George W. Bush

George W. Bush         (war criminal, spook, politician)
Born	George Walker Bush 1946-07-06 New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Yale University, Harvard Business School
Religion	Episcopalian
Criminal status	At large as of August 2016
Parents	• George H. W. Bush • Barbara Bush
Children	• Barbara • Jenna
Spouse	Laura Welch
Criminal convictions	• Torture • Cruel Inhumane and Degrading Treatment
Member of	Atlantic Council/Distinguished Leadership Awards, Bush family, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Skull and Bones, Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation
Perpetrator of	Patriot Act
Interest of	Victor Ashe, Sander Hicks
Party	Republican
Relatives	• See • Bush family
Subpage	•George W. Bush/Torture Indictment
The 43rd US President, a bonesman, former oil businessman, now being pursued for war crimes.  US President In office January 20, 2001 - January 20, 2009 Employer US Government Deputy Christine Beerli, Dick Cheney, Darren Walker Preceded by Bill Clinton Succeeded by Barack Obama  Governor of Texas  In office January 17, 1995 - December 21, 2000 Succeeded by Rick Perry

George Walker Bush, the 43rd president of the USA, is not to be confused with his father, George H. W. Bush, CIA operative and the 41st U.S. president. He is brother of Jeb Bush, former Governor of Florida. His family background is detailed in the highly recommended Family of Secrets.

Background

George Bush chatting with "Bandar Bush"

George Bush Jr. is son of a lifelong intelligence operative, George (H. W.) Bush Sr. He was sent to Yale university where he like his father and grandfather he became a member of the Skull and Bones society. He went to Harvard Business school, but showed little aptitude for business. This did not stop him following the pattern set by his father, of using business as a cover for other activities.

September the 11th, 2001

A handler informs George Bush that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center. He continues to read a story to the children.

Although US President at the time of the attacks and although he used the event as an excuse for a lot of blustering later on, George W. Bush appears not to been deliberately sidelined during the 9-11 event, notwithstanding the suggestions (for example, by Mark Gorton) that 9/11 was planned by his father). George W. was in a primary school in Florida when the events occurred, and after being informed that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Center, "he does not even turns his head, it is obvious he knew what was up, if he were really surprised his first reaction would have been to look in the eyes of the person whispering to him". Bush continued to read a story about a goat to the class of primary children, reportedly because he didn't want to upset them. The US Secret Service also apparently saw no problem with leaving him where he was, strongly suggesting that they did not perceive the events of that day as a threat. Bush appears therefore to have been kept out of the way and out of the loop by his handlers.

His popularity, extremely low before the 9/11, rose dramatically in its aftermath, his inaction notwithstanding - a demonstration of the effectiveness of the strategy of tension.

War Crimes Indictment

Full article: Bush Torture Indictment

Bush was found guilty of war crimes, including the authorisation of torture, which is illegal under the United Nations Convention Against Torture which the USA has ratified. Former UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Manfred Nowak has given expert opinion that Bush has no immunity as a former head of state. US attorney Vincent Bugliosi, forcefully argued in his 2008 book, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder that since Bush intentionally misled Congress and the US population about the reasons for invading Iraq, under the felony-murder rule the deaths of over 4,000 American soldiers and 100,000 Iraqi civilians amount at the very least to second-degree murder. Bugliosi has argued for Bush's impeachment and offered to work with any US State's Attorney General interested in pursuing the prosecution.

Bush was tried in absentia and convicted by the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission both for crimes against peace and conspiracy to commit war crimes, specifically torture, after the Iraq War and torture carried out at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay. No sentence was pronounced, but the tribunal referred their findings to the chief prosecutor at the International Court of Justice in the Hague.

2004 US Presidential Election

Skull and Bones member George W. Bush won the 2004 US Presidential Election against his fellow bonesman John Kerry.

Later activities

Since 2009, Bush has received a total in excess of $15 million for giving speeches, sometimes for as much as $200,000 each.

 

An event carried out

Event	Description
Patriot Act	A legislative coup d'état

 

Legal Case

Name	Plaintiff(s)	Defendant(s)	Start	End	Description
Saifullah Paracha v. George W. Bush	Saifullah Paracha	George W. Bush	8 December 2004	18 November 2008	A habeas corpus petition filed on behalf of a prisoner of Guantanamo Bay.

 

Quotes by George W. Bush

Page	Quote	Date
Black site	“The US does not torture. I have not authorized it and I will not”	2005
Non-Aligned Movement	“Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.”	20 September 2001
Polarising perspective	“Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists. From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime.”	20 September 2001

 

Appointments by George W. Bush

Appointee	Job	Appointed	End	Description
Luis A. Aguilar	Securities and Exchange Commissioner	31 July 2008	June 2015
Victor Ashe	US/Ambassador/Poland	2004	26 September 2009
Stephen Cambone	Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence	2003	2007
Lester Crawford	FDA/Commissioner	18 July 2005	23 September 2005	Resigned after his lies emerged regarding a conflict of interest.
Jack Dyer Crouch	US/Ambassador/Romania	2004	2005
Eugene Dodaro	Comptroller General of the United States	13 March 2008
Clark Ervin	Inspector General of the United States Department of Homeland Security	26 December 2003	December 2004
Jeffrey Feltman	US/Ambassador to Lebanon	2005	2008
Henrietta Fore	Under Secretary of State for Management	2 August 2005	17 November 2007
Henrietta Fore	USAID/Administrator	17 November 2007	20 January 2009
Henrietta Fore	Director of the United States Mint	August 2001	2 August 2005
William S. Farish III	United States Ambassador/United Kingdom	12 July 2001	10 July 2004
Alexander Karsner	US/Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy	23 March 2006	2008
Frank Lavin	US/Ambassador/Singapore	10 September 2001	11 October 2005
Mark McClellan	FDA/Commissioner	14 November 2002	25 March 2004	"Streamlined" regulatory requirements for new drugs.
Mark McClellan	Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services	25 March 2004	14 October 2006
Kenneth Mehlman	Director of the Office of Political Affairs	20 January 2001	23 May 2003
Andrew Natsios	USAID/Administrator	May 2001	14 January 2006
Dina Powell	Director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office	2003	2005
Kristen Silverberg	US/Ambassador/EU	22 July 2008	18 January 2009
Francis X. Taylor	US/Coordinator for Counterterrorism	13 July 2001	15 November 2002

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Black site	“The US does not torture. I have not authorized it and I will not”	George W. Bush	2005
Jimmy Carter	“Nowadays, because of the unwarranted invasion of Iraq by Bush and Blair, which was a completely unjust adventure based on misleading statements, and the lack of any effort to resolve the Palestinian issue, [there is] massive Islamic condemnation of the United States. (...) (American media organisations), have been cowed, because they didn't want to be unpatriotic. There has been a lack of inquisitive journalism. In fact, it's hard to think of a major medium in the United States that has been objective and fair and balanced, and critical when criticism was deserved”	Jimmy Carter	2004
Contadora Island	“Surely you've heard the rumors about why Noriega was taken down and today rots in a U.S. prison." "I've heard that he had cameras on Contadora Island." It was an infamous resort off Panama's coast, a "safe haven" where U.S. businessmen could treat politicians to every conceivable vice. I had visited—and used—Contadora several times during my EHM days. "You heard who got caught by those cameras?" "Rumors that George W. was photographed doing coke and having kinky sex during the time his father was president." There was a theory in Latin America that Noriega had used incriminating photos of the younger Bush and his cronies to convince the older Bush, the president, to side with the Panamanian administration on key issues. In retaliation, H. W. invaded Panama and hustled Noriega off to a Miami prison. The building housing Noriega's confidential files had been incinerated by bombs; as a side effect, more than two thousand innocent civilians were burned to death in Panama City that day in December 1989. Many people claimed that this theory offered the only logical explanation for violently attacking a nation without an army and that posed no threat to the United States. Jose nodded. "From where I sit, those rumors ring awfully true. I've experienced things that take them out of the realm of fantasy." He cocked his head. "So have you." He paused, looking around. "And it terrifies me." ”	John Perkins	2007
Jörg Haider	“Asked about the impression that Saddam is better for him than Bush, Haider said: "The choice is really hard for me. Both have been at war with international law and committed human rights violations. The one is lucky enough to command a world power, hence the power to write the laws, while the other has been a weak dictator"”	Jörg Haider
US/2000 Presidential Election	“There was one exact moment, in fact, when I knew for sure that Al Gore would Never be President of the United States, no matter what the experts were saying — and that was when the whole Bush family suddenly appeared on TV and openly scoffed at the idea of Gore winning Florida. It was Nonsense, said the Candidate, Utter nonsense. . .Anybody who believed Bush had lost Florida was a Fool. The Media, all of them, were Liars & Dunces or treacherous whores trying to sabotage his victory. . . Here was the whole bloody Family laughing & hooting & sneering at the dumbness of the whole world on National TV. The old man was the real tip-off. The leer on his face was almost frightening. It was like looking into the eyes of a tall hyena with a living sheep in its mouth. The sheep's fate was sealed, and so was Al Gore's.”	Hunter S. Thompson

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Bush Cheney Rumsfeld and 9/11	webpage	1 December 2005	Matt Everett
Document:Sanitising the Iraq War	article	6 July 2016	Jonathon Shafi	The full horror of what Blair unleashed will never be truly understood in the West. And, internationally the full consequences of this war are still to be felt. As the sister of a soldier killed in Iraq said: “There is one terrorist in this world and his name is Tony Blair.”
Document:The Trump Administration’s Syria Gas Attack Narrative Continues to Unravel	Article	18 April 2017	Michael Krieger	United States Government: "They Lied About Iraq; They Lied About Libya; They're Lying About Syria."
Document:Twenty Years On, We’ve Learned Nothing From 9/11	Speech	17 September 2021	Ron Paul	20 years on from 9/11, Ron Paul says that The Establishment in the United States has learned nothing since the attacks.
Document:We are the war criminals now	Article	29 November 2001	Robert Fisk	George W. Bush says that "you are either for us or against us" in the war for civilisation against evil. Well, I'm sure not for bin Laden. But I'm not for Bush. I'm actively against the brutal, cynical, lying "war of civilisation" that he has begun so mendaciously in our name and which has now cost as many lives as the World Trade Center mass murder.
Document:Why Isn’t Everyone In Favour of Taxing Financial Speculation?	report	19 April 2016	Robert Reich	Bernie Sanders wants to tax stock trades at a rate of 0.5 percent (a trade of $1,000 would cost $5), and bond trades at 0.1 percent. The tax would reduce incentives for high-speed trading, insider deal-making, and short-term financial betting. Sanders’ 0.5 percent tax could thereby finance public investments that enlarge the economic pie rather than merely rearrange its slices – like tuition-free public education.
Document:Why Tony is right to entertain Assad	Article	17 December 2002	Rod Liddle	Bashar al Assad became the first Syrian leader to visit the United Kingdom in 2002.
File:Theres something about Henry.doc	Article	June 2000	David McGowan

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