Showing posts with label Bush. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bush. Show all posts

Saturday, November 15, 2008

Bush unexpectedly meets Livni, Peres at UN

"They were not supposed to meet," Livni's spokesman told The Jerusalem Post. But as soon as Bush was done addressing the conference, the head of UN protocol approached Livni's staff and told them that the president wanted to speak with them. The president walked from the podium directly to them.

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Bush Spy Revelations Anticipated When Obama Is Sworn In

The Bush administration has stonewalled, misled and denied documents to Congress, and subpoenaed the phone records of investigative reporters. Credit: Monsivais/AP

When Barack Obama takes the oath of office on January 20, Americans won't just get a new president; they might finally learn the full extent of George W. Bush's warrantless domestic wiretapping.

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Unrepentant Bush delivers his last speech to UN

There was no departing from his usual script of indignant impatience at the shortcomings of other world leaders, governments and institutions as President George Bush came to New York today to give his eighth and last address to the United Nations, a body that has never found him particularly palatable.

Only one word comes to mind - EMBARRASSING

Friday, September 12, 2008

George Bush isn't in charge, says Vladimir Putin

In a thinly veiled dig at George Bush, Vladimir Putin today suggested that the US President was not in charge of American affairs, saying that it was “the court that makes the king”.

Friday, June 20, 2008

McClellan faults Bush for withholding facts

"This White House promised or assured the American people that at some point when this was behind us they would talk publicly about it. And they have refused to," McClellan told the House Judiciary Committee. "And that's why I think more than any other reason we are here today and the suspicion still remains."

So, in other words, the President is a liar...

Bush v. the Bill of Rights

"This week, the White House and Democratic and Republican leaders on Capitol Hill hope to announce a "compromise" on a domestic spying bill. If they do, it will be presented as an indispensable tool for protecting the nation's security that still safeguards our civil liberties. The White House will paint opponents as weak-kneed liberals who do not understand and cannot stand up to the threat of terrorism. The bill is not a compromise. The final details are being worked out, but all indications are that many of its provisions are both unnecessary and a threat to the Bill of Rights."

Thursday, June 19, 2008

The Semantics of Bush's Torture Policy

"The Bush administration built a legal framework – relying on semantics and secrecy – to subject detainees at Guantanamo Bay to brutal interrogation techniques and then to hide the reality from human rights observers, according to internal government documents."

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Bush to urge Congress to allow offshore drilling

"President Bush plans to make a renewed push Wednesday to get Congress to end a long-standing ban on offshore oil and gas drilling, echoing a call by GOP presidential candidate John McCain."

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Bush Inspires Least Confidence as World Leader

"While historians here debate whether George W. Bush has been the worst president in U.S. history, a global consensus that he inspires the least confidence of all the world's major leaders appears to have emerged."

Monday, June 16, 2008

Israelis ignore weak US regime

"ISRAELI politicians have brushed off Condoleezza Rice's weekend criticism of its settlement expansion program, with some claiming the outgoing regime of George W. Bush is wielding ever-less influence in the ailing peace process."

Of course, there's no more juice left in this lemon - they're waiting for the next lemon to squeeze.

Sunday, June 15, 2008

Is Fascism an Impeachable Offense?

"House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers consistently lists among his reasons for not holding impeachment hearings, his fear of the corporate media. But last week the corporate media exhibited its fear of impeachment. Only those voices in support of Congressman Dennis Kucinich's articles of impeachment spoke. Others kept quiet. The network news shows avoided the topic, but the cable news shows gave us Keith Olbermann promoting impeachment on MSNBC, and Jack Cafferty on CNN..."

"100 years to recover from Bush"

"The president behaved like a virtual criminal but we didn't have the courage to sack him for fear of violating the American constitution," Vidal told the El Mundo newspaper.

Somebody give that man a cigar.

Get Osama Bin Laden before I leave office, orders George W Bush

"President George W Bush has enlisted British special forces in a final attempt to capture Osama Bin Laden before he leaves the White House."

And, I don't care how many of your husbands, wives, sons, and daughters gets killed during the hunt - Official Busch Administration Saurce

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Bush to face huge anti-war demonstration in Italy

"President Bush can look forward to a hearty welcome from his old friend, the charismatic Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, and Pope Benedict XVI during his visit to Rome. That's not what he should expect in the streets, however, where anti-Bush sentiment over the war in Iraq still lingers."

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Bush regrets tough talk leading up to Iraq war

"President Bush has admitted to The Times that his gun-slinging rhetoric made the world believe that he was a “guy really anxious for war” in Iraq. He said that his aim now was to leave his successor a legacy of international diplomacy for tackling Iran."

Monday, January 14, 2008

Captain Ahab and the Islamic whale

"This is a splendid example of what is fundamentally wrong with US foreign policy, like a giant whale self-stranding in a maze of contradictions yet breathing as if exuding fresh air. Washington's Captain Ahab, in the garb of President George W Bush, setting foot in the Middle East, holds the olive branch of Middle East peace in one hand and the Damocles sword of Iran-bashing in the other, a twin agenda in complete disharmony."

Bush Mideast speech draws cool response

"You have all types of contradictions," Shorbagy said. "Talking about freedom when you're occupying two countries in the region: Afghanistan and Iraq. Talking about justice while you're against the (Palestinian) right of return. Talking about democracy while you're against elected groups you don't like...Was he listening to himself?"

Sunday, January 13, 2008

Bush: Iran threatens global security

"Bush said Iran funds terrorist extremists, undermines peace in Lebanon, sends arms to the Taliban, seeks to intimidate its neighbors with alarming rhetoric, defies the United Nations and destabilizes the entire region by refusing to be open about its nuclear program."

With the "possible" exception of funding the Taliban, Bush could very well have been talking about Israel ~ and, that's exactly what the Arabs were probably thinking.

Friday, January 11, 2008

Bush: US Should Have Bombed Auschwitz


"US President George W. Bush rekindles the eternal flame commemorating the six million Jews killed by the Nazis in the Holocaust, in the Hall of Remembrance in the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem, Friday, Jan. 11, 2008. President Bush had tears in his eyes during an hour-long tour of Israel's Holocaust memorial Friday and told Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that the U.S. should have bombed Auschwitz to halt the killing, the memorial's chairman said." (AP Photo/Oleg Popov, Pool)

Tears for the dead but none for the living... What can you make of a man like that? Apparently Bush places the lives of Jews above all others. Clearly, he couldn't care less about the innocent Palestinian men, women, and babies who are dying because of the continued siege of Gaza.

Note the number six million is still be used for the Jews who supposedly died during the so-called Holocaust. We KNOW the number is at least 2.5 million less ~ AT LEAST!

For an Iran Policy, More Nixon, Less Bush

"President Bush's vague outlook has led to some memorable blunders. Iran's constructive role in rebuilding Afghanistan was answered by Bush's 2002 "axis of evil" label on the Islamic Republic. And the now famous 2003 Iranian memo, which offered the United States comprehensive talks on its nuclear program and support for anti-Israeli terror groups, was met with silence."