Throwback Thursday: "Know Your BFEE."

[Atman]

Jebbie appears to be running again, so I offer up this ol' gem I drew in 2005, just to help you keep 'em all straight...

[Ineeda]

1. I'm not sure linking

Jebbie with natural disasters is particularly effective. There are way too many other issues like Katherine Harris and the 2000 debacle, 9-11 pilot training in Venice, anthrax in Boca, Terry Schiavo, and his many shady financial shenanigans. IIRC, his handling of hurricane disasters was evaluated as pretty good.

[Atman]

2. It's an old cartoon.

I suppose I could re-do the captions, as I totally agree with you. This was post-hurricane in Florida. I've learned so much more about what a scum Jeb is since I drew this in 2005.

At the time, the genesis of the cartoon was that Jeb had supposedly showed superior leadership in the aftermath of the dual hurricanes which had hit Florida. Okay, so he got one thing right. But now it is pretty clear that was just as crooked as the rest of the Bush family. He'll be no better than GWB or GHWB should he attain the highest office in the land. In fact, I posit that he'd be even worse than his dumb-ass brother...because the evil is more ingrained in his soul. George W was just a moron following orders.

[Ineeda]

6. A multi-page

cartoon would be necessary. He's been smart enough to evade, for the most part, his 'evil' designation in BFEE. And I forgot to mention his significant involvement in PNAC.

[Initech]

3. Linking Jeb to voter fraud is definitely a good idea.

Especially since the republicans love crying wolf about voter fraud when the only real ones guilty of committing it are republicans.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

4. THIS is Jeb *bush

[Scruffy Rumbler]

5. Pouty McSnouty! nt

[hifiguy]

10. Oink, oink,oink.

[Octafish]

7. Jebthro's Strategeric

Financial Scams and the Bush Family

Excerpts from the Western press compiled by Michel Chossudovsky
Emperor's Clothes, December 2000
Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG), globalresearch.ca, 18 February 2002

EXCERPT...

The Mexican Drug Cartel: What links to Raul Salinas de Gortiari? (1995)

According to the Houston Chronicle and the Ledger (Lakeland, Florida), Jeb Bush (brother of George W) --before becoming Governor of the Sunshine State-- was a close friend of Raul Salinas de Gortiari, and brother of former President of Mexico Carlos Salinas. Raul --who was a leading member of the Mexican Drug Cartel-- is now serving a 27 year jail term for having murdered a political opponent:

"There has also been a great deal of speculation in Mexico about the exact nature of Raul Salinas' close friendship with former President George Bush's son, Jeb. It is well known here that for many years the two families spent vacations together -- the Salinases at Jeb Bush's home in Miami, the Bushes at Raul's ranch, Las Mendocinas, under the volcano in Puebla. There are many in Mexico who believe that the relationship became a back channel for delicate and crucial negotiations between the two governments, leading up to President Bush's sponsorship of NAFTA." (Houston Chronicle, 9 March 1995)

The personal relationship between the Bush and Salinas families is a matter of public record. Former President George Bush -- when he worked in the oil business in Texas in the 1970s-- had developed close personal ties with Carlos Salinas and his father, Raul Salinas Lozano. According to Andres Openheimer writing in the Miami Herald (February 17 1997):

"witnesses say former Mexican president Carlos Salinas de Gortiari, his imprisoned brother Raul and other members of country's ruling elite met with drug lord Juan Garcia Abrego at a Salinas family ranch; Jeb Bush admits he met with Raul Salinas several times but has never done any business with him."

According to a report published in The Dallas Morning News, behind the scam was Raul Salinas Lozano, the family patriarch father of Carlos and Raul Junior. The former private secretary to Raul Salinas Lozano:

"told [US] authorities [in testimony] that Mr. Salinas Lozano was a leading figure in narcotics dealings that also involved his son, Raul Salinas de Gortiari, his son-in-law, Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu, the No. 2 official in the governing Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, and other leading politicians, according to the documents. Mr. Ruiz Massieu was assassinated in 1994." (Dallas Morning News, 26 February 1997).

According to former DEA Michael Levine, the Mexican drug Cartel was a "family affair". Both Carlos and Raul were prominent members of the Cartel. And this was known to then US Attorney General Edward Meese in 1987 one year prior to Carlos Salinas' inauguration as the country's president.

When Carlos Salinas was inaugurated as President, the entire Mexican State apparatus become criminalised with key government positions occupied by members of the Cartel. The Minister of Commerce in charge of trade negotiations leading up to the signing of NAFTA was Raul Salinas Lozano, father of Raul Junior the Drug kingpin and of Carlos the president.

And it is precisely during this period that the Salinas government launches a sweeping privatisation program under advice from the IMF. The privatisation program becomes a multibillion dollar money laundering operation. Narco-dollars are channelled towards the acquisition of State property and public utilities.

Richard Barnet of the Institute for Policy Studies, testified to the US Congress (April 14, 1994) that "billions of dollars in state assets have gone to supporters and cronies" (Dallas Morning News, 11 August 1994). These included the sale of Telefonos de Mexico, valued at $ 3.9 billion and purchased by a Salinas crony for $ 400 million.(Ibid). Raul Salinas was behind the privatisation programme. He was known as ''Mr. 10 Percent" "for the slice of bid money he allegedly demanded in exchange for helping acquaintances acquire companies, concessions and contracts (under the IMF sponsored) privatisation program&quot The News, InfoLatina, .Mexico, October 10, 1997).

SOURCE: http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO202C.html

[countryjake]

8. Thanks for that flashback! It's time to upgrade...

And add Shrub the first (and even ole grandpa, if necessary).

Seems that many seem to have forgotten what BFEE even means anymore, around here.

[hifiguy]

9. Every male Bush that is a direct descendant of Prescott

belongs in a dungeon so deep spelunkers couldn't find them given three years. Or hanged. Come to think of it, just hang them; that's a lot cheaper.