the Brits on Smirk - some interesting FACTS - some I didn't even know

[donsu]

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=463147

You couldn't make him up, and you don't have to. Like him or loathe him, George Bush is for real - and heading soon for a capital city near you. Rupert Cornwell introduces our celebration of the remarkable career of Britain's favourite US President

13 November 2003

Monarchs and their Prime Ministers enjoy many privileges not granted to their subjects. Clairvoyance, however, is not among them. For how were the Queen and Tony Blair to know in 2001, when they extended the invitation for President Bush to make his state visit next week, that two years later it would be shaping up as the most fraught and ill-timed exercise of its kind in living memory?

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It is not only Bush the Chicken-hawk warmonger and promoter-in-chief of the great illusion about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction who they will be denouncing. It is also Bush the ignorant, self-righteous Christian warrior, Bush the smirking executioner and Bush the believer in one law for America and another for everyone else. And, of course, Bush the "Toxic Texan", an image made flesh by the "ghost ships" bearing down on Hartlepool, whose US-produced contaminants will find a last resting place on Britain's unpolluted isle.

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Bush telegraph: selected presidential facts

In May 2001, Bush's government gave $43m to the Taliban.

Bush has never attended a funeral or memorial service for a soldier killed in Iraq.

In August this year, Bush took the second-longest holiday ever by a US president: 28 days.

Bush's 16-member cabinet is the wealthiest in US history, with an average fortune of $10.9m each.

As governor of Texas, Bush executed 152 prisoners.

Sixty-one people who raised $100,000 for Bush's 2000 election campaign have since been given government posts.

Nine members of Bush's Defense Policy Board sit on the board of defence contractors or are advisers.

Bush owns more than 250 autographed baseballs.

Bush has been arrested three times: for stealing a Christmas wreath from a hotel; for ripping down the Princeton goal posts after a Princeton-Yale game; and for drunk driving.

Bush infuriated the Russian media by spitting a wad of chewing gum into his hand before signing 2002's historic Treaty of Moscow with Vladimir Putin.

While appearing on the David Letterman show in 2000, Bush was caught surreptitiously cleaning his glasses on the jacket of the programme's executive producer, Maria Pope.
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1. The richest guy in Bush's cabinet in 2001 was Colin Powell.

most of his wealth was in AOL stock (sickening, since his son's the FCC commissioner).

[Catfish]

2. Disgusted

Some of these are new to me but seeing this list just makes me disgusted. I thought I knew how repulsive he was when he was inaugurated in 2001. Little did I really know. I thought there had been some poor Presidents in my lifetime but nobody comes as close to be as worthless as Bush II.

[papau]

3. Bush has been arrested three times is an undercount

In Maine he ran over a fellow's hedge (US Media before the election said "driving too slow" !!!! :-) )

In Texas, drunk with the car running through a few yards.

The Christmas wreath was straight theft, the Princeton goal posts was just drunk again, but....


The fun one is the "secret" 1970's cocaine "community service" followed by driving license - which is supposed to carry all these in its record - being reissued with new ID with all past data missing!

Of course AWOL/desertion only had an administrative punishment of 6 months being added to the time he had to be in the Guard. Other folks get shot or at least hard time, but bush does his 6 months in a unit that holds no meetings!

[Catch22Dem]

5. The only one that, to me, is no big deal

Is the goal post. I mean, college kids have been doing that for decades. When your team wins a big game, hundreds of kids pour onto the field and bring the goal post down. Hell, they've started making them collapsable now. LOL

[papau]

6. I agree

try to think of the media treatment of a Dem that had video of himself in a gay porn movie running for gov - or simply had a playboy enterprise soft porn being sold on Amazon for 14.98 the day of the election.

Fox's Joe Scarbough proved you can be a Fl. congressmen and kill your lover in your office (albeit unproved via a fellow that later lost his cornner lic), be divorced by the wife over it, and still get a great job as Fox showman - as long as your GOP.

And Bush just proves that media outrage at conduct and personality flaws does not extend to those that are GOP.

But we do not have a GOP right wing controlled, biased, media - they jusy act like they are.

[papau]

7. Does getting the 15 yr old prego count as crime - the abortion was legal

and Daddy got her married to a CIA person - and she says she is happy, has no hard feelings - loves the husband - and votes for Bush - and will not say anything on record so all we have are her off the record comments, her friends on the record comments, and the hospital records that Larry Flint dug up.

And Rape Statue of limitations has run out so he can not be charged.

But still getting a 15 year old prego when you are in your 20's? - It should fit somewhere on the Bush list of crimes that one no need not remember because the press will not expose you.

[soothsayer]

4. good link, thanks

what a scary administration we've got now

god help us get 'em out