Bush Body Count

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The following is taken from www.bushbodycount.com interesting reading I wonder how Tony Blair stacks up to this list...

AWOL Bush


The Vietnam war was a painful time for America. Many young Americans were drafted and died thousands of miles from their loved ones. Young men of priviledge had a clear advantage - few of them went to Vietnam, securing positions in the National Guards of their respective states. George W. Bush was one of these men, securing a place in the Texas Air National Guard in spite of a waiting list of several hundred. However, he claims that he did not receive special consideration, which is clearly a lie.

Most of the young men lucky enough to get into the Guard fulfilled their obligations. George W. Bush did not. He was absent without leave, AWOL, for over a year. Not surprisingly, this got little attention from the corporate media.

There are no witnesses left to verify whether or not Bush fulfilled his Guard duty, and no witnesses left to verify that he did indeed receive special treatment. In spite of a substantial reward that has been posted, no one has come forward to claim that he fulfilled his commitment.


Lt. Colonel William Harris, Jr.

Lt. Col. William Harris was one of two commanding officers who could not perform George W. Bush's annual evaluation covering the year from May 1, 1972 to April 30, 1973. They stated in their filing that "Lt. Bush has not been observed at this unit during the period of this report." Fortunately for George W. Bush, Lt. Col. Harris is not here to verify his 1973 statement. He's dead.


Lt. Colonel Jerry B. Killian

Lt. Col. Jerry B. Killian was another of George W. Bush's commanding officers. He cannot testify in a court of law as to George W. Bush's dereliction of his sworn duty. Lt. Col. Killian is dead.

Note: we were unable to find details on the deaths of Lt. CoLs. Killian and Harris, only that they were dead. The names are included because they were relatively young men, whose deaths were convenient to Bush.


James Downing Aalund

Mr. Aalund's name is the first on a long list of young Texans who died in Vietnam. These young men did not have influential fathers to pull the strings necessary to get them into the Texas Air National Guard. If they had been so lucky, they would surely have fulfilled their responsibilities to the ANG, if only out of gratitude that they did not have to die, thousands of miles away in a strange land. They surely would not have disappeared from duty for over a year, as did our fearless leader George W. Bush.


Dead Heroes


Where have all the heroes gone? To the grave - one after another. John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Paul Wellstone - all silenced. It seems a foregone conclusion that when a leader comes along who truly represents the American people, not just the corporations, he is eliminated - by a lone gunman, or he dies in a plane crash. Are we to believe that this is simply coincidence?

While some of the men on this page might not strictly belong on the Bush Body Count, this is a tribute to our past, to the men who helped shape our American ideals.


John Fitzgerald Kennedy

An internal FBI memo reported that on November 22 a reputed businessman named George H. W. Bush reported hearsay that a certain Young Republican had been talking of killing the President when he came to Houston. The Young Republican was nowhere near Dallas on that date. According to a 1988 story in The Nation, J. Edgar Hoover said in a memo that Mr. George Bush of the CIA had been briefed on November 23rd, 1963 about the reaction of anti-Castro Cuban exiles in Miami to the assassination of President Kennedy. George H. W. Bush has denied this, although he was in Texas and cannot account for his whereabouts at the time.


Robert F. Kennedy

After his brother's death, people looked toward RFK with hope that he could be the one to make a difference. That hope was shattered on June 5, 1968, when Robert Kennedy was slain at the Ambassador Hotel in California, just after claiming victory in that state's Presidential primary.


Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King was a beacon of hope for millions. When he took up the cause of Rosa Parks, a Montgomery seamstress who was arrested when she refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white man, it was the catalyst for the civil rights movement and truly changed our world for the better. On April 4, 1968, Dr. King was shot and killed at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.


Paul Wellstone

He was a vocal opponent of the Bush administration and the only real progressive in the Senate. Polls showed that his popularity surged when he voted to oppose the war on Iraq. His victory in the Senate race was a foregone conclusion.

Senator Wellstone, his wife Sheila, daughter Marcia, three of his staff and both pilots were killed when his small plane went down in Evelyth, Minnesota, on October 25, 2002.

Governor Mel Carnahan

In the midst of a heated race for the Senate against John Ashcroft, the Governor died in a plane crash on October 16, 2000. His death affected Democrats in two ways - it would hurt their chances of seizing control of the US Senate, and it would strongly impact the Presidential race between Al Gore and George W. Bush. Said St. Louis University political scientist Ken Warren, "There will be a sympathy vote, but that won't be enough to allow him to win. "I don't think the race will be very close. It's over." As we know now, Ashcroft lost to a dead man. Carnahan was elected by a landslide.


Lori Klausutis

Lori Klausutis, age 28, was found dead behind a desk in the offices of US Representative Joe Scarborough of Florida, a Republican, on July 20, 2001. Death was apparently due to a blow on the head. Claims that a heart condition precipitated an accidental fall are tenuous at best; Lori was a marathon runner, and one would think that a heart condition would already have become apparent. At the time of her death, she was treasurer of her chapter of the Florida Federation of Young Republicans. Readers will note that there is no mention of young Lori's passing, although there is that ever-present link to the Chandra/Gary dungheap that commands the attention of our media.

It is an interesting coincidence that Tim Klausitus, Lori's husband, worked on targeting technology for missiles, in light of the fact that Lori's body was discovered within a week of George W. Bush's much-ballyhooed missile defense test. Another interesting tidbit: Rep. Scarborough sits on both the Military Construction and the Research and Development Subcommittees. Scarborough has resigned and is leaving office in November, giving his family as the reason.


Dan Rocco

He died on April 1, 2002, in a plane crash in Gainesville, Georgia. He was an executive vice president at ChoicePoint, the firm that gained infamy with their faulty "felons" list supplied to Katherine Harris during the 2000 election in Florida. As a result of this list, thousands of voters (mostly African-American voters) were wrongly identified as felons and purged from the rolls.

one of the criminals.

Enron recently filed what was at the time, the largest bankruptcy in US history (since then, WorldCom has that distinction). Enron executives helped shape White House energy policy - a fact that Bush and Cheney tried diligently to keep secret.

Enron was Bush's and the GOP's largest campaign contributer. Over 50 high-level officials in the Bush Administration, including the White House, the Departments of the Treasury, Commerce, and State, the U.S. Trade Representative's office and EPA, had ties to Enron. Indeed, Bush is so tight with former CEO, Kenneth Lay, that he calls him, affectionately, "Kenny Boy".

The Bush Administration has tried to cover up their close ties with Enron, and while they have succeeded to some degree, at least with our major media, sites like The Daily Enron present the truth.


J. Clifford Baxter

Found dead in his car, shot in the head. Mr. Baxter was vice chairman of Enron Corp. when he resigned in May 2001. Enron has been hot copy lately with the revelation that they were the largest campaign contributors for George W. Bush. Was J. Clifford Baxter a potential witness to Bush foreknowledge of their wrongdoings? His death was ruled a suicide.


James Daniel Watkins

His body was found on December 1, 2001 in the Pike National Forest in Colorado, a gunshot wound to the head. Mr. Watkins was a consultant for Arthur Andersen, the accounting firm for Enron. He disappeared on November 13 after he left work. He was described as a devoted family man who always called home if he were going to be late. Officials initially said that the death was suspicious, but have changed their tune and have ruled his death a suicide.


Jake Horton

He was the senior ice-president of Gulf Power, a subsidiary of Southern Company, a cohort of Enron in the energy industry, and a major contributer to the Bush agenda. According to reporter Gregory Palast, Horton knew of the company's appalling accounting practices, and "... had no doubt about its illegal campaign contributions to Florida politicans - he'd made the payments himself. In April of 1989 Horton decided to come clean with state officials, and reserved the company jet to go confront company officials. Ten minutes after takeoff the jet exploded.


Charles Dana Rice

He was the senior vice president and treasurer of El Paso Corp., an energy corporation swept up in the recent energy scandal. Two months after the "suicide" of Enron executive Clifford Baxter, in the midst of questions about the accounting practices of El Paso Corp., Charles Rice was found dead of a gunshot wound to the head. His death was ruled a suicide.

Iran/Contra Scandal


In November of 1986, the nation learned that Vice President George H.W. Bush, CIA Director William Casey, and Lt. Col. Oliver North had been the architects of a scheme to trade arms to Iran.

In October 1980, President Jimmy Carter was running a close race for President against Ronald Reagan. Carter was negotiating with Iranian officials for the release of 52 Americans held captive by extremists in Iran. The Reagan/Bush campaign knew that if Carter successfully negotiated the release of the hostages, he would be certain to win the Presidential election in November. The Reagan/Bush campaign referred to the possible release of the hostages under Carter as Carter's "October Surprise" and were determined that he would not succeed in gaining their release.

Iranian officials were approached by Reagan/Bush officials and offered a deal: use their influence on the militant Iranians holding the hostages, and delay the release until after the election. In return, the Iranians would receive arms for their war against Iraq. The deal was struck, and the hostages were kept prisoner until after the election, hours before Reagan's inauguration.

After the hostages' release, the arms shipments to Iran continued. Profits were funneled to another pet cause of the right wing - the Nicuaraguan terrorists known as "freedom fighters" or "Contras". Another Contra source of income was trafficking in narcotics, running cocaine into the United States, with the full knowledge and cooperation of Administration officials. In the 80's there was a huge increase in the flow of cheap crack cocaine into the inner cities of America and countless lives were destroyed.

A series of investigations led to the convictions of Oliver North and Vice Admiral John C. Poindexter, head of the National Security Council, on charges of obstructing Congress and unlawfully destroying documents, but both their convictions were later reversed. In 1992 President George H.W. Bush pardoned many of the top government officials who had been charged or convicted in the scheme. The main perpetrators of Iran/Contra and associated events remain free today, and many of them work in George W. Bush's Administration.


Paul Wilcher

His partially decomposed body was found in his home, still seated on the toilet. According to the Washington Times, "...he was investigating the theory of an 'October Surprise' conspiracy during the 1980 federal election campaign. He had been interviewing an inmate who claimed to have piloted George Bush to Paris so he could secretly seek to delay the release of 52 American hostages in Iran."


Amiram Nir

He was a former Israeli agent who was in Jerusalem with George Bush during Iran Contra. He went under the assumed name of Pat Weber. Nir was scheduled to testify to the Senate subcommittee and it was feared he would reveal the truth. He perished when his aircraft was shot down with missiles from the helicopter of a man called Gene Tatum, 25-year CIA deep cover agent.


Senator John Tower

He was appointed by the Reagan/Bush Administration to chair the bipartisan committee to investigate the Iran/Contra scandals. He directed the Tower Report and had all the Iran Contra documents that told the real story. He was killed in an airplane crash later in Georgia in 1991. Also killed was his daughter, Marian.


Mohammed Zia al-huk

Dictator of Pakistan, and knew all about Iran/Contra, the training, funding, and arming of narco-terrorists like Osama bin Laden. In August 1988, the same day George Bush got the Republican nomination, his plane crashed into the ground with all engines running. The Pakistanis kept the bodies around (in violation of Islamic custom) for weeks, awaiting US experts. They showed up three weeks later and never checked the bodies. Why?

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Barry Seal

He was supposedly murdered by Medellin cartel members, but a 6-month investigation by Sam Dalton, attorney for three of the accused murderers, into Mr. Seal's life and death uncovered some interesting points. The accused's cartel connections were well known, but not their association with Oliver North's enterprise. Mr. Seal was a drug smuggler, up to his armpits in smuggling cocaine for - guess who? - the CIA. During the penalty phase of the Columbians' trial, testimony by one government witness on the activities of Mr. Seal was so damaging to the government that 2 of the jurors wanted to change their verdict to "not guilty". The personal telephone number of George H. W. Bush was found in the trunk of Mr. Seal's car.


William Colby

This former CIA director disappeared in an apparent boating accident, and a body was later discovered (minus the life jacket Colby's friends insisted he always wore while boating) and buried promptly. John DeCamp, a lawyer from Lincoln, Nebraska, and Colby's close friend and confidant, said Colby's death was not an accident. He stated that Colby was prepared to disclose that missing P.O.W.'s were working for a dope smuggling operation orchestrated by General Colin Powell, Pentagon official Richard Armitage, and George H. W. Bush.


Mario Ruiz Massieu

An apparent suicide, Massieu was facing charges that he laundered money for the cocaine cartels. A Houston, Texas jury had found that $8 million in his bank accounts was paid to him by cocaine cartels.


Olof Palme

He was the prime minister of Sweden, assassinated in 1986. Oliver North, the golden boy of the Bush/Reagan machine, had met with Mr. Palme to discuss the possibility of obtaining false end-user certificates for the plethora of weapons that were being purchased, so that they would seem to have come from a country other than the U.S. Mr. Palme refused to participate, after the plan was presented to him. He was dead within weeks.


William Casey

William Casey was CIA Director during the Reagan/Bush Administration. He died 2 days before he was to testify about his and others' involvement in the Iran/Contra scandal.

George Bush and his administration do not know or care how many Iraqi civilians have been killed in the occupation. This fact is best illustrated by Barbara Bush's remarks to Diane Sawyer in a TV interview:

Why should we hear about body bags and deaths and how many, what day it's going to happen? It's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?

Please visit the Iraq Body Count to view statistics that the Bush regime doesn't bother to keep.


Iraq Coalition Deaths

Since March, 2003, nearly 900 coalition forces are dead. Thousands more are wounded.

We were keeping our own list of dead soldiers, but the sheer volume of casualties makes that impossible now. Visit the Iraq Coalition Casualty Count for an up to date total.


Nick Berg

Nick Berg, 26, was in Iraq trying to drum up business for his company, Prometheus Methods Tower Service Inc. His parents were frantic when he did not come home as planned on March 30, but on March 31, they got a visit from the F.B.I., who told them that Nick had been arrested by the Iraqi police.

On April 5, the Bergs filed suit in federal court in Philadelphia, charging that the U.S. military were holding Nick. On April 6, Nick was released. He told his parents that he had been arrested at a checkpoint in Mosul, and that he had been questioned three times by the FBI while detained. On April 9, Nick told his parents that he was leaving Iraq by way of Turkey, Lebanon or Kuwait. It was the last time they spoke to their son.

On Tuesday, May 11, a video of Nick Berg's beheading at the hands of masked and hooded men was posted on an Islamic website. Michael Berg, Nick's father, blames the US for detaining his son for 13 days, until the country had become much more dangerous. He had this to say:

"We named Rumsfeld as the responsible person, and I still hold him responsible. It's the whole Patriot Act. It's the whole feeling of this country that rights don't matter any more because there are terrorists about."

Kennedy Assassination


After the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, Kennedy was blamed by the CIA for refusing support to their plan to overthrow Fidel Castro. Were they angry enough to plot his assassination? There are many unanswered questions about Kennedy's murder to this day. We will probably never know the full truth.

George H. W. Bush supposedly became CIA Director without ever having served in the CIA, a questionable claim. In fact, a memo from the F.B.I. to the State Department a few days after the murder would seem to indicate otherwise. The memo stated that information about both pro-Castro and anti-Castro groups had been passed along to "George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency".


John Fitzgerald Kennedy

An internal FBI memo reported that on November 22 a reputed businessman named George H. W. Bush reported hearsay that a certain Young Republican had been talking of killing the President when he came to Houston. The Young Republican was nowhere near Dallas on that date. According to a 1988 story in The Nation, J. Edgar Hoover said in a memo that Mr. George Bush of the CIA had been briefed on November 23rd, 1963 about the reaction of anti-Castro Cuban exiles in Miami to the assassination of President Kennedy. George H. W. Bush has denied this, although he was in Texas and cannot account for his whereabouts at the time.


Hale Boggs

He sat on the Warren Commission, which concluded that President Kennedy was slain by a lone assassin. Later, in 1971 and '72, Boggs said that the Warren Report was false and that J. Edgar Hoover's FBI not only helped cover up the JFK murder but blackmailed Congress with massive wire-tapping and spying. He named Warren Commission staff member Arlen Specter as a major cover-up artist. Congressman Boggs' plane disappeared on a flight to Alaska in 1972. The press, the military, and the CIA publicly proclaimed the plane could not be located. Investigators later said that was a lie, that the plane had been found. On the plane were Nick Begich, a very popular Democratic Congressman, and Don Jonz, an aide to Mr. Boggs. All were killed.


George de Mohrenschildt

A rich Russian oilman, he was described with his wife as being the two people friendliest to Oswald at the time of the assassination. De Mohrenschildt was the man who moved Oswald to Dallas. In the late 1970's, shortly before the first meeting of the House Select Committee on Assassinations, de Mohrenschildt started seeing a new doctor in town. He quickly became mentally unstable, at which time his wife convinced him to stop seeing the doctor. They moved away and left a false forwarding address. On the same day that the Committee tried to contact him about testifying, he was found dead of a gunshot wound. In his personal address book was the entry Bush, George H.W. (Poppy) and Zapata Petroleum Midland (the oil company owned by George H.W. Bush).


Mrs. E. Howard Hunt

In December 1972, a United Airlines flight carrying Mrs. Dorothy Hunt, CIA operative and wife of Howard Hunt, (CIA operative and suspect in the Kennedy assassination) crashed. Believed to be carrying "hush money", she died in this crash.

Poppy


It's evident to anyone who has seen him make a speech that George W. Bush is not the man in charge, despite numerous attempts by the spin-meisters to paint him as a strong leader. We are not fooled. Forty-three is merely a puppet, a stunt double for Forty-One, the man who lurks behind the scenes and is known affectionately as "Poppy," George Herbert Walker Bush.

The Bush campaign sought to reassure the public about Bush's intellectual shortcomings, pointing to "trusted advisors" as a sop to our concern. It doesn't surprise us that these advisors also held key positions in Bush the Elder's Administration.

According to Mother Jones, "he often calls National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of State Colin Powell to share his thoughts on foreign policy, which are relayed to the president. Since a large number of Bush Jr.'s aides worked in his father's administration, Bush Sr.'s calls are always answered and his ideas given unusual weight."

Of the three generations of Bush men mentioned on this site, the most evil and most dangerous by far is George Bush, Sr.


Jack Delaney and Ted White

These young men were killed when pilot George H. W. Bush abandoned his plane when it was hit by enemy fire. Much has been made of this story - Bush propaganda would have us believe that he was a hero. An eyewitness to the event tells us otherwise: Chester Mierzejewski, who was the turret gunner in another plane, had an unobstructed view. He states that he saw a "puff of smoke" come from Bush's plane and quickly dissipate. He states that the plane was never on fire and that Bush never attempted a water landing, which was standard procedure, and which would have given Mr. Delaney and Mr. White a chance.


Gary Caradori

He was investigating Lawrence E. King, Jr., a very influential black Republican who was also a friend of George H.W. Bush. King was director of the Franklin Community Credit Union in Omaha, Nebraska, and was suspected of embezzling $40 million. The Nebraska Senate questioned child prostitutes, who accused King of running a child prostitution ring. One of these children said that she saw George H.W. Bush at one of King's parties. "Pronto", a newspaper in Barcelona, Spain, reported that the scandal "appears to directly implicate politicos of the state of Nebraska and Washington DC who are very close to the White House and George Bush himself". Gary Caradori claimed that he had evidence that supported these allegations. On July 11, 1990, Gary Caradori was killed along with his 6-year old son in the crash of his small plane, after a mid-air explosion, the cause of which was never discovered. He had told friends repeatedly in the weeks before his death that he was afraid his plane would be sabotaged.


Orlando Letelier

He was torn to bits by a car bomb on the streets of Washington DC just before he was to testify against the Chilean dictator Pinochet. After the bombing, CIA Director George H. W. Bush told the FBI that there had been no Chilean involvement whatsoever. In 1991 the post-Pinochet Chilean Supreme Court asked George H. W. Bush if he would submit to questioning. BUSH REFUSED.


Ronni Moffit

She was Letelier's assistant. She and her husband were riding in the car with Letelier when the bomb exploded. Mr. Moffit survived. Ronni didn't.

Prescott & Adolph


The Bush family came by their wealth on the backs of 11 million dead. Prescott Bush, along with partner E. Ronald Harriman, supplied financial aid and raw materials to Hitler's Third Reich.

In 1942, Bush/Harriman companies were seized under the Trading with the Enemy Act: the Union Banking Corporation, the Holland-American Trading Corporation, the Seamless Steel Equipment Corporation and Silesian-American Corporation.

After the war, the CIA recruited many former Nazis to work for them, escaping prosecution for war crimes. Klaus Barbie, infamous for ordering the murder of French Jewish children, was among them. He was, however, eventually caught and returned to France to stand trial.

It is a Bush family tradition to rub elbows with evil men. What do Hitler, Manuel Noriega, Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, Pinochet and Iranian extremists have in common?


William S. Farish

He was one of Prescott Bush's partners in business deals with Adolph Hitler. He was devastated by the intense grilling he received from the Senate about his dealings with Nazis, and while Prescott Bush skated free, Farish collapsed and died on November 29, 1942.


James Forrestal

He was Undersecretary and Secretary of the Navy during WWII, and became the first Secretary of Defense in 1947. On March 28, 1949, he was forced out of office and flown on a military plane to Jupiter Island in Florida. From there he was taken to Walter Reed Army Hospital, where he was given insulin shock treatments. He was shielded from all visitors except his estranged wife. On May 22, 1949, he was found hanging by his bathrobe cord out a sixteenth-story hospital window. His death was ruled a suicide, but results of the Army inquest were not made public.

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September 11


George W. Bush knew.

Bush claims that he had no inkling of what was going to happen in America on September 11, 2001, but this is clearly a lie. There were many warnings, even 2 intercepted by the NSA on the day before the tragedy that indicated an attack was imminent. Intelligence in Israel, Egypt, France, Jordan, Morocco, and England warned the Bush administration about pending hijackings and plans to attack American targets.

On September 10, the day before the tragedy, a group of Pentagon officials canceled their travel plans because of security concerns. Why?

Two of the hijackers were known terrorists to the CIA and the FBI at the time they were attending flight school. They informed their instructors that they were not interested in learning how to take off or to land, just how to maneuver the plane while it was in the air. They were known terrorists, and they were not arrested or detained and interrogated. Why?

Shortly before the 9/11 attacks, John Ashcroft stopped flying commercial and started flying on government-chartered planes. Why?

In fact, the George W. Bush received many warnings that he disregarded. Bush knew, and he did nothing. Why?

Oil, that's why. And a free rein to rape the Constitution.

The Bush Administration did not hesitate to take advantage of the aftermath of the World Trade Center tragedy. They began pushing their agenda immediately, including the Patriot Act, with a total disregard for rights guaranteed our citizens under the Constitution. He wanted billions for defense and he got it, especially after a series of anthrax-contaminated mail was sent to Democrats, killing postal workers in its route. The American people were frightened, and rightly so, but the one they should fear most is the one who calls himself their President.

2,993 people lost their lives in attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and in the crash of a fourth hijacked plane in rural SW Pennsylvania. These attacks were preventable. These people did not have to die.


Bob Stevens

Mr. Stevens died of a mysterious case of anthrax. He worked as a photo editor for American Media, who owns the National Enquirer. The Bush family suffered enormous embarrassment at the hands of the Enquirer when they published a photo of daughter Jenna Bush, obviously intoxicated, cigarette in hand, cavorting on the floor with another drunken female.


Don C. WIley

Dr. Wiley disappeared November 15, 2001 in Memphis, Tennessee. He was attending a two-day annual meeting of the scientific advisory board of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. His work on deadly diseases such as ebola and HIV raised fears of a terrorist kidnapping. Four hours later, his rental car was found on a bridge, raising the question of suicide, which his family vehemently refuted. Dr. Wiley was found a month later in the Mississipi River.


Salem bin Laden

In 1979 Bush business Arbusto Energy obtained financing from James Bath, a close family friend. Bath had extensive ties to BCCI and the bin Laden family. Bath was the sole U.S. business representative for Salem bin Laden, the brother of Osama bin Laden. It is well known in certain circles that the Arbusto money came straight from Salem bin Laden, although Bush denies it. Salem bin Laden died when for no apparent reason, he flew his airplane into power lines where it became entangled, and fell 150 feet to the ground. "He was a very experienced pilot. He was a good pilot. We just can't understand why he decided to go right instead of left," recalled airstrip owner Earl May field.


John O'Neill

He was Director of Counterterrorism at the New York offices of the F.B.I. until he resigned in August 2001. One of the world's top experts on Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda, he grew to believe that "all the answers" regarding what they needed to destroy Al Qaeda lay in Saudi Arabia. However, starting in January 2001, Bush blocked all efforts by Mr. O'Neill to investigate Saudi ties to bin Laden. In the summer of 2001 O'Neill declared that the main obstacles to his investigation were U.S. oil interests.

In late August, a frustrated O'Neill quit the FBI and took a position as head of security for the World Trade Center. From Democrats.com:

September 11: On O'Neill's second day of work on the 34th floor, the WTC is hit by the first plane. O'Neill makes it out of the building safely, calls his son to say he is OK,. then goes into the other tower to help guide those still inside to safety. Minutes later, O'Neill, along with hundreds of others, is dead, killed by the terrorist the Bush administration refused to allow him to pursue to the best of his ability.


Thomas Morris, Jr.

Mr. Morris was a postal worker who died October 21, 2001, of inhalation anthrax. When people expressed concern to the current occupant of the White House about the anthrax cases in New York and Washington, his response was to tell us not to worry, that he does not have anthrax.


Joseph Curseen

Mr. Curseen died October 22, 2001, of inhalation anthrax. It has been reported that the anthrax infections since September 11 are of the same strain that was kept in a military facility.


Kathy T. Nguyen

Ms. Nguyen died on October 31, 2001, of inhalation anthrax. But we shouldn't worry - George W. Bush remains anthrax-free.


Katherine Smith

She had been implicated in February in a phony documents scheme said to be related to the September 11 hijackers. One day before she was due in court, she was incinerated in her car after having hit a utility pole. An investigation revealed that the crash was minor and was not the cause of the fire that burned Smith beyond recognition. Who was really behind 9/11? Was Katherine Smith privy to that information? Why did she have to die, and who killed her?

Steve Kangas

His web site, Liberalism Resurgent, was meticulously researched and presented such a problem to the right, especially Richard Scaife, that he hired a private detective to look into Kangas' past. Steve Kangas was found in a 39th-floor bathroom outside of Scaife's offices at One Oxford Centre, in Pittsburgh, an apparent suicide.

Mr. Kangas, a very prolific writer, left no note. He had brought a fully-packed suitcase of clothes with him to Pittsburgh. He bought a burglar alarm shortly before he left for Pittsburgh. Why did he need a burglar alarm if he was going to commit suicide? An avowed advocate of gun control, he nevertheless bought a gun. What was he afraid of? Why did he go to Pittsburgh? After his death, his computer was sold for $150 and its hard drive wiped clean. Everything in his apartment was thrown away.



Mark Lombardi

He was an accomplished conceptual artist who, while chatting on the phone with a banker friend about the Bush savings and loan scandal, started doodling a diagram and was inspired to create a complex series of drawings and sketches that charted the details of the scandal. According to the New York Times, "He was soon charting the complex matrices of personal and professional relationships, conflict of interest, malfeasance and fraud uncovered by investigations into the major financial and political scandals of the day; to keep facts and sources straight, he created a handwritten database that now includes around 12,000 3-by-5-inch cards."

On the evening of March 22, 2000, Mark Lombardi was found hanging in his loft, an apparent suicide.


Danny Casolaro

He was working on a book that tied together the scandals surrounding the presidency of George H. W. Bush. He told his friends he was going to "bring back" the head of the Octopus. Instead, his body was found in a hotel in Martinsburg, West Virginia, on August 10, 1991, an apparent suicide.


James Hatfield

Mr. Hatfield was the author of Fortunate Son, an unauthorized biography of George W. Bush. The book detailed Bush's cocaine use and cover up of a cocaine arrest. He was found Wednesday, July 18, in a motel room, an apparent suicide.

Texas Justice


With George W. Bush as Governor, Texas ranked first in executions and dead last in social services. Bush opposed legislation banning the execution of people with IQs under 65 and legislation providing funding for the basic legal defense of indigent people. Instead Bush signed off on 152 executions, in what has been described as an "assembly-line" death penalty process. In a 1998 report, Amnesty International stated that "at every step in the death penalty process in Texas, a litany of grossly inadequate legal procedures fail to meet recognized minimum international standards for the protection of human rights."

Many of these inmates had attorneys that were clearly incompetent, even falling asleep during the trial. According to the Washington Post, "With few public defender offices in Texas, most indigent defendants must rely on court-appointed lawyers. Interviews with lawyers and other experts, as well as a review of 16 Texas death penalty cases, revealed instances in which lawyers in capital trials slept though key testimony, failed to file crucial legal papers correctly or on time, or had been cited for professional misconduct repeatedly in their careers."

Even when presented with evidence of possible innocence, George W. Bush refused to show mercy to any of the 152 dead. In fact, Bush has said that he doesn't need to study the evidence, that he trusts the mechanizations of the system, a system that has proven to be seriously flawed.


Karla Faye Tucker

She was executed in spite of enormous protest from the public, even those religious groups that advocate the death penalty. Even Pat Robertson thought that Karla was truly repentant and asked George W. Bush to spare her life. He refused. Afterward, in a Talk Magazine interview, Bush mocked the woman whose death warrant he had sanctioned, pursing his lips and whimpering, "Please don't kill me!"


David Wayne Spence

David Wayne Spence was executed in Texas in 1997 in spite of compelling evidence of his innocence. Two of the State's witnesses were co-defendants who testified to avoid the death penalty, one of whom changed his story three times in response to discrepancies. He later testified that police officer Truman Simons encouraged him to alter his testimony. Two other witnesses for the State were jailhouse snitches who recanted later and stated that they were offered favors in exchange for testimony. All of this and more was supposedly reviewed by Governor George W. Bush, but Bush refused to commute his sentence, and did not order the Board of Pardons and Paroles to review his request for clemency. It is a myth that a Texas Governor can do nothing to stop executions; the Board will almost always go with his recommendation. Bush washed his hands of the matter and did nothing. Reasonable doubt is not a factor in Texas justice.


Gary Graham

Gary Graham was convicted of the robbery and murder of a white man in 1981. Nearly two weeks after the crime, the state's prime witness could not pick Gary's picture out of a photo line-up. Mr. Graham was arrested with a 22 caliber pistol. The victim had been killed with a 22, but the police firearms examiner determined that Mr. Graham's gun DID NOT fire the fatal bullet. Four witnesses said Gary Graham was with them, miles away from the convenience store, when the murder occured. All four took and passed polygraph tests. George W. Bush, predictably, expressed his faith in the Texas judicial system and allowed Mr. Graham to be put to death. Mr. Graham maintained his innocence to the end.

Watergate


On June 17, 1972, five burglars were caught in the offices of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate apartment and office complex in Washington, D.C. The chain of events that followed ended with Nixon's resignation on August 9, 1974.

George Bush Sr. became RNC Chairman in the midst of the Watergate scandal, when the burglars were still on trial. Unlike other Party officials, he actually had an office in the building where Nixon preferred to work. When asked how Bush rated a government office, a GOP spokesman replied that it was actually a "guest" office, although Bush spent a lot of his time there. According to journalist Al Reinert, "when Nixon became president, Bush became a teacher's pet, a presidential favorite, described in the press as one of 'Nixon's men'." We have no doubt that George H.W. Bush had a powerful influence over Nixon, as he had over Reagan in later years, operating as always in the background, behind the scenes.


Lou Russell

Lou Russell worked as a private detective for an agency that was helping George H.W. Bush, then chairman of the RNC, prepare for a press conference. It is a rumor that Lou Russell was the fabled "sixth burglar" of Watergate, the one who got away. On May 16, 1973, "Deep Throat" warned Bob Woodward that "Everyone's life is in danger." and that "electronic surveillance is going on and we had better watch it.". On May 18, Lou Russell suffered a massive heart attack that put him in Adventist Hospital, where he recovered somewhat and stayed until June 20. Russell told his daughter that he believed he had been poisoned. On July 2, two weeks after his release from the hospital, he had another "heart attack" and died.


John Leon

He was a friend and associate of Lou Russell. He was collecting statements about Watergate, and was to be the focus of a press conference. Leon suffered a "heart attack" and died, on the day before the conference was to be held.

pr0digal jenius

are ya sending that off for publishing, or are ya making the 'abridged edition' first?





Good reading though, biased, obviously, as is all political analysis...but good reading none the less

PoopyTheJ

I'll trust that more than Network "news".....

pr0digal jenius

well yea, it's far better then "Fux News"


My source for news, atm is "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" on Comedy Central, if that tells you anything

PoopyTheJ

Yeah, I trust comedy central far more than fux

The_Neon_Cowboy

LOL, A sourceless collection that isn't really liable or responceable is = me whipiing up a completely 1 sided website linking you to every tragity in history and consericy theries and posting it as fact. I sure if one of the think tanks took the time they'd rip massive holes an much of that sites information. puting people that are crap like "michael more" up on pedistals etx...

Actually id trust network news or even a absoulte patalogical lier more then that site
about 1 in 1,000,000,000,000,000 conspericy theroys hold watter. It still dosnt;t mean it really happened or that the theroratical charicters has anyhing to do with it...

The sites actually kida of "creapy" knowing the lifeless wierdo that must be behind the keyboard.

It pointless to pick on bush like this when his terms over he's gone anyways.....

PoopyTheJ

"Pick on Bush"? The guy who's responsible for all the dead people, the coke head bush, the I need to be a dictator bush guy, and we're picking on him? I'd say their sources are about as reliable as those on say MSN or fux. Bush is about as dirty as you can get. As dirty if not more than the clintons and friends. He's dirty and frankly he's got the authority to make sure you won't know....

Ubergrendle

(disclaimer: i think the war in iraq is stupid, irrelevant, and empire building by the US)

For what its worth, even if the US soldier bodycount is 2500+ its a pitance for a foreign invasion. I think the UK suffered greater casualties in the Falkland Islands war. Under the circumstances Iraq has been a cakewalk, and conducted quite well by the US military. Situations like Abu Gahib (sp) are inevitable in any conflict unfortunately...put a bunch of stressed out, low educated, clan like organised people into confrontational situations and you'll bring out the worst (and best) in alot of people.

The fact that the Iraq insurgents (they're not terrorists, they're in a war zone) are now targetting Iraqi collaborators w/ the Americans, vs American units shows that the US army is well positioned and handling the warzone very well.

Ubergrendle

For what its worth, those numbers are probably very heavily scrutinized and much more reliable than mainstream network news.

PoopyTheJ

Discarding Martin Luther King, and the Kennedy's which are not very well tied in unless you already know poppy's background, the whole list of dead Enron exec's, Salem Bin Laden, the list of dead reporters etc, it's pretty obvious a lot of those if not all of those we're killed to shut them up. It's not healthy to know alot about Bush's inside dealings, you tend to start to want to commit suicide....

Rasta Monsta

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rasta

Falstaff

Good work Poopy, now lets get to work on the Bill Clinton body count...that is so much more impressive.

PoopyTheJ

Both of them are pretty scary, it just isn't healthy to know anything about those currently seen to be in power.....