ARCHIE LEVINE's LOOK AT EVERYTHING ELSE YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BUSH

Well....anything else I ought to know about George W. Bush?

(updated January 31st, 2005)

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Who IS this guy?

Scion of traitors and warlords: why Bush is coy about his Irish links, by Angelique Chrisafis, Ireland correspondent, The Guardian [UK], January 27, 2005
Tapestry artist reveals ancestors of US president as murderous bunch
Bush backers upset over inaugural plans by Bob Dart, Cox News Service, January 12, 2005
"Bush's era of good feelings with his supporters expired the week after the election."
Bush Ain't No Republican: As they prepare to cast their vote on Tuesday, traditional Republicans must ask themselves whether this administration is truly the party of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower. By Michael Cudahy, AlterNet, November 2, 2004.
Bush Must Go, by Daniel McCarthy, LewRockwell.com, November 1st, 2004
A rough new ideology slouches its way toward Washington to be born. Resembling in its construction Frankenstein’s monster, stitched together from the remains of past ideologies, its skeleton is neoconservative, its heart Woodrow Wilson’s, with a compassionate face borrowed from a politicized brand of religion. President Bush spent his first term assembling these spare parts. If he’s granted a second, he may yet galvanize them into a semblance of life.
'Bushism': Win or lose, the president has remade the politics of the right. by John Micklethwait and Adrian Woolridgem, Wall Street Journal, October 27, 2004
The White House Wasn't Always God's House, By Arthur Schlesinger Jr., LA Times, October 26, 2004
"I Was One Guy in a Bubble": George W. Bush's push to keep outside advisers out was a catastrophic success. By Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect, October 25, 2004
"I have no outside advice" in the war on terrorism, President Bush told Bob Woodward in December of 2001. In an interview that Woodward revealed to Nicholas Lemann in last week's issue of the New Yorker, Bush insisted that, "Anybody who says they're an outside adviser of this Administration on this particular matter is not telling the truth. First of all, in the initial phase of the war, I never left the compound. Nor did anybody come in the compound. I was, you talk about one guy in a bubble."
John Kerry for President, The Nation, October 21, 2004
To make clear why, despite strong disagreements with Kerry, we not only recommend a vote for him but do so with fervor, we must step back from the candidates and their positions and set forth an independent view of what we believe are the stakes in this election.
Bush Relatives Use Website to Show Support for Kerry: 6 second cousins protest policies, by Sandeep Kaushik, Boston Globe, October 20, 2004
George Bush: On the Issues
'One Guy in a Bubble', by Harold Meyerson, Washington Post, October 20, 2004
Is He a Dope? LA Times, October 7, 2004
The dunce: His former Harvard Business School professor recalls George W. Bush not just as a terrible student but as spoiled, loutish and a pathological liar. By Mary Jacoby, Salon.com, Sept. 16, 2004
Who Is George W. Bush? By Toby Rogers and Nick Mamatas, 1/30/2000
His Character: The Prodigal Son

Worst President Ever?

How Bush Could Fight Tyranny, by Jackson Diehl. Washington Post, January 31, 2005
Bush Wrong At Any Altitude: Bush, once more, separates himself from reality, and in a grand fashion. By Marc Krug, Intervention Magazine, January 17, 2005
President of Fabricated Crises, by Harold Meyerson, Washington Post, January 12, 2005
What Bush Threw Away, by E. J. Dionne Jr., Washington Post, November 2, 2004
George W. Bush once had a chance to be looking forward to a landslide victory today and a nation committed to standing together in defeating terrorism. Instead, the president is perilously close to defeat. The best he can hope for is a narrow victory that will leave the nation bitter, divided and angry.
A Failed Presidency, LA Times, November 1st, 2004
Edwards: Bush Has Trail Of Failure, CBS News, Oct. 29, 2004
Edwards challenged Mr. Bush "show us the order he gave to the troops to secure this weapons facility. If he did that, then he ought to be willing to show us that. If not, he should not be blaming the troops for something he is responsible for. My belief is and John Kerry's belief is that the troops did everything that they were asked to do, as they have the entire time in Iraq. It is the president who did not do his job."
For Bush, Too Late for Honesty: Missing munitions spark an explosion of administration excuses. by Jonathan Chait, LA Times, October 29, 2004
It's Not Just Al Qaqaa, by Paul Krugman, New York Times, October 29, 2004
A closer look at the Bush record, San Francisco Chronicle, October 24, 2004
Mission not accomplished, San Francisco Chronicle, October 24, 2004
George Bush Is No Leader, One Thousand Reasons, October 24th, 2004
Bizarro Bush: He's the exact opposite of what a president should be, by Justin Raimondo, AntiWar.com, October 22, 2004
100 Facts and 1 Opinion: The Non-Arguable Case Against the Bush Administration, by Judd Legum, The Nation, October 20, 2004
Bush: The Worst Mexican President Ever, by El Fisgón, Tomdispatch.com, October 14, 2004
The typical Mexican political boss has an inclination toward violence and cruelty; he despises legality and intellectual activity, has a personal history of alcoholism and dissipation and lies systematically. Sound familiar?
94 REASONS NOT TO VOTE FOR GEORGE W. BUSH, by Bob Whitby, Orlando Weekly, Published 10/14/04
It doesn't matter who you are or what you believe, George W. Bush has betrayed you, specifically and repeatedly.
A Failed Presidency, The Nation, September 13, 2004
War Gave Us Caesar, by Adam Young, Ludwig von Mises Institute, October 12, 2004
Today, under the current President’s promise of decades of foreign and domestic warfare, the centralized state is growing and growing, determined never to relinquish its hold on its foreign possessions and on the individual American and his hopes and dreams for a free and prosperous life.
Bush's Crimes: Impeach the president? Yes. A well-documented case ties him to Abu Ghraib. By Bob Norman, New Times, September 30, 2004
Bush by Numbers: Four Years of Double Standards (This is an edited extract from "What We've Lost", by Graydon Carter, published by Little Brown on 9 September, 2004)
The Vacation President: Up to Early August of his first year in office Bush spent 42% (96 days) in Crawford, Camp David, or Walker's point "getting a lot of work done" while spending more time on vacation than any other previous president.
One Thousand Reasons to Vote Against George Bush

Is a Puppet Ruler?

Bush aides deny Internet rumors he was wired, CNN, October 11, 2004

Is he insane, a dry drunk, or a drug addict?

Has Bush lost his reason? The President's apparent mental fragility should give US voters pause for thought at the ballot box: by Andrew Stephen, The Observer, October 17, 2004
New Information Suggests Bush Indecisive, Paranoid, Delusional, by Teresa Hampton, Editor, Capitol Hill Blue Jun 17, 2004
Psychoanalyst describes Bush as "paranoid meglomaniac," "untreated alcoholic", Capitol Hill Blue, June 14, 2004
Bush's erratic behavior worries White House aides, by Doug Thompson, Capitol Hill Blue, June 4, 2004
"The president's feet are not to touch the dirt", by Jimmy Breslin, Newsday [Long Island, NY], March 11, 2004
Is Bush a "Dry Drunk"? This is a Serious, Not Just a Provocative Question, by Michael O'McCarthy, BuzzFlash, March 10, 2003
Noted psychologist observes Bush's behavior, Says there's plenty to be worried about, by Oliver James, The Guardian [London, UK], Sept. 2, 2003
George W. and Alcoholism, by Michael O'McArthy, Counterpunch, October 19, 2002
Addiction, Brain Damage and the President: "Dry Drunk" Syndrome and George W. Bush, by Katherine van Wormer, Counterpunch, October 11, 2002
Dry Drunk: Is Bush making a cry for help? By Alan Bisbort, American Politics Journal, Sept. 24, 2002

But he comes from a family of patriots!

Courage Under Fire, By Jan Frel, AlterNet, September 28, 2004
As a young senator, John Kerry spearheaded courageous investigative work on the Contra drug scandals, shedding light on the hypocrisy of the Reagan/Bush administration.

Bush Family Values

Every offspring of George and Jeb has a rap sheet

If you want to talk about records, Mr. President, how about your arrest record?

George W. Bush is the first US president to have a criminal record. (What hasn't been expunged, anyway....)
Convicted of Drunk Driving, and Lied to Cover It Up
His DUI paperwork.
DUI, Drunk Driving Arrest Consequences, Canada Would Ban Bush — But There Are Loopholes, by Rebecca Cooper (ABC News), November 3rd, 2004
Prosecutor says Bush "directly deceived"; him to avoid jury duty, By Robert Bryce, Salon.com, 11/05/2000
Oden also criticized Bush for failing to fully answer a questionnaire given to prospective jurors. It asks: "Have you ever been an accused, or a complainant, or a witness in a criminal case?" Given Bush's arrest in Maine, he should have checked the space next to "accused." Instead, it was left blank. A couple of other questions were also ignored, though most of the queries were answered.
Bush lied about his arrest, a reporter says, "The Texas governor said he had not been arrested since a 1968 college prank, covering up the 1976 DUI incident." By Jake Tapper, Salon.com, November 03, 2000
Bush acknowledges 1976 DUI charge, CNN, November 2, 2000
The Arrest of the Story? How Karen Hughes contained the scandal, Excerpt from the New Republic, November, 29, 1999
Book: Bush was arrested for cocaine in 1972, Salon News, Oct. 18, 1999
Three independent sources close to the Bush family report that Governor Bush was arrested in 1972 for cocaine possession
George W. Bush and the Politics of Personal Destruction, by Tyree Callahan, TNC Regional Leader, Sept/Oct 1999
"The New York Times asked candidates if they had ever used illegal drugs and whether they believed the question is appropriate. Bush, dismissing the question as destructive politics, was the only presidential candidate who refused to answer."
Dubya's Drunken Driving Raises Bigger Questions

Or the Gubanatorial Records you're trying to hard to hide?

Inventories of George W. Bush's Gubernatorial Papers

Funeral Gate: The Skeleton in Bush's Closet
Second Largest Backer of Bush accused of Exhuming Graves, Tossing Bodies into Woods, Bush Halts Investigation.

Funeralgate, Bush's First Scandal, Democrats.com
Gruesome Photos, Video Show Bodies Discarded in Woods Behind Cemetery, Fox News, December 20, 2001
Bush Need Not Testify, Judge Rules, by Paul Duggan, Washington Post, August 31, 1999
Bush faces questions over funeral home dispute, CNN, August 24, 1999

What if Clinton had connections with the bin Laden Family? Would we care more about that than we do about the Bush connections?

George W. Bush's Dad was employed by the Carlyle Group (which profits from the War on Terror), which was partly owned by the bin Laden family.
George W. Bush's oil company, Arbusto Energy, had Salem bin Laden (Osama's older brother) as an investor.
Bush Watch
George W. Bush's Dubious Friends
Bush's Former Oil Company Linked To bin Laden Family
THE BIN LADEN FAMILY, SAUDI ARABIA CORRUPTION AND THE SUPPORT OF TERRORISTS, CONNECTIONS TO BUSH (by Paul Thompson)
BUSHLADEN
The Complete Saudi Primer (Everything you always wanted to know about the Bush-Saudi connection but were afraid to ask!)

What about the rest of the administration?

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