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This guy laughed at our dead soldiers and it never got mentioned on tee vee. (Original Post) Octafish Mar 2015 OP
Well the dead soldiers weren't seen on TV because malaise Mar 2015 #1
They even got art banned from tee vee. Octafish Mar 2015 #3
Thanks for sharing that image.... daleanime Mar 2015 #4
The truth can hurt. Here's the one that should've resulted in at least a follow-up Question... Octafish Mar 2015 #6
Now that's some powerful work there. mountain grammy Mar 2015 #9
Lasted one day. Octafish Mar 2015 #10
Masterpiece. mountain grammy Mar 2015 #11
there also was one heaven05 Mar 2015 #22
Anyone know why this doesn't interest Rupert Murdoch, Roger Ailes and their ilk? Octafish Mar 2015 #2
republican. barbtries Mar 2015 #5
If only he had set up a private email account. Octafish Mar 2015 #7
Yeah and his daddy found something funny about the JFK assassination. Rex Mar 2015 #8
That WAS strange. Octafish Mar 2015 #28
Tricky Dick Nixon's Mafia connections hifiguy Mar 2015 #29
I've seen that Nixon quote, "LBJ never liked second place" before Rex Mar 2015 #32
Shit-for-Brains had more important matters to occupy his time. lpbk2713 Mar 2015 #12
Shrub gives ''commemorative coin'' to Goldstar mother and says: "Don't go selling it on eBay" Octafish Mar 2015 #14
I remember that. lpbk2713 Mar 2015 #15
Probably both. hifiguy Mar 2015 #30
I remember that sickening moment well Oilwellian Mar 2015 #24
K&R! This post should have hundreds of recommendations! Enthusiast Mar 2015 #13
The neocons still pine for World War III. Octafish Mar 2015 #36
No doubt in my mind. Enthusiast Mar 2015 #37
Everyone should re-read Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" in order KingCharlemagne Mar 2015 #16
I remember this marym625 Mar 2015 #17
Thanks for pulling this shit out from under the rug. JEB Mar 2015 #18
And all the media whores in attendance laughed right along with him hibbing Mar 2015 #19
Yes. I don't think I will ever get over the rage that these people were not held accountable BigDemVoter Mar 2015 #26
bush and his wife laughed in the evening of 911 at how ridiculous they looked in pajamas samsingh Mar 2015 #20
Yeah. Fuck this guy pasto76 Mar 2015 #21
Sickening.... trusty elf Mar 2015 #23
If anyone ever wondered why I don't believe in a just and loving god NuclearDem Mar 2015 #25
Big K&R!!!! Nt riderinthestorm Mar 2015 #27
I don't know whether to laugh, cry, or hurl in response to this. Maybe all three. stevenleser Mar 2015 #31
Did you hear about any of this before this thread? Octafish Mar 2015 #35
Hahaha! Nice that he could take a break from all those VERY sincere visits to VA patients. pa28 Mar 2015 #33
War Criminal george w. bush. nt Mnemosyne Mar 2015 #34

malaise

(268,967 posts)
1. Well the dead soldiers weren't seen on TV because
Fri Mar 13, 2015, 08:44 AM
Mar 2015

said guy and the other war criminals banned the showing of caskets with dead military personnel on TV

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
6. The truth can hurt. Here's the one that should've resulted in at least a follow-up Question...
Fri Mar 13, 2015, 09:07 AM
Mar 2015

In answer to a question about war on Iran, the same George W Bush said: "Money trumps peace." Then, he laughed. I was shocked to hear than not even one member of the callow, cowed White House press corpse saw fit to ask a follow-up.



Gold Star mom Cindy Sheehan tried to bring it to our nation's attention. Few others, if anyone, saw fit to comment. (For some reason, I now can only find her article on the Waybac Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20070224215116/http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0215-29.htm )

Something else no one ever sees on tee vee: Where the Giggling Mass Murderer got his entrepreneurial spirit of war: His Poppy, who told the FBI he was in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, but never gets asked about it by the "free" press.

Which is weird because it's been "Money trumps peace" ever since Vietnam around here. What a coincidence.

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
10. Lasted one day.
Fri Mar 13, 2015, 09:42 AM
Mar 2015

For some reason, muralists scare the monied classes.

A Mr. John Rockefeller of NYC didn't understand why Diego Rivera wanted to include Lenin in one of the great masterpieces of the 20th century...



Sheesh. They coulda put a toupee and a vanDyke on the dude and he'd fit right in.

mountain grammy

(26,620 posts)
11. Masterpiece.
Fri Mar 13, 2015, 10:03 AM
Mar 2015

It's works like this that inspire the hearts of socialists. That's why it had to be destroyed.

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
22. there also was one
Fri Mar 13, 2015, 11:44 AM
Mar 2015

early in this tragedy that showed a plane full of coffins that had just returned to Dover. Saw it once, failed to archive it and never saw it again after the bushco criminals complained to the media. NPR.org has a story on the ban, February 25, 2009.

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
7. If only he had set up a private email account.
Fri Mar 13, 2015, 09:12 AM
Mar 2015

Oh, but his brain did set up a private email account!

Remember Carol Lam? For some reason the press forgot all about her and the private email system that should have documented what was done to her for actually doing her job.



Why was U.S. Attorney Carol Lam Fired? Here are a Few Political Possibilities.

Tuesday, 20 March 2007 15:21
A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS

We know the fired U.S. Attorneys were booted for political reasons, but at this point there is simply no way to know exactly what those reasons were. For example, several possible explanations are floating around surrounding the ouster of ex-San Diego prosecutor Carol Lam. Here's a few:

Duke Cunningham Conviction
Lam was responsible for the investigation and conviction of disgraced Republican congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham. Cunningham got eight years in federal prison for taking more than $2.4 million in bribes from defense contractors just a few months before the midterm elections, a significant blow to the party.

Kyle Foggo Indictment
Lam didn't stop with Cunningham. Among the other indictments was Kyle Foggo, the third-ranking official in the CIA. Foggo was involved in corruption and bribery with the same defense contractor as Cunningham. The day after Lam notified the Justice Department that search warrants would be issued, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' chief of staff wrote the following in an email:

"The real problem we have right now with Carol Lam ... leads me to conclude that we should have someone ready to be nominated on 11/18, the day her four-year term expires."

Rep. Jerry Lewis Investigation
The above email did not mention what the "real problem" was. While some stories tie it to Foggo, others tie it to the investigation of Rep. Lewis, the former chairman of the powerful House Appropriations Committee who was also tied by Lam into the Cunningham case. The email was sent the very day the New York Times identified that Lam had begun investigating Lewis.

Dick Cheney Implicated in Scandal
Lam may have been getting close to uncovering a possible role by Dick Cheney himself in the Cunningham case. Mitchell Wade, the convicted defense contractor involved in the scandal, got $140,000 from the White House on July 15, 2002 to provide Cheney with "office furniture and computers." It was his very first federal contract. Just two weeks later Wade bought a yacht for Cunningham for the price of exactly $140,000.

There are also a number of possible Cheney connections to the corrupt GOP types that Lam was prosecuting, including a politically and environmentally charged sewage treatment project in Tijuana to alleviate San Diego's growing need in this area.

Freak coincidence or illegal corruption conspiracy? You decide- Carol Lam can't because she was fired.

She appears to be the woman who loved justice too much for the Busheviks.

CONTINUED w LINKS...

http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/1837-why-was-us-attorney-carol-lam-fired-here-are-a-few-political-possibilities-tell-us-what-you-think-the-reason-was



Trillions.

Now back to our show, which is always in retroprogression.
 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
8. Yeah and his daddy found something funny about the JFK assassination.
Fri Mar 13, 2015, 09:16 AM
Mar 2015


Nixon also found something funny.


Sick men that destroyed peace and goodwill around the world.

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
28. That WAS strange.
Fri Mar 13, 2015, 03:22 PM
Mar 2015
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x3029417


...and under-reported, too.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025308872


Nixon appointed a murderous Secret Service agent to guard Ted Kennedy.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025705286#post39


Secret government is largely a creation of the well-to-do and operates for the well-to-do:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6267205


Also important for a thorough character analysis of psychopathy. George H.W. Bush's employer contends to the present day that it was JFK -- like they do whenever the assassination of Ngo Dien Diem is mentioned -- who ordered the hit on Castro when, in fact, it was Allen Dulles "under Eisenhower" who contracted with the mafia in 1960.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026226003#post38


 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
29. Tricky Dick Nixon's Mafia connections
Fri Mar 13, 2015, 03:27 PM
Mar 2015

also played a part. In fact Nixon was the WH person in charge of the attempted hit on Castro while he was VP. And, IIRC, Henry Cabot Lodge gave the implicit OK for the hit on Diem. JFK just wanted him removed from power and shipped into exile.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
32. I've seen that Nixon quote, "LBJ never liked second place" before
Fri Mar 13, 2015, 04:15 PM
Mar 2015

but never seen a video clip of it. Did you see Nixon's face? You could tell he wanted to say a lot more.

Looked like the Cheshire Cat.

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
14. Shrub gives ''commemorative coin'' to Goldstar mother and says: "Don't go selling it on eBay"
Fri Mar 13, 2015, 10:40 AM
Mar 2015

The guy said that in the White House to a woman whose son died in Iraq for no reason Bush or anyone ever gave to the American people.

From the great DUer UTUSN noted the moment:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1828225

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
30. Probably both.
Fri Mar 13, 2015, 03:28 PM
Mar 2015

Paraphrasing Dean Wormer in Animal House, spoiled, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son.

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
36. The neocons still pine for World War III.
Mon Mar 16, 2015, 02:49 PM
Mar 2015

From ISP's RightWeb, insight on one Big Time PNAC Family currently helping accelerate the warmaking process:

Victoria Nuland's spouse: Robert Kagan

Robert Kangan's brother: Frederick Kagan

Frederick Kagan's spouse: Kimberly Kagan

Brilliant people, big ideas, big war. Solid PNAC.

 

KingCharlemagne

(7,908 posts)
16. Everyone should re-read Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" in order
Fri Mar 13, 2015, 10:47 AM
Mar 2015

to understand this mentality. Fitzgerald's narrator Nick captures it in this famous passage:

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
 

JEB

(4,748 posts)
18. Thanks for pulling this shit out from under the rug.
Fri Mar 13, 2015, 11:09 AM
Mar 2015

This country will never get over these crimes until those at and near the top are held to account. The press bears a huge responsibility for sweeping these issues under the rug.

hibbing

(10,098 posts)
19. And all the media whores in attendance laughed right along with him
Fri Mar 13, 2015, 11:10 AM
Mar 2015

The rage I'll always have for that idiot, his whole crew of death dealing liars, and the corporate media cheerleaders will remain.


Peace

BigDemVoter

(4,150 posts)
26. Yes. I don't think I will ever get over the rage that these people were not held accountable
Fri Mar 13, 2015, 01:56 PM
Mar 2015

Smirky Ass and his friends destroyed so much. . . And when I think of how the media gave them a complete free ride, it just makes me want to vomit.

samsingh

(17,595 posts)
20. bush and his wife laughed in the evening of 911 at how ridiculous they looked in pajamas
Fri Mar 13, 2015, 11:12 AM
Mar 2015

he said so on tv

trusty elf

(7,391 posts)
23. Sickening....
Fri Mar 13, 2015, 12:17 PM
Mar 2015

- absolutely nauseating with that smug fookin' smirk on his imbecilic face.....

and the sycophants all laughing at his inane attempts at "humor"....

those were dark days......

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NuclearDem

(16,184 posts)
25. If anyone ever wondered why I don't believe in a just and loving god
Fri Mar 13, 2015, 01:03 PM
Mar 2015

I would just point out that six of my friends who went to Iraq are dead and Bush and Cheney are still alive.

pa28

(6,145 posts)
33. Hahaha! Nice that he could take a break from all those VERY sincere visits to VA patients.
Fri Mar 13, 2015, 05:31 PM
Mar 2015

When we're around the base we can all loosen our ties a little bit, have a few dirty martinis and be a little too candid.

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