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ADL Honors George Bush<\/b><\/div>\n
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by Stephen Lendman<\/div>\n
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The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is one of 52 Conference of Major American Jewish Organization (CPMAJO) Zionist groups.<\/div>\n
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It mocks legitimacy. It supports wrong over right. It disseminates Israeli propaganda. It promotes Jewish exceptionalism. <\/div>\n
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It smears Israeli critics. It outrageously calls them anti-Semites.<\/div>\n
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It’s racist. It’s demagogic. It’s Islamophobic. Its hate-mongering is notorious. Its entire history is deplorable.<\/div>\n
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Bush is an unindicted war criminal. He represents the worst of America’s dark side. He’s pure evil writ large. More on his true legacy below.<\/div>\n
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On February 7, ADL gave him its highest honor<\/span><\/a>. It’s called the America’s Democratic Legacy Award. It cited “his inspirational leadership in promoting democratic values worldwide.”<\/div>\n
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It commended his policies following “terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.” It ignored his administration’s responsibility for committing them.<\/div>\n
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It turned a blind eye to multiple imperial wars that followed. One country after another was ravaged and destroyed. Wherever America shows up, mass slaughter and destruction follow.<\/div>\n
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Bush waged war on Islam. He did so for over seven years. Millions died. Many more suffer horrifically. <\/div>\n
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Conflicts still rage out-of-control. ADL honored state-terrorism writ large. It lied about Bush’s commitment for peace.<\/div>\n
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Abe Foxman is ADL national director. He defends the indefensible. He thanked Bush for supporting Israel. <\/div>\n
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He claimed he “led a united American people through the trauma of an attack that in one day redefined our sense of security and our domestic and foreign policy.”<\/div>\n
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From October 7, 2001 through January 20, 2009 Bush waged premeditated lawless aggression. It rages in multiple theaters. Not according to Foxman, claiming:<\/div>\n
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“When you were called on to respond to unspeakable terror, hate and violence, you refused to let America give into stereotypes.”  <\/div>\n
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“You answered calls for anti-Muslim revenge with calls for respect and understanding.” Bush was militantly Islamophobic. He waged war on Islam.<\/div>\n
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Throughout his political career, he served America’s monied interests. He consistently spurned populist ones.<\/div>\n
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Ralph Nader once called him “a corporation (serving as) president masquerading as a human being.” He turned “a metaphor into reality.”<\/div>\n
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Like corporations, he expressed “no remorse, no shame, no compassion, and a resistance to admit anything other than (he did) nothing wrong.”<\/div>\n
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Millions of Afghan and Iraqi corpses attest otherwise. So does ravaging and destroying their countries. <\/div>\n
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Bush crimes began as Texas governor. In his book titled “The Dirty Truth: The Oil and Chemical Dependency of George W. Bush<\/span><\/a>,” Rick Abraham documented his deplorable tenure.<\/div>\n
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His environmental record alone revealed it. “(H)e championed the agenda of the state’s biggest and worst corporate polluters,” said former Texas Department of Agriculture commissioner Jim Hightower.<\/div>\n
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He sold out millions of Texans. He was well-rewarded for services rendered. Corporate contributors jump-started his presidential bid. <\/div>\n
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In return, he supported dumping radioactive waste in Texas land dumps. He lied claiming it was mostly medical waste.<\/div>\n
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He sought nuclear power waste from other states. He corrupted the state’s environmental standards. He did so to accommodate polluters.<\/div>\n
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He operated secretly. He usurped control over state municipalities. He was more pro-business, anti-populist, anti-human and civil rights than any of his predecessors. He remained so as president.<\/div>\n
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As Texas governor, he authorized more executions than any predecessor in state history. His aides called him a man who enjoys killing.<\/div>\n
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His two presidential electoral bids were rigged. He lost both times. It didn’t matter. He was anointed head of state twice. He took full advantage.<\/div>\n
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Monied interests benefitted enormously. So did war profiteers. He entered office with an approval rating around 50%.<\/div>\n
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It hit a temporary post-9\/11 90% high. He left office with about 25% public support. Some polls showed him lower. Why anyone supported him they’ll have to explain.<\/div>\n
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Bush doctrine reflected unilateral lawlessness. It included preemptive imperial wars, institutionalized state terrorism, torture made official policy, America turned into a police state, and popular needs ignored.<\/div>\n
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His 2001 Nuclear Policy Review asserted a unilateral right to wage preemptive wars. With nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states, it said. <\/div>\n
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His 2002 and 2006 National Security Strategy usurped the same unilateral rights. He defended the indefensible. He militarized America more than ever.<\/div>\n
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He lied saying “(w)e may face no greater challenge from a single country than Iran.”<\/div>\n
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In December 2008, he spoke at West Point. He defended lawless aggression. He boasted about “reshap(ing) (America’s) approach to national security.”<\/div>\n
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He abandoned agreed on treaties. <\/span>He rescinded the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention. He did so to develop biowarfare weapons illegally.<\/div>\n
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He renounced the 1989 Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act. It prohibits the development, production, and stockpiling of bacteriological and toxic weapons. <\/div>\n
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He established a homeland police state apparatus. He called Patriot Act legislation and other repressive laws “new tools” to combat terrorism. <\/div>\n
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They include wars on humanity, torture, extraordinary rendition, global gulag prisons, guilt by accusation, institutionalized spying, and America turned into an international pariah state.<\/div>\n
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He claimed credit for liberating millions of Afghans and Iraqis. He ignored millions of deaths on his watch.<\/div>\n
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Victims perished from violence, disease, horrific pain and suffering, homelessness, exposure during extreme cold, starvation and overall deprivation.<\/div>\n
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He was unapologetic. He expressed no regrets. He claimed he made America much safer. It less safe than ever now.<\/div>\n
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“In the years ahead,” he added, “our nation must continue developing the capabilities to take the fight to our enemies around the world. We must stay on the offensive.”<\/div>\n
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It bears repeating what previous articles explained many times. America’s only enemies are ones it invents. <\/div>\n
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It does so to wage phony war on terror. It’s waged on humanity. It rages at home and abroad.<\/div>\n
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Media scoundrels lauded his presidency. Post-9\/11, New York Times editors praised his “new gravitas.” <\/div>\n
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They called him “confident” and “determined.” He shows “statesmanship,” they said. They called him “a leader whom the nation could follow in (troubled) times.”<\/div>\n
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He was born into wealth and power. His family dynasty goes back over four generations.<\/div>\n
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It’s connected to America’s military-industrial complex. George H. Walker and Samuel Prescott Bush were its founding fathers. They created a criminal enterprise.<\/div>\n
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Walker was a St. Louis financier. SP Bush was a major Ohio industrialist. He became a close Herbert Hoover advisor. Bush’s grandfather, Prescott, was a Wall Street investment banker. He was a crook.<\/div>\n
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Family members included a former US senator, two governors, a congressman, vice president, CIA director, UN ambassador, and two presidents.<\/div>\n
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Prescott Bush was a Union Banking Corporation director. The firm represented German industrialist Fritz Thyssen. <\/div>\n
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It traded with the enemy during WW II. It shipped millions of dollars worth of gold, oil, steel, coal, and US Treasury bonds to Germany. It supported Hitler’s war machine.<\/div>\n
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So did Prescott’s Brown Brothers Harriman. It did so until its assets were seized in 1942. Trading with the Enemy Act charges were filed.<\/div>\n
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GHW Bush was Gerald Ford’s CIA director. He served in Congress. He was America’s UN ambassador. <\/div>\n
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He chaired the Republican National Committee. He was Reagan’s vice president. He was a one-term US president. <\/div>\n
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He helped suppress who killed Jack Kennedy. Evidence suggests his possible involvement.<\/div>\n
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As vice president, he was directly involved in Iran-Contra. He helped get GW elected Texas governor. It catapulted him to the White House.<\/div>\n
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His war on terror was a thinly veiled scheme for global dominance. <\/div>\n
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In his first State of the Union address, he declared war on a “terrorist underworld (in) at least a dozen countries.” <\/div>\n
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They ranged from “remote jungles and deserts (to) centers of large cities,” he claimed.<\/div>\n
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He asked “all nations (to) heed our call and eliminate the terrorist parasites who threaten their countries and our own.”<\/div>\n
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He said “(i)f they do not act, America will.” He designated North Korea, Iran and Iraq an “axis of evil.” He falsely claimed their “weapons of mass destruction posed a grave and growing danger.”<\/div>\n
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Bush headed America on fast track toward tyranny. Obama continued his agenda. He exceeded the worst of his policies. Nothing in prospect suggests change.<\/div>\n
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Today is the most perilous time in world history. Humanity may not survive many more “humanitarian” interventions. The unthinkable may end up the inevitable.<\/div>\n
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Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. <\/div>\n
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His new book is titled “Banker Occupation: Waging Financial War on Humanity.”<\/div>\n
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http:\/\/www.claritypress.com\/LendmanII.html<\/div>\n
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Visit his blog site at sjlendman.blogspot.com. <\/div>\n
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Listen to cutting-edge discussions with distinguished guests on the Progressive Radio News Hour on the Progressive Radio Network.<\/div>\n
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It airs Fridays at 10AM US Central time and Saturdays and Sundays at noon. All programs are archived for easy listening.<\/div>\n
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