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In reply to the discussion: ''Does this picture make me look guilty?'' [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)7. ''Money trumps peace.'' -- George Walker Bush
Last edited Fri Jun 3, 2016, 07:41 PM - Edit history (1)
"Commercial interests are very powerful interests," said George W Bush on Feb. 14, 2007 White House press conference in which he added, "Let me put it this way, ah, sometimes, ah, money trumps peace." And then he giggled and not a single member of the callow, cowed and corrupt press corpse saw fit to ask a follow-up.
Gold Star mom Cindy Sheehan tried to bring it to our nation's attention back in 2007. I don't recall even one reporter from the national corporate owned news seeing it fit to comment. Certainly not many have commented on how three generations of Bush men -- Senator Prescott Sheldon Bush, President George Herbert Walker Bush and pretzeldent George Walker Bush all had their eyes on Iraq's oil.
I wish the Press had done its job. Those in authority would have to do their job. Millions might still be alive, the People might use the money spent on wars in better ways, and the Republic might see a return to Justice. To get that started requires jailing those who lied America into war, not making them into heroes cough Bush.
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Sadly MIC = big $$$$$'s, and they don't want to interrupt that gravy train! n/t
RKP5637
Aug 2015
#51
Their countenances are so revealing I almost feel sorry for their eternal souls.
Octafish
Aug 2015
#8
Like the Great Gatsby, they are not like us. American's have no idea how different they really are.
jalan48
Aug 2015
#20
Would love to know the true nature of that underground connected-ness.
Cracklin Charlie
Aug 2015
#81
GHW Bush went to university at a school that was commonly mined for intelligence assets.
MADem
Aug 2015
#18
I was living in Iran at the time. I don't think the fact that you happened to be alive during the
MADem
Aug 2015
#84
Jim Baker's connections were closer to Bush than Reagan and Bush came before Baker.
Uncle Joe
Aug 2015
#99
Poppy got powerful via National Security Decision Directive No. 159 (NSDD 159)
Octafish
Aug 2015
#25
Babs has her hand on Bush Sr. as if to say..."there, there, don't drool in public"
dixiegrrrrl
Aug 2015
#21
So the next time we hear Jeb say we need "4% economic growth", what he is really saying is:
sorechasm
Aug 2015
#54
SHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMEfullspectrumdominanceSHAMESHAMESHAMESHAMESHAME
Dont call me Shirley
Aug 2015
#93
I wonder what Barbara (Why should I waste my beautiful mind?) Bush is thinking?
Brother Buzz
Aug 2015
#13
Dang, she IS so pointing! Probably subconsciously (but revealingly, with the smile).
WinkyDink
Aug 2015
#34
look at the sheer cowardice in his eyes: he knows that any vet, even if totally vetted,
MisterP
Aug 2015
#39
Only one of four Bushes knows how to respond to the Pledge of Allegiance
sinkingfeeling
Aug 2015
#83
gergee w bush, destroyer of people, lands, & historic treasures. and the crap
pansypoo53219
Aug 2015
#87