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There’s very lively debate about whether the Bush administration downgraded the so-called War on Terror in favour of its ambitions in Iraq. This was based on revelations by recent Bush administration officials, which I’m sure you’ve seen ... They consciously increased the threat of terror in order to achieve their goals in Iraq. Professor Noam Chomsky, Imperial Grand Strategy
The Bush administration has made extraordinary claims and they’ve been upheld by the courts to a large extent. They’ve claimed the right to imprison people including US citizens without charge, without access to lawyers or family and to do so indefinitely until the President declares the emergency over. Noam Chomsky, University of Colorado 5th April 2003
The war was declared with proper fanfare by President Bush in early September 1989 – or rather, re-declared, following the convention established twenty years earlier by President Nixon when he issued the first such dramatic declaration ... There are, however, a few problems. The decline in 1989 simply continues a trend that began in 1985-6 for cocaine and in 1979 for other illicit drugs. Noam Chomsky, Deterring Democracy
With their contributions to the growth and punishment of the underclass, the Reagan-Bush administrations helped to create the current drug crisis, yet another fact that merits headlines. And the current ‘war’ may well exacerbate the crisis. ibid.
Meeting with congressional leaders, Bush outlined his proposals for paying the costs of the drug plan, including elimination of almost $100 million from public housing subsidies, and a juvenile justice program. The National Center on Budget priorities estimated that the Bush program would remove $400 million from social programs. The misery of the poor is likely to increase, along with the demand for drugs and the construction of prisons for the superfluous population. ibid.
Also forgotten was Turkey’s conquest of northern Cyprus, with thousands of casualties and hundreds of thousands of refugees after an orgy of killing, torture, rape and pillage to extirpate the last remnants of Greek culture back to classical antiquity; George Bush praised Turkey for serving ‘as a protector of peace’ as it joined those who ‘stand up for civilized values around the world.’ ibid.
I bring greetings from that little known region the rest of the world: in congratulating America on getting rid of the worst president in living memory. Professor Richard Dawkins, American Atheists Conference 2009
A) When George W Bush started his first oil company, who helped fund it? Osama bin Laden’s brother and brother-in-law, true or false? B) After a terrorist bomb at a barracks in Saudi Arabia killed nineteen Americans, who got the multi-million dollar contract to rebuild? The bin Laden’s, true or false? C) On the morning of September 11th 2001 who was in meeting in The Ritz hotel in Washington? George Bush senior and Osama bin Laden’s bother, true or false? Actually the answer could be D) All of the above. CBC News
The Bush administration has been ‘deliberately and systematically distorting scientific fact in the service of policy goals’. Open letter from 60 prominent scientists including 20 Nobel Laureates, cited Kevin Ryan, A New Standard of Deception
[We] found numerous instances where the Administration has manipulated the scientific process and distorted or suppressed scientific findings. House Committee on Government Reform, cited Kevin Ryan, A New Standard of Deception
The Bush White House ... did everything in its power to derail an Open Enquiry. Then, when faced with the inevitable, the press and his aides sought to limit its scope, its access and its funding. Graydon Carter, Vanity Fair editor
We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities. Barbra Streisand
George W’s brother, Marvin Bush, was not only a director of the World Trade Center’s security company, he was also a director of the World Trade Center’s casualty insurance company called Houston Casualty. That company terminated coverage for the World Trade Center before 9/11 right in the nick of time. CNN News report
The president of the United States [George W Bush] has claimed, on more than one occasion, to be in dialogue with God. If he said that he was talking to God through his hairdryer, this would precipitate a national emergency. I fail to see how the addition of a hairdryer makes the claim more ridiculous or offensive. Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation
America was heading for a new confrontation with its allies yesterday after it emerged that the Bush Administration will refuse to accept an arms control deal to enforce a ban on biological weapons. The Times 2001
The White House is giving George W Bush intelligence briefings. You know, some of these jokes just write themselves. David Letterman
Bush was a draft dodger. Not only that, he was AWOL. In fact he was a deserter ... The guy was a deserter in war-time. Mark Crispin Miller, The Bush Dyslexicon
We need to go to war in the name of God – right now they’re being told that George Bush of all people is a holy man ... There’s this entanglement of politics and religion. Jesus Camp, 2006, Mike Papantonio show
I can think of no faster way to unite the American people behind George W Bush than a terrorist attack on an American target overseas. And I believe George W Bush will quickly unite the American people through his foreign policy. Henry Kissinger
The Dalai Lama visited the White House and told the President that he could teach him to find a higher state of consciousness. Then after talking to Bush for a few minutes, he said, ‘You know what? Let’s just grab lunch.’ Bill Maher
I have been saying for a long time that President Bush must set a timetable for removing his head from his arse. Bill Maher, The Decider, Sky Comedy 2007
We should just trust our president in every decision that he makes and we should just support that and be faithful in what happens. Britney Spears
Bush knew of the impending attacks on America. He did nothing to warn the American people because he needed this war on terrorism. Colonel Stephen Butler
I’ve spent the last year listening to Americans, and the state of the union that George W Bush lives in is very different from the state that most hardworking Americans are living in. Joe Lieberman
The fact that Bush followed the invasion of Afghanistan, which had sheltered al-Qaeda, with the toppling of Saddam Hussein, will puzzle historians for centuries. It is as though, after Japan had bombed Pearl Harbor, FDR had asked Congress to declare war on Argentina. Michael Lind, He’s Only Fifth Worst, 2006
It did take a Clinton to clean up after the first Bush, and I think it might take another one to clean up after the second Bush. Hillary Clinton, CNN
I see that the Kennedy assassination is showing us the template for what’s going to happen with 9/11 ... It’s not socially acceptable to speak out publicly about 9/11 in polite company, but they’ll wait twenty years and then all the information will come out, and in 40 years we’ll all know that 9/11 was an inside job perpetrated by people within the Bush administration. It’ll be accepted, but it still won’t be officially acknowledged by leaders, nor will it be in the history books. Jim Marrs, JFK: Killed By International Bankers, with Alex Jones & Robert Groden
America: the world’s greatest democracy, and at its heart the vote, the will of the people. But how do you know if the vote is counted correctly? And if you don’t know then what have you got? Democracy? James Naughton, Hacking Democracy, HBO 2006