Laura Bush suspects poison dose

[sabra]

Source: the age

FORMER US first lady Laura Bush has revealed for the first time that she and her husband and several members of their staff may have been poisoned during a visit to Germany for a G8 Summit.

In her new book, Spoken From the Heart, due for release next month, she describes how they all became mysteriously sick, and the then president, George W. Bush, was bedridden for part of the trip.

The Secret Service investigated the possibility they were poisoned, she writes, but doctors could only conclude that they all had contracted a virus. After noting several high-profile poisonings, she wrote, ''we never learnt if any other delegations became ill, or if ours, mysteriously, was the only one''.

Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/world/laura-bush-suspects-poison-dose-20100428-tscl.html

[Myrina]

1. too much Jack Daniels CAN be poisonous ...

:shrug:

[hunter]

34. Yep, some new guy actually went looking for poison...

... not knowing that "Check for poison" was code speak for "Lock up all the liquor."

[Ikonoklast]

2. The same people, in a confined space (AF 1), breathing the same air

yeah, I could see them all getting the same virus, at the same time.


Being wealthy and powerful doesn't mean squat to pathogens.

[Happyhippychick]

3. Poetic justice to those who poisoned America

FULB

[TwilightGardener]

4. GWB probably didn't wash his hands after using the AF1 loo, and they all got sick.

MYSTERIOUS!!!

[Democat]

5. They got a virus so she suspects they were poisoned?

Sounds like an attempt to sell more books.

Her publisher probably told her the book was too boring and she should leave out the bit about family diarrhea in Germany. Her ghost writer figured he could kill two birds with one stone so the diarrhea story got changed into a mystery poisoning. :evilgrin:

[activa8tr]

25. A virus and a big case of paranoia!!!!

Geeze they are dumb as rocks!

[FlaGatorJD]

6. Watch my left hand, while I'm hiding something with my right!

I think the Germans were trying to poison us!
(Psst. over here - any follow-up on the car crash?

[BlooInBloo]

7. Stop talking, Laura. You're horribad at it. Tell your idiot husband to stop, too. kkthxbai!

[dipsydoodle]

8. Well I suppose that's better than

what's colloquially known as a dose.

:applause:

for applause read clap.

[groundloop]

9. Did she forget to include the part where an alien spaceship followed Air Force 1?

[kestrel91316]

10. They probably got something like Norovirus or Salmonella, lol.

Laura is as big an idiot as her husband. If somebody REALLY wanted to poison them, she wouldn't be sitting here talking about it now.

[Retrograde]

35. That sounds more likely

A conference I attended a few years ago had an outbreak of a norovirus, and the symptoms sound similar. It's not a pleasant experience, and it can spread pretty easily in a confined area. I've become a handwashing fanatic as a result.

Picking up a bug while traveling is quite common. If Shrub had ever shown any curiosity about the rest of the world before he was president he might have encountered this phenomenon before.

[ChickMagic]

45. Isn't the Norovirus what caused illness on cruise ships?

I seem to remember quite a few outbreaks a few years ago.
It does sound like the same thing.

I've become ill traveling. It happens. Once the dunce and
his likker keeper left their bubble, they got sick. Will
wonders never cease!

She should be ashamed of herself. After the polonium
poisoning of that Russian dude, she should stick a
sock in it.

[Arkana]

11. Put the tinfoil back on your head, Laura.

[Roland99]

12. yeah, sure thing Pickles

what a dolt

[glinda]

13. Valium will do that to ya

[liberation]

14. Maybe that day's Xanax ration was generic...

... and her body went through a short episode of withdrawal?

[Oregone]

15. Contra coke

[BumRushDaShow]

16. Is this the same reason why her FIL experienced similar?

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ca9_1174228123&o=1>http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ca9_1174228123&o=1]

:rofl:

[pattmarty]

17. "We never learnt..................."? I wish the fuck I could "learnt" to be............

........a rich, dumb fucking Republican. It never ceases to amaze me how stupid some of these wealthy ass holes really are. Who the fuck is her book editor, Barney Fife? Even idiots know about "spell check".

[Robb]

23. It's a past participle, slightly common in the UK

...on this side of the pond, it went out of usage around the time of the Battle of Bull Run. :D

[pattmarty]

27. And she's again using it in the battle of bull shit.

[dflprincess]

46. +1

:ROFL:

[TroglodyteScholar]

39. You DO understand that such things are inserted deliberately...right? n/t

[npk]

48. It was intentionally worded that way

First of all when you are interviewing somebody, everybody has different form of diction to their dialog. Some people say words that sound like they are adding a different dialect to it, but it is just how they say the word. The journalist that wrote this story was just trying to be an ass. The same thing happened to a piece written by CBS news on a conversation or interview they had with President Obama, They tried to make it sound like Obama was saying the word "respeck" instead of the word respect. It's just dumb asses in the media.

[Beetwasher]

18. Heh, To What Purpose? You'd Think If Someone Wanted Them Dead Via Poison Then They'd Be Dead

So, to what purpose would someone poison them without killing them???

You'd think if someone was connected enough to get the poison to them, they'd do it right.

She's a whacko.

[msanthrope]

19. Wait--is that her cover-up for Bush's manhandling of Angela Merkel????

Remember that fiasco? Was it the same g8?

[activa8tr]

26. I think it must have been.

I don't recall any other G8 summit in Germany during the Bush years. They move those things around.

[Brother Buzz]

28. The famous massage was at the 2006 G8 summit in Russia

If Georgie had a conscience, I would say he was suffering remorse for his actions the previous year and took to bed with his bottle.

[DFW]

20. Or, as they tell it in nursery school:................

How many pecks on a pickled pecker can a poisoned Pickles peck?

(sorry, couldn't resist)

*on edit--on a more serious note, folks:

I think the most toxic thing Bush and Laura were exposed to in Germany would have been some pragmatic domestic and foreign policy. Like the symptoms from their mysterious illness, the effects do not appear to have had any lasting impact.

[RoccoR5955]

21. Laura needs to get a grip already.

I'd like to see them go to Vermont, where there is a standing warrant for them.

[FightingBobsghost]

22. Poison

Oh THAT explains why Chimpy McCokespoon assaulted Chancellor Merkel. It all makes sense now.

[rasputin1952]

24. ...

I thought about commenting on this, but it's just too damn stupid...:D

[Habibi]

29. ''we never learnt if any other delegations became ill, or if ours, mysteriously, was the only one''

Uh, here's a thought: you could have ASKED.

[Epiphany4z]

30. don't ya know only

us common folk get stomach viruses....

[SoapBox]

31. Blech? Limpdong? Mannity? Hate Radio? Counting 3, 2, 1...

SCREEEEEEEECHING!

And let me guess...it was the Obama White House that, several years BEFORE being elected, was to blame.

[truthisfreedom]

32. I pretty much stopped reading right here: "we never learnt..."

[Gormy Cuss]

33. I don't blame her for being suspiscious.

At least half the world saw the Bush administration as supreme malefactors.
Of course, it probably WAS just a virus, or old-fashioned food poisoning.

[Dangerman]

36. Dumb-ass wife of a war criminal...

So airheaded... so paranoid.

To Mrs. Bush... shove that paranoia straight up your ass! :mad:

[left coaster]

37. Spoken from the heart? More like, talking out her ass..

That's a very serious charge to make, without, what appears to be, ANY evidence to back it up.. just looking to paint her and Georgie as victims.. ugh.. as Bugs would say.. What a maroon!

[fascisthunter]

38. damn, what a shame

ever notice that vacant look in her eyes?

[DebbieCDC]

40. That's what happens when the weiner schnizel goes bad you idiot

Jeebus....teh stupid is strong in that family

[alarimer]

41. More like food poisoning.

Which is usually caused by bacteria or something.

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[Quantess]

43. probably just food poisoning.

It happens at the finest of restautants. I should know, I got sick after eating at a fancy restaurant.

[lunatica]

44. Since the Secret Service kept all of Bush's 'elimination bodily fluids' specifically

for such a case, shouldn't her conspiracy theory either be verified or debunked or cleared up by now? Were the Secret Service derelict in their duty?

Oh wait! Maybe she thinks the Secret Service would be in on the conspiracy!



I wonder what Angela Merkel thinks of how her hospitality is rated by Laura.

[and-justice-for-all]

47. Cocain and Alcohol can make feel as though you have been poisoned..nt