Rumsfeld Lacked Intel on Who The Enemies Were Two Years After Afghanistan Invasion, Newly Published “Snowflakes” Show. Washington, D.C., February 1, 2021 – On September 9, 2003, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld wrote to Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Steve Cambone expressing concern about information from interrogations at military sites in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Secretary wrote, “The lack of clarity as to who the enemies are, and what the problems are from an intelligence standpoint in Afghanistan and Iraq is serious.” Six weeks later, on October 23, 2003, Rumsfeld followed up: “I have no visibility into what kind of intelligence we are getting from the interrogations of the 35 or 40 of the top 55 Iraqis we have captured. Please get me some information.” These memos – and tens of thousands of others known as “snowflakes” – have been declassified thanks to a 2017 Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the National Security Archive with pro bono representation from the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. One such snowflake was written on March 3, 2003. Hand Of George H.W. Bush Bursts Out Of Ground To Grope One Last Woman.
Bill and George, happy at last. It's funny how the sight of Bill Clinton standing shoulder to shoulder with a Bush can still raise the blood pressure of some Democrats.
You'd almost think the left hand of Jackson Stephens doesn't know what the right hand is doing. I'm always up for a good Bush-bash, but if we're serious about exposing unpleasant truths we shouldn't balk when our own pleasant assumptions are exposed as little more than comfortable lies. And it seems to me that quite a few who study the high crimes of state do so not for the sake of justice, but rather to score points against political adversaries, as though politics still mattered. Invariably, the conclusions then drawn are shallow and incomplete, and the systemic, bipartisan corruption again fails to receive the radical critique it deserves. (I find this sometimes with the 9/11 short-hand "Bush Knew," which backward-masks the mere political over the parapolitical.) Likewise for Democrats. I mentioned Jackson Stephens.
As Hopsicker wrote: George H.W. Bush: War Criminal, CIA Spy, Oil Tycoon, Embodiment of US Elite. BEN NORTON: Former United States President George H.
W. Bush died on November 30, 2018. Untitled. — from Truthdig You will often find mentioned, in history books recounting the grim march of the 20th century, the 1910 funeral of King Edward VII.
A clownish panoply paraded through the streets of London: nine monarchs, a small army of minor royals, a wire fox terrier named Caesar. These honored guests, the great potentates of Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Strelitz, were already dead, and did not know it. Ridiculous relics of an age that had already elapsed—of swordsmen, doffed hats, and fur-hatted hussars—their kind would soon be incinerated in the trenches of World War I. The same stench is in the air over a century later, in America, now that George Herbert Walker Bush has been laid to rest. For those invited, the events Wednesday within the National Cathedral constituted a rearguard maneuver against what should be the final judgment of every living thing. To hell with that. Legacy of President George H.W. Bush: War Crimes, Racism. President George H.W.
Bush addresses the nation from the Oval Office on Jan. 16, 1991, after U.S. forces began military action against Iraq, code-named Operation Desert Storm. Photo: Charles Tasnadi/AP The tributes to former President George H.W. Bush, who died on Friday aged 94, have been pouring in from all sides of the political spectrum. He was a man “of the highest character,” said his eldest son and fellow former president, George W. In the age of Donald Trump, it isn’t difficult for hagiographers of the late Bush Sr. to paint a picture of him as a great patriot and pragmatist; a president who governed with “class” and “integrity.” ‘No, Take Jeb Instead,’ Screams George W. Bush While Shoving Brother Into Father’s Grave. Bush 41: The Triumph of Manners Over Truth.
While President Donald Trump has used truculence, bluster, populism, and manufactured division to hide the true nature of his agenda, George Herbert Walker Bush used manners, civility, and grace to hide the truth of his and his family’s agenda.
Both are very similar in their objectives. Both have enabled the continued transfer of wealth to the upper echelons of society. Both have sought to protect the interests of corporations and rich friends. Politics.theonion. George H.W. Bush, Icon of the WASP Establishment—and of Brutal US Repression in the Third World. George Herbert Walker Bush represented a ruling class in decay.
His WASP awkwardness, his famous syntactical struggles—described in obituaries as an ah-shucks genuineness, a goofy, “irreducible niceness”—was symptomatic of an Establishment in crisis. Franklin Foer, writing in The Atlantic, notes the nostalgia of the encomiums. The public apparently yearns for a time when politics were less coarse, when the country’s clubby elites were well-bred, well-voweled (compare the pleasantly rolling i’s and o’s found in the Harrimans and Roosevelts with the guttural u of today’s ruling clan), and well-mannered, their grasping and groping kept out of the press, for the most part. Splinternews. Politics.theonion. Theonion. Memo to CBS on George W. Bush: Dan Rather Got It (Mostly) Right. Anyone who has worked at a television network has loads of stories about pieces that were spiked or totally suppressed because the corporation went into damage-control mode.
One recent example: 60 Minutes. Jeb Bush Debuts One-Man Presidential Campaign Tragedy Play In Black Box Theater. CORAL GABLES, FL—In an attempt to tell the story of his failed candidacy in his own words, former Florida governor Jeb Bush has rented out a local black box theater and debuted a one-man show that chronicles the tragedy of his 2016 presidential campaign, sources reported Thursday.
According to those in attendance opening night, the two-act solo piece, entitled Jeb? (Or: The Rise And Fall Of An Honest, Consensus-Building Conservative), traces the 64-year-old’s path from well-heeled Republican frontrunner to presidential also-ran in a 150-minute performance that features monologues, character vignettes, musical interludes, and a 10-minute interpretive dance sequence in which Bush starts out as an egg and then goes on to reenact his childhood. Revenge of the Simple: How George W. Bush Gave Rise to Trump.
To hear GOP insiders tell it, Doomsday is here.
If Donald Trump scores huge on tonight and seizes control of the nomination in the Super Tuesday primaries, it will mark the beginning of the end of the Republican Party, and perhaps the presidency. But Trump isn't the beginning of the end. George W. Bush was. Jeb Bush says brother George may join campaign to help save candidacy: ‘He is very popular’ Don't miss stories. Follow Raw Story! Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush said on Tuesday that his brother, George W. Bush, is still “very popular” and could join his struggling campaign. During Fox News interview, host Brian Kilmeade asserted that George W. Bush would be a good addition to the candidate’s list of surrogates because he is embraced by conservatives in the same way that Democrats are fond of former President Bill Clinton. The Bush dynasty is tearing itself apart: What George H.W. Bush vs. Dick Cheney is really about.
This is not another obituary of Ahmad Chalabi, the Iraqi politician who provided much of the dubious intelligence that the Bush Administration used to justify the Iraq War. Chalabi died earlier this week of a presumed heart attack. (Though his family had a British and an American doctor perform an autopsy to be sure.) Chalabi had been largely forgotten in American press and policy circles since he fell out of favor some years back, even among most of the Neocons responsible for the war. Yet one after another outlet has done a colorful, even warm obituary of the man who played a key role in getting thousands of Americans and far more Iraqis killed. Jeb Bush is completely toast: Donald Trump and Jake Tapper just ended all White House dreams. The common wisdom is that this is the season for Republican voters to express themselves by supporting silly candidates and that once the primary comes around, they’ll crack and throw their support behind one of the more serious contenders, like Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio.
But when it comes to Bush, voters may be picking up on something that the party elite do not understand:Bush faces a brother-shaped albatross hanging around his neck that will, in fact, turn out to be a real problem in the general election. Worse, Bush’s way of handling the issue suggests he hasn’t given it much thought, clearly expecting everyone to politely pretend that we’ll all forgotten about that 9/11 and Iraq War thing.
In other words, if you’re a Democrat, you are obligated to prevent violence, but if you’re a Republican, there is no obligation to maintain security so long as you wear flight suits after thousands of people die horrible deaths on your watch. This statement contradicts itself. Heldt090300. September 3, 2000 Nearly two hundred manila wrapped pages of George Walker Bush's service records came to me like some sort of giant banana flip stuffed into my mailbox. I had been seeking more information on just what may have happened to him to account for the fact that his discharge papers show no record that he performed any duty or drills for the last 18 months of his service as had been reported by the Boston Globe. [1] So it was natural that one of the first pages I examined was a chronological listing of Bush's service.
[Document 10] This document charted active duty days served since his enlistment. Bush: 'Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over' Larry Wilmore destroys Jeb Bush: 'Your brother took a big stinking dump' in Iraq. Larry Wilmore took aim at Jeb Bush’s “revisionist history” of the Iraq war that deflected blame from his brother — former President George W. Bush — to the Democratic frontrunner for president. Jeb Bush accuses Obama of creating ‘chaos’ in the world by using too many big words. In Overheard Interview, Jeb Bush Mocks Hillary Clinton and Opposes Gay Marriage - First Draft. Political News, Now. - NYTimes.com. 1:02 pm ET Michael Barbaro Photo DERRY, N.H. — Jeb Bush said Tuesday that the enhanced interrogation techniques deployed by his brother after Sept. 11 attacks were no longer appropriate, that he hoped the Supreme Court would rule against same-sex marriage, and mocked Hillary Rodham Clinton for passing few laws during her eight years in the Senate.
In an extensive interview with Sean Hannity of Fox News in New Hampshire, Mr. Bush was by turns serious and playful, at one point audibly chuckling at criticism from Donald Trump, who is now running for president. “Sorry,” Mr. Candidate Profile: Jeb Bush - The Onion - America's Finest News Source. Jeb Bush: 'Jeb Is Different Than George' Jeb Bush in Berlin: Remember my dad’s role in the Cold War, not my brother’s in Iraq. Burdened by politics and familial ties, 2016 Republican hopeful Jeb Bush needed multiple attempts to clarify a confused answer to whether he would have repeated his brother's actions in Iraq (AFP Photo/Nicholas Kamm)
Ridiculous George W. Bush Quotes. Jeb Bush In 1995: Unwed Mothers Should Be Publicly Shamed. Public shaming would be an effective way to regulate the “irresponsible behavior” of unwed mothers, misbehaving teenagers and welfare recipients, former Florida Gov. The Jebbening is nigh: Bush will finally stop making a flagrant mockery of election law. 'The Daily Show' Looks At The Legend Of 'El Jebe' Jeb Bush. The Republican party has two candidates with Latino roots seeking the presidential nomination, but on Wednesday night's "Daily Show," host Jon Stewart and correspondent Al Madrigal found a third GOP "Latino" candidate. Madrigal dismissed senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz as part of a "snooty subset" of Latinos because they're Cuban. Jeb Bush: I learned about ‘protecting the homeland’ from the way George W. Bush ‘kept us safe’ Likely Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush said over the weekend that he had learned how to protect the United States by observing his brother’s presidency, and how George W.
Bush handled the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks that occurred on his watch. Jeb Bush Blames GOP Congress, Not His Brother, For Bush-Era Spending. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush: People who believe in man-made climate change are ‘really arrogant’ Jeb Bush: A ‘tolerant country’ should allow discrimination based upon ‘religious beliefs’ How Neil Bush Succeeded in Business Without Really Trying. The Bush dynasty is crushing Jeb: How the GOP identity crisis is ruining this frontrunner’s chances. Jon Stewart To Jeb Bush: 'Thank You. Was That So Hard?' It Took A Week, But Jeb Bush Finally Acknowledges That Invading Iraq Was A Mistake.