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radwriter0555 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 07:06 PM
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Gangsters in the White House
There are gangsters in the White House.


Whenever the Bush Administration gets criticized, it responds like Tony Soprano, and Bush's capos put a hit out on whoever dares to question the don.


That's the way it was when Paul O'Neill, Bush's former Treasury Secretary, said Bush wanted to go to war against Iraq way before 9/ll. Within hours, the Bush goons were threatening O'Neill with prosecution for allegedly publicizing classified information.


That's the way it was when former ambassador Joseph Wilson went public with his account of how the Bush Administration played up the false story of uranium in Niger. Within days, the White House was outing Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, as a CIA officer, with Karl Rove reportedly saying, "His wife's now fair game."


And that's the way it is today, with Bush surrogates unloading on Richard Clarke, the counterintelligence pro who has leveled two serious charges against the Administration.

More...

http://www.progressive.org/webex04/wx032904.html
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Stephanie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 07:07 PM
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1. They're nothing but a bunch of Lying Crooks
And not too bright, either.
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indepat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 07:41 PM
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2. But give them credit for knowing how to silence people and enough
gumption to do what it takes.
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Stephanie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 07:46 PM
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3. "Ruthless" is all they've got
Once that's played out they're finished.
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patricia92243 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 08:07 PM
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4. Wasn't shrub the "enforcer" in his daddy's administration?
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 09:03 AM
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8. Yeh. He got steamed when Poppy's "Jennifer" came up.
Junior's job was to ensure political purity, even among the press corpse. He went nuke when the subject of Jennifer Fitzgerald came up:

Why The Bushes Will Never Hire Linda Tripp

John LeBoutillier
Monday, Feb. 12, 2001

If you’re hoping that President George W. Bush will hire Linda Tripp and bring her back to the White House, don’t hold your breath.
You do not understand the fundamental nature of the Bushes.

SNIP...

Back in the first Bush presidency Linda Tripp was stationed down the hall from the Oval Office. She somehow caught wind on a long known but well-kept Washington secret: President George Bush had a "special" relationship with a staffer named Jennifer Fitzgerald.

In fact, Bush had been "very close" to this Jennifer beginning in Peking back in the days when Bush was our delegate to Red China. So close, in fact, that Barbara Bush had come home to D.C. in a state of "depression."

Years later, during Bush's vice presidency, Jennifer Fitzgerald held a key staff post – and this caused a virtual revolt among his other loyal staffers. They hated the haughty, pushy and arrogant woman who clearly had more "access" to Bush than they did.

CONTINUED...

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/2/12/55616.shtml
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 08:11 PM
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5. Stealing the taxpayer's money from the treasury for themselves
and their cronies certainly is crooked IMHO.
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onecitizen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 08:28 PM
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6. I said the same thing.........
Don bush. Mob boss. Washington's Corleone. I really see no difference in them.
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9215 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-29-04 11:28 PM
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7. I want to know where Marvin Bush was on
9/11.

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liberalitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-30-04 09:11 AM
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9. FABUKY article.... really dahling....
I love the progressive
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