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When W became president, one of the (several) reasons he gave for invading [[Iraq]] was the fact that [[Saddam Hussein]] had planned to assassinate GHWB in the early 1990s. | When W became president, one of the (several) reasons he gave for invading [[Iraq]] was the fact that [[Saddam Hussein]] had planned to assassinate GHWB in the early 1990s. | ||
Revision as of 19:15, 7 August 2014
George Herbert Walker Bush (named after a metaphysical poet, don't you know) better known to family as "Poppy", to fellow US Presidents as "41", to die-hard Republicans as "Jimmy Carter Mk II" and to everyone else as the measly smear of unsatisfactory filling in the Reagan-Clinton historical sandwich, is an oldfag spy and politician and the current patriarch of a (somewhat paradoxical) republican/aristocratic dynasty.
Made his money in oil (or did he? More below) then at some stage, we know not when, he joined the CIA.
During this time he was involved in the assassination of President John F Kennedy.
Handily, the identity of the mastermind behind the assassination was covered up by the Warren Commission, one of whose members was Gerald Ford ... who later became unelected President and appointed GHWB to the position of head of the CIA in 1976. Which just goes to show that it's sometimes what you know as well as who you know.
Within a few years, GHWB had become Ronald Reagan's vice-president, a position of which he took full advantage by trying to have Reagan murdered too.
His plans came to nothing, but he didn't get caught (which is the main thing) and so when the Gipper finally toddled off GHWB had a clear run at the presidency. He was elected in 1988 (because his opponent was a greasy bubble called Michael Bukkake), but then got his ass kicked by Bill Clinton in 1992 and fucked off for good (no-one mention Ross Perot, right?)
Nowadays he is chiefly remembered as that grey-faced boring old fart who was W's daddy. Which is ironic, considering exactly how long GHWB has been playing the Power Behind The Throne.
Family life
GHWB's father was Prescott Bush, a man who made a considerable fortune by trading with Nazi Germany during WWII and was half-heartedly investigated under the Trading With The Enemy Act. The Bush family were later sued by a couple of so-called Auschwitz survivors who claimed the Bushes had financial ties to the fictional death camp (they lost of course, because it never happened). TLDR full history here.
—GHWB accidentally tells the truth for once | ||
GHWB is married to Barbara Bush, an alleged female so-called human being that looks more like an albino bullfrog wearing a Jimmy Savile wig.
At some stage, the pair of them must have had sex because they have several children, including Jeb and his brother W.
The former was the state governor who handed Florida's electoral votes to the latter in the still-ambiguous Presidential election of 2000.
Again, it's what you know as well as who you know in this game.
Dynastic manoeuvres in the Gulf
When W became president, one of the (several) reasons he gave for invading Iraq was the fact that Saddam Hussein had planned to assassinate GHWB in the early 1990s.
This is interesting because despite his reputation as a historical also-ran, GHWB took on Saddam in 1990-91 and forced his army out of Kuwait, but stopped short of invading Iraq itself. At the time, this was regarded as a sign of GHWB's weakness. In retrospect, and given the shit that's gone down in Iraqistan since then, it looks like a pretty clever trick.
Then again, tricking Saddam into invading Kuwait in the first place was also a 'pretty clever trick', and was managed by feeding Saddam disinformation to the effect that the USA was not interested in Iraq's historical territorial disputes with Kuwait.
The key moment of the transcript of the meeting between Saddam and US Ambassador April Glaspie reads:
—Ambassador Glaspie, 25 July 1990 -- one week before Saddam invaded Kuwait | ||
After having apparently shone the green light for Saddam to invade Kuwait, and for the USA to declare war in order to force him back out again, Glaspie later claimed rather lamely that she didn't think that he was going to invade ALL of Kuwait.
Ambassador Glaspie's last known public statement on the matter was that she had been the victim of "deliberate deception on a major scale".
Of course, a suspicious mind might speculate that GHWB was planning to invade Iraq if he got a second term in office, and that W simply fulfilled his old man's schemes.
Not really much of a surprise that Saddam felt like killing GHWB, is it?
On 20 November 1963, an advert in the Dallas Morning News announced that George Bush -- as CEO of the Zapata Off-Shore Drilling Company -- would speak before the American Association of Oilwell Drilling contractors the following day, at 6:30pm at the Sheraton-Dallas Hotel.
An FBI memo dated the day of the assassination records: “At 1:45 p.m. Mr. GEORGE H. W. BUSH, President of the Zapata Off-Shore Drilling Company, Houston, Texas, residence 5525 Briar, Houston, telephonically furnished this following information to writer by a long distance telephone call from Tyler, Texas.”
“Bush stated that he wanted to be kept confidential but wanted to furnish hearsay that he recalled hearing in recount weeks, the day and source unknown.”
Bush supposedly suspected a James Parrott, a student at the University of Texas, who had been talking of assassinating JFK when the president came to Houston. The "tip-off" turned out to be pointless, as A Disturbed Loner (TM) called Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested while Bush was still on the phone (at 1.47pm).
Tyler, where Bush made the call, is approximately 100 miles east of Dallas -- a distance that could easily be travelled in the one and a quarter hours since the assassination (at 12.30pm).
Bush told the FBI that he was going to be at the Sheraton-Dallas Hotel that evening, returning to his residence in Houston the next day.
So, Bush supposedly went to a hotel in Dallas the evening before the assassination, popped up 100 miles away in order to make a pointless telephone call an hour or so after the assassination, then returned to the same hotel in Dallas for no apparent reason that same evening before going home to Houston the next day.
Yup, that makes sense, doesn't it?
On 29 November, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover wrote that on the day after the assassination the State Department had learned that “some misguided anti-Castro group might capitalize on the present situation and undertake an unauthorized raid against Cuba, believing that the assassination of President John F. Kennedy might herald a change in U.S. policy, which is not true.”
Hoover noted that “Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency” furnished the background information contained in the report.
There was another George Bush (middle name William) working for the CIA at the time, but he later swore an affidavit (PDF) that the George Bush in the memo was not him.
In early March 1981, White House press secretary James Brady told reporters: “Bush is functioning much like [Reagan's] co-president. George is involved in all the national security stuff because of his special background as CIA director. All the budget working groups he was there, the economic working groups, the Cabinet meetings. He is included in almost all the meetings."
On 30 March 1981, A Disturbed Loner (TM) called John Hinckley Jr fired a gun at President Reagan at very close range but didn't manage to snuff the senile old cunt.
Meanwhile, GHWB was in Texas again. This time a president got shot, he was highly visible in Fort Worth where he unveiled a plaque at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, designating it as a national historic site. This was the hotel in which John F. Kennedy had spent the last night of his life.
In a further instance of small world syndrome, GHWB's family was personally acquainted with Hinckley's -- so much so, in fact, that on the day Reagan was shot, John Jr's brother Scott was due to pop round for dinner at the Denver home of GHWB's no-mark son Neil.
The Hinckley family's oil company -- oh yeah, did I mention they were in the same line of work as the Bush family? -- was warned a few hours before the shooting that it faced a $2m fine for overpricing its oil. The possible charges were apparently forgotten after Reagan was shot. Blackmail? Who mentioned blackmail?
In 1978, young W Bush had lived in Lubbock, Texas where he ran (unsuccessfully, of course) for Congress. John Hinckley Jr lived in Lubbock during the same period, but W did not recall meeting the suspect, saying: "It's certainly conceivable that I met him or might have been introduced to him. I don't recognize his face from the brief, kind of distorted thing they had on TV and the name doesn't ring any bells."
Moar info here.
And of course ...
ZOMG GHWB is teh reptilianz!!!!
