President George W. Bush used the 20th anniversary of 9/11 to call for a new War on Extremism against Americans who oppose the radical agendas of government. He described the January-6 demonstrators as “domestic extremists” and equated them with jihadists. He said they share a “disregard for human life” and a “determination to defile national symbols.” He said, “They are children of the same foul spirit, and it is our… duty to confront them.” Joe Biden, before the election, said, “my top priority once I’m elected as president will be to combat domestic extremism.” -GEG
In response to the September 11 terrorist attacks, Bush launched a "War on Terror" that began with the war in Afghanistan in 2001 and later expanded to the Iraq War in 2003. Signature legislation passed during his presidency included broad tax cuts, the Patriot Act [destruction of the Bill of Rights], the No Child Left Behind Act [great idea on paper, impossible to enact], the Partial–Birth Abortion Ban Act [political solution that solved nothing], the Medicare Modernization Act [direct payments to Big Pharma], and funding for the AIDS relief program known as PEPFAR. In the 2004 presidential race, Bush defeated Democratic Senator John Kerry in a close election. After his re–election, Bush received criticism from across the political spectrum for his handling of the Iraq War, Hurricane Katrina [he had gutted FEMA], and other challenges. Amid this criticism, the Democratic Party regained control of Congress in the 2006 elections. In December 2007, the United States entered its longest post–World War II recession, often referred to as the "Great Recession", prompting the Bush administration to obtain congressional approval for multiple economic programs intended to preserve the country's financial system.
In 2005 he attempted to privatize social security. I originally thought this might be a good idea, looking back at what a crooked bastard he was, I'm sure there was something nefarious about the whole deal. No proof, just my personal feeling.
As a result of 9/11, George W Bush started “Homeland Security” (effective March 1, 2003) allegedly for your protection.
☠ “9–11 Never let a crisis go unused.”☠
Homeland Security is a paramilitary group exempted from almost all laws in the US.
They can break down the door of your house tomorrow, take anything they want and you have no recourse.
Homeland security is not constrained to terrorist incidents. Isn't that just perfect for s tyrannical government? Less than 1% of the laws thus enacted are used for terrorist related incidents.
Don't forget the Brest milk incident where a mother was to prove breast milk she had in a container was in–fact breast milk by drinking several ounces of it there–by possibly making it unsanitary.
9/11 resulted in major restrictions on air travel, the introduction of TSA and a limitation of what you could take on board with you. Interestingly enough, even after ths "shoe bomber" who could have set off his bomb with a cigarette lighter, passangers are still allowed 2 lighters and 4 packs of matches when boarding a plane.
Bush appropriated 785B$ “TARP”allegedly to bail us out of a recession but no a specifics, no problem, Pelosi was exuberant about it.. Another raid on the American public.
Bush attempted to halt investigation into 9/11 in both congress and civilian. When the congressional report did come out he had 28 pages censored which undoubted showing his family connections to the Bin Laudin family finical empire and Carlyle group
An article to be published in THE NATION magazine sets out George Bush's alleged ties to the tobacco industry. It suggests that he has taken several pro–tobacco positions, that the tobacco industry is supporting him and hoping for his victory, and that he might be vulnerable on this issue.
Very little 'factual' information is left on the WEB. When you steal billions of dollars, it is worth your time to be sure nobody remembers or finds out about what you have done. Remember Halliburton? There is nothing like a war to hide a missing 100 million of dollars and get away with it.
“The constitution is just a goddamn piece of paper.” -George W. Bush Nov. 2005, Capitol Hill Blue Room.
George Bush, a failing tax shelter salesman (in the 80's) bought a 2% interest [with $600,000] of borrowed money, on a scheme to buy the Rangers in Arlington, Texas, and bilk the local tax payer out of hundreds of millions of dollars.
The first thing they did was threaten to move this mediocre team somewhere else. So the Arlington voters, in a special election voted in a one/half percent sales tax increase to buy land and build a new stadium for the team. They needed 17 acres for the stadium but Bush wanted 200 acres for development. Not everyone wanted to sell at the bottom price offered so Bush had the city seize the property under the power of eminent domain which although you are supposed to get a fair price simply declaring e.d., automatically lowers the price of everything. The Mathes family didn't think the $800,000 offered for their 13 acres was a fair price and had the means to take them to court. After a short deliberation the court awarded the Mathes with 5 million for their property and although they still didn't want to sell were forced out. Their land eventually ended up as parking lot at the edge of the complex. The city had created a sports authority who built a beautiful brick and granite stadium and then negotiated a rent to own deal for the stadium on a dollar for dollar basis, 0% interest including the cost of maintaining the stadium. On top of that they had the option to buy the stadium for $60 million even though it cost 3 times that to build. The lawyer who represented the sports authority in this miraculous deal was Ray Hutchison a Republican insider married to Senator Kay Hutchison, the leading Texas authority on municipal bond finance.
Are you following this? Bush [with a 2% interest] and his investors bought the 'Rangers' (baseball team) for 86 million. They got the city to clear 200 acres of residential and build a beautiful stadium for them @ Zero percent interest, rent-to-own and an option to buy at any time at 1/3rd the cost. All at taxpayer expense.
They sold the rangers nine years later for 250 million, 164 million profit and still 38.5 million less than the subsidy. Bush called it a 'win win for investment' in 98. (Win for him, win for his investors and the taxpayer picked up the bill) On his 98 tax returns he made public, he reported 17 million in long term income gains. Based on the stake he made, he should have reported just over 2 million but the rest was the 10% from the investors, not an uncommon business practice. But the 15 million is specifically addressed in the IRS rules and should have been taxed at 39.6% because it was not long term gain as Bush reported. A difference of about 3.7 million. It was about this time (1989) Bush (GW) bought his ranch near Waco with his 'earnings.' Bush was elected governor of Texas in 94.
The chance of Bush getting audited by the IRS was highest in 99 & 2000 & it just happens that those two years for the first time ever, the IRS concentrated on people earning less than $25,000 a year. I left a lot out, it is actually much worse then I can tell in so many words.
Snippet taken from a book by David Cay Johnston called "Free Lunch."
October 3, 2008
[Truth or Fiction]George H. Bush was extremely kind, considerate and always respectful towards Secret Service agents. They took great care in making sure the agents' comforts were taken care of and even brought them meals. Barbara Bush once gave a warm hat to a Secret Service agent while he was protecting the Bush's at their Kennebunkport home in Maine.
If you have a kind commanding voice you can talk people out of anything. The best crooks and liars are this way. gb
Truth!
A former agent told Kessler that the Bush's were very considerate of the agents sworn to protect them. The hat incident occurred while Mr. Bush was Vice President.
More depends on you passing on verifiable info, or the best we can do.
George W Bush replaced an effective leader in FEMA with one of his own political appointees with no experience or training in dealing with disasters. But his role was to gut the organization, not deal with disasters. That one proved out. Hurricane Katrina hit and FEMA was unprepared.
GWB did nothing to slow the influx of Muslims into the US.
U.S. Government and Top Mexican Drug Cartel Exposed as Partners
14 January 2014
In exchange for information and assistance in quashing competing criminal syndicates, the Bush and Obama administrations let the Sinaloa cartel import tons of drugs into the United States while wiping out Sinaloa competitors and ensuring that its leaders would not be prosecuted for their long list of major crimes. Other revelations also point strongly to massive but clandestine U.S. government involvement in drug trafficking.
full article
"obama spent 770 million taxpayer dollars to renovate mosques (in the middle east.)"
according to factcheck however, this program was actually started by Bush and promoted by Clinton full article
Patriot Act.
When rep John Conyers was asked if he read the patriot Act before voting on it ha sat back in his chair as though he was talking to an idiot and said: " there is no–way 'we' could possibly read every law that comes up for vote." (I added: 'why with all the vacations and kick–back taking there just isn't time.')
I'm combining files here Bush3-06
George G W Bush
"March 4, 2006 I said it, and I'm right on this time. Somehow being right about this just doesn't have that 'feel good' feeling about it."
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George G W Bush
President G W Bush (gag, spit spit spit ) who calls himself a conservative, has spent more money than all previous presidents COMBINED. He doesn't do this alone. I recently watched a program showing how congress has just gone wild on a spending spree and Bush has not vetoed a single item. Senators would be bribed with like 15 or 20 million dollars if they would vote for a certain thing e.g. NAFATA. I believe the program was a series on PBS called NOW and while a very left wing program you can't deny facts. So just why is it nobody does anything? Think about this. Our only chance is if al Qaeda sneaks a nuke into Washington DC and incinerates those greedy ass holes. The Smithsonian would be a loss but just thinking about 50,000 lawyers going up is smoke makes my heart flutter. Think about it, please......
George Bush, a failing tax shelter salesman (in the 80's) bought a 2% interest [with $600,000] of borrowed money, on a scheme to buy the Rangers in Arlington, Texas, and bilked the residents out of hundreds of millions of tax dollars.
Lets not forget what Bush (one of em) did for medicare part IV the multi billion give-a-way to the pharmaceuticals. The US government will now pay pharma directly for medicare prescriptions. No chance for fraud there <sic>.
And when people tried to buy the same exact drug from cheaper places their mail was intercepted (illegally).
From the Boston Globe
US steps up seizures of imported drugs
Warnings sent for prescriptions
By Christopher Rowland, Globe Staff | March 26, 2006
Thousands of Americans who order prescription drugs from Canada have received written notice that their medications have been seized, part of a US government crackdown on the cross-border discount trade.
The increase in seizures and the strong legal warnings issued to consumers mark a shift in policy for the Bush administration, which until now has rarely acted against individuals who buy drugs from Canada. The enforcement policy, which began last fall, is drawing fire from members of Congress.
Nancy Popkin, a Salem resident who has been ordering the osteoporosis treatment Fosamax from Canadian pharmacies for years, was one of those recently targeted. Popkin said she was surprised when, instead of her usual shipment of 12 tablets, she was mailed a form letter accompanied by a flier featuring a snake coiled around a drug bottle.
The notice, from the Department of Homeland Security, US Customs and Border Protection, said her medication had been seized because "virtually all" drugs imported by individuals into the United States are unapproved for consumption here or are dispensed without a valid prescription. The letter cited a federal statute, although there is no penalty for violating it.
Popkin was warned that only drug makers can import prescription medications from foreign countries -- even if they were manufactured in the United States.
There is not a lot of this info left on the WEB, politicians and those that would be embarrassed have a way of 'cleaning up' history... gb
Now this is Rich: They include a Watergate felon, a Cuban exile terrorist and a Pakistani heroin smuggler. But where was the outrage then?
Hearing all the indignant noise about the Clinton pardons, the average citizen might understandably think that the granting of presidential clemency had never been tainted by campaign contributions, political connections or insider access. That mistaken perception, promoted by lazy journalists and partisan pundits, is being exploited by Republicans on Capitol Hill (who are never, ever influenced by rich donors).
The truth — as anyone who glances back into the history of the first Bush administration can quickly learn — is that Clinton hasn't done anything that his predecessor didn't do first and, in some cases, worse.
The widely and justly criticized pardons of Caspar Weinberger and other Iran-Contra defendants by George Herbert Walker Bush should have been just the beginning of that story. Yet, for reasons best known to the incorruptible watchdogs of the Washington press corps, Poppy's self-interested mercy upon Weinberger instigated no searching examination of the other pardons granted by the departing president. Indeed, the final dozen pardons given by Bush — including the unexplained release of a Pakistani heroin trafficker — received virtually no coverage at all.
The elder Bush delivered a few highly questionable pardons well before his last days in office. The very first of his presidency went to Armand Hammer, the legendary oilman best known for his relationships with Soviet leaders dating back to Lenin. In an investigation that grew out of Watergate, Hammer had pleaded guilty in 1975 to laundering $54,000 in illicit contributions to Nixon's reelection war chest. By the summer of 1989, when Bush gave Hammer what he wanted, the aging chief of Occidental Petroleum had been pestering government officials on his own behalf for several years.
Considering his original offense, it was ironic that Hammer won what he called the “vindication” of a presidential pardon only months after he poured well over $100,000 into Republican Party coffers, and another $100,000 into the accounts of the Bush-Quayle Inaugural committee. (In author Edward Jay Epstein's excellent biography of the oilman, there is a photograph of Hammer, his girlfriend and President Bush together at the White House in April 1990. Such visits were perks for members of Bush's “Team 100,” as the GOP's most generous donors were known.)
At the time, Hammer's pardon made news, partly because his request had been turned down by President Reagan several months earlier. But nobody seemed to notice the nexus between the oilman's generosity to Bush and the new president's mercy upon Hammer.
The only hint of Hammer's influence-buying came from former Watergate prosecutor Henry Ruth, who wasn't consulted by the White House before Hammer's pardon was granted. “My view of the pardon process is that it should be given only in extraordinary circumstances, and I haven't heard of any” in Hammer's case, Ruth told the Los Angeles Times. Ruth thought the undeserved favor had been given only because Hammer was “rich” and “powerful.”
Another intriguing fact went almost unnoticed back then, too. Hammer's team of attorneys included not only a close friend of Attorney General Richard Thornburgh, but also a very close friend of Bush's new White House counsel C. Boyden Gray, whose job included passing on pardon requests to the president. The Gray pal hired to help Hammer was a former Reagan Justice Department official named Theodore B. Olson. Now that Olson ('salon dot com/ page missing) has been nominated as Bush's solicitor general, perhaps he will offer insights on the history of presidential pardons during his confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Surely Olson would testify that campaign contributions and insider influence should have nothing to do with the process.
An even more dubious case than Hammer's also reached Bush's desk during the first year of his presidency. In 1989, prominent Cuban-Americans in Florida began agitating for the release of Orlando Bosch, a notorious anti-Castro terrorist then serving a prison term for entering the United States illegally. American intelligence and law enforcement authorities firmly believed that Bosch was responsible for far worse actions, including the 1976 explosion that brought down a Cuban airliner, killing all 76 civilians aboard, although Venezuelan prosecutors had failed to convict him of that terrible crime. There was certainly no question that Bosch was an advocate of terror and had been involved in numerous bombings.
http://www.salon.com/2001/02/27/pardons_3">
Bush and military service
In January 1968 Bush was set to graduate from Yale University, making him eligible for the draft and, in all likelihood, service in Vietnam. Bush sought entry into the officer corps of the Texas Air National Guard, which would minimise his chances of being dispatched to Vietnam. Despite scoring low on the entrance exam, Bush was accepted.
The controversy over his military service has concentrated on whether his father, George Herbert Walker Bush who was a U.S. Congressman at the time, exerted influence to ensure his son obtained a 'soft' posting in the National Guard and whether he completed his duties sufficiently to justify his honourable discharge in 1973.
"Bush signed a six-year "military service obligation," he was required to attend at least 44 inactive-duty training drills each fiscal year beginning July 1. But Bush's own records show that he fell short of that requirement, attending only 36 drills in the 1972-73 period, and only 12 in the 1973-74 period."
By Byron York, August 26, 2004 2:25 PM
more controversy and and audio
https://www.nationalreview.com/2004/08/facts-about-bush-and-national-guard-byron-york/
Personally, I think the liberals are more correct in this case. Bush has proven himself to be scum of the lowest class and political operatives are doing everyghitn possible to erase facts and his low-life legacy. gb
Ask retired Brig. Gen. William Turnipseed whether the press has accurately reported what he said about George W. Bush, and you’ll get an earful. “No, I don’t think they have,” he begins. Turnipseed, the former head of the 187th Tactical Reconnaissance Group of the Alabama Air National Guard, was widely quoted as saying he never saw Bush in Alabama in 1972, and if the future president had been there, he would remember.
Turnipseed has found himself in the middle of a battle in which Democrats have called the president a “deserter” who went “AWOL” for an entire year during his time in the Air National Guard.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2004/08/facts-about-bush-and-national-guard-byron-york/
History Channel
On August 1, 1972, future President George Walker Bush, son of former president George Herbert Walker Bush, is suspended from flying with the Texas Air National Guard for missing an annual medical examination.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/bush-is-suspended-from-flying-with-the-air-national-guard
RepresentativeBill Thomas
Republican from California, House Ways and Means Committee. his republican colleagues called him the White House mailman.
Bush had congress opened with an Islamic prayer 3 times.
Lots more on GW Bush.
George W. Bush Joins Joe Biden in War against 
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