Evil Is Real: George Bush Is Making Millions Off His Ungodly Crimes

[unhappycamper]

http://www.commondreams.org/further/2015/06/11/evil-real-george-bush-making-millions-his-ungodly-crimes



Army 1st Lt. Nicholas John Vogt, who lost his legs in a 2011 explosion in Afghanistan. On the front, Jerral Hancock with his son.

Evil Is Real: George Bush Is Making Millions Off His Ungodly Crimes
Abby Zimet
June 11, 2015

The empire staggers on. Obama sends more senseless troops to Iraq, revisionist history proclaims the "courage" of the authors of its tragedy, and George W, accomplishing at least his declared mission of “replenishing the ol’ coffers,” is raking in millions with equally senseless $175,000 speeches a pop to audiences who evidently, inexplicably, dispiritingly seem to think he has something to say. Eagerly embracing the profits of what has been deemed "the post-presidential industrial complex," Bush had given at least 140 talks by 2011, when they became harder to track, for fees ranging from $100,000 to upwards of $175,000, reports Politico. These days, the details of his appearances are carefully shielded behind confidentiality agreements and bans on recordings; they're also commonly held in private venues like resorts, casinos, ballrooms and convention centers. When he spoke at a fundraiser for a homeless shelter in McKinney, Texas - McKinney again! - he charged a modest $100,000, and was reportedly "very popular and charming and pleasant.”

Despite the tight controls, some details have leaked out. Bush has talked to chambers of commerce, multinational energy companies, global wealth management firms, the National Grocers Association and National Association of Chain Drug Stores, a “Let Freedom Ring” July 4 rodeo celebration in Oklahoma and a “GET MOTIVATED!” seminar in a San Antonio basketball arena, and the Bowling Proprietors’ Association of America, where he said, “Bowling is fun.” He told the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs the three best things his father gave him were “being raised in West Texas, no money and unconditional love,” Politico reports, "and then got back into a motorcade of a couple SUVs and cop cars and flew home on a private plane." Laura Bush gave a speech in Orlando the same day; she told the annual conference of the Society for Human Resource Management, “There’s nothing more fulfilling than real work.”

Among his more relevant remarks, Bush said to the Advertising Specialty Institute in Dallas, “History will ultimately judge whether I made the right decisions or not.” For once, many of us believe this is true. So does David Jay. A former longtime fashion photographer, he was wrestling with the realities of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars in 2013 when he visited D.C.'s Walter Reed military hospital and saw things he had never seen. The result is "Unknown Soldier," a series of five-foot, black and white portraits of severely wounded veterans. The images are now on display in Washington; they will also become a traveling exhibit, and have been purchased by the Library of Congress. Those veterans' lifelong wounds, Jay believes, are all of ours. "You can imagine how many times each of these men and women have heard a parent tell their child, 'Don't look. Don't stare at him. That's rude'," he said in an interview. "I take these pictures so that we can look - we can see what we're not supposed to see. And we need to see them because we created them."

In this one vital regard, Jay shows more awareness of and takes more responsibility for the atrocities of our wars than George Bush, who perpetrated them. The Politico story notes that Bush mostly keeps his appearances in this country, often in Texas and Vegas. That could be because Bush has a small, provincial world view, or it could be he recognizes the discomfiting reality that he could face war crimes charges in other countries. Of his speeches we know about, the most staggeringly, infuriatingly clueless was at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in Belton, Texas. It was ostensibly about ISIS. "Evil is real," said Bush, straight-faced. "Murdering innocent people to move a political point of view has been, is, and always will be evil."




Tomas Young, 1979 to 2014

[marym625]

1. K&R!

Ungodly is right. If I believed in such things, I would say he is the devil

[daleanime]

2. K&R.....

[deutsey]

3. Carrying on a family tradition n/t

[Dont call me Shirley]

4. So bush admitted that he is evil. An in that evil he certainly delights in the horror of it all.

[heaven05]

5. I do hope

a "romney type of slipup" will occur and we can hear some of his lies to the republicans who want to hear the lies to justify their evil.

[C Moon]

6. me 2

[raouldukelives]

7. You'd have to pay me more than that to sit and listen to him.

Paying Bush to speak about the homeless.

It's like paying Donald Sterling to talk about civil rights.

[JonLP24]

8. Serving business over the people

Same as pretty much most politicians nowadays, Shane Doan said he didn't understand how the Glendale mayor could be two different people meeting him to behaving very differently on the city council. To me, it would be surprising if he wasn't full of shit when it came to meeting people on city business. The Bush administration was more direct almost seemingly unconcerned with doing any bit of good but there just to unload the treasury into the bank accounts of the defense contractors & oil & gas companies. Then there was the infamous "Halliburton Loophole". Did you know Nigeria indicted Dick Cheney in 2009 -- yes, as CEO of Halliburton they accomplished their 20th violation of the "Corrupt Business Act" for bribery. The investigation uncovered nearly a trillion in a Swiss bank account just for bribes.

This is a big problem because they found an easy way to get rich, just take the people's tax dollars for themselves -- deficit and national debt they don't have to worry about when they have a surplus in their bank account. Money, or sacrificing ethics in pursuit of the easy money is the evil -- the main evil plaguing this world. Labor trafficking, abuse & exploitation -- war so defense contractors can profit selling their $1.5 million bombs. Their incentive is to keep going, not worry about the lives they're ruining. Bush is Reagan-league as far corruption & greed, sociopath plans, agencies, and people but he has company. Though his administration are among the worst of the worst as far as evil is concerned. Now the executive branch has way too expanded powers & now a screwed up "War on Terror" program that seems almost impossible to walk back from. I don't know they were holding themselves back so much (I figure because they knew they were wrong they overestimated the political or legal harm) -- hiding so much, "state secrets" privilege. Retroclassifying unclassified documents to begin a "war on whistle-blowers" but what were they so scared of? People finding out the truth? Hiding Saudi financial info -- it isn't like anyone can't pick up "History of Saudi Arabia" and boom -- Wahabbism and they behead, crucify, and sever people too? I wonder where they got their ideology from & where would they find like-minded individuals for funding? There is something deeper going on -- I don't know what it is except there is so much not being said when the US is saying something -- I know countries in Southwest Asia that nationalize oil productions and don't give US or Britain multinationals a taste are who the wars are fought against and the countries with the oil contracts are the ones we defend but what it is the deal with continuing this business relationship as if we don't know. A lot of evil people -- the dark forces been behind US foreign policy for over a century now. War is Racket was before all the CIA aiding the assassinations of populists in South America in the 50s.

There was a final point I wanted to make before my 2nd paragraph expanded but I forgot what it is I wanted to say, I'll just close this and a lot of other reasons are why my feeling or prediction is the humans will probably cause the extinction of the human race. Global warming, global war -- all this destruction and chaos about control and wealth or maintaining what they do have control of. Sure there will always be empathetic people pointing out this ain't right but its an obstacle easily overcome, the oil & gas industries won't even yield for carbon regulations so they're peddling the global warming denial horseshit and an entire party -- the only other major US party is pushing that lie and spreading that lie. The situation in the US is becoming very cruel or in a situation where people become very cruel. Mass incarceration which private prisons lobby Congress for me, life sentences for a third strike on a non-violent drug offense and a life is over while some greedy fatcat counts his change and little-to-no controversy. The situation is dire all over and lives ruined cruelly and we are advancing that way. The Republican answer to Baltimore? Democrats have been in charge since the 60's (as if they would just vote Republican and all their problems would go away but the Republican voters moved out when they desegregated the schools) & welfare is to blame for dicensitive the people from working and something about enabling bad behavior -- I can't remember what but I seriously lose it sometimes when I hear Republican on TV. I don't have the patience for them when their only ideas are leaving people behind and growing the 1%. Revolting.