PHOTOS: George W. Bush, 2000: "The President MUST 'jawbone' OPEC!"

[Bluebear]

Presidential candidate George W. Bush in the year 2000, lecturing about credibility and gas prices:


"I think credibility is important.



It is going to be important for the president to be credible with Congress, important for the president to be credible with foreign nations...



"What I think the president ought to do


is he ought to get on the phone with the OPEC cartel and say we expect you to open your spigots!



...And the president of the United States must jawbone OPEC members



to lower the price."

[YDogg]

1. Maybe he meant deepthroat.

[DeadManInc]

2. Thats more like it lol

[Bluebear]

Exactly. nt

[elehhhhna]

21. some peolpe say he swallows

[gulliver]

3. Nice post! Someone should ask him if he has been jawboning...

... OPEC. Maybe he forgot to jawbone. Worth asking anyway.

[Sydnie]

12. Reid did that last year

Reid Calls on Bush to Deliver on His Promise to 'Jawbone' OPEC
Monday, April 25, 2005


Democratic Leader Harry Reid released the following statement in response to the President’s meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah:

“When it comes to energy, the American people are still waiting for President Bush to keep his promises. Over five years ago, he pledged to ‘jawbone’ OPEC nations like Saudi Arabia to bring down the price of gas. As Americans continue to pay dearly at the pump, today’s meeting with the Saudi Prince would be a good time for the President to start delivering on this pledge.

[Jack from Charlotte]

19. During Clinton's 8 years,gas went from $1.20 to $1.25 per gallon....

and probably averaged under $1.20 a gallon for the whole 8 years. I recall paying about .80 per gallon in either '98 or '99.

[gordianot]

4. What OPEC?

[SalmonChantedEvening]

5. Straight from the Jawbone of an Ass. n/t

[Bluebear]

6. Snap!

:hi:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

8. Heya Blue :)

That one was almost pre-loaded lol

Doin alright? :pals:

Off to snore inna sec here, 5:30 is gonna be here way too soon :mad:

[AussieDave]

7. The minute he slips the tongue in, I'm outta here

:puke:

[beam me up scottie]

9. Score !!!

Another one from BB!!!

Recommended!

[G2099]

10. World Class Bush Diplomacy

[beam me up scottie]

13. Oh. My. Gawd.

I hadn't seen that one yet.

(leaves room to have a good cry)

[Sydnie]

11. Broken promises and depleted wallets

“I think the president ought to get on the phone with the OPEC cartel and say: ‘We expect you to open your spigots’ …The president of the United States must jawbone OPEC members to lower the price. And if, in fact, there is collusion amongst big oil, he ought to intercede there as well.”
Financial Times, February 2, 2000

“I would work with our friends in OPEC to convince them to open up the spigot, to increase the supply. … Use the capital that my administration will earn, with the Kuwaitis or the Saudis, and convince them to open up the spigot.”
New York Times, June 28, 2000

“We're dependent upon crude. … I would hope the administration would convince our friends in OPEC to open the spigots.”
Los Angeles Times, June 22, 2000

“I think Americans ought to be asking, ‘Where's all the capital we earned overseas after defending some of our OPEC nation friends?’”
Associated Press, March 20, 2001

“Well, we've got good relations with a lot of members of OPEC. If the president does his job, the president will earn capital in the Middle East, and the president should have good standing with those nations. It's important for the president to explain, in clear terms, what high energy prices will not only do to our economy, but what high energy prices will do to the world economy.”
CNN, January 26, 2000

[Bozita]

17. Just sent those quotes to my list - title: Bush is gonna lower gas prices

Sincere thanks. I recall Bush talking this shit during his run in 2000.

Every freeper needs to see those quotes.

[tiptoe]

14. Bush wants high prices...sabotaging the middle and lower classes...

Bush wants a weak America
High gas prices, high credit card interest rates
more "volunteers" for the military
more "charity" business for crony fundamentalists
more privatization arguments as answer to all the (deliberate) incompetence, inefficiency and unreliability of governement (e.g. Katrina...deliberate, planned chaos)

The Neocons cherish Chaos...love the exploitative opportunties natural & social disasters afford

Easier to conquer and dictate to a world in need.

9/11 Revisited: Scientific and Ethical Questions
Steven E. Jones
Professor of Physics, BYU
01 Feb 2006, Utah State Valley College.
(also linked at Scholars for 9/11 Truth)

(p20 of PDF of PowerPoint Slides)

What “ORDERS”? Mineta’s Mineta’s testimony

Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta provided provocative testimony before the 911 Commission. He testified that he went down to the Presidential Emergency Operations Center under the White House at about 9:20 on 9/11/01. Vice President Cheney was there and in charge.

“During the time that the airplane was coming in to the Pentagon, there was a young man who would come in and say to the Vice President, "The plane is 50 miles out." "The plane is 30 miles out." And when it got down to "the plane is 10 miles out," the young man also said to the Vice President, "Do the orders still stand?" And the Vice President turned and whipped his neck around and said, "Of course the orders still stand. Have you heard anything to the contrary?"

What orders? Evidently there were orders NOT to scramble military jets to intercept the plane, since the plane was known for 50, 30, and 10 miles out and yet never intercepted. The commission did not ask such questions, did not include Mineta’s testimony above in the 9/11 Commission Report ­a glaring omission (Griffin, 2005), ­and removed the video of Mineta’s testimony from the 9/11 Commission website (See http://www.911truthmovement.org/video/hamilton_win.wmv )

Mineta seems an honest man. The testimony of Secretary Mineta strongly motivates further questioning under oath of the principals here and of this unidentified young man.

Slide on p18:

US officials forewarned of impending terror attacks US officials forewarned of impending terror attacks by 11+ countries

• 2001, especially summer: US officials were warned of imminent major attack by terrorists, by Britain, Egypt, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Morocco, Afghanistan, Argentina, and Russia. Specifically named were on the FBI’s hijacker list of 19: Nawaf Alhazmi, Khalid Almihdhar, Marwan Alshehhi, and Mohamed Atta. [August 2001: Die Zeit, 10/1/02, Der Spiegel,10/1/02, BBC, 10/2/02, Ha'aretz, 10/3/02]
• Yet, as Jane's Intelligence Digest put it, “It is rather strange that the US media seems to be ignoring what may well be the most explosive story since the 11 September attacks...” [Jane's Intelligence Digest, 3/13/02]
• http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/essay.jsp?article=essaytheytriedtowarnus
• Ben Fountain, 42, was headed for his office on the 47th floor of the WTC south tower when it was hit on 9/11:
• "How could they let this happen? They knew this building was a target. Over the past few weeks we'd been evacuated a number of times, which is unusual. I think they had an inkling something was going on.”

Slide on page 11:

Another whistleblower: 'Power Down' Condition at Another at WTC2 for 36 hours on the Weekend Preceding 9/11

• “My name is Scott Forbes and I still work for Fiduciary Trust. In 2001 we occupied floors 90 and 94-97 of the South Tower and lost 87 employees plus many contractors. On the weekend of 9/8,9/9 there was a 'power down' condition in WTC tower 2, the south tower… for approx 36 hrs from floor 50 up. I am aware of this situation since I work in IT and had to work with many others that weekend to ensure that all systems were cleanly shutdown beforehand ... and then brought back up afterwards… Of course without power there were no security cameras, no security locks on doors and many, many 'engineers' coming in and out of the tower.
• I was at home on the morning of 9/11 on the shore of Jersey City, right opposite the Towers, and watching events unfold I was convinced immediately that something was happening related to the weekend work ...
• I have mailed this information to many people and bodies, including the 9/11 Commission but noone seems to be taking and registering these facts. What’s to hide?”

• Corroboration: Ben Fountain, office in WTC south tower on 9/11:
• “Over the past few weeks we'd been evacuated a number of times, which is unusual. I think they had an inkling something was going on.”

“In order to achieve the most noble achievements, the leader may have to ‘enter into evil.’ This is the chilling insight that has made Machiiavelli so feared, admired and challenging.” (Michael Ledeen, Machiavelli on Modern Leadership)

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[Roland99]

15. Local news reported gas is as high as $3.59 in Miami now.

[Bluebear]

16. Holy cannoli. nt

[Imagevision]

18. Bottomline: "Bush: we're going to have a tough summer"

the man is so pathetically obviously corrupt, bogus, couldn't care less about american domestic problems.
as long as Carlyle-Bechtel-Halliburton benefit because Bush did his end and created/sold a phoney war that has cost over 300 billion of which 9 billion has completely vanished and is unaccounted for to this date!

[ComerPerro]

20. I despised him in 2000, he was such a condescending jerk