Too bad he is holding the Chalabi donations...
Mr.Murder |
07.17.04 - 10:02 am | #
Speaking of that Mr. Murder, has it occured to anyone else that some of the stolen Halliburton loot is quite likely finding back-door channels into the Bush campaign? Not to mention the $1 billion the Pentagon "lost".
Jennifer |
07.17.04 - 10:15 am | #
I thought there was no difference in the threat posed by Bin Laden and Saddam. Maybe our brilliant Preznit-wit will explain that again.
bigvic |
07.17.04 - 10:16 am | #
Frankly, there is so much bribery and influence peddling in campaign money I don't see how accepting money from this clown is any worse than lots of other funny money out there.
bigvic |
07.17.04 - 10:20 am | #
If they were "witnesses," as alleged, that can only mean that they were present and saw what happened. There were allegedly several other people at the scene also so the identity of these witnesses is hardly a secret. In any event, and even if true, it is not worth obsessing about. The Iraqis can decide for themselves how they want to deal with these situations.
Warthog |
07.17.04 - 10:25 am | #
I wonder if they will return their SecDef for the same reason.
john from Uconn |
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07.17.04 - 10:27 am | #
Didnt we have business dealings with Saddam until a couple years ago?
fenris |
07.17.04 - 10:33 am | #
Didnt we have business dealings with Saddam until a couple years ago?
fenris |
07.17.04 - 10:33 am | #
Bush returns a campaign donation from a guy who had business dealings with Saddam Hussein ? Oh, shit. This is the first substantive indication I've seen yet that he's seriously thinking about dropping Cheney from the ticket...
brucds |
07.17.04 - 10:37 am | #
Well, I guess he's going to have to fire Halliburton Dick Cheney too.
An alternative viewpoint, maybe, but I've got a cool idea: the Kerry campaign should give those dudes a call, and take that contribution, themselves!
Oh, I know what you're thinking: the Repubs will seize on it and do an attack ad. Well, they do that ANYWAY! My God, if the freakin' Teachers' Union makes a contribution to Kerry, they're "terrorists"!
So fuck it, take the money, John, and buy a few more ads, yourself!
Barry Champlain |
07.17.04 - 10:43 am | #
Like how the USA used to support Saddam Hussein and how the US taxpayers lost $4 million in loans Daddy Bush gave to Hussein?
Lynn |
07.17.04 - 11:02 am | #
Wait, didn't a Halliburton subsidiary do biz with Saddam in recent history (post Gulf War I)?
Some of Halliburton's money, therefore, came from Saddam. Not really that much of a logical leap, methinks.
Hobart |
07.17.04 - 11:09 am | #
From DailyKos, original source Harvard Crimson:
As the race for the White House heats up and the nation's left-leaning heads come together to unearth potential skeletons in President Bush's closet, one line in his resume has avoided major scrutiny: the time Bush spent just across the Charles River, earning an MBA at the Harvard Business School (HBS) in the 1970s. Now, as some fervently question the commander-in-chief's performance in the Texas National Guard decades ago and more current-minded politicos take aim at the events surrounding Sept. 11, 2001 and the invasion of Iraq, one former HBS professor is doing his best to publicize his recollections of what he calls a sarcastic, mediocre student who went on to lead the United States.
Yoshihiro Tsurumi, an avowed opponent of Bush's current views and policies who was a visiting associate professor of international business at HBS between 1972 and 1976, said Bush was among 85 students he taught one year in a required first-year course. In the class on "Environment Analysis for Management," incorporating elements of macroeconomics, industrial policy and international business, Tsurumi said students discussed and debated case studies for 90 minutes several times a week.
Tsurumi--now a professor of international business at Baruch College in the City University of New York--said he remembers the future president as scoring in the bottom 10 percent of students in the class.
Thirty years after teaching the class, Tsurumi said the twenty-something Bush's statements and behavior--"always very shallow"--still stand out in his mind.
"Whenever [Bush] just bumped into me, he had some flippant statement to make," said Tsurumi when reached at his home in Scarsdale, N.Y. "The comments he made were revealing of his prejudice."
And speaking of returning ill-gotten campaign contributions, how about this?
Nora |
07.17.04 - 12:00 pm | #
As the race for the White House heats up and the nation's left-leaning heads come together to unearth potential skeletons in President Bush's closet
excuse me but haven't you already dug yourselves halfway to china? he has already been president for 4 years and you guys are still hoping to find something in his closet? totally, utterly and completely clueless.
electionthief |
07.17.04 - 12:04 pm | #
Uh, didn't we hire former Baathist thug and accused mass murderer Iyad Allawi as PM of Iraq and we're worried about some guy who did business with Saddam.
Oh yeah, there's always undiscovered dirt about a president. Remember how they still accused Clinton of murder after the impeachment, and whipped out Juanita Brodderick, who oddly never did file that promised action against Clinton.
steve_gilliard |
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07.17.04 - 12:20 pm | #
If the right-wing mainstream press were not so busy licking repug assholes, they would have done this story already...it's up to freedom-loving American citizens (leaves out our trolls) to expose the Chimperor's nakedness, that's why we real patriots are going to keep exposing the ludicrous games these professional thieves and liars are constantly playing (in their closets, of course). The fact that Asscroft and his slaves are doing everything they can to prevent Americans from knowing what their employees are up to only strengthens the resolve to eliminate our non-elected white house terrorists...
Ronjazz |
07.17.04 - 12:34 pm | #
"excuse me but haven't you already dug yourselves halfway to china? he has already been president for 4 years and you guys are still hoping to find something in his closet? totally, utterly and completely clueless."
Actually, the closet is full and overflowing. The scariest skeleton, of course, is the Plame outing and Dubya's part in either the outing itself or in the cover-up.
Do they still hang people for treason?
I wonder if it will be televised . . .
Slim Whitman |
07.17.04 - 12:56 pm | #
Time to send back " Kenny Boy's " millions too !
Henry |
07.17.04 - 1:01 pm | #
I'd have made a deal with Bush.
He can keep his objectively pro-Saddam campaign donation.
If he gives me back my country next January.
in reasonably good working order, or at least not any more Cheneyed up than it already is.
Wile E. Odysseus |
07.17.04 - 2:10 pm | #
thief - it's hard to tell whether you've got your head in the sand or up your ass. But bottom line, nobody cares.
Meanwhile, it's time for you to put down the plastic jug of generic gin, shut off the computer and piece your life back together.
brucds |
07.17.04 - 5:35 pm | #
Want to bet Bush got it right back as soon as he dubbed the Iraqi's with new anglo handles and they were given a quick lesson by the Rovians on how to fill out a campaign disclosure form?
BCF |
07.17.04 - 6:58 pm | #
Kryptonite?
Steve in CO |
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07.18.04 - 12:57 am | #