BUSH No Longer President Of A Republic-Now Godfather Of Worlds Most Intimidating Crime Syndicate

[kpete]

Bush's Mafia Whacks the Republic

By Robert Parry
June 20, 2007


In years to come, historians may look back on U.S. press coverage of George W. Bush’s presidency and wonder why there was not a single front-page story announcing one of the most monumental events of mankind’s modern era – the death of the American Republic and the elimination of the “unalienable rights” pledged to “posterity” by the Founders.

The historians will, of course, find stories about elements of this extraordinary event – Bush’s denial of habeas corpus rights to a fair trial, his secret prisons, his tolerance of torture, his violation of Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches, his “signing statements” overriding laws, the erosion of constitutional checks and balances.

But the historians will scroll through front pages of the New York Times, the Washington Post and every other major newspaper – as well as scan the national network news and the 24-hour cable channels – and find not a single story connecting the dots, explaining the larger picture: the end of a remarkable democratic experiment which started in 1776 and which was phased out sometime in the early 21st century.


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The bigger picture – the stark and grim image of what had transpired over the past half dozen years in the name of the American people – was that the United States could no longer claim to be a nation of laws and liberties. It had become a country governed by a criminal mob deploying an unsavory collection of capos, consiglieres and hit men.

In this view, George W. Bush was no longer President of a Republic but Godfather of the world’s most intimidating crime syndicate. But that was a reality that the U.S. news media could not afford to acknowledge in real time, though it might become the unavoidable conclusion of future historians

more at:
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/062007.html

[RufusTFirefly]

1. Taguba discovers he's working for the Mob

(General John) Abizaid said to (General Antonio) Taguba, “You know, Tony,” -- and the message was -- “the only victim of this, the only person that’s going to get hurt in this, is you, if you don’t watch it.” And Taguba said he remembered thinking then -- he said to me (Seymour Hersh) that “I had been in the Army then for thirty-two years, and it was the first time I thought I was in the Mafia.”

Democracy Now

[truedelphi]

3. Didn't he ever listen to the Commander in Chief's speeches?

Particularly the one that went "you are either with us or agin us"

That was straight out of half a dozen mafia movies.

[Dhalgren]

2. My gods, it gets worse and worse. There is no bottom to this thing.

If it can be documented, or at least verified through sworn testimony, that George W. Bush has authorized agents of this government to commit murder - even once, let alone hundreds, perhaps thousands of times - how can he not be impeached? How can any of us support any politician who is not screaming from the rafters that these murdering thugs must be brought to justice? Not just the justice of the ballot box - screw that! They must be brought to real justice. They must be tried and if found guilty, convicted and sentenced to the maximum penalty allowed by law. I cannot, I will not support any politician who treats this administration as "business as usual". There can be no living with these miscreants, no appeasement, no letting old wounds heal; they must be brought to justice. I will no longer pretend that things are not what they appear. If the Democrats want to sweep this under the rug or otherwise pretend that Bush and his mob are just political opponents, then I can not support the Democratic Party.

[Toots]

7. Well when you and your family are directed threatened with Anthrax

It is pretty hard to not just hush up and wait out the term. That Anthrax attack that everyone has so conveniently forgotten about has done it's job.

[Dhalgren]

8. I agree. The anthrax attack was deliberate intimidation and I have absolutely no

doubt that it was the Bush mob who did it. It was murder and attempted murder and the whole congress got the message. But someone, somewhere, has got to stand up to these murders. And here we all are - the so-called "People" - we are completely exposed, and no one has our backs, at all. Damn...

[lutefisk]

4. Historically, what happens when a weak son is made boss?

Not just a weak son, but what happens when an undeserving, cowardly, cruel, unintelligent, alcoholic, dishonest and dishonorable son is made crime boss of the whole country? Boss of all the families- Exxon, Haliburton... all of them?

Oh, wait, I know the answer: USA 2007.

[cassiepriam]

5. America, a failed experiment?

[Hubert Flottz]

6. "The truth will set you free!"

I just wish the MSM has the good sense to ever tell the truth.

[Solly Mack]

9. Yes!!!!

[Philosoraptor]

10. Hopefully it will end like the Sopranos did, black screen, roll credits.

[MetaTrope]

11. Twelve BILLION dollars in cash missing from Iraq!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2008189,00.html

The US flew nearly $12bn in shrink-wrapped $100 bills into Iraq, then distributed the cash with no proper control over who was receiving it and how it was being spent.

The staggering scale of the biggest transfer of cash in the history of the Federal Reserve has been graphically laid bare by a US congressional committee.

In the year after the invasion of Iraq in 2003 nearly 281 million notes, weighing 363 tonnes, were sent from New York to Baghdad for disbursement to Iraqi ministries and US contractors. Using C-130 planes, the deliveries took place once or twice a month with the biggest of $2,401,600,000 on June 22 2004, six days before the handover.

Details of the shipments have emerged in a memorandum prepared for the meeting of the House committee on oversight and government reform which is examining Iraqi reconstruction. Its chairman, Henry Waxman, a fierce critic of the war, said the way the cash had been handled was mind-boggling. "The numbers are so large that it doesn't seem possible that they're true. Who in their right mind would send 363 tonnes of cash into a war zone?"

Really, how many BILLIONS are needed to build a few secret SPECTRE-style bases around the world?

[bobthedrummer]

12. .

[Gold Metal Flake]

13. Kick

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