George W. Bush
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| Born | George Walker Bush 1946-07-06 New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||
| 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 | |||||||||||||||||
| Subpage | •George W. Bush/Torture Indictment | |||||||||||||||||
The 43rd US President, a bonesman, former oil businessman, now being pursued for war crimes.
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George Walker Bush, the 43rd president of the USA, son of the 41st U.S. president, George H. W. Bush. He is brother of Jeb Bush, former Governor of Florida. He was Governor of Texas from January 17, 1995 – December 21, 2000.
Bush went to Yale university where he like his father and grandfather he became a member of the Skull and Bones society.
Contents
September the 11th, 2001
Although US President at the time of the attacks, George W. Bush appears not to have played a major role on 9-11 (although Mark Gorton suggests that it 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 continued to read a story about a goat to the class of primary children, allegedly 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 the events of that day were not seen as a threat. Bush appears therefore to have been kept out of the way and out of the loop by his handlers.
His popularity, which was extremely low before the event, rose dramatically in its aftermath.
War Crimes Indictment
- Full article: Bush Torture Indictment
- Full article: Bush Torture Indictment
Bush is being actively pursued for 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.
American attorney Vincent Bugliosi, has 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.
An event carried out
| Event | Description |
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| Patriot Act | A legislative coup d'état |
Legal Case
| Name | Plaintiff(s) | Defendant(s) | Start | End | Description |
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| 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 |
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| 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
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?" 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 |
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| 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 |
