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Say what you like about George W. Bush's intelligence, but he's done one thing you probably haven't — write a book. Or most of it anyway.
Ryan Grim at the Huffington Post dropped a bombshell on Friday:
"[The book includes] worn-out anecdotes from previously published memoirs written by his subordinates, from which Bush lifts quotes word for word, passing them off as his own recollections. He took equal license in lifting from nonfiction books about his presidency or newspaper or magazine articles from the time. Far from shedding light on how the president approached the crucial "decision points" of his presidency, the clip jobs illuminate something shallower and less surprising about Bush's character: He's too lazy to write his own memoir."
http://talkingskull.com/article/plagiarism-in-bushs-memoir
To say this is mind-blowing would be an understatement. The victims include Bob Woodward and the Washington Post, among others. Of course the publisher, Crown Books, has come out with a strong denial, but the facts speak for themselves. Check out the slideshow at the HuffPost for all the examples found thus far. Grim encourages readers to scour the book for more possible instances of plagiarism, and to use online tools to verify, and then email them in for compilation.
The list of examples will surely grow. And although most of these literary crimes were probably committed by Bush's assistant Peter Rough rather than the former president himself, the damage has been done. Apologists will say something along the lines of: "It wasn't Bush, he was misled by the people who were working for him." Which sounds eerily similar to the excuses used for the missteps committed when he was the most powerful man in the world.
http://talkingskull.com/article/plagiarism-in-bushs-memoirSay what you like about George W. Bush's intelligence, but he's done one... more
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Erin Gibson and Bryan Safi are always eager to support a fellow Texan, even if they didn't vote for him (twice). So they saddle up and ride to their local bookstore to be the first to buy George W. Bush's new memoir. But the Lonestar Staters are dismayed to find Bush's opus getting less respect at Book Soup than Keith Richards' tome. Hey, the Rolling Stones were cool and all, but England's no El Paso, dadgummit.
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Go to http://current.com/infomania for more, and make sure to check out our Facebook profile for special features at http://facebook.com/infomania.Erin Gibson and Bryan Safi are always eager to support a fellow Texan, even if they... more
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The higher point of this interview is Kanyes' want for Lauer (and everyone else) to understand the nature of things. It is not about race people!!!! Don't you see how the news, and the media tries to spin it--even though you have the one at fault blatantly saying that he did not have the information to make that comment in the first place. And you see in dead blank in the interview as well!! Lauer tries to spin his Swift moment as racial! Come one America, awaken!!!!The higher point of this interview is Kanyes' want for Lauer (and everyone else)... more
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‘HITLER’ ‘SOCIOPATH’ TWO YEARS LATER: SHOCKING HATE-FILLED RHETORIC AGAINST THE PRESIDENT‘HITLER’ ‘SOCIOPATH’ TWO YEARS LATER: SHOCKING HATE-FILLED... more
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Just two days after Kanye West apologised to George W. Bush for calling him a racist on US television, the über sensitive performer backtracked - claiming he was "set up" by an NBC reporter in twitter rant. In a pre-recorded interview with the Today Show's Matt Lauer on Tuesday, Kanye West apologised to former US president George W. Bush for calling him a racist in a MTV clip about hurricane Katrina in 2005. He said: "I would tell George Bush, in my moment of frustration, I didn't have the grounds to call him a racist. But I believe that in a situation of high emotion like that, we as human beings don't always choose the right words. And that's why I'm here."Bush, who was interviewed live on the NBC Today Show yesterday, said (even though he got the rapper's name wrong): "I appreciate it. I don't hate Conway West. I am not a hater."But the peace didn't last long, even before West’s interview was aired, he went on Twitter to criticise Lauer."He tried to force my answers," West tweeted in all capital letters. "It was very brutal and I came there with only positive intent."West said that NBC set him up by playing the MTV clip while asking him questions about Bush. West went on to rant about being used and abused by the media. He even invoked Michael Jackson’s name, and said he could relate to the scrutiny the King of Pop was under."I wish Michael Jackson had twitter!!!!!!" West wrote. "Maybe Mike could have explained how the media tried to set him up!!! It's all a f-----g set up!!!!"Despite having an album scheduled for release this month, West said he would give no more interviews."I don't trust anyone but myself," West wrote. "Everyone has an agenda. I don't do press anymore. I can't be everything to everybody anymore."
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According to former President George Bush's memoir, Decision Points, his mother once suffered a miscarriage and put the remains in a jar. In a recent interview with NBC's Matt Lauer, Bush shared that driving his mother and the fetus to the hospital greatly influenced his pro-choice views.
"She says to her teenage kid, 'Here's a fetus,' " the former president told Lauer. "No question it -- that affected me -- my philosophy that we should respect human life."
When people in positions of power base their belief systems on personal experiences, is it possible for them to create policy without being biased?According to former President George Bush's memoir, Decision Points, his mother... more
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British lives were saved by the use of information obtained from terrorist suspects by “waterboarding”, according to former US President George W Bush.
In his memoir, he said the simulated drowning technique helped break plots on Heathrow Airport and Canary Wharf.
Number 10 declined to comment on the claims but said it considered waterboarding to be torture.British lives were saved by the use of information obtained from terrorist suspects by... more
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British lives were saved by the use of information obtained from terrorist suspects by "waterboarding", according to former US President George W Bush.
In his memoir, he said the simulated drowning technique helped break plots on Heathrow Airport and Canary Wharf.
Number 10 declined to comment on the claims but said it considered waterboarding to be torture.
"We don't condone it [torture], nor do we ask others to do it on our behalf," a spokeswoman said.
Mr Bush's memoir, Decision Points, is being serialised in the Times.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11715577British lives were saved by the use of information obtained from terrorist suspects by... more
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In his first major interview since leaving the White House, former president George W. Bush defended the most controversial aspects of his tenure, including the use of waterboarding against terrorism suspects and the invasion of Iraq.
In an interview with Matt Lauer of NBC News, Mr Bush vigorously defended waterboarding, a kind of simulated drowning that was known as an “enhanced interrogation technique” by the Bush administration but regarded as “torture” by many opponents.
Waterboarding is a centuries-old practice used to coerce prisoners during interrogations by using water to cut off oxygen and to create both the feeling and fear of drowning.
It was approved by the Justice Department under President George W. Bush for use by the Central Intelligence Agency on so-called “high value” terrorism suspects, then barred by President Obama on his second day in office.
Interviewer Matt Lauer asked Bush why he believed that waterboarding was legal, a topic of significant dispute. “Because the lawyer said it was legal,” Bush replied. “He said it did not fall within the anti-torture act. I’m not a lawyer. But you gotta trust the judgment of people around you, and I do.”
In his book ‘Decision Points,’ published today, Bush insists the waterboarding practice is not torture, describing it instead as one of a number of “enhanced interrogation techniques”.
The former president said the interrogation technique helped foil attacks on Heathrow airport, Canary Wharf and a number of US targets around the world. Bush said: “Three people were waterboarded and I believe that decision saved lives.”
Asked if he had authorised the use of the technique in the interrogation of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Bush answered: “Damn right! We capture the guy, the chief operating officer of al-Qaida, who kills 3,000 people.”
“We felt he had the information about another attack. He says: ‘I’ll talk to you when I get my lawyer.’ I say: ‘What options are available and legal?’” In his memoir, Bush writes that waterboarding was highly effective, providing ‘large amounts of important information.’
“No doubt the procedure was tough, but medical experts assured the CIA that it did no lasting harm,” he writes. “I knew an interrogation programme this sensitive and controversial would one day become public.”
He continued: “When it did, we would open ourselves up to criticism that America had compromised our moral values. I would have preferred that we get the information another way. But the choice between security and values was real.”
“Their interrogations helped break up plots to attack American diplomatic facilities abroad, Heathrow airport and Canary Wharf in London, and multiple targets in the United States.”
The technique was first approved for Abu Zubaydah, an al-Qaida figure arrested in Pakistan in 2002 who was suspected of involvement in a plot to attack Los Angeles International airport.”
More: http://www.theblogismine.com/2010/11/09/in-interview-george-w-bush-defends-iraq-war-and-waterboarding/In his first major interview since leaving the White House, former president George W.... more
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Obama follows in George W Bush's footsteps with this latest fashion statement from the Iraqi capital.Obama follows in George W Bush's footsteps with this latest fashion statement... more
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So Georgie Porgie has defied us all and has managed to write a 481-page book with only a few pictures in it - well he got a 28-year-old ghost writer to do it, but who cares about minor details like that. Not that he isn't man enough to admit that it's a feat for a man like him to publish a potential bestseller: "This is going to come as quite a shock to people...that I can write a book, much less read one"...(no we are not sure what that means either, so it should be a fun read). In the book Bush makes some revealing claims about his presidency, and it's rumoured that he was given a eight figure cash advance for the book. In it, he claims that British lives were saved by "waterboarding" (an interrogation technique that simulates drowning) terrorist suspects who were plotting attacks on Heathrow airport and Canary Wharf.
When asked in an in an inertview with The Times if he authorised it to extract information from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the al-Qaeda mastermind behind the 9/11 attack, he said: "Damn right!"The 64-year-old former president also describe his close relationship with Tony Blair, but is very dismissive of public opinion in Britain about the war in Iraq. "It doesn't matter how people perceive me in England. It just doesn't matter any more. And frankly, at times, it didn't matter then," he said.When Blair faced a possible vote of no confidence in Parliament on the eve of war, Bush said he offered him the chance to opt out of sending British troops into Iraq: "Rather than lose the government, I would much rather have Tony and his wisdom and his strategic thinking as the prime minister of a strong and important ally".
But Blair told him: "I'm in. If it costs the government, fine."Bush said he still had "a sickening feeling" about the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.He also claims he was "blind-sided" by the biggest financial crisis since the 1930s, saying that he focused on "kitchen-table" economics such as jobs and inflation rather than credit issues, assuming that others would warn him about it.
So Georgie Porgie has defied us all and has managed to write a 481-page book with... more
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President George W. Bush admits for the first time in his new memoir that he personally approved the use of waterboarding, a technique in which an interrogator simulates drowning on a suspect. The method, which most describe as torture, has since been banned by the Justice Department.
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http://www.infowars.com/damn-right-i-personally-ordered-waterboarding/President George W. Bush admits for the first time in his new memoir that he... more
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Renowned Jewish-American scholar Noam Chomsky says US invasion of Afghanistan was illegal since to date there is no evidence that al-Qaeda has carried out the 9/11 attacks.
"The explicit and declared motive of the [Afghanistan] war was to compel the Taliban to turn over to the United States, the people who they accused of having been involved in World Trade Center and Pentagon terrorist acts. The Taliban…they requested evidence…and the Bush administration refused to provide any," the 81-year-old senior academic made the remarks on Press TV's program a Simple Question.
"We later discovered one of the reasons why they did not bring evidence: they did not have any."
The political analyst also said that nonexistence of such evidence was confirmed by FBI eight months later.
Read More: http://globalpoliticalawakening.blogspot.com/2010/11/chomsky-us-led-afghan-war-criminal.htmlRenowned Jewish-American scholar Noam Chomsky says US invasion of Afghanistan was... more
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Among the many ideas visited on the country during the post-Bush Age - 6,000 years ago when dinosaurs roamed an Earth exclusively populated by white Christians - is the notion that the far-right has a disdain for most things intellectual.Among the many ideas visited on the country during the post-Bush Age - 6,000 years ago... more
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Not that they'd listen, but I'd counsel Republicans along the same lines as the Democrats when they came to power...keep the fist pumps, terrorist or otherwise, to a minimum. Refrain from the siren call to rub it in, lest you be treated to the swirly next election cycle.Not that they'd listen, but I'd counsel Republicans along the same lines as... more
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In a long interview in Rolling Stone recently, Omar Bin Laden spoke about his life now, his beliefs, his childhood, the time he spent in Afghanistan with his father before 9/11 and his eventual decision not to become, as he says his father had hoped, the leader of Al Queda. Bored as a teenager and cut off from the world at Tora Bora, after studying to become a warrior, he decided to leave and said goodbye to his father for the last time:
Osama's Prodigal Son
My father is a wealthy man," Omar recalls. "He gave me $10,000 in cash. He told me to get a car and go." Omar's eyes well with tears. "If he wanted to keep me, he had to follow my way. If I wanted to keep him, I have to follow his way. I had a broken heart as I drove away. We don't show our feelings. I kissed his hand and said goodbye. This is the last time I saw him."
He remembers his last glimpse of his father: As Osama bin Laden walked away, he wore the same small, mysterious smile he had when he suggested his sons become suicide bombers.
Alone for the first time in his life, Omar took a car to the Pakistan border. A few months later, his father destroyed the World Trade Center, killing thousands. "I never thought the attack would be civilian buildings," Omar says. "I thought it would be a ship, like the USS Cole. My father's dream was to bring the Americans to Afghanistan. He would do the same thing he did to the Russians. I was surprised the Americans took the bait. I so much respected the mentality of President Clinton. He was the one who was smart. When my father attacked his places, he sent a few cruise missiles to my father's training camp. He didn't get my father, but after all the war in Afghanistan, they still don't have my father. They have spent hundreds of billions. Better for America to keep the money for its economy. In Clinton's time, America was very, very smart. Not like a bull that runs after the red scarf.
Then he explains why his father was happy when Bush was elected. Bush unlike Clinton who was smarter, not allowing himself to be pushed into war. The Neocons were pressuring Clinton also. So Bush's election made it a certainty that all these forces would come together to get these wars started, and to plunge the U.S. into debt to keep them going.
I was still in Afghanistan when Bush was elected," he continues. "My father was so happy. This is the kind of president he needs — one who will attack and spend money and break the country. Even Bush's own mother says he is the biggest idiot boy of his family. I am sure my father wanted McCain more than Obama. McCain has the same mentality as Bush. My father would be disappointed because Obama get the position."
"Do you think Obama can win in Afghanistan?"
"Out of what you see," Omar asks, "what do you think?"
According to Omar, Americans are actually lucky that his father has not been captured or killed. "It is going to be worse when my father dies," he says. "The world is going to be very, very nasty then. It will be a disaster."
"Omar always says that without the head, the arms and legs will run wherever," Zaina says.
"I know this for a fact," Omar says. "People were always asking my father to attack more. They would say, 'Sheik, we must do more.' Crazy fucking things. My father has a religious goal. He is controlled by the rules of jihad. He only kills if he thinks there is a need."
"Will there be more attacks?" I ask.
"I don't think so," Omar says. "He doesn't need to. As soon as America went to Afghanistan, his plan worked. He has already won."
Emphasis mine. Edited to include that highlighted paragraph.
He also speaks about the U.S. helping to create Al Queda in the eighties and how his father was then an ally of the U.S.
It's interesting that he has not been arrested as so many others have for simply knowing Bin Laden. He seems to be free to go wherever he wants to.
He appears to be attracted to Western life's pleasures despite his background. He spent time with the reporter frequenting bars and strip clubs in Beirut, saying with a smile 'I'm glad my father doesn't run the world'.
It is after midnight when Osama bin Laden's fourth-born son, Omar, leads me into a nightclub called Les Caves de Boys in the center of Damascus. Marked only by a small neon sign on a side street in an upscale quarter of the city, the basement bar is dark and secluded, enveloped by an air of exclusivity. Omar brushes past the two heavyset Syrian thugs at the door and picks a booth in the back. A dozen or so wealthy Arab men are drinking whiskey and watching Russian strippers put on a show.
He is married to a British woman, a grandmother nearly twice his age. The author believes he is authentic in his rejection of his father's world:
Now 28, Omar is one of 11 sons of Osama bin Laden. But from an early age, Omar stood out from his brothers for his independence. Though Omar does not believe that any of his siblings are still by his father's side, he is the only bin Laden son to publicly disavow his father's violence. In Growing Up bin Laden, co-authored last year with his mother and an American writer named Jean Sasson, Omar not only captures the insanity and cruelty inside his father's world, but also provides an intimate portrait of what it is like to be the son of a sociopath. "In many ways, Omar's story represents how the modern Arab world is thinking through its views of the West," observes Steve Coll, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Bin Ladens and president of the New America Foundation. "They accept the critique provided by Al Qaeda but not its idea of never-ending war. Like Omar, they won't follow Osama onto the battlefield."
I'm surprised there isn't a Fatwa out on him. Or that the CIA never wanted to talk to him. Not really sure what to think, but the Bin Ladens seem to have immunity as far as the U.S. is concerned, compared to other Muslims who had far less knowledge of our supposed #1 enemy in the whole world, yet ended up in Guantanamo, 12 year old kids and elderly shepherds eg, for years.
However, I hope the Rightwingers who thought Bush was so tough and scary to Al Queda finally realize what many more practical people realized a long time ago, that nothing played more into the hands of extremists, than Bush's invasion of a ME country and of Afghanistan.
http://journals.democraticunderground.com/sabrina%201/117In a long interview in Rolling Stone recently, Omar Bin Laden spoke about his life... more
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First, it was the terrorist fist bump between the POTUS and FLOTUS. Then came that scandalous bow to the Saudi King. Now, we have the bro hug between Rahm Emanuel and Obama that will bring the Sole Remaining Superpower to its knees.First, it was the terrorist fist bump between the POTUS and FLOTUS. Then came that... more
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http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/189/547/724/
Target: U.S. Congress
Sponsored by: United for a Fair Economy, UFE
"Let the Bush tax cuts that affect only the richest 2% of Americans expire on schedule at the end of the year. Congress needs to step up to the plate and make sure we don't continue one of the biggest economic injustices of the Bush era."
By the end of 2010, these tax cuts will cost our nation $2.5 trillion.
There is very little that so clearly demonstrates the callous venality of some members of Congress than the simultaneous demand to give Paris Hilton a tax cut while pushing benefit cuts to Social Security.
Tell Congress: Don't extend the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy.
There is simply no excuse for Congress to plead poverty when it comes to helping those in need while literally giving it away to those who don't need it.
Congress needs step up to the plate and make sure we don't continue one of the biggest economic injustices of the Bush era. Tell Congress: Don't extend the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy.
Make the wealthy pull their weight. Tell Congress to end the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy in 2010.http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/189/547/724/
Target: U.S. Congress... more
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In an interview with Bob Woodward earlier this year, President Obama said, “We can absorb a terrorist attack. We’ll do everything we can to prevent it, but even a 9/11, even the biggest attack ever. … WE ABSORBED IT A AND WE ARE STRONGER.”
President Obama told Woodward: “We can absorb a terrorist attack. We’ll do everything we can to prevent it, but even a 9/11, even the biggest attack ever…WE ABSORBED IT AND WE ARE STRONGER.”
“We'll do everything we can to prevent it, but even a 9/11, even the biggest attack ever . . . we absorbed it and we are stronger,” Obama said.
http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dc/2010/09/bush-beat-obama-to-the-punch-o.html
“For each CI/KR [critical infrastructure and key resources] sector, we must collectively work to ensure the ability of power, communications, and other life sustaining systems to survive an attack by terrorists, a natural disaster, and other assessed risks or hazards. In the past, investments in redundant and duplicative infrastructure were used to achieve this objective."
"WE MUST NOW FOCUS ON THE RESILIENCE OF THE SYSTEM AS A WHOLE---AN APPROACH THAT CENTERS ON INVESTMENTS THAT MAKE THE SYSTEM Better Able To Absorb The Impact Of An Event Without Losing The Capacity To Function.”
-Bush White House National Security Document Archived on the White House Web Site
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/09/22/liz-cheney-absorb-attack/
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/42569.html
By the by, here's a Dick Cheney flashback:
Recall, During a 2002 appearance on "Meet the Press," Dick Cheney — the former vice president of the United States — told Meet the Press’s Tim Russert in 2002 that another terrorist attack was “almost a certainty.” He added it that it was only a matter of time before the U.S. got hit again: "The prospect of another attack against the United States is very, very real," adding that it was "not a matter of if, but when."
Vice President DICK CHENEY:
"The prospect of another attack against the United States is very, very real. It’s just as real, in my opinion, as it was September 12."
TIM RUSSERT, NBC News:
"Not a matter of if, but when?"
Vice President DICK CHENEY:
"NOT A MATTER OF IF, BUT WHEN."In an interview with Bob Woodward earlier this year, President Obama said, “We... more
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