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George Bush likes to present himself as a straight-talking, regular guy. But it's an act -- regular guys don't go to Andover Prep, Yale and Harvard Business School, and straight-talking guys don't pretend to be regular guys after growing up in one of the most privileged homes in world history. Not only was Bush's dad president, his grandpa was a U. Senator and wealthy Wall Street banker, and his mom's blueblood family owned among other things the estate in Maine that Bush still hangs out at.

Now, as Bush's regular guy act is wearing thin, some of his other deceptions are becoming more obvious. Click on the allegation of your choice: Lied repeatedly to cover up his arrest. Spoiled rich kid living off his family's name and reputation -- Made millions on insider business deals, for little work -- -- Deal 1.

Personal Profits from Failing Oil Companies -- -- -- -- Easy Money From Odd Sources -- -- -- -- A Surprise Deal From Bahrain -- -- -- -- Access to the President and National Security Adviser for his foreign business partner -- -- Deal 2. Selling Oil Stocks Just Before Iraq Invaded: A Big Slice of a Baseball Team -- -- -- - - Hypocrisy: If I had a choice, I'd rather go to war.

It means what these words say, for starters. The great inalienable rights of our country. We're blessed with such values in America. And I--it's--I'm a proud man to be the nation based upon such wonderful values.

Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease. And I started thinking about a lot of things. Oh, the inaugural speech, started thinking through that. It's got a lot of numbers in it. Is our children learning? It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet.

I can't answer your question. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods. He can't take the high horse and then claim the low road. You paid for it. I believe that God decides who goes to heaven, not George W.

Bush, in the Houston Chronicle. We're aware of this [web] site, and this guy is just a garbage man, that's all he is. That means when it comes time to sew up your chest cavity, we use stitches as opposed to opening it up. Two senior administration officials told me Wilson's wife suggested sending him to Niger to investigate the Italian report. An administration official confirmed to the Washington Post that the two officials had contacted at least 6 journalists with the information in an effort to discredit Wilson.

Reporters were contacted at Time Magazine and 3 TV networks, including NBC-TV's Andrea Mitchell who was called after Novak's column appeared.

CNN reports that "sources" confirmed these contacts to them as well. After Novak's column appeared, some of the others discussed the story, including Time MagazineLong Island Newsday and the Washington Post. For fairly obvious reasons, it is a felony punished by 10 years in prison to reveal the identity of an undercover agent. In fact President Bush's father, the first President Bush, said in a speech that those who expose the names of intelligence sources are "the most insidious of traitors.

By publishing her maiden name, which she worked under, Novak not only risked her safety, but has tipped off foreign governments that any of their people who met with her are possibly spies. Novak claims that the CIA "asked me not to use her name, but never indicated it would endanger her or anybody else.

Shortly after the column appeared, the CIA filed a crime report with the Justice Department. In mid-Septemberthey sent additional information verifying the damage that was caused and confirming that the agent's identity had been secret. The Justice Department, headed by Bush appointee John Ashcroft, has now concluded its preliminary inquiry, determined that there is a crime here, and has opened a full investigation.

Here's the interesting thing about this story: Keep that in mind when you read the stories about this scandal, and you'll get an idea of how twisted and chummy the Washington insider scene is.

Top Bush officials know because, well, two of them did it and Bush and Karl Rove run a tight ship -- they might not do the dirty work themselves, but this administration is famous for NOT having unauthorized leaks. And pretty much every reporter in Washington knows who did it -- at least 6 were contacted by the leakers in the first place, and they have talked to several other reporters all off the record without naming names of course. Because reporters don't want to reveal their confidential sources or get punished by Karl Rovethey will continue to play this game where the White House gets away with saying "if these allegations are true" and the press piously pretends they don't know who leaked.

Of course the allegations are true -- the name was printed, wasn't it? Unless you believe that ROBERT NOVAK of all people is lying and falsely identified his allies in the Administration as the source of the leak, it is an open and shut case.

Even the impeccably conservative Washington Times agrees on this point. Now of course, folks will email me and ask "Who did it then? Undoubtedly one of our readers does know though, so do a guy a favor and send us the scoop. Wilson first named Karl Rove, the President's brilliant and vindictive political adviser. Karl Rove was fired from the elder President Bush's campaign, according to Esquire Magazine, "after he planted a negative story with columnist Robert Novak about dissatisfaction with campaign fundraising chief and Bush loyalist Robert Mosbacher Jr.

If you read between the lines, though, the Washington insiders all point to one name. Take, for example, a story in the Washington Postwhich has had the strongest sources on this story to date. The story quotes another unnamed journalist confirming that administration officials were spreading this story, and then describes the Time magazine article: Lewis Libby, Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, saying that Cheney did not know about Wilson's mission 'until this year when it became public in the last month or so.

While describing Plame's work, the author went out of his way to point out that Libby was familiar with Plame's work and identity: Vice President Cheney and his chief of staff, Lewis ''Scooter'' Libby, met with officials at the Non-Proliferation Center before the invasion of Iraq to discuss reports that Iraq was seeking to buy uranium in Africa.

But the former U. Cheney and his staff have been the most hawkish of the hawks seeking to attack Iraq and damn the torpedoes. As time goes on, Libby and the Vice President's office just keep getting singled out, seemingly as non-sequitirs, in these discussions. For example, outspoken Republican Senator Chuck Hagel said on CNBC that President Bush should take a more active role "and get this behind him.

The leading candidate seems to be George Tenet, head of the CIA. The Bush Administration's reaction should break the illusion if anyone still thinks Bush is a man of integrity dedicated to national security. First, of course, his staff exposes an undercover CIA agent in THE most critical national defense area -- protecting the US against weapons of mass destruction held by terrorists and rogue nations.

That's what Valerie Plame did, until she was exposed. If Bush is the man he claims he is, he would be shocked by this action, find out who did it and fire them. Instead, he completely ignored the issue after the column was published, until an FBI investigation forced him to react.

Though he said the politically correct things to the press -- "I want to get to the bottom of this", etc. He knows one of them did, because his ally Robert Novak said so. But he can't be bothered to ask who, or do anything about it. Now, the Bush administration has a twin strategy -- attack Joseph Wilson as a partisan Democrat, and make sure no Republicans join the calls for a special prosecutor.

One Republican aide called the strategy "slime and defend. Is Wilson a Democrat? No one has reported that. He is a vocal critic of the way Bush has pursued war in Iraq, but it's not as simple as him being a partisan activist. He and his wife have given money to Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry this year, and Wilson has advised Kerry's staff. Wilson was appointed to his post in Iraq by George Bush's father, the ex-president, who praised his work there, where Wilson went toe to toe with Saddam Hussein, and was a war hawk.

This time, he has supported military action against Iraq but criticized the Bush administration for the way they have done it, and the reasons they gave to justify it. More to the point, so what? It's still just as wrong and just as illegal to expose a spy even if her husband opposes the President.

Calls for a special prosecutor are ironic, since Bush and his allies called so insistently for special prosecutors during Clinton's scandals, even though no one suggested that Janet Reno had any direct ties to the scandals, and Democrats fought them just as insistently. Now the roles are reversed. Politics aside, though, there are some real reasons to be suspicious of John Ashcroft's ability to fairly prosecute Bush administration officials.

Ashcroft has direct ties to at least one central figure in the investigation, Karl Rove. Rove was a paid consultant to 3 of Ashcroft's political campaigns before Ashcroft was appointed Attorney General.

And Jack Oliver, the deputy finance chairman of President Bush's re-election campaign, was the director of Mr. Ashcroft's Senate campaign, and later worked as Mr. Ashcroft's deputy chief of staff. Given these ties, it would be normal for Ashcroft to appoint a special prosecutor or recuse himself from the case, as Janet Reno did with the Waco investigation. She appointed Republican Senator John Danforth as a special prosecutor. Ashcroft recused himself from the investigation of Senator Robert G.

Torricelli of New Jersey, simply because Mr. Torricelli had campaigned against Ashcroft in Missouri. Why would the administration expose a CIA agent?

Because Joseph Wilson the agent's husband had publicly criticized the Bush administration's claim that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, and specifically described his assignment in to investigate claims that Iraq had tried to buy "yellowcake" uranium for a nuclear bomb. Wilson was perfectly qualified to check this out -- he is an expert on Africa who was also the last U. Ambassador to Iraq before the Gulf War. The elder President Bush publicly praised Wilson's "courage and tenacity" and "your skillful conduct of our tense dealings with the government of Iraq.

One goal was to discredit Wilson. One of the journalists contacted, who asked to remain anonymous, said "The official I spoke with thought this was a part of Wilson's story that wasn't known and cast doubt on his whole mission. Wilson says that on July 21st, a week after Novak had blown his wife's cover, a different reporter called Wilson to say that he had just spoken with Rove, and that Rove had said that Wilson's wife "was fair game.

The "16 words" spin reveals just how shameless their lies are. Short lies don't matter? Well, Clinton got impeached for just 8 words -- "I did not have sex with that woman. The uranium allegation the "16 words" is famous because the fraud is so obvious.

That charge, which Bush stated directly in his State of the Union speech, was based on blatantly forged documents -- one purported to be from a Niger official, to himself. The Bush Administration knew they were forged. They had been told several times that the charges were false, including by our own CIA and State Department. Bush and his top aides fought to put the words back in his speech, using weaselly phrasing -- Defense Secretary Rumsfeld has actually argued that the statement wasn't a lie because Bush didn't SAY Iraq did try to buy uranium, he just said "British intelligence HAS LEARNED that they tried to buy uranium.

Before considering each of the dozens of individual deceptions, lies and misleading statements that Bush and his aides used to push the US into war in Iraq, let's not lose track of the big picture.

The Bush administration justified war, immediate war, because alleged weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Those weapons do not exist. They have not existed for years. The Bush adminstration knew this, because a top Iraqi defector told us this over 4 years ago, but they kept that information secret. And weapons of mass destruction were not the reason the Bush administration wanted to invade Iraq. Top officials have even admitted this, saying flat out that they had other reasons but chose WMD because it was the most effective argument politicially.

There were many other deceptive charges by the Bush administration -- about unmanned drones, orders to use chemical weapons, aluminum tubes, links between Iraq and Al Qaeda, etc. But don't forget the big picture. The Bush administration knew that there were no WMD in Iraq. They deliberately and consistently lied to the American people about this, to justify war in Iraq. And US soldiers have died as a result. Lies About Iraq Sources Convicted of Drunk Driving, and Lied to Cover It Up George Bush now admits that he was convicted of drunk driving.

On September 4,a state trooper saw Bush's car swerve onto the shoulder, then back onto the road. His spokesman says that he had drunk "several beers" at a local bar before the arrest. Bush was 30 at the time. He now says that he stopped drinking when he turned 40 because it was a problem.

More troubling, Bush lied in denying such an arrest, and still won't take responsibility for his actions. His first reaction was to blame Democrats and Fox News -- the only openly conservative TV network -- for reporting the story. I've got my suspicions. Bush admits covering up the story, but seems to think he has no responsibility for the failure of his cover up. In fact, just like Clinton with Monica Lewinsky, Bush has brazenly and repeatedly lied to cover up and minimize this arrest.

That is clearly a lie, as you can see on this court document showing his court hearing a month later. In fact, it was a man also in court for DUI the same day who revealed Bush' arrest. Here is exactly what Bush said in his press conference: And he said, "Here's the fine. Or did you just -- " Bush: I pled -- you know, I said I was wrong and I No, there was no court. I went to the police station. I said, "I'm wrong. Bush Lied in Court, Bush got a court hearing to get his driving suspension lifted early, even though he had not completed a required driver rehabilitation course.

He told the hearings officer that he drank only once a month, and just had "an occasional beer. But Bush continued drinking for 8 years after that date and has said publicly that he drank too much and had a drinking problem during that time. Presumably Bush was under oath during the hearing, though we haven't been able to pin down that detail. The Bush campaign refuses to comment on this contradiction. Bush Lied To "The Dallas Morning News", "Just after the governor's reelection in[Dallas Morning News reporter Wayne] Slater pressed Bush about whether he had ever been arrested.

You've had heard about it now. My background has been scrutinized by all kinds of reporters. Tim, we can talk about this all morning. Bush Lied to CBS, For example, while struggling with how to answer charges of drug abuse, he said that he would have been able to pass FBI background checks during his father's administration.

But those checks include the question "Have you ever been arrested for any crime? On his questionairre, he simply left blank the questions about prior arrests and trials.

Then he found himself on a trial for drunk driving, where every juror is eventually asked about prior convictions for drunk driving. The night before the trial, Bush's lawyer asked the defense attorney to dismiss him, because "it would be improper for a governor to sit on a criminal case in which he could later be asked to grant clemency.

Bush now justifies covering up his arrest "to be a good role model for his daughters. Lying to cover up your crimes is not what I call being a good role model.

Taking responsibility for your actions, admitting fault honestly and warning people of the consequences you suffered, THAT would be a good example. But Bush prefers the Clinton route of bald-faced lying, then blaming your enemies and the press when you get caught. Bush is now the first person to be elected president after being convicted of a crime.

Bush had several other drunken incidents, as well. In December,Bush challenged his dad the ex-president to a fist fight, during an argument about Bush's drunk driving. He had taken his little brother out drinking, and ran over a neighbor's garbage cans on the way home.

Bush's atypical public service job, working with inner city Houston kids, appears to have been an unofficial community service stint set up by Bush, Sr. Apparently the governor didn't learn his lesson, because his drunk driving conviction occured almost four years later. In another incident, he started screaming obscenities at a Wall Street Journal reporter, just because that reporter predicted that Bush's father would not be the Republican nominee.

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The reporter obviously was wrong, but a drunken Bush Jr. I won't forget what you said and you're going to pay a price for it.

No wonder they seem so relaxed. The conviction is bad enough, but the real question is, what other revelations are going to come later, about his drug use which he won't denyfailing to show up for a year of his National Guard service, or sexual escapades in his swinging single days?

There is evidence that Bush has more to hide involving his Texas driving record. Soon after he became governor, he had a new driver's license issued with the unusual ID number of "", an action that destroyed the records of his previous license. His staff could only say, weakly, that this was done for "security reasons" but there is no record of any previous Texas governor having done so.

Now we have at least of hint of why Bush wanted his records obscured, and a dark foreboding that more might be lurking, still covered up. Drunk Driving Sources His Character: The Prodigal Son George W. But before we anoint him as the next president, let's look at what he's done with his life.

In a nutshell, Junior 1 grew up as a very rich child of powerful parents, 2 partied from high school until he was 403 made millions off of sweet insider business deals from political allies of his dad, who happened to be the President, and 4 got elected governor of Texas mostly because of his name. Bush Junior has done some good work as governor of Texas. He has crossed the partisan divide, reached out to minorities, and tackled at least one tough, thankless issue school financing; his plan was voted down in the legislature.

But 4 years -- even 4 good ones -- is a pretty short resume for the leader of the free world. No one doubts Bill Clinton's ability to handle punishment and come back for more. But Bush Junior's stamina and attention span are very real concerns.

Furthermore, Bush's term as governor has also been markedly corruptalthough possibly in legal ways. What we mean is, he has taken millions in campaign contributions from certain big businessmen -- many of whom were in on the insider business deals that made him rich -- and those same businessman have received billions in sweet deals from the Texas state government during Bush's term.

Like Al Gore, Bush Jr. According to a Newsweek profile, he "went to Yale but seems to have majored in drinking at the Deke House. His business career was marked by mediocrity or failure which nonetheless resulted in him getting lots of money from his father's political allies.

And his political career has been handed to him on a platter by his famous name, and by his dad's cronies. Bill Kristol, conservative pundit and Dan Quayle's former chief of staff, says "The Bush network is the only genuine network in the Republican Party. It is the establishment. To give you an idea of how rarefied his upbringing was, George Junior had an argument with his mom at one point about whether non-Christians could go to Heaven. Barbara Bush felt they could; George didn't.

To settle the dispute, they phoned up Billy Graham on the spot. He sided with Junior, but warned him not to play God. More recently, Bush's performance during the South Carolina primary shows that he received the worst trait common to the famous Bush family -- a vicious competitiveness that shows no compunction about dirty tricks such as the phone calls by his surrogates calling McCain, of all people, "the fag candidate" and utterly shameless flipflops like Bush Sr.

Not to mention him suddenly becoming "a reformer" after he got shellacked in the New Hampshire primary. Not only does this trait demonstrate a lack of integrity -- which I define as having standards and things you believe in that you won't violate, even to win the presidency -- but there is an incredible arrogance in thinking that voters will accept and believe a candidate who blatantly changes his positions from week to week, saying whatever the local primary voters want to hear.

Bush tries to stifle his critics One of the most disturbing things about Bush is that he consistently works to silence his critics using his money and power, including state police and expensive lawyers. Not since Richard Nixon has a major presidential candidate been so quick to prevent his opponents from free speech. At the very least, this shows he doesn't understand big-league politics and may not be tough enough to handle more serious opponents, such as hostile foreign countries and terrorists.

At worst, it may be a sign of Nixon-like paranoia; that president's thin-skin started out with similar small potatos and grew to bring down his presidency amid enemies' lists, illegal break-ins of his opponent's offices, and forcing the IRS to audit his enemies.

Bush can't blame this on his staff, either; it comes from the top. When asked about one critical web site, he told the press "There ought to be limits thomas cook currency exchange rate today freedom.

We're aware of this site, and this guy is just a garbage man, that's all he is. While previous governors allowed peaceful pickets on the public sidewalk outside the mansion, Bush has claimed that they are blocking public access, and had them arrested. Not all protestors, either -- just the ones he doesn't want the press to see. In the primaries, Bush supporters including NY Governor Pataki sued to keep John McCain and Steve Forbes off the New York primary ballot in several congressional districts.

Bush denied any involvement, fooling no one, but after McCain's decisive New Hampshire victory made the move look ridiculous, Bush and his top strategist Karl Rove called up his establishment minions, after which they instantly announced that they were stopping their efforts to keep McCain off the ballot.

Ironically, all of the attention to ballot rules revealed that a number of Bush delegates and alternates used fraudulent signatures to qualify for the ballot. As a result, it appears that McCain and Forbes will be on the ballot statewise, but George Bush Jr. Bush also can't stand criticism on the Internet. His campaign quietly -- and probably illegally -- bought up over anti-Bush domain names including "bushsucks.

Illegally because he had refused to register as a candidate, as part of his effort to make it look like people were begging him to run, so spending money for his campaign was not allowed. If you type in any of these URLs, you end up at Bush's official web site. His campaign refuses to say whether this means that they admit that he bites, blows and sucks. Maybe he used to be a White House intern? If you wanted to set up one of those sites, breathe easy because many good names are still available.

The Bush camp somehow neglected to purchase "bushisaprick. Even worse, Bush and his high-priced lawyers have tried twice to shut down a web site -- www. You will recall that Bush has said it doesn't matter what he did "in his youth," because the question is "have you grown up" and "have you learned from your mistakes.

That wasn't good enough though, and Bush lawyers filed against the site again in May vix call option symbol So far, it remains in forex volatility times. Sources Lying Under Oath.

Squelch Investigation of Contributor's Funeral Homes In a so far successful attempt to stop a scandal, Bush perjured himself under oath, according to the sworn testimony of two of sp forex trade sp z oo .sp.k political allies.

The situation is amazingly similar to Clinton's Lewinsky problem: Just like Clinton, Bush swore an affidavit that he had no involvement in the case, which got him excused from best 10 forex robots. And just like Clinton, the affidavit was proven false months later by new evidence.

In this case, it's the recent sworn testimony of Robert MacNeil, a Bush appointee, that he had discussed the case with Bush at a fundraiser. This scandal isn't as sexy as Monica's, but perjury is perjury, and this scandal actually involves the governor's job, not his sex life. Texas' state commission on funeral homes the TFSC started an investigation of SCI, the world's largest funeral home company with 3, homes, plus cemeteries work vs stay at home mom calculator complaints that unlicensed apprenctices were embalming corpses at 2 SCI embalming centers.

But SCI pulled strings with the commission and with Bush himself. Shortly thereafter, the investigation was shut down and the agency's investigator was fired. She sought to question Bush for her lawsuit, and that's when he swore his admittedly false affidavit.

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SCI has long cultivated Bush and his allies. They also spread money around the Texas legislature and the Texas Attorney General's office. After the investigation got serious, SCI's boss, Robert Waltrip, called the funeral commission's chairman and told him to "back off. Rogers, went to the governor's office and dropped off a letter demanding a halt to the investigation.

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Rogers told Newsweek that he and Waltrip were ushered in to see Joe Allbaugh, Bush's chief of staff who is now Bush's campaign manager. Rogers goes on to say that Bush Jr. Then the governor turned to Rogers and said, "Hey, Johnnie B. Are you taking care of him? He filed the affidavit in an attempt to avoid testifying in a whistleblower lawsuit concerning this investigation and it's alleged squashing by Bush's administration.

Back in August ofBush himself admitted that he spoke with Waltrip and Rogers -- in other words, that he lied under oath -- but used Clintonesque denials to claim that it was nothing substantial.

Bush told the Associated Press that "It's a second conversation. I had no substantive conversation with the guy. That's hardly enough time to even say hello, much less sit down and have a substantive discussion.

All I know is it lasted no time. And that hardly constitutes a serious discussion. I did not have any knowledge at all of Waltrip's problem with this case.

In fact, his careful explanation of why this is not perjury is incredibly similar to Bill Clinton's internet stock trading secrets about what the meaning of "is" is. And now MacNeil's sworn statement further confirms Bush's lie.

Whatever Bush said out loud, Waltrip's complaints to the governor got quick results. Eliza May -- the investigator for the funeral services commission -- says that after Waltrip visited the governor, she received phone calls from three senior Bush aides asking if she could wrap up her proble quickly.

She says she was also summoned to another meeting in Allbaugh's office, one month after the first one, and found Waltrip already there. The governor's top aide, she says, demanded that she turn over a list of all of the documents that she needed "to close the SCI investigation.

On August 16,Bush ordered his Comptroller to take over the agency and run it. May -- who, it should be noted, is a Democrat and was even exchange rate australian dollar to pound history Democratic Treasurer at one point -- has filed a whistleblower lawsuit alleging she was fired because she persisted with the investigation. Bush simply didn't show up for his scheduled deposition on July 1st, in the case.

He isn't a defendant in the case, because Governors are immune from lawsuits in Texas, but is being called as a material witness.

He filed his affidavit on July 20th to indicate that he had nothing to add. Now Robert MacNeil -- who was the chairman of the Texas funeral commission at the time, a Bush appointee -- confirms that he also discussed the case with Bush, at a Texas fundraiser. In a sworn depositionMacNeil says that Bush asked him: Waltrip got your problems worked out? But the language MacNeil says Bush used is almost identical to what he admits saying to Johnnie Rodgers in the governor's office.

Most of this comes from profits from oil discovered on Texas state land. There may even be more, but this obscure group -- created under Bush -- cloaks its robots in binary options in a thick veil of secrecy.

UTIMCO's chairman, Tom Hicks, how much money can i make a month donating plasma owns the Texas Rangers; 60 seconds binary options free demo account ru purchase of the team made Governor Bush international stock brokers nigeria website very rich man.

They have also given hundreds of thousands of boxing day trading hours chadstone shopping centre to Bush Jr. And there are many more Bush supporters who have received millions from UTIMCO, copper trading strategy for today the Bass family and Adele Hall of the Hallmark Cards family.

Another key player in the Indian stock market trading training world is Richard Rainwater, the billionaire Texas investor who made Bush Jr.

That's the deal that made Jr. Bush had several other personal investments in Rainwater controlled companies. But Rainwater has received much from Bush and the state of Texas' treasury, too.

And UTIMCO is not the only Bush administration agency funneling money and favors to his supporters and cronies. T he state teacher retirement fund sold three office buildings to Rainwater's real estate company at bargain prices, and without bids in 2 of the cases. Bush also proposed a cap on business real estate taxes that would have saved Rainwater millions on his various properties but it lost in the legislature. In another example, Bush's state Unusual stock trading 9/11 department has been bisnis forex halal atau haram for kickbacks, and Florita Bell How does the government make money from prisons, who Bush appointed to the state Housing Board, was just convicted of bribery, theft, money-laundering and mail fraud for trading her influence for cash.

She faces 55 years in prison. And Larry Paul Manley, Bush's director of the Department of Housing until he resigned in Januaryis under police investigation for steering federal tax credits to cronies.

Bush may or may not have violated state ethics laws with all of this big money backscratching, but there is no doubt that he and these businessman are operating corruptly -- funneling large amounts of state money to the businessmen's companies, and large amounts of turnkey forex trading personal and business money into George Bush Jr.

Sources Avoided the Vietnam War Most people have heard something about George W. Bush pulling strings to get into the Texas Air Guard. But the press, while reporting lots of details, has done a poor job of communicating how consistently and shamelessly Bush Jr.

Furthermore, his story has repeatedly changed -- he has weaseled like Clinton at his worst and even flat-out lied when explaining what happened. To put it in perspective, here are 9 ways Bush got favored treatment in the service due to his political connections he was then son of a Congressman and grandson of a former Senator: Pulled Strings to Get In. On May 27,George Bush Jr. The National Guard, seen by many as the most respectable way to avoid Vietnam, had a huge waiting list -- a year and a half in Texas, overmen nationwide.

Yet Bush and his family friends pulled strings, and the young man was admitted the same day he applied, regardless of any waiting list. Bush's unit commander, Col. Bush and his allies have tried to deny this with several changing stories, but Bush himself admits lobbying commander Staudt, who trading system cod aw him, and court documents confirm that close family friend and oil magnate Sid Adger called Texas Speaker of the House Ben Barnes, who called General James Rose, the head of the Texas Air National Guard, to get Bush in.

Rose, who is now dead, told his friend and former legislator Jake Johnson that "I got that Republican congressman's son from Houston into the Guard. Democratic Senator Lloyd Bentsen's son was in the unit, as were both of Sid Adger's sons and at least 7 members of the Dallas Cowboys. Took a 2 month vacation in Florida after 8 weeks in the Guard. Just 8 weeks after joining, Bush was granted 2 months leave to go to Florida and work on a political campaign, the Stock broking trading race of Republican Edward Gurney.

Bush took a leave every billionaire tips make money season, in to work on his dad's campaign, and in to work in Alabama. Skipped Officer Candidate School and got daily dollar rates pakistan special commission as successful futures day trading Lt.

As soon as Bush completed basic training, his commander approved him for a "direct appointment", which made him an officer without having to go through the usual and difficult Officer Candidate School. What made Bush's appointment doubly unusual was his total lack of special qualifications. This procedure was generally reserved for applicants with exceptional experience or skills, such as ROTC training or engineering, medical or aviation skills.

Tom Hail, a historian for the Texas Air National Guard, reviewed the Guard's records on Bush for a special exhibit on his service after Bush became governor. Asked about Bush's direct appointment without special skills, Hail said "I've never heard of that. Generally they did that for doctors only, mostly because we needed extra flight surgeons.

Asked about Bush, he said "His name didn't hurt, obviously. But it was a commander's decision in those days. Staudt was so excited about the direct appointment that he saged another special ceremony for the press, this time with Bush's father the congressman standing prominently in the background.

The direct appointment process was discontinued in the s. Assigned to a safe plane -- the F -- that was being phased out. As Unusual stock trading 9/11 has been quick to note, National Guard members do face the chance of being called up for active duty, though few actually did during the Vietnam war.

So what a lucky break for Bush that he was assigned to fly the F Delta Dagger, a plane already being phased out. In fact, the Air Force had ordered all overseas F units shut down as of June 30, -- just 3 months after Bush finished his training. Since training is so airplane specific, Bush was guaranteed from the beginning to be safe from combat.

Bush's campaign has even used his training on the obsolete plane to justify his early discharge, almost a year before his scheduled discharge, since other F pilots were also being released early. But they can't answer the obvious question -- why spend so much money to train a National Guardsman for 2 years on a plane that was already being phased out, at a time when the Guard was letting F pilots the great depression stock market crash cause early due to oversupply?

During his flight training, Bush's celebrity showed in a couple of ways. Most famously, President Nixon sent a jet to pick up the philip nel forex strategy flight student for a date with his daughter Tricia. Alas, the potential political marriage and dynasty was not to be. Also, how to buy call options etrade commencement speaker at Bush's graduation ceremony was -- his dad, Congressman George Bush Sr.

Illegal, overruled transfer to a base with no work. InBush once again wanted to work on a political campaign, this time in Alabama. He money earned on savings crossword clue for a transfer to a nearly defunct base with no active training or work, the st Air Reserve Squadrom at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama.

Bush's supervisors approved, but a higher headquarters overruled them, noting that the unit had no regular drills. Reese Bricken, the unit's commander, told the Boston Globe "We met just one weeknight a month. We were only a postal unit. We had no airplanes. We had no pilots. We had no nothing. Lloyd was low risk forex trading system director of the Texas Air Guard from to Now, the officer who santander stock market tracker that has stepped forward and very directly admitted that he tried to get the easiest possible assignment for Bush.

The personnel officer in charge of Bush's th Fighter Group, now-retired Col. Martin, says he tried to give Bush a light load when he told him to apply to the st Air Reserve Squadron in Montgomery, Ala. Martin said in an interview that he knew Bush wasn't eligible for the st, an unpaid, general training squadron that met once a week to hear lectures on first aid and the like.

It was the least participation of any type of unit. Just didn't show up for a year -- with no punishment. National Guard records and Bush's own supervisor's and friends show no sign of him attending any drills or performing any service for nearly a year, from May until May This period began with Who buys used appliances in stockton ca moving to Alabama for a political campaign.

He later applied to transfer to a base that had no work; the transfer was first approved, then cancelled. Bush did nothing for several months; then in September he applied to transfer to Alabama's th Tactical Recon group for 3 months. This was approved, but the unit's commander, General William Turnipseed, and his then admnistrative officer, Kenneth Lott, have both said that Bush never showed up.

If we had had a first lieutenant from Texas, I would have remembered. The best they could produce was an ex-girlfriend from Alabama -- Emily Marks --who said George told her he would have to do some Guard duty later that year in Montgomery. But all buy smith and wesson stock confirms is that he knew of his obligation.

In DecemberBush returned to Houston and was scheduled to resume duty there. But in MayBush's supervising pilots wrote in his annual efficiency report: Bush has not been observed at this unit during the period of the report" i.

Bush described one of the supervisors, the late Col. Jerry Killian, as a personal friend, so it's likely he would have noticed Bush and given him the benefit of the doubt. Later that month, two special orders commanded Bush to appear for active duty. He served 36 days of active duty during May, June and July before exchange binary options trading signals franco review the Guard early.

Amazingly, Bush was not disciplined in any way percentage of stocks above 200 day moving average his absence, and received an honorable discharge. Under Air National Guard rules at that time, guardsmen who missed duty could be reported to their Selective Service Board and inducted into the Army as draftees.

Skipped all his medical exams after they started drug tests. In Aprilthe military started including routine drug tests in servicemen's annual physical exam, including urinalysis, questions about drugs and "a close examination of the nasal cavities" for cocaine. According to the regulation, the medical took place in the month after the serviceman's birthday. Bush, this meant August It was May, -- one month after the drug testing was announced -- that Bush stopped attending Guard duty.

In Augusthe was suspended from flight duty for failing to take his physical. Click here to see the document. A Bush campaign spokesman confirmed to the London Sunday Times that Bush knew he would be suspended. The only barrier to him flying again was a medical exam and his lack of attendance. Careful readers will recall that when Bush issued his partial denial of drug use, he said or implied that he hadn't used them how to make lots of money on puzzle piratesbut he pointedly refused to deny drug use before then, i.

Several sources have also indicated that it was in December, -- 4 months after his medical suspension -- that a drunk Bush Jr. He had run over a neighbor's garbage cans.

Shortly thereafter, Bush Sr. Bush's campaign aides first said he did not take the physical because he was in Alabama and his personal physician was making money donating blood plasma Houston.

But flight physicals can be administered only by certified Air Force flight surgeons, and some were assigned at the time to Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, where Bush was living. The staff now admits that this explanation was wrong. Left service 10 months early. Even after that easy stint, Bush couldn't fulfill his obligation. He quickly made up the missed days he had best investment options in india for long term and applied for an early release, before he had to take his next annual physical exam with drug test.

While the official discharge date was October 1,Bush's last day in uniform was actually July 31 -- a full 10 months before the end of his 6-year, part time commitment. Al Gore also requested and received an early discharge from the Stock option plans for non-executive employees, in his case to go to school.

Weasel words; his story keeps changing. When asked about his service, Bush has lied, changed his story repeatedly, and weaseled in a manner eerily reminiscent of Bill Clinton. First of all, he has flat-out lied.

In his official autobiography, ''A Charge to Keep,'' Bush said he flew with his unit for ''several years'' after finishing flight training in June His campaign biography states that he flew with the unit until he won release from the service in Septembernine months early, for graduate school.

Both statements are lies. Bush only flew with the th for one year and 10 months, until April when he was suspended for failing to take his medical exam and drug testand never flew again.

Then there is his Clintonesque weaseling and word choice. Bush and his campaign claimed that no Bush family or friends pulled strings. Under pressure, this changed to "All I know is anybody named George Bush did not ask him [Ben Barnes] for help. Of course, it later came out in court that a close Bush friend, Simon Adger, had asked Barnes to get Bush Jr.

Now's it's not even clear that a George Bush didn't ask for help. When pressed, the former president's spokeswoman Jean Becker said he is "almost positive" that he and Mr. Adger never discussed the Guard matter. Becker acknowledged that "President Bush knew Sid Adger well.

Furthermore, George Bush Jr. Staudt claims that he, not General Rose who he later replacedwas the one who made the decision on admissions anyway. Colonel Staudt was the person to contact. But we know that Sid Adger was also a friend of Staudt's, served with him on the Houston Chamber of Commerce's Aviation Committee, and in held a luncheon honoring Gen. Staudt and his unit for winning an Air Force commendation. In fact, both of Adger's sons also joined General Staudt's unit, in and respectively.

Bush and his staff also claim that he vaulted ahead of the Air Guard waiting list because he was willing to fly an airplane, and there were openings. There is nothing to support this claim, however. For one thing, the F was being phased out at the time and F pilots were being released from service early, as indeed Bush himself was.

And Tom Hail, a historian for the Texas Air National Guard, says flatly that best options traders in the world was no pilot shortage in the Guard squadron at that time. Bush's unit had 27 pilots at the time he applied; while they were authorized for 29 pilots, there were two more already in training and one awaiting a transfer.

Bush also weasels on whether he was avoiding combat or not. He has stated on several occasions that he did not want to be an infantryman, and acknowledges that he came to oppose the war itself. He claims that he joined the guard to fly planes, and would have been happy to go to Vietnam, but ignores the obvious choice of the Air Force or the Navy -- which his dad, a genuine war hero, joined.

Furthermore, when he signed up for the Guard, he checked a box saying "Do not volunteer for overseas service. But Bush was not nearly qualified, as he must have known, and was immediately turned down, and the F not used overseas after June, in any case. And, as noted above, his story also changed on why he refused to take a medical exam -- including a drug test - in The refusal ended Bush's flying career.

His staff first claimed that he didn't take the physical because he was in Alabama and his personal physician was in Houston. But flight physicals can be administered only by certified Air Force flight surgeons, and there were surgeons assigned at the time to Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, where Bush was living. His staff now admits that that explanation was "wrong", without saying where it came from or what the real reason was. In each one, his contribution is hard to perceive, yet he walked off with hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in deals arranged by his father's political cronies.

The deals were 1. Junior's sale of oil stock just before the Gulf Warand 3. The general pattern here is just as important as the details. Bush did no work in his business career that can clearly be called "excellent" or even "solid. It's not just that one or two of Bush's deals look funky; every major business deal he has been involved with included wealthy supporters of his father, and many of those investors later received favorable treatment from either the federal government under Bush, Sr.

Rewarded for Losing Money Like his dad, Junior struck out in Texas and founded an oil company, Arbusto Energy, Inc. Arbusto is the Spanish word for bush. The company foundered in the early s when oil prices dropped and his dad was Vice President. Junior claims that investors "did pretty good," but Bush family friend Russell Reynolds told the Dallas Morning News: I think we got maybe 20 cents on the dollar.

Despite his poor track record, the owners made Bush, Jr. These two were also owners of the Texas Rangers and allowed Bush Jr. Within two years of purchasing Arbusto and making Bush Jr. That ended inwhen Harken Energy Corporation bought Spectrum 7's well operation. So what did Junior do for all this money?

It's hard to say exactly, but things happened for Harken after Junior came on board: Stephens placed the offering with the London subsidiary of Union Bank of Switzerland, which according to the Wall Street Journal was not known as an investor in small American companies.

Union Bank did have other connections; it was a joint-venture partner with the notorious BCCI in a Geneva-based bank, and was involved in a scandal surrounding the Nugan Hand Bank, a CIA operation in Australia whose executives were advised by William Quasha, the father of Harken's chairman Alan Quasha. Union Bank was also involved in scandals surrounding Panamanian money laundering by BCCI, and Ferdinand Marcos' movement of tons of gold out of the Phillipines.

That wasn't the only financing connection Junior brought; after the company won its Bahrain deal see next itemthe billionaire Bass brothers of Texas offered to underwrite the drilling operation. The Bahrain Contract In JanuaryHarken was chosen out of the blue by the small Mideast country Bahrain for an exclusive offshore oil drilling contract. They beat out Amoco, an experienced and major international conglomerate, despite having no offshore oil drilling experience at all.

As of Marchthe most recent report we could find, they had found no oil. Junior has denied that he was involved in the deal, and even told the Wall Street Journal that he opposed it. But a company insider told Mother Jones Magazine "Like any member of the board, he was thrilled. His attitude was 'Holy shit, what a great deal!

Charles Strain, an energy company analyst in Houston, told Mother Jones: The company has only one real asset -- its Bahrain contract. If that field turns out to be dry, Harken's stock is worth, at the most, 25 cents a share.

The most troubling thing that happened to Harken after it bought George Bush Junior in, was that one of its Board of Directors members was suddenly admitted to the highest levels of United States foreign policy meetings. These were not Clintonesque meet-and-greet fundraisers, but actual working policy meetings during a critical period. After the Harken-Bahrain deal was signed, Palestinian businessman Talat Othman was added to a group of Arabs who met with George Bush and National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft three times in -- once just two days after Iraq invaded Kuwait.

More on Baksh in a second. Othman has continued a fruitful relationship with Bush. He has visited Bush in the White House, and gave an Islamic benediction at the Republican convention. More recently, several Islamic charities and businesses run by Othman's business partner Yaqub Mirza were raided on March 20, by Treasury investigators, investigating ties between them and Osama Bin Laden, al Qaeda and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Just two weeks later, Othman was able to get a luncheon meeting with President Bush's Treasury Secretary, Paul O'Neill since firedto complain about the raids.

Backsh, Othman's patron, had several ties to the infamous BCCI bank according to the Wall Street Journal. Bakhsh was a co-investor in Saudi Arabia with alleged BCCI front man Ghaith Pharaon. Bakhsh's banker, Khalid bin Mahfouz, was another BCCI figure and head of the largest bank in Saudi Arabia.

Sheikh Kalifah, the prime minister of Bahrain, was a BCCI shareholder and played the key role in selecting Harken for the oil contract. This is the crowd that gained entry to the President and the National Security Adviser of the United States after George Junior made his deal with Harken.

Soon after, a big quarterly loss caused it to drop further. A secret State Deparment memo in May of that year had warned that Saddam was out of control, and listed options for responding to him, including an oil ban that might affect US oil prices. We can't be sure that the President or an aide mentioned these developments to his son, or that Harken's representative who was admitted to meetings with the President picked up something and reported back to Junior.

But it is the simplest and most logical explanation. The Bushes acknowledge that George Senior and his sons consult on political strategy and other matters constantly. Furthermore, Harken's internal financial advisers at Smith Barney had issued a report in May warning of the company's deteriorating finances. He must have known of these warnings. These are pretty clear-cut indications of illegal insider trading.

The Securities and Exchange Commission, controlled at the time by President George Bush, investigated but chose not to press charges. Junior also violated another SEC rule explicitly. He was required to register his sale as an insider trade by July 10,but didn't until Marchafter the Gulf War was over. He was not punished or cited. A Big Slice of the Texas Rangers for a Little Money and a Big Profit The third unusually easy deal for George Bush Junior was his involvement in the Texas Rangers baseball team.

Bush was allowed to buy 1.

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His qualifications for partial ownership? Several years working at failing oil companies, and his political connections through his father. It's hard to be sure, but we're guessing that latter was probably more important. Cincinatti financier William DeWitt brought Bush in, not vice versa, shortly after George Bush Sr. DeWitt had also invested in Junior's oil companies. The only investor Bush actually brought in was Roland Betts, a Yale fraternity brother, and that wasn't good enough.

Under Junior's management, the deal was about to fall apart until baseball commissioner Peter Uebberoth brought in another investment group led by Fort Worth Billionaire Richard Rainwater and Dallas investor "Rusty" Rose. Since the deal, both men have profited greatly from business with the Texas administration of George Bush, Jr.

Under the team partnership agreement, Bush Junior couldn't take any "material actions" wihtout Rose's prior approval. There was also a method for removing Junior as a general partner, but no way to remove Rose.

Yet Rose's "bonus" for his role in setting up the deal was less than half of Junior's. What kind of owners would approve such a big payoff to Bush? In addition to Rose and Rainwater, men with business pending before Texas government, the owners included William DeWitt and Mercer Reynolds, major contributors to President Bush who had also purchased Junior's failing oil company through their Spectrum 7 Energy company.

If this deal doesn't smell bad enough already, consider Bush's blatant hypocrisy. The main value of the team is its new stadium ranked by Financial World as the most profitable in baseball and acres of vacant land the team owns between the stadium and 6 Flags of Texas, which is next door. Putting Tax Money into Bush's Pocket The hypocritical part is, the private owners of this very valuable land didn't want to sell.

Bush and his partners gave them only a lowball offer, and when it was rejected they arranged for a new government agency the Arlington Sports Facility Development Authority, or ASFDA to condemn it for them. The agency also floated bonds, guaranteed and repaid by taxpayers, to finance the purchase. The next time Junior talks about tax cuts, remember this: The original owners of just 13 of the acres sued the City of Arlington, saying that the ASFDA had not paid a fair price for the land.

He claims that he "wasn't aware of the details" of the land condemnations, even though he was the team's managing general partner and has bragged about personally getting the stadium built. But he told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in October that "The idea of making a land play, absolutely, to plunk the field down in the middle of a big piece of land, that's kind of always been the strategy. And the key to their land play was always the strong arm of government. A memo from Arlington real estate broker Mike Reilly to Rangers President Tom Schieffer dated October 26, - the day before Bush's comment about the land play - said "In this particular situation our first offer should be our final offer If this fails, we will probably have to initiate condemnation proceedings after the bond election passes.

On the first day of the campaign, Bush said "The best way to allocate resources in our society is through the marketplace. Not through a governing elite. Sex, Drugs, And Rock 'N Roll? For almost half his life, Junior was distinguished mainly by his hearty appetite for partying.

A Newsweek profile by Evan Thomas, describing his college years, says he "seems to have majored in beer drinking at the Deke House.

He had a kind of ragged nervous energy in that period, and he could be a bully. They even pull out their secret weapon, lovable Barbara Bush, with anecdotes about what a rascal little George Junior was. But the explosive element here is not booze.

It's sex, drugs and hypocrisy. Frankly, it doesn't bother us if candidates have partied, even a lot. Who wants a bunch of namby-pamby boy scouts running the country?

But George Bush Jr. He does not permit the option of partying hard until you're 40 and then stopping. And as governor, he attacked his predecessor for allowing leniency toward first-time drug users, and pushed a "no tolerance" policy that has sent casual cocaine users -- who's dads aren't rich, or president -- to prison for years.

He even has the gall to proclaim that such users "need to know that drug use has consequences. No Handcuffs or Dwarf Orgies Junior is so worried about his past that he hired a private detective to investigate himself.

I guess he can't remember what he did at those parties, which tells you something right there. According to an unnamed insider quoted on MSNBC, Bush "isn't terribly thrilled" about what they found, though no one is spilling the details yet. W is For Women: Bush volunteers to reporters that he has been faithful to his wife. However, he was married at 31 and makes no claim of virginity before that point, even as he lectures the youth of today to remain celibate.

A Clinton aide who was in Bush's class at Yale has already warned him that "People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. One alleged affair took place after Bush was married, on business trips to Los Angeles; in the other case, Bush was single but the woman was married at the time.

Neither woman is willing to go public with further details, including their names, which is why we aren't publicizing these incidents more, but in our editorial opinion they are credible, and the details that these woman have provided check out. Furthermore, porn publisher Larry Flynt has alleged that one Bush affair led his then-girlfriend to have an abortion, and claims to have 5 affidavits from friends of the woman and others supporting the claim.

Again the woman does not want to be named, which makes it hard to prove the claim, but you can't really blame a lady for not wanting to be known as the "Bush abortion girl.

The host of the program actually said "Now we at CNN don't want to be accused of censoring anybody They removed the show's transcript and links from their web site days after the broadcast. You can still get details on the incident at the Bush Watch web site. They have more details here. According to a new bookthree independent sources close to the Bush family report that Governor Bush was arrested in for cocaine possession, and taken to Harris County Jail, but avoided jail or formal charges through an informal diversion plan involving community service with Project P.

Community Center in Houston's dirt-poor Third Ward. In another new bookreporter Bill Minutaglio, writes that the year of community service was arranged by the Governor's father, ex-president Bush, after he caught Bush Jr.

That year certainly is out of character with the rest of Bush Jr. Before and afterhe was a rich, hard drinking playboy. Suddenly, and only that one time in his life, he worked for a liberal charity in an inner city ghetto. As soon as the year was over, he resumed his previous pattern and has done no charity work since.

The author of this book, J. Thompson, has some interesting scandals of his own. Of course, his own flaws don't disprove what Bush did or didn't do, but the way Thompson has responded certainly undercuts his credibility. First, he admitted to a reporter from Slate Magazine that he made up at least one detail, that one of his informants spat tobacco into a styrofoam cup during their phone!

Then, reporters -- or perhaps Bush campaign operatives -- found that the author apparently is an ex-convict, on parole for hiring a hit man to kill a former boss. That doesn't mean he can't research, of course, but Thompson's credibility suffered greatly as he claimed it was someone else, despite incredible similarities between his resume -- including unexplained job gaps during the prison years -- and confirmation from his parole officer that indeed, the author named J.

Thompson is the one who did time. Bush has essentially admitted that he used cocaine in his Clintonesque, carefully worded partial denials. He won't deny using cocaine or marijuana, though under persistent questioning he said that he hadn't used cocaine in the last 7 years. Most newspapers report that he denies using cocaine sincebut that's not exactly true. That is the most favorable interpretation of what Bush said, but since Bush and his campaign have already made Clintonesque denials on other issues, we need to look at his words carefully.

What Bush actually said was ""I could have passed the [FBI] background check on the standards applied on the most stringent conditions when my dad was president of the United States - a year period," Mr. This is ambiguous because background forms ask slightly different questions, depending on the position. Drug questions can go back one year, seven years or 10 years. And years is not one of the choices. But that is not at all clear.

His only direct statement was for seven years before today. He could easily have been denying drug use only for 15 years before today, based on 7 or 10 years dating back from the END of his dad's term. The Clinton administration actually has a stricter standard than Bush did -- the FBI now asks about any drug use after age But Governor Bush has refused to say whether he would pass that standard, even though that is what he will be asked if he wins.

Bush also has refused to answer whether he could have passed the FBI test when his father was vice president, during the 8 years from As for the arrest and diversion charge, Governor Bush admits working at the center in When asked for comment, Bush's campaign spokesman reportedly said "Oh shit Bush's father, ex-president George Bush, denies the cocaine arrest charge, and in yet another carefully worded denial, Bush said ""It's totally ridiculous what he suggested and it's not true.

Later, when he had to testify under oath, it turned out that he was denying that all of the details of the story were true, not whether an affair had occurred or any specific details many of which were accurate.

Similarly, Bush himself does not deny being caught with cocaine, or having performed community service. Bush's campaign spokesman has now denied that Bush was ever arrested on any drug charge. The director of the center, Madgelean Bush no relationalso denies the reports. However, her center is dependent on Texas state money, and the director, who grew up poor but has amassed several houses around the center while running it, allowed Governor Bush to use the center for a photo opportunity earlier this year.

The Bush campaign also produced Carol Vance, who was the Democratic District Attorney in Harris County into say that there was no diversion program in that year, nor were there any Republican judges as Hatfield's book states.

Bush keeps a picture of himself with two members of ZZ Top, but does not play the song "Tube Snake Boogie" during his celibacy lectures. We have found no evidence to support the the most explosive allegation so far; that Bush played air guitar to a Foghat record at a party in the late s. But he won't deny it, either. When pressed on the hypocrisy issue, he speaks to hypocritical baby boomer parents everywhere: I think it's important for leaders, and parents, not to send mixed signals.

I don't want some kid saying, 'Well, Governor Bush tried it. When allowed to imply that he is just another manly, hard-drinking rapscallion, Bush seizes the opportunity. He even hints at pot smoking, as in the above quote, and why not? Everyone from his likely opponent Al Gore to Newt Gingrich has admitted smoking pot. But Junior wants it both ways. When the deadly rumor of cocaine use surfaces, he retreats to his high-minded rhetoric about not giving mixed messages.

If he thinks he can skate to the presidency without either his right-wing foes or embittered Clintonistas pushing his past into the limelight, then he really IS on drugs. Sources The Bush Watch web sitean opinionated, well-researched and reasonably fair though blatantly liberal anti-Bush site. Inside the Bush Administration's feud with the diplomat who poured cold water on the Iraq-uranium connection"By MATTHEW COOPER, MASSIMO CALABRESI AND JOHN F. DICKERSON, Time Magazine, July 17, "Capital Games: A White House Smear"by David Corn, The Nation magazine, July 16, "Columnist Blows CIA Agent's Cover" by Timothy M.

Phelps and Knut Royce, Long Island Newsday newspaperJuly 22, "War critic at center of CIA flap always vague on wife's job: Ex-ambassador lauded by 1st President Bush" By Bill Nichols and John Diamond, USA TODAY October 1, p6A Bush Sr. Leak Inquiry"By RICHARD W.

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Bush's office rejects call for legislative control"By George KuempelThe Dallas Morning News, August 8, "Bush Watch Special: Dubya and The Gravedigger"by Jerry Politex, The Bush Watch Website ongoing Scandal Timeline, Austin Chronicle, ongoing Insider Deal Sources "Business associates profit during Bush's term as governor" by R.

Ratcliffe, Houston Chronicle, August 16, pA1 "How Bush REALLY Made His Millions"by Jerry Politex, The Bush Watch Web Site, ongoing "Who is David Edwards?