713 Interview (#3) with Russ Baker, Author of “Family of Secrets”

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ July 5, 2010 ⋅ 4 comments

With JFK safely out of the way, Poppy Bush safe­guards the inter­ests that killed him; elected to Con­gress, Poppy lands a plum com­mit­tee posi­tion, cour­tesy of his father; strings pulled to get Dubya into a National Guard posi­tion; Dubya goes AWOL.

FTR #711 Interview (#1) with Russ Baker, Author of “Family of Secrets”

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ June 22, 2010 ⋅ 2 comments

Bush family’s his­tory and for­tunes pro­foundly linked to Wall Street, the petro­leum indus­try and the intel­li­gence com­mu­nity; “Poppy” Bush’s Zap­ata Petro­leum an appar­ent intel­li­gence front; Poppy appar­ently deeply involved with the JFK assassination.

Trouble on Oiled Waters, Pt. 2

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ June 8, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Com­ment: BP has bought the Google and Yahoo search words rel­e­vant to research­ing the oil spill in the Gulf of Mex­ico, with the intent of redi­rect­ing searches for the pur­poses of dam­age con­trol.
“BP buys Google, Yahoo Search Words to Keep Peo­ple away from Real News on Gulf Oil Spill Disaster“by Maryann Tobin; examiner.com;  6/6/2010.
Excerpt: In [...]

George W. Bush Was Contemplating Invading Iraq in 1999

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ May 21, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Com­ment: Among the dis­clo­sures in the bril­liant recent book Fam­ily of Secrets by Russ Baker are state­ments by Bush fam­ily asso­ciate and author Mickey Her­skowitz that Bush felt that start­ing a war was key to being a suc­cess­ful leader, and that W was con­tem­plat­ing invad­ing Iraq in 1999.
Bush clearly felt that a suc­cess­ful pos­ture as [...]

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