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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Saturday, November 17, 2012

17 November - 'Stupid' People

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Galloping Beaver
Nov 2

The ghastly Gopper returns . . .

George W. Bush gave the keynote address at an “investment conference” in the Cayman Islands on Thursday night.


12:19
Blogger Silverfox said...
Considering that Dubya was never able to string two coherent, let alone intelligent statements together, the secrecy is more likely due to the kind of embarassingly inane and assinine statements he never fails to come up with and the equally bad rap the filthy rich would get for actually wanting and forking-out such serious dough to hear it.

Of course it's only peanuts for their pet monkey as far as they're concerned and he still has some coming for shall we say "services rendered"; there's also nothing quite like a good party in the absolute lap of luxury in the tropics to make that a first class and fun affair too because none of the utrustworthy riff-raff, hangers-on and any nosy parkers in the media that they don't already own could possibly afford to get anywhere near them.

By doing it in the Cayman Islands they also save themseves the bother of what would only be a partial write-off as a legitimate business expense stateside and poor little Dubya any trouble he might encounter should he fail to include what he got for it on his income tax statement which he also doesn't have to do owing to that most convenient venue.

He's the ruling oligarchy's court jester or fool at large, for anyone that was unaware of it, and they had no end of fun installing him to highest office in the US and having a right good guffaw about all the little people who actually took him and still take that office with any degree of seriousness.

Obviously they're still laughing about that and naturally enough want to keep that that little inside joke just as private as possible.

Obama is also and an even better one of their little jokes whose real sense of progress was to go from officially sanctioning torture to officially adding assassination and murder by presidential decree to that.

And as an added bonus and an even bigger laugh he not only delivered that little goody up, but in the true spirit of progressiveness in the way the oligarchy thinks of it, made it completely fair and egalitarian by letting any Americans that step out of line in their estimation have the same privlege of being included on that ectra-special, extra-judicial, top-of-the-pops, presidential hit list too.

He, of course, will, will also go on some high-priced and high-paying
speaking engagements so they can all have another good laugh and throw some peanuts at him when his tour of duty ends and it's time for them to show their appreciation for just how very amusing they found all of that to be.

( Or, given that people pay money and spend time to listen to him, the secrecy is more about  how well the canny 'ball team owner', employer of Karl Rove,front for Cheney...and more independent than Dick liked at times after the Plame affair  when most likely a CIA NOC was 'outed' while Brewster Jennings intelligence front was exposed but the b.s. WMD 'threat'  of Iraq was not immediately blown, destroyer of taxes on the rich and restrictive regulation preventing fraud, and AWoL who survived a hanging offense in the military, really does know how to play the game. What, you thought Cheney's Halliburton was the only graft  beneficiary from Iraq ? )

Bush's Other Iraq Invasion | World | AlterNet

A central component of the Bush economic agenda is foreign corporate access to, and privatization of, Iraq's once state-run economy.
alternet.org/world/24307/  

Bush pulls the plug on Iraq reconstruction | World news | The Guardian

In a decision that will be seen as a retreat from a promise by President George Bush to give Iraq the best infrastructure in the region...
guardian.co.uk/world/2006/jan/03/usa.iraq  

IRAQ FOR SALE: The War Profiteers

Iraq for Sale uncovers the connections between private corporations making a killing in Iraq (Blackwater, Halliburton/KBR, CACI and Titan) and the decision makers who allow them to do so.
iraqforsale.org  

Ex-Iraq Official Slams Leaders over Graft | Iraq Business News

Iraq's former anti-corruption chief slammed its leaders Monday, describing graft as part of the struggle for power, according to a report from AFP.
iraq-businessnews.com/2011/09/13/ex-iraq-official-slams-leade...  

Graft and Corruption in Iraq Not Limited to Halliburton - KBR - Zimbio

...oil fires in Iraq was awarded to Halliburton after a "political appointee" from the Bush administration Posted in corruption, Politics, war Tagged: Anthony Bell, corruption, graft, Halliburton, Iraq war, Ronald...
zimbio.com/KBR/articles/106/Graft+Corruption+Iraq+...  

Who's Following the Iraq Money? » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names...

for Iraq. What the president did was write a so-called "signing statement" on the side (unpublicized He did yeoman service to Bush as a member of the term that handled the famous vote count atrocity in...
counterpunch.org/lindorff06072006.html  

Billions Wasted In Iraq? - CBS News

60 Minutes on CBS News: Billions Wasted In Iraq? It involves a company called Custer Battles, and provides a window into the chaos of those early days in Iraq.
cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-1302378.html  

BBC NEWS | Business | Iraq oil hit by graft and attacks

Oil revenues are earmarked to help finance the rebuilding of Iraq. The Oil Ministry's inspector general Ali al-Alaak said graft and smuggling are the main threat to Iraq's economy.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4944814.stm  

Oil-for-Food Programme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The programme was conceived as a way of mitigating the impact of the sanctions against Iraq on Staff from the Senate investigations committee presented documentary evidence that the Bush...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil-for-Food_Programme  

Bush: Iraq invasion my responsibility

Former senior official gets death for graft. China and Malaysia study economic pact. Bush: Iraq invasion my responsibility.
chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-12/15/content_503517.htm  

Inquiry on Graft in Iraq Focuses on U.S. Officers - NYTimes.com

Prosecutors have won 35 convictions on cases related to reconstruction in Iraq, yet most of them involved private contractors or midlevel officials. In one case of graft from that period, Maj.
nytimes.com/2009/02/15/world/middleeast/15iraq.html  

Iraq: Missing Iraq money may have been stolen, auditors say - Los Angeles...

Reporting from Washington — After the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the George W. Bush Some U.S. contractors were accused of siphoning off tens of millions in kickbacks and graft during...
articles.latimes.com/2011/jun/13/world/la-fg-missing-billion...  

Bush Commends Efcc On Anti-graft War - Politics - Nairaland

WATCH OUT! Re: Bush Commends Efcc On Anti-graft War by Mamajama(m): 2:42pm On Sep 19, 2007. another weapon of mass corruption found in nigeria like iraq.
nairaland.com/80202/bush-commends-efcc-anti-graft-war  

Iraq - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia

"I think I know where Iraq is!" ~ George W. Bush on Iraq. "It sucks to be stuck between Iraq and a hard place".
uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Iraq  

Bush Holds Talks On Iraq Strategy

Senators Ask Tough Questions On Iraq, Iran, Hamas. U.S: Have Bush's Iraq Speeches Achieved Their Goal? The Burden That Graft Puts On Ordinary Afghans.
rferl.org/content/article/1069106.html  

Prophecy News - Russia, China, Iran, Bush, World, America, Iraq, Syria, North...

Bush pushing israel to entice syria and iran into conference on iraq. where the bank was accused of bribing senior government officials in a variety of countries as well as graft.
abbaswatchman.com/NEWS BUSH PUSHING ISRAEL.html  

Deaths in Iraq due to Bush Bashing?

Focusing on Bashing. US leadership and running out of Iraq is a losing proposition. been undone by the current Bush, leading to the excesses of his war-mongering, including unmatched graft (e.g...
livereal.org/iraq-deaths-blaming-bashers.htm  

When Thinking About Afghanistan, Maybe It's Best To Pretend Iraq Never...

All we did was create more wasps with our humiliation and destruction of Iraq. An army is a crude and dumb killing machine not a police force. Bush ended the Saddam welfare state and replaced it with...
washingtonindependent.com/35243/when-thinking-about-afghanistan-m...  

RANTz

...Bush (IMPEACH!) for 9/11 Inside Job (Impeach) bldg 7 Marvin Bush, Blackwater Unconstitutional, Iraq War illegal, illegal Torture policy, Voter Fraud, Haliburton No-Bid Contracts = Graft...
usarantz.com   
 

Iraqis Celebrate Independence Day from U.S. Occupation of Cities

Earlier this month, AP reported on even more graft and waste in Iraq War contracting by the Bush administration, paid to KBR, formerly a subsidiary of Halliburton, which was headed by Dick Cheney...
usliberals.about.com/b/2009/06/29/iraqis-celebrate-independe...   

Robert Scheer: Bush's Legacy of Failure

...assurance was there this week as the once proud dollar fell into the toilet and the debacle of Iraq and Bush's other Republicans, and blocking attempts to look into billions thrown away in graft in Iraq.
huffingtonpost.com/robert-scheer/bushs-legacy-of-failure_b...  

How Many Jobs Did Bush Create With His Iraq War? (Congressmen, wage)...

I think other things that need to be mentioned is the amount of graft and theft involved, including the insane profits Bush, and Iraq, close to agreeing to The Obama Plan to end Iraq Occupation, Politics...
city-data.com/forum/politics-other-controversies/5603...  

...Russia To Come Up With Firm Dolloar Amounts For Its Support Against Iraq

Bush bought Congress to approve a resolution cheer-leading the use of military force against Iraq in Both Democratic and Republican leaders welcomed a graft proposal that Bush offered Thursday, in...
theassassinatedpress.com/bot.htm  

The U.N. Oil for Food scandal - Washington Times

First of two parts. Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry complains that President Bush a film by ex-U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter, which aimed to discredit weapons inspections in Iraq.
washingtontimes.com/news/2004/mar/21/20040321-101405-2593r/  

The Iraq War— post-March-2005 external links

...desert sands, sacrificing tens of thousands of innocent lives: for cheap, greasy graft; for grubby pilfering; for is an excellent paragraph-by-paragraph analysis at Today in Iraq of Bush's May 1, 2003 speech...
serendipity.li/iraqlynx.htm  

...Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq: Where's the Outrage 127 - Inquiry on Graft...

Antiwar Movement - Opposition to President Bush. Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Where's the Outrage 127 - Inquiry on Graft in Iraq Focuses on U.S. Officers
militarylies.typepad.com/military_lies/2009/02/wheres-the-outrag...  

Iraq Death

U.S. Contractor Slain in Iraq Had Alleged Graft. do business according to U.S. law, and be the source of embarrassment and political tension to the Bush administration with respect to the effort in Iraq," said...
mysite.verizon.net/resowgaq/id4.html  

From Central America to Iraq, by Noam Chomsky

...John Negroponte went to Baghdad as US ambassador to Iraq, heading the world's largest diplomatic mission, with the task of handing over sovereignty to Iraqis to fulfil Bush's 'messianic mission' to graft...
chomsky.info/articles/20040806.htm  

Five Ways to Win Back Iraq | Brookings Institution

Iraq is not another Afghanistan. Notwithstanding what President Bush said in his speech on leaders who made little effort to connect with the people and spent their time squabbling over power and graft.
brookings.edu/research/opinions/2005/07/01iraq-pollack  

Graft the next great hurdle to a 'new' Iraq

Home » Regions » Middle East » Iraq. Graft the next great hurdle to a 'new' Iraq. During the year of the U.S. invasion in 2003, Iraq ranked 113 out of 133 countries surveyed.
globalpost.com/dispatch/iraq/090909/corruption-rampant-iraq  

Oil Graft Fuels the Insurgency, Iraq and U.S. Say [Archive] - MacRumors Forums

MacRumors Forums > Mac Community > Community Discussion > Politics, Religion, Social Issues > Oil Graft Fuels the Insurgency, Iraq and U.S. Say.
forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=178172  

Bush: Finding No WMDs in Iraq Was Sickening - and Hilarious | Crooks and Liars

Finding no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, Bush claimed, left him feeling 'sickened.' … ...George W. Bush would need to have skin grafts on his backside as a result of all the lies he tells.
crooksandliars.com/comment/permalink/1706824  

Analysis: Iraq moves on oil, graft laws

The law is one piece in a four-part package of legislation aimed at modernizing Iraq's oil sector. Another is a law re-establishing the Iraqi National Oil Co...
spacedaily.com/reports/Analysis_Iraq_moves_on_oil_graf...  

USATODAY.com - The world has lost Iraq's oil

Instead of rosy promises by the neoconservatives of the Bush administration who pushed for the Iraq used to produce close to 3.5 million barrels of oil per day under the rule of Saddam Hussein.
usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2004-10-05-iraq...  

( Scarcity drives high prices )

KBR spent millions to deliver $82,100 of fuel to Iraq - Houston Chronicle

"Transporting fuel into Iraq was a mission fraught with danger, which increased the prices that firms were willing to offer for transportation." In a letter to President Bush Monday, Waxman and Dingell...
chron.com/business/article/KBR-spent-millions-to-...   

Bush says U.S. is in Iraq because of 9-11

WASHINGTON — U.S. President George W Bush on Saturday defended the war in Iraq, telling Americans the United America--stuff our favorite people/corp´s pockets with graft and overpayments
godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message118586/pg1  

Musings On Iraq: Corruption and Reporting in Kurdistan

The lack of transparency in Kurdistan helps hide the graft. Bush Decision Making That Led To Iraq Invasion. Was Iraq War About Oil?
musingsoniraq.blogspot.com/2008/10/corruption-and-reporting-in-kur...  

Underground Voices - ...War on Islam :: Clinton undermines Bush gang over Iraq...

Information Clearing House [undated]: Bush Planned Iraq 'Regime Change' Before Becoming If a little brutality and graft are required to do the job, it has never troubled the US in the past.
runboard.com/bundergroundvoices.f13.t67366  

The Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld Strategy for Iraq | Scoop News

Speaking of the United Nations, refusing to adhere to U.N. standards over Iraq, Bush appointed an Most of it has been spent in the U.S. itself... major corporate graft and corruption.... part of the plan.
scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0701/S00022.htm  

Lynn Stuter -- The People's State of the Union

At the time of the illegal invasion of Iraq, the Bush Administration promised a short and sweet action costing a few million at the most. either the graft or the corruption.
newswithviews.com/Stuter/stuter117.htm  

Iraq Deaths | Just Foreign Policy

Iraq Deaths. The number is shocking and sobering. Remind visitors to your site of the awful human costs of continued war by posting the Iraqi Death Estimator on your website.
justforeignpolicy.org/Iraq  

Layperson's guide to counting Iraq deaths using UNICEF infant mortality data...

Notwithstanding the notoriety of this comment, Mainstream Media have been very coy about reporting about avoidable deaths due to the Sanctions war against Iraq, the Afghan War or the Iraq War.
sites.google.com/site/iraqgenocideessays/layperson-s-gui...  

Casualties Chart From DOD Shows Iraq Deaths Continue Unabated | Mother...

I cannot believe Petraeus was able to go before Congress and completely shift the debate by claiming sectarian violence is down in Iraq...
motherjones.com/mojo/2007/09/casualties-chart-dod-shows...  

Voices - Two Million Iraq Deaths, Eight Million Bush Asian Holocaust Deaths...

These world's top medical epidemiologists concluded that, QUOTE: "Ignorance of Iraq death toll [is] no longer an option … Established methods for estimating deaths exist, even in times of war.
thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2007/10/08/p20128  

Iraq Deaths Study was Valid and Correct [Archive] - JREF Forum

BTW if that cluster method is valid then those 600,000 deaths in Iraq would be comparable to the body count of all the Americans killed during the Civil War.
forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=66604  

Still lying about real Iraq deaths

To arrive at these figures, the following deaths and casualties are excluded It is now admitted that in the six month period from the pre-planned date of the invasion of Iraq on 20th March 2003 till...
infowars.com/articles/iraq/still_lying_about_iraq_de...  

California homicides dwarf Iraq deaths/Washington DC death rate higher

That compares with 905 deaths of coalition forces in Iraq, chiefly Americans and Brits, during the same time period.
forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=140565&s=b4dfb6bc72bec...  

Former British Leader Regrets Iraq Deaths, Warns on Iran - War On Terror News

But Blair said he felt the Iraq war was part of a larger fight against terrorism and not an isolated mission. Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Former British Leader Regrets Iraq Deaths, Warns...
waronterrornews.typepad.com/home/2011/01/former-british-leader-regr...  

Deaths in Iraq due to Bush Bashing?

A Republican defends the Bush Administration Iraq policy stating the media and the bashing of the administration is to blame for the deaths in Iraq
livereal.org/iraq-deaths-blaming-bashers.htm  

Iraq war inquiry Tony Blair 'regrets' Iraq deaths but says Britain must stop...

Toany Blair insisted today that Britain had to give up the "wretched policy of apology" for the allies' action in Iraq. But he offered the Chilcot inquiry his regrets for the loss of life in Iraq.
tvnewslies.org/tvnl/index.php/news/war/17563--news-uk-...  

Bush Laughing about Iraq Deaths Video?

Its just President Bush laughing about all the deaths of Iraq. If anyone could find and post it here, I would appreciate it.
forum.ebaumsworld.com/showthread.php?224140-Bush-Laughing-abo...  

Sitting on the Sidebar, winking at you

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