GEORGE W. BUSH RESUME
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington , DC 20520

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

LAW ENFORCEMENT
I was arrested in Kennebunkport, Maine, in 1976 for driving under the
influence of alcohol. I pled guilty, paid a fine, and had my driver's license
suspended for 30 days. My Texas driving record has been "lost" and is not
available.

MILITARY
I joined the Texas Air National Guard and went AWOL. I refused to take a
drug test or answer any questions about my drug use. By joining the Texas Air
National Guard, I was able to avoid combat duty in Vietnam

COLLEGE
I graduated from Yale University with a low C average. I was a
cheerleader.

PAST WORK EXPERIENCE
I ran for U.S. Congress and lost. I began my career in the oil business in
Midland, Texas , in 1975. I bought an oil company, but couldn't find any
oil in Texas . The company went bankrupt shortly after I sold all my stock.

I bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took
land using taxpayer money. With the help of my father and our friends in the
oil industry, including Enron CEO Ken Lay, I was elected governor of Texas.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS GOVERNOR OF TEXAS
I changed Texas pollution laws to favor power and oil companies, making
Texas the most polluted state in the Union. During my tenure, Houston replaced
Los Angeles as the most smog-ridden city in America. I cut taxes and
bankrupted the Texas treasury to the tune of billions in borrowed money. I set
the record for the most executions by any governor in American history. With
the help of my brother, the governor of Florida, and my father's
appointments to the Supreme Court, I became President after losing by over 500,000
votes.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT
I am the first President in U.S. history to enter office with a criminal
record. I invaded and occupied two countries at a continuing cost of over one
billion dollars per week. I spent the U.S. surplus and effectively
bankrupted the U.S. Treasury. I shattered the record for the largest annual deficit
in U.S. history. I set an economic record for most private bankruptcies
filed in any 12-month period. I set the all-time record for most foreclosures
in a 12-month period. I set the all-time record for the biggest drop in the
history of the U.S. stock market.

In my first year in office, over 2 million Americans lost their jobs and
that trend continues every month.

I'm proud that the members of my cabinet are the richest of any
administration in U.S. history. My "poorest millionaire," Condoleeza Rice, had a
Chevron oil tanker named after her. I set the record for most campaign
fund-raising trips by a U.S. President. I am the all-time U.S. and world
record-holder for receiving the most corporate campaign donations. My largest
lifetime campaign contributor, and one of my best friends, Kenneth Lay, presided
over the largest corporate bankruptcy fraud in U.S. History, Enron.

My political party used Enron private jets and corporate attorneys to
assure my success with the U.S. Supreme Court during my election decision. I
have protected my friends at Enron and Halliburton against investigation or
prosecution. More time and money was spent investigating the Monica Lewinsky
affair than has been spent investigating one of the biggest corporate rip-
offs in history.

I presided over the biggest energy crisis in U.S. history and refused to
intervene when corruption involving the oil industry was revealed. I presided
over the highest gasoline prices in U.S. history. I changed the U.S. policy
to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts. I
appointed more convicted criminals to administration than any President in U.S.
history. I created the Ministry of Homeland Security, the largest bureaucracy
in the history of the United States government.

I've broken more international treaties than any President in U.S.
history. I am the first President in U.S. history to have the United Nations
remove the U.S. from the Human Rights Commission. I withdrew the U.S. from the
World Court of Law. I refused to allow inspectors access to U.S. "prisoners
of war" detainees and thereby have refused to abide by the Geneva
Convention. I am the first President in history to refuse United Nations election
inspectors (during the 2002 U.S. election). I set the record for fewest
numbers of press conferences of any President since the advent of television. I
set the all-time record for most days on vacation in any one-year period.
After taking off the entire month of August, I presided over the worst security
failure in U.S. history. I garnered the most sympathy for the U.S. after
the World Trade Center attacks and less than a year later made the U.S.
the most hated country in the world, the largest failure of diplomacy in
world history.

I have set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously
protest me in public venues (15 million people), shattering the record for
protests against any person in the history of mankind.

I am the first President in U.S. history to order an unprovoked,
pre-emptive attack and the military occupation of a sovereign nation. I did so
against the will of the United Nations, the majority of U.S. citizens, and the
world community. I have cut health care benefits for war veterans and support
a cut in duty benefits for active duty troops and their families-in-wartime.
In my State of the Union Address, I lied about our reasons for attacking
Iraq and then blamed the lies on our British friends. I am the first
President in history to have a majority of Europeans (71%) view my presidency as the
biggest threat to world peace and security. I am supporting development of a
nuclear "Tactical Bunker Buster," a WMD. I have so far failed to fulfill
my pledge to bring Osama Bin Laden [sic] to justice.

RECORDS AND REFERENCES
All records of my tenure as governor of Texas are now in my father's
library, sealed and unavailable for public view. All records of SEC investigations
into my insider trading and my bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy
and unavailable for public view. All records or minutes from meetings that I,
or my Vice-President, attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in
secrecy and unavailable for public review. I am a member of the Republican
Party.

PLEASE CONSIDER MY EXPERIENCE WHEN VOTING IN THE 2006 MIDTERM ELECTIONS.
PLEASE SEND THIS TO EVERY VOTER YOU KNOW.

Published on Thursday, September 7, 2006 by TomPaine.com
The Torturer's Apprentice
by Ray McGovern

Addressing the use of torture Wednesday, President George W. Bush played
to the baser instincts of Americans as he strained to turn his violation
of national and international law into Exhibit A on how "tough" he is on
terrorists. His tour de force brought to mind the charge the Athenians
leveled at Socrates-making the worse case appear the better. Bush's
remarks made it abundantly clear, though, that he is not about to take
the hemlock.
As the fifth anniversary of 9/11 approaches and with the midterm
elections just two months away, the president's speechwriters succeeded
in making a silk purse out of the sow's ear of torture. The artful
offensive will succeed if-but only if-the mainstream media is as cowed,
and the American people as dumb, as the president thinks they are.
Arguably a war criminal under international law and a capital-crime felon
under U.S. criminal law, Bush's legal jeopardy is even clearer than when
he went AWOL during the Vietnam War. And this time, his father will not
be able to fix it.
Bush in jeopardy? Yes. The issue is torture, which George W. Bush
authorized in a Feb. 7, 2002, memorandum in contravention both of the
Geneva Accords and 18 U.S. Code 2441-the War Crimes Act that incorporates
the Geneva provisions into the federal criminal code which was approved
by a Republican-led Congress in 1996. Heeding the advice of Vice
President Dick Cheney's counsel, David Addington, then-White House
counsel Alberto Gonzales and Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee, the
president officially opened the door to torture in that memorandum. His
remarks yesterday reflect the determination of Cheney and Bush to keep
that door open and accuse those who would close it of being "soft on
terrorists."
The administration released that damning memorandum in the spring of 2004
after the photos of torture at Abu Graib were published. It provided the
basis for talking points that the president wanted "humane" treatment for
captured al-Qaida and Taliban individuals. And-surprise, surprise-
mainstream journalists like those of The New York Times swallowed the
bait, clinging safely to the talking points and missing altogether Bush's
remarkable claim that "military necessity" trumps humane treatment. That
assertion, over the president's signature, provided the gaping loophole
through which Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and then-CIA Director
George Tenet drove the Mack truck of officially-sanctioned torture.
Using the arguments adduced by the Addington/Gonzales/Bybee team, Bush's
2002 memo made the point that the bedrock provision of Geneva-Common
Article 3-does not apply to al-Qaida or Taliban detainees, but that the
U.S. would "continue to treat detainees humanely and, to the extent
appropriate and consistent with military necessity , in a manner
consistent with the principles of Geneva." (Emphasis added.)
Sounding very much like Mafia lawyers, the president's legal troika felt
it necessary to warn him that playing fast and loose with the U.S. War
Crimes Act (Section 2441) could conceivably come back to haunt him. The
bizarre passage that follows is the best they could offer in terms of
reassurance:
It is difficult to predict the motives of prosecutors and independent
counsels who may in the future decide to pursue unwarranted charges based
on Section 2441. Your determination would create a reasonable basis in
law that Section 2441 does not apply, which would provide a solid defense
to any future prosecution.
While the imaginative lawyering of Addington (now Cheney's chief of
staff), Gonzales (now attorney general), and Bybee (now a federal judge)
may have qualified for a presidential "heck-of-a-job" at the time, Bush
is learning the hard way that, while sycophants are fun to have around,
they can do a president in. Between the lines of Bush's rhetoric
yesterday lies belated acknowledgement that his decision to condone the
torture of al-Qaida and Taliban captives is now back to haunt him-big
time.
The Supreme Court decision on Hamdan v. Rumsfeld , announced on June 29,
2006, stripped the president of the magic suit of clothes approved by his
courtiers when it found the "military tribunals" invented by the
Cheney-Rumsfeld cabal to try terrorists illegal. The Court rejected the
artifice of "unitary executive power" used by the Bush administration to
"justify" practices like torture, indefinite detention without judicial
process, and warrantless eavesdropping. In other words, the Supreme Court
of the United States reaffirmed that ours should be a government of laws,
not of the caprice of the vice president or president. And in condoning
torture, they are outlaws.
The Defense Rests Not
The president's performance yesterday reflects the time-honored adage
that the best defense is an aggressive offense-and especially with a mere
two months before the midterm elections. Bush devoted fully half of his
speech to cops-and-robbers examples, none of them persuasive, of how
"tough" interrogation techniques have yielded information that prevented
all manner of catastrophe. Someone in the White House apparently forgot
to tell the Army, for the head of Army intelligence, Lt. Gen. John
Kimmons, sang from a very different script at a Pentagon briefing
yesterday , as he explained why the new Army manual for interrogation is
in sync with Geneva. Conceding past "transgressions and mistakes,"
Kimmons said:
No good intelligence is going to come from abusive practices. I think
history tells us that. I think the empirical evidence of the last five
years, hard years, tells us that.
Grabbing the headlines today is the fact that Bush has admitted that the
CIA has taken high-value captives to prisons abroad for interrogation
using "tough" techniques. More telling is the fact that CIA
interrogators are not bound by the strictures of the new Army field
manual, and that the president is determined to maintain in place
detention centers where CIA interrogators can ply their trade at his
bequest.
The president brags about how his government "changed its policies,"
giving intelligence personnel "the tools they need" to fight terrorists,
and makes it clear that the CIA was given permission to use "an
alternative set of procedures." He said he could not describe the
specific methods used, "but I can say the procedures were tough." The
alumni of this school of hard knocks are now on their way to Guantanamo,
but Bush made it clear that he wanted to keep the schools open for
incoming students.
Acknowledging that other terrorists are waiting in line to take the place
of captured leaders, the president made it clear that he wants the "CIA
program" for interrogating advanced placement terrorists to continue.
Bush conceded that, after the Hamdan decision, "some believe" that
intelligence personnel "could now be at risk of prosecution under the War
Crimes Act-simply for doing their jobs in a thorough and professional
way." So he is asking Congress to pass legislation squaring the circle;
that even while using "alternative" procedures, CIA personnel can be said
to be in compliance with Common Article 3 of Geneva. (The not-so-hidden
threat, of course, is the virtual certainty that any member of Congress
opposing this kind of legerdemain will be branded soft on terrorism in
the weeks leading up to the November election.)
In a bizarre twist, the retroactive nature of this legislation, which the
president said "ought to be the top priority" over the next several
weeks, would hold Bush himself harmless, at least under the U.S. criminal
statute, as well as intelligence practitioners of "alternative"
procedures.
And so the stage is set. There is one more Bush speech to go on this
general theme. It's a safe bet that the next one will present an equally
impassioned defense of warrantless eavesdropping on Americans, branded
unconstitutional and illegal by Judge Anna Diggs Taylor in Detroit
because it violates the Fourth Amendment and the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act. Sen. Arlen Specter, R- Pa., who initially called that
activity extralegal, has now come full circle and drafted legislation
that would hold harmless the president and others involved in that
program-and, again, retroactively. It is hard to tell what brought
Specter 180 degrees around; not to be ruled out is the kind of
"alternative procedure" employed so successfully by former FBI director
J. Edgar Hoover, who was the inadvertent catalyst for the FISA law.
Accountability
Is there no one to hold our leaders to account? The Bush Crimes
Commission, a grassroots citizens' initiative determined not to follow
the example of the obedient, passive Germans of the 1930s, has taken
testimony on torture and other key issues to establish whether President
Bush is guilty of war crimes. Testimony was taken in October 2005 and
January 2006, indictments have been brought and served on the White
House, and the judges will issue their verdict on Sept. 13 in Washington.
(Full disclosure: I am proud to have taken part in the proceedings of the
Bush Crimes Commission.) Join us next week.
Ray McGovern works with Tell the Word, the publishing arm of the
ecumenical Church of the Saviour. He was an Army infantry/intelligence
officer, then a CIA analyst for 27 years, and is now on the Steering
Group of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.
Copyright 2006 TomPaine.com (A Project of The Institute for America's
Future)

Published on Thursday, September 7, 2006 by CommonDreams.org
Bush Fears War Crimes Prosecution, Impeachment
by Marjorie Cohn

With great fanfare, George W. Bush announced to a group of carefully
selected 9/11 families yesterday that he had finally decided to send
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and 13 other alleged terrorists to Guantánamo Bay,
where they will be tried in military commissions. After nearly 5 years of
interrogating these men, why did Bush choose this moment to bring them to
"justice"?
Bush said his administration had "largely completed our questioning of
the men" and complained that "the Supreme Court's recent decision has
impaired our ability to prosecute terrorists through military commissions
and has put in question the future of the CIA program."
He was referring to Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, in which the high court recently
held that Bush's military commissions did not comply with the law. Bush
sought to try prisoners in commissions they could not attend with
evidence they never see, including hearsay and evidence obtained by
coercion.
The Court also determined that Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions
applies to al Qaeda detainees. That provision of Geneva prohibits
"outrages upon personal dignity" and "humiliating and degrading
treatment."
Bush called on Congress to define these "vague and undefined" terms in
Common Article 3 because "our military and intelligence personnel"
involved in capture and interrogation "could now be at risk of
prosecution under the War Crimes Act."
Congress enacted the War Crimes Act in 1996. That act defines violations
of Geneva's Common Article 3 as war crimes. Those convicted face life
imprisonment or even the death penalty if the victim dies.
The President is undoubtedly familiar with the doctrine of command
responsibility, where commanders, all the way up the chain of command to
the commander in chief, can be held liable for war crimes their inferiors
commit if the commander knew or should have known they might be committed
and did nothing to stop or prevent them.
Bush defensively denied that the United States engages in torture and
foreswore authorizing it. But it has been well-documented that policies
set at the highest levels of our government have resulted in the torture
and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of U.S. prisoners in Iraq,
Afghanistan and Guantánamo.
Indeed, Congress passed the Detainee Treatment Act in December, which
codifies the prohibition in United States law against cruel, inhuman or
degrading treatment or punishment of prisoners in U.S. custody. In his
speech yesterday, Bush took credit for working with Senator John McCain
to pass the DTA.
In fact, Bush fought the McCain "anti-torture" amendment tooth-and-nail,
at times threatening to veto the entire appropriations bill to which it
was appended. At one point, Bush sent Dick Cheney to convince McCain to
exempt the CIA from the prohibition on cruel treatment, but McCain
refused.
Bush signed the bill, but attached a "signing statement" where he
reserved the right to violate the DTA if, as commander-in-chief, he
thought it necessary.
Throughout his speech, Bush carefully denied his administration had
violated any laws during its "tough" interrogations of prisoners. Yet,
the very same day, the Pentagon released a new interrogation manual that
prohibits techniques including "waterboarding," which amounts to torture.

Before the Supreme Court decided the Hamdan case, the Pentagon intended
to remove any mention of Common Article 3 from its manual. The manual had
been the subject of revision since the Abu Ghraib torture photographs
came to light.
But in light of Hamdan, the Pentagon was forced to back down and
acknowledge the dictates of Common Article 3.
Bush also seeks Congressional approval for his revised military
commissions, which reportedly contain nearly all of the objectionable
features of his original ones.
The President's speech was timed to coincide with the beginning of the
traditional post-Labor Day period when Congress focuses on the November
elections. The Democrats reportedly stand a good chance of taking back
one or both houses of Congress. Bush fears impeachment if the Democrats
achieve a majority in the House of Representatives.
By challenging Congress to focus on legislation about treatment of
terrorists - which he called "urgent" - Bush seeks to divert the election
discourse away from his disastrous war on Iraq.
Marjorie Cohn, a professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, is
president-elect of the National Lawyers Guild, and the U.S.
representative to the executive committee of the American Association of
Jurists.

What is great about the Internet is that facts can be found at a moments
notice, facts which show the Republican majority in the mid 1990's did
everything possible to sabotage President Clinton's efforts to thwart Al-Qaida and the
terrorist threat facing America. Starting in 1995 Clinton took actions
against terrorism that was unprecedented in American history, $ billions were
poured into counter-terrorism activities across the entire intelligence
community, he poured $ billions more into the protection of critical infrastructure,
and he ordered massive federal stockpiling of antidotes and vaccines to
prepare for a possible bio-terror attack. Within the National Security Council
"threat meetings" were held 3 times a week to assess looming conspiracies, in
contrast the Bush administration did not meet for the 8 months before 9-11 to
discuss terrorism, despite massive amounts of intelligence warning of an attack
on our soil, and the pleas of counter-terror chief Richard Clarke. Bill
Clinton attempted to pass strong counter-terrorism measures in the House and
Senate, but was sabotaged in the House and Senate by Republicans some who called
him "Hysterical". Clinton's proposals would have expanded pre-trial detention
and allowed more federal wiretaps of terrorism suspects, eased deportation
of foreigners convicted of crimes, allowed the detention of aliens convicted
or suspected of crimes, let the President criminalize fund-raising for
terrorism, and revived visa denial provisions to keep dangerous people out of the
United States. Unfortunately, for the American people the Republicans had a
different agenda, they had a Democratic President to bring down. Clinton raised
the issue of terrorism in virtually every important speech he gave in the
last 3 years of his tenure, in 1996 President Clinton delivered a major address
to the U.N. on the matter of international terrorism, calling it "The enemy
of our generation". At a meeting between the outgoing Clinton administration
and the incoming Bush administration, Clinton's National Security Advisor
Sandy Berger spoke for an hour about Al-Qaida and worldwide terrorist groups
being the biggest threat facing America in the coming decade, later his
counterpart in the Bush administration Condeleezza Rice totally disregarded Berger and
the Clinton administration and named Iraq as the number one threat facing
America, the die was cast. Maybe we need to ask the Republicans up for
re-election why they wanted to appease the terrorists, Clinton urged Congress to act
quickly in adopting his anti-terrorist legislation before they went on summer
recess in 1996, but while Clinton pushed for quick legislation, Republican
lawmakers hardened their stance against his proposed anti-terror measures. The
bottom line here is that President Clinton took the terrorism threat very
seriously, there were 5 different attacks thwarted on his watch, which was only
accomplished because Clinton, Richard Clarke, and their National Security
team were diligent in their efforts, personally I believe 9-11 happened because
the Bush administration was asleep at the switch, the intelligence was there
it just wasn't acted upon. It is time the Bush administration and the
Republicans stop playing politics with American lives, stop trying to justify Iraq
for it will always be remembered as the "Biggest foreign policy blunder in
American history" not my words the words of foreign policy experts throughout
the country, and they should start telling the truth, rather that try to
portray Democrats as weak on terrorism, because the facts do not back up their
rhetoric.
_www.mikechersh.com/republicanssabotagedclintonsantiterrorefforts.shtml_
(http://www.mikechersh.com/republicanssabotagedclintonsantiterrorefforts.shtml)



ABC will be having a special about 9/11. They are using a film made by a
rightie from FrontPage. We know the truth though so don't let the scum get away
with their lies.

Thursday, September 07, 2006
28-Year Career CIA Official Says 9/11 An Inside Job


28-Year Career CIA Official Says 9/11 An Inside Job
Highlights missing Pentagon trillions as potential motive
_Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | September 7 2006_
(http://prisonplanet.com/)
A 28-year CIA career man and a former skeptic of alternative 9/11
explanations has gone further than ever before in voicing his convictions that the
attacks bore the hallmarks of an inside job and the three buildings in the WTC
complex were brought down by controlled demolition.
Bill Christison is a former senior official of the CIA. He was a National
Intelligence Officer and the Director of the CIA's Office of Regional and
Political Analysis before his retirement in 1979. Since then he has written
numerous articles on U.S. foreign policies.
In Christison's recent article, _Stop Belittling the Theories About September
11_ (http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Aug06/Christison14.htm) , he afforded
credibility to the notion that "significant parts" of the official 9/11 story
were false and after careful research he concluded that the twin towers and
building 7, "were most probably destroyed by controlled demolition charges
placed in the buildings."
Christison went further on The Alex Jones Show, agreeing that the attacks
being an inside job was the "most likely possibility."
"David Griffin believes this all was totally an inside job - I've got to say
I think that it was too," said Christison.
Christison initially approached the subject unwilling to even consider that
elements of the government could be engaged in such heights of criminality
but his research quickly began to change his mind.
"Just about half a year ago it dawned on me that not only was I trying to
avoid an issue that might be extraordinarily important - more important than
any other issue," said Christison.
"I have since decided that....at least some elements in this US government
had contributed in some way or other to causing 9/11 to happen or at least
allowing it to happen."

Christison (pictured) stated that the suspicious collapse of the three
buildings, including building 7 which wasn't hit by a plane, were likely the
result of controlled demolitions.
"The reason that the two towers in New York actually collapsed and fell all
the way to the ground was controlled explosions rather than just being hit by
two airplanes."
"All of the characteristics of these demolitions show that they almost had
to have been controlled explosions."
Referencing the 2.3 trillion dollars that was discovered to be missing from
the Pentagon's coffers, Christison emphasized the fact that with an unlimited
budget, the scope of operations that could be undertaken by the
military-industrial complex are almost without recourse.
"There is so much money now sloshing around throughout not only the CIA but
the intelligence components of the Defense Department - which are actually
bigger than the CIA - that these guys can do almost anything they want these
days."
Christison said that one of the subsidiary motives behind 9/11 was to take
attention away from an impending exposure of the missing trillions and
criminal proceedings against high officials - just as _LBJ had Kennedy assassinated
partly to delay_
(http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2006/300806jfk.htm) imminent corruption probes that would have sent him to prison.
Christison is just the latest in a deluge of former government and
intelligence agency insiders to boldly go public with their doubts about the official
story behind 9/11 and he has an urgent message for future whistleblowers who
might be considering the same course of action.
"We have got to be willing to be discredited, we have got to stick our necks
out - this is just plain too important."

Be safe...
Bobby
I don't need a certain number of friends,
Just a number of friends I can be certain of.

JusB