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Subject: George HW Bush is Dead Sat Dec 01, 2018 12:28 pm
Bet right about now he's wishing he had never been born. I hear there's a special place in hell . . . . .
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Subject: Re: George HW Bush is Dead Sat Dec 01, 2018 12:46 pm
now, release the other 50 pages and show why the deceased bastard was in dallas on nov. 22, 1963
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Subject: Re: George HW Bush is Dead Sat Dec 01, 2018 1:04 pm
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now, release the other 50 pages and show why the deceased bastard was in dallas on nov. 22, 1963
AMEN!!!! I was living in Dallas that day. I remember well. I've researched deep since that day.
Might wanna check this link out about 'ol GHWB. It's chock full of real fun facts. Lil damning snippet below from the very ending - way WAY more to say about GHWB more so see the link.
That the Bush administration has desperately fought every attempt to independently investigate the events of 9/11, is not a "theory."
Nor, finally, is it in any way a "theory" that the one, single name that can be directly linked to the Third Reich, the US military industrial complex, Skull and Bones, Eastern Establishment good ol' boys, the Illuminati, Big Texas Oil, the Bay of Pigs, the Miami Cubans, the Mafia, the FBI, the JFK assassination, the New World Order, Watergate, the Republican National Committee, Eastern European fascists, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, the United Nations, CIA headquarters, the October Surprise, the Iran/Contra scandal, Inslaw, the Christic Institute, Manuel Noriega, drug-running "freedom fighters" and death squads, Iraqgate, Saddam Hussein, weapons of mass destruction, the blood of innocents, the savings and loan crash, the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, the "Octopus," the "Enterprise," the Afghan mujaheddin, the War on Drugs, Mena (Arkansas), Whitewater, Sun Myung Moon, the Carlyle Group, Osama bin Laden and the Saudi royal family, David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, and the presidency and vice-presidency of the United States, is: George Herbert Walker Bush.
"Theory?" To the contrary.
It is a well-documented, tragic and—especially if you're paranoid—terrifying fact.
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Subject: Re: George HW Bush is Dead Sat Dec 01, 2018 3:13 pm
How long 'O Lord????
Praise this ass-hats name to the very stars you MSM f**ckers!
I predict this nonsense will carry on for weeks just like no names death (suicide) did.
Let me play you a sad Song on the World's smallest Violin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdofmoYcJNE
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Subject: Re: George HW Bush is Dead Sat Dec 01, 2018 3:42 pm
Then there is this . . . .
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Markets to close on Dec. 5, after Trump names it national day of mourning for George H.W. Bush
I know we have been and are watching the Dec. 5 date closely, but for different reasons. Why the 5th? Could have been any other day, right? And are schools out, postal service out, banks closed, etc. etc. and so forth and so on? Is this JUST THE MARKETS? This smells worse than rotting fish guts marinating in the sun on a hot and humid day.
Subject: Re: George HW Bush is Dead Sun Dec 02, 2018 10:48 am
No Remorse or respect for ""Timber Wolf"", just another unruly fanged bad dog! And yeah, he was in on the event, a wolf looking for a way to rise to the top of the pack! He made it! Now he is dead! Now there is some other wolf like him you have to watch your back for, in fact it is a pack! They all have red eyes and lurk! I see no reason to give such a respectful funeral to one whom does not have any respect for fellow man or those that dared feed it by hand! Just dig a hole and throw the rotting carcase in before it stinks the whole place up and draws more to feast on the zombie flesh!
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Subject: TIMBER WOLF Sun Dec 02, 2018 3:21 pm
https://youtu.be/-NlJQJUUqR4
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Subject: Re: George HW Bush is Dead Sun Dec 02, 2018 5:25 pm
I posted that video to clarify why the feelings above it..
one should watch the whole thing as it is the history of connected and trusted peeps they know and sorta why some say the nazi's won.
TRUMP NEEDS COMPLETE DECLASSIFICATION SO THE POPULACE UNDERSTANDS EVERYTHING FROM PAST TO UNDERSTAND WHY TREASON CHARGES ETC THAT ARE TO COME!?
LIMITED TRUTH IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH!!
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Subject: Re: George HW Bush is Dead Sun Dec 02, 2018 7:12 pm
Spring, I haven't watched your video yet. It's on my list for later, however I ran across this a few days ago and am hoping your video will cover this subject. It made me ask questions.
Was George HW Bush really born in Germany? Was he brought over to the USA and groomed as a key player in a Nazi infiltration of America? Ohhhhh the questions? Very interesting article. Everyone needs to go read it.
Study these two photos very closely. Take your time and look at them carefully. The photo on the left(TOP) is a cropped and enlarged section of a probable Christmastime photo taken in the early 1930s in a private home in Germany owned by the mother of George Scherff Sr. The boy seen in the sailor suit is around 11 years old. The photo on the right(BOTTOM) was taken on March 7, 1949 in Midland, Texas showing the family of Prescott Bush standing in front of a prop driven passenger airplane. George Herbert Walker Bush is about 30 or 31 years old in this photo. Now, ask yourself: are the same people posing in both photographs?
[MUCH MORE at the link]
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Subject: Re: George HW Bush is Dead Sun Dec 02, 2018 8:27 pm
i have heard it and read about it but never considered to be the truth, nor did i pay any attention to the story of barbara bush, his wife, being the daughter of aliester crawley...i am not saying that i thinks it not true, because it is completely possible, its just a bit much....there really is not a lot of resemblence to prescott bush,though, if any
Skorzeny's pivotal role in consolidating the intelligence assets of the Nazi Gestapo and the Nazi-infiltrated OSS (Office of Strategic Services) into the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 1947, working with George Herbert Walker Bush (Nazi infiltrator George H. Scherff, Jr.), Nazi SS spy master Reinhard Gehlen, "Wild Bill" Donovan (compromised), and fifth columnist, Allen Foster Dulles. Skorzeny claimed central responsibility for setting up the Odessa operation to surreptitiously relocate 50,000 (FIFTY THOUSAND) Nazis into North and South America with CIA complicity and protection,
http://www.helpfreetheearth.com/news441_bush.html
http://thebushconnection.com/falseflag.html
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Subject: The Evil Has Died -- Exploring The Dark Side Of Bush '41' Mon Dec 03, 2018 12:21 am
guess what... we aren't the only ones looking at this this way!!!!
Twitter Authored by Eric Peters via EricPetersAutos.com,
The Evil Has Died
A bit of good news: George H.W. Bush is dead, finally. At least he’ll do no more harm. But the harm he did do was enough.
Like the Nazis his father did good business with, Bush wanted a New World Order – and spoke of it lovingly and often. And now it’s upon us, in no small measure because of his machinations and those of his frog-torturing, mass-murdering, war criminal son – who was elevated to the position from which he was able to commit mass murder solely on the juice provided by his connected father. The entire Bush family is a crime syndicate that puts the Corleones to shame (with George W. Bush playing the role of Fredo). Bush Sr. – who wasn’t in Dallas on November 22, 1963 and not a CIA officer at the time – was later proved to be both of those things. His leprous fingerprints are all over the termination of the last American president who wasn’t a wholly owned subsidiary of the military industrial complex. The Bush family was also good friends with another family. The Hinckley family. And then a curious thing happened on March 30, 1981. And the leprous hands assumed control of the tiller. The chastened Gipper knew where things stood after that. In due course, the anointed one officially assumed the purple – and we got the No New Taxes his lips told us not to read. He then worked with Clintigula to stomp Ross Perot, who told us all what was going to happen as a result of the “free trade” deals being stuffed down the throats of the American people like a pate de foi gras goose.
And they did. And here we are. Now there will be a period of unction and prostration before the effigy of this quintessential political hack and fixer, who used this country like a Twink at San Quentin for the advancement of his loathsome family’s interests. It is only because of the out-of-nowhere good fortune of the Orange One that we are not currently afflicted with another Bush’s hands on the tiller. We have that to be eternally grateful for, at least. Meanwhile, the corpse of the creature will be displayed like Lenin and Stalin for the wailing and gnashing of teeth. But the guy who takes out the trash each week is deserving of infinitely higher esteem. He, at least, does productive work and hasn’t killed anyone. But it is not too late to make good use of the stringy old stiff. There are homeless cats that need to be fed. Possibly also some experiments could be performed that would yield scientifically valuable information – such as how long does it take various acids to penetrate the scaly skin of bipedal reptiles? How long to render one into so many gallons of viscous goo, to be flushed down the toilet and out to sea… the only fitting burial for the thing called George H.W. Bush.
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H.W. Bush greatly deepened the swamp Trump now has to drain. Bush will be remembered as one of the worst Presidents in our history. He spent eight years as Vice President undermining President Reagan. As President, he reversed nearly every Reagan accomplishment. In 2016 he voted for Hillary Clinton ,because the Deep State Swamp sticks together. “RIP Poppy” Say hello to McCain.
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Subject: Re: George HW Bush is Dead Tue Dec 04, 2018 8:40 am
Subject: Re: George HW Bush is Dead Tue Dec 04, 2018 1:57 pm
Hannity and all news make out to be such a wonderful caring pres and a hero!
want to puke
TBF Avenger was a torpedo plane with a gunner, radio man/navigator? and the Pilot ... George, trained to ditch in the water so they would survive... they didn't, he bailed!
He says New World Order and there will be one.... THEN HE WAS NOT FOR AMERICA, YOU OR I, NO RESPECT OTHER THAN FOR THE DEAD!
PUKE PUKE PUKE!
KNIFE IN OUR BACKS THE WHOLE TIME, LINKED TO NAZI'S ETC... I CANNOT RESPECT!
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Subject: Re: George HW Bush is Dead Tue Dec 04, 2018 2:02 pm
JUST WONDERING WHO THE HECK WILL ACTUALLY SAY SOMETHING WE KNOW TO BE TRUE???
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Subject: Re: George HW Bush is Dead Tue Dec 04, 2018 3:06 pm
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JUST WONDERING WHO THE HECK WILL ACTUALLY SAY SOMETHING WE KNOW TO BE TRUE???
Don't count on the mainstream media for anything even approaching the truth, and that includes FOX. I'd believe in Santa Claus and the Easter bunny before I'd believe anything coming from any of those sold out MF's.
Independents (so called alt media) are closer to any real news than MSM ever was. Of course anyone not spouting the company line are all kooks, weirdos, freaks, and the all time favorite, conspiracy theorists. Proud to be in KOOK country, I am!
George HW Bush was probably one of the most evil men of our time! There's a special place in hell for him right next to no name. There, I said it.
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Subject: Re: George HW Bush is Dead Tue Dec 04, 2018 9:19 pm
researcher wrote:
spring2 wrote:
JUST WONDERING WHO THE HECK WILL ACTUALLY SAY SOMETHING WE KNOW TO BE TRUE???
Don't count on the mainstream media for anything even approaching the truth, and that includes FOX. I'd believe in Santa Claus and the Easter bunny before I'd believe anything coming from any of those sold out MF's.
Independents (so called alt media) are closer to any real news than MSM ever was. Of course anyone not spouting the company line are all kooks, weirdos, freaks, and the all time favorite, conspiracy theorists. Proud to be in KOOK country, I am!
George HW Bush was probably one of the most evil men of our time! There's a special place in hell for him right next to no name. There, I said it.
i think evidence proves or will prove that he is far from what he is portrayed to the public....
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Subject: Re: George HW Bush is Dead Wed Dec 05, 2018 2:47 pm
David Icke Exposes George H W Bush
Two years ago David Icke spoke about George HW Bush – and others like him. 8½ minutes & quit interesting.
Published on Dec 4, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svJysyC7RDc
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Subject: Re: George HW Bush is Dead Thu Dec 06, 2018 7:31 am
Look at this reaction from Laura and Jeb Bush to something at the funeral:
And scroll down to find HRC discover something in her program.
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Subject: Re: George HW Bush is Dead Thu Dec 06, 2018 7:59 am
They got a note that I am still a thorn in their ass
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Subject: HMMMM look @ curious stuff during FUNeral Thu Dec 06, 2018 10:31 am
https://twitter.com/TWPundit/status/1070480786787319809 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ SEE THEM ALL NOT JUST THIS ONE
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Subject: JFK jr and some info to gleen Thu Dec 06, 2018 11:31 am
George H.W. Bush: The Most Important Story of His Lifetime Posted on December 1, 2018 by State of the Nation FacebookTwitter
Save[url=https://www.addtoany.com/share#url=http%3A%2F%2Fstateofthenation2012.com%2F%3Fp%3D109582&title=George H.W. Bush%3A The Most Important Story of His Lifetime][/url] JFK Jr. Told The World Who Murdered His Father – But Nobody Was Paying Attention by Jane Grey I suppose most people think that from the day he saluted his father’s casket at just three years old, til the evening his plane went down, he just went about his business, playing the game of life like everyone else.
After all, he did live, for the most part, a relatively ordinary life, in spite of being the Prince of America’s Camelot. So, what do you suppose was going on in the mind of the sexiest man alive? He could have written his own political ticket, yet he went into publishing. Many expected him to land in politics and most likely were a bit perplexed when he decided to publish a magazine instead. Some thought he was afraid to go into politics because of the “Kennedy Curse.” However, nothing could be further from the truth. What he did proved to be more dangerous than any political arena, and he knew that from the start. But…John-John had a mission…and that mission was to expose the villain who orchestrated that “dastardly act” upon his father. Unbeknownst to the public, John-John was digging deep for proof. And, how else could he expose the truth when all the media outlets were controlled by the very cabal he planned to expose?Enter…”George.” When he presented his magazine, “George,” to the world, he was, for all practical purposes, signing his own death warrant. “George” was a veiled threat…in a symbolic sort of way. Do you see? How many men named “George” comes to mind at just the thought of President John F. Kennedy’s so called assassination? The cabal wanted his father dead, that is a fact, but the namesake of John F. Kennedy, Jr.’s magazine…their minion, arranged it. And…once he had the proof, the truth would come out in his very own magazine. Do you see? “As President, John F. Kennedy understood the predatory nature of private central banking. He understood why Andrew fought so hard to end the Second Bank of the United States. So Kennedy wrote and signed Executive Order 11110 which ordered the US Treasury to issue a new public currency, the United States Note. Kennedy was working with President Soekarno of Indonesia who was at that time the signatory for the Global Collateral Accounts which were intended to be used for humanitarian purposes but which were subverted at the time of the Bretton-Woods agreement at the end of WWII. The intention of Kennedy and Soekarno was to end the reign of the globalist privately owned central banking system – which is the main reason that Kennedy was killed, and for his part Soekarno remained under house arrest for the rest of his life.” From: All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars There was a rumor that John-John had obtained the proof he needed and an expose’ was in the works, until his untimely, and mostly “suspicious,” death. Of course, the media campaigned that he was an irresponsible thrill seeker; but then they would, wouldn’t they? Although many people knew JFK, Jr. was murdered; and they were right about who was responsible…they were just wrong about the reason. John Jr. was warned by family members about the risks involved in his pursuit. But, he was determined to get justice for his father and bring truth to light, exposing the darkness that shrouds our planet. So ask yourself…what would you do, if you were a mere babe when your father, who just happened to be the most important man in the country, was murdered in such a gruesome manner, and you never had the opportunity to know him…would you just let it go? Although he was from one of the main Illuminati family bloodlines, JFK was in fact trying to undo some of the mess – and to bring an end to the Reserve Banking System. For his efforts he was assassinated on November 22, 1963. The Bush Connections Many researchers and historians have come to the conclusion that it was the elite power structure running the US Government that were responsible for the assassination of JFK, and that there was more than one reason for them doing so. There are photographs claiming to show that George Bush was at Dealey Plaza on the day of the killing, and while they might be inconclusive there are multiple other sources that George Bush was one of those responsbile for the assassination of JFK and that he was indeed there that day. The Dark Legacy takes an in depth look into the evidence supporting this. Related: The History And Mission Of The Nazi-Illuminati Bush (Scher(f)f) Crime Family Dark Legacy It Never Ends – MORE Startling Evidence of Bush in Dallas – by John Hankey – TheDarkLegacy.com I don’t think we are much encouraged to see History as science. Quite the opposite, actually. And of course, that’s all politics. The winners write history, and the truth be damned. Even science can have trouble trying to act like science when political issues are involved, as we see with evolution, tobacco-and-cancer, and global warming. But I think History does have a lot in common with physical science. For example, I can remember when “Continental Drift”, the idea that Africa and America were once stuck together, was very much considered “just a theory”; ridiculed by some, and regarded with amusement by many, and promulgated as likely by a tiny minority. “Fifty men have run America, and that’s a high figure.” – Joseph Kennedy, Father of JFK, in the July 26th, 1936 issue of The New York Times But as time goes by, the evidence accumulates; and the meaning of old evidence begins to settle in; and ideas that were once considered outrageous gradually get worn in and start to be regarded as obvious common sense. Part of this process is the continual accumulation of new evidence. New pieces are added to the puzzle and the picture becomes more clear. And sometimes the hidden meaning of old evidence, that has been lying around for years, suddenly jumps out. Evidence of the fossils and minerals that can be found on the east coast of Africa, and on the west coast of Brazil, may have been lying around for years, before someone decided to look and see if they matched, and found that they did; and proved conclusively that west Africa and Brazil were once attached. Trailer:
With regard to George HW Bush and the murder of John Kennedy, Joseph McBride found this memo in 1988.
FBI director J. Edgar Hoover wrote this memo 5 days after the assassination, naming George Bush as a CIA officer. The last, and most crucial paragraph, is very hard to read. The following is a transcription: “The substance of the forgoing information was orally furnished to Mr. George Bush of the Central Intelligence Agency and Captain William Edwards of the Defense Intelligence Agency on November 23, 1963, by Mr. V.T. Forsyth of this Bureau.” When it was first released in 1978, George Bush was an obscure bureaucrat, a virtual unknown. So when the best researchers on the planet saw this memo in 1978, they didn’t pay much attention to it. When Bush became vice president two years later, no one was able to connect his now well-known name to this obscure memo. But when Joseph McBride was messing around in 1988, Bush was running for president; and when McBride saw the memo, he jumped up and shouted: “Hey, this memo is about Bush! It says he was in the CIA, way back in 1963!” And for the longest time, the focus was on this simple isolated fact: that Hoover said Bush was in the CIA in ’63. Bush said the memo must be referring to another “George Bush,” because he wasn’t in the CIA at that time. But over the years, people were able to assemble the facts from Bush’s personal life, showing his deep involvement with the CIA at that time, and with the CIA’s anti-Castro Cubans (in the memo, Hoover calls them “misguided anti-Castro Cubans”). And over time, it has become undeniable; that Hoover was referring, in his memo, to none other than George Herbert Walker Bush. And for a while, that was it. End of story. But the title of this Hoover memo is, “Assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy”. Isn’t that important? Well, you’d think so. But for the longest time, no one made much out it. Besides, Hoover scarcely mentions the assassination in the memo, instead focusing on these “misguided anti-Castro Cubans.” The body of the memo does not appear, at first, to be in any way related to the title of the memo “the assassination of President John F Kennedy”.
From Rolling Stone Magazine: The Last Confession of E. Howard Hunt But then Mark Lane, in his book Rush to Judgment, did the fabulous work of demonstrating, and in fact persuading a jury, that E. Howard Hunt, a major lieutenant in the CIA’s “misguided anti-Castro Cuban” program, was in Dallas and involved in the assassination. With this background, with this framework to guide the researcher, it was then possible to assemble the considerable evidence linking Bush to Hunt. People might have taken some notice before that Bush made the unusual request, as Nixon’s ambassador to the UN, to be given an office in the White House. They may have noticed that Hunt, although he was not being paid by anyone in the White House, or answering to anyone that we know of in the White House, also had a White House office. “The very word “secrecy” is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings… Our way of life is under attack. Those who make themselves our enemy are advancing around the globe… no war ever posed a greater threat to our security. If you are awaiting a finding of “clear and present danger,” then I can only say that the danger has never been more clear and its presence has never been more imminent… For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence–on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day.I t is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations. Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed.” Continue reading at: http://themillenniumreport.com/2016/03/jfk-jr-told-the-world-who-murdered-his-father-but-nobody-was-paying-attention-3/
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Subject: Re: George HW Bush is Dead Fri Dec 07, 2018 5:26 am
PURE SPECULATION on my part as to what Laura and Jeb saw on the funeral program.
Mark Taylor said maybe 2 years ago that the death of an ex-President would be the signal... BUT that it was not who we would expect. Bush Sr. would be expected. Carter would be expected.
Your turn. LEAP! LOL.
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Subject: Re: George HW Bush is Dead Fri Dec 07, 2018 5:41 am
From glp:
"I read about the train with 4141, check this mirrored shit out! 1414, hmmmmm, perhaps this?"
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Subject: Re: George HW Bush is Dead Fri Dec 07, 2018 7:30 am
i have heard hunts grandson interviewed about the deathbed confession....i believe his name was saint john hunt....its probably in the article that you posted....i'll read it later today....ah, i looked up a youtube interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsSACp2j1Ck
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Subject: Re: George HW Bush is Dead Fri Dec 07, 2018 9:33 am
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Subject: The Bushes’ ‘Death Squads’ – How George W. Bush Learned From His Father Fri Dec 07, 2018 11:24 am
The Bushes’ ‘Death Squads’ – How George W. Bush Learned From His Father
December 7, 2018
by Robert Parry, Consortium News:
By refusing to admit personal misjudgments on Iraq, George W. Bush instead is pushing the United States toward becoming what might be called a permanent “counter-terrorist” state, which uses torture, cross-border death squads and even collective punishments to defeat perceived enemies in Iraq and around the world. Since securing a second term, Bush has pressed ahead with this hard-line strategy, in part by removing dissidents inside his administration while retaining or promoting his protégés. Bush also has started prepping his younger brother Jeb as a possible successor in 2008, which could help extend George W.’s war policies while keeping any damaging secrets under the Bush family’s control.
As a centerpiece of this tougher strategy to pacify Iraq, Bush is contemplating the adoption of the brutal practices that were used to suppress leftist peasant uprisings in Central America in the 1980s. The Pentagon is “intensively debating” a new policy for Iraq called the “Salvador option,” Newsweek magazine reported on Jan. 9. The strategy is named after the Reagan-Bush administration’s “still-secret strategy” of supporting El Salvador’s right-wing security forces, which operated clandestine “death squads” to eliminate both leftist guerrillas and their civilian sympathizers, Newsweek reported. “Many U.S. conservatives consider the policy to have been a success – despite the deaths of innocent civilians,” Newsweek wrote. Central America Veterans The magazine also noted that a number of Bush administration officials were leading figures in the Central American operations of the 1980s, such as John Negroponte, who was then U.S. Ambassador to Honduras and is now U.S. Ambassador to Iraq. Other current officials who played key roles in Central America include Elliott Abrams, who oversaw Central American policies at the State Department and who is now a Middle East adviser on Bush’s National Security Council staff, and Vice President Dick Cheney, who was a powerful defender of the Central American policies while a member of the House of Representatives. The insurgencies in El Salvador and Guatemala were crushed through the slaughter of tens of thousands of civilians. In Guatemala, about 200,000 people perished, including what a truth commission later termed a genocide against Mayan Indians in the Guatemalan highlands. In El Salvador, about 70,000 died including massacres of whole villages, such as the slaughter carried out by a U.S.-trained battalion against hundreds of men, women and children in and around the town of El Mozote in 1981.
El Mozote massacre. (Wikimedia Commons)
The Reagan-Bush strategy also had a domestic component, the so-called “perception management” operation that employed sophisticated propaganda to manipulate the fears of the American people while hiding the ugly reality of the wars. The Reagan-Bush administration justified its actions in Central America by portraying the popular uprisings as an attempt by the Soviet Union to establish a beachhead in the Americas to threaten the U.S. southern border. [For details about how these strategies worked and the role of George H.W. Bush, see Robert Parry’s Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq.] More Pain By employing the “Salvador option” in Iraq, the U.S. military would crank up the pain, especially in Sunni Muslim areas where resistance to the U.S. occupation of Iraq has been strongest. In effect, Bush would assign other Iraqi ethnic groups the job of leading the “death squad” campaign against the Sunnis. “One Pentagon proposal would send Special Forces teams to advise, support and possibly train Iraqi squads, most likely hand-picked Kurdish Perhmerga fighters and Shiite militiamen, to target Sunni insurgents and their sympathizers, even across the border into Syria, according to military insiders familiar with discussions,” Newsweek reported. Newsweek quoted one military source as saying, “The Sunni population is paying no price for the support it is giving the terrorists. … From their point of view, it is cost-free. We have to change that equation.” Citing the Central American experiences of many Bush administration officials, we wrote in November 2003 – more than a year ago – that many of these Reagan-Bush veterans were drawing lessons from the 1980s in trying to cope with the Iraqi insurgency. We pointed out, however, that the conditions were not parallel. [See Consortiumnews.com’s “Iraq: Quicksand & Blood.”] In Central America, powerful oligarchies had long surrounded themselves with ruthless security forces and armies. So, when uprisings swept across the region in the early 1980s, the Reagan-Bush administration had ready-made – though unsavory – allies who could do the dirty work with financial and technological help from Washington. Iraqi Dynamic A different dynamic exists in Iraq, because the Bush administration chose to disband rather than co-opt the Iraqi army. That left U.S. forces with few reliable local allies and put the onus for carrying out counterinsurgency operations on American soldiers who were unfamiliar with the land, the culture and the language. Those problems, in turn, contributed to a series of counterproductive tactics, including the heavy-handed round-ups of Iraqi suspects, the torturing of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, and the killing of innocent civilians by jittery U.S. troops fearful of suicide bombings. The war in Iraq also has undermined U.S. standing elsewhere in the Middle East and around the world. Images of U.S. soldiers sexually abusing Iraqi prisoners, putting bags over the heads of captives and shooting a wounded insurgent have blackened America’s image everywhere and made cooperation with the United States increasingly difficult even in countries long considered American allies. Beyond the troubling images, more and more documents have surfaced indicating that the Bush administration had adopted limited forms of torture as routine policy, both in Iraq and the broader War on Terror. Last August, an FBI counterterrorism official criticized abusive practices at the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. “On a couple of occasions, I entered interview rooms to find a detainee chained hand and foot in a fetal position to the floor, with no chair, food or water. Most times they had urinated or defecated on themselves, and had been left there for 18-24 hours or more,” the official wrote. “When I asked the M.P.’s what was going on, I was told that interrogators from the day prior had ordered this treatment, and the detainee was not to be moved. On another occasion … the detainee was almost unconscious on the floor, with a pile of hair next to him. He had apparently been literally pulling his own hair out throughout the night.” Despite official insistence that torture is not U.S. policy, the blame for these medieval tactics continues to climb the chain of command toward the Oval Office. It appears to have been Bush’s decision after the Sept. 11 attacks to “take the gloves off,” a reaction understandable at the time but which now appears to have hurt, more than helped. TV World
George W Bush as an infant with father George HW Bush at Yale University. (George Bush Presidential Library)
Many Americans have fantasized about how they would enjoy watching Osama bin Laden tortured to death for his admitted role in the Sept. 11 attacks. There is also a tough-guy fondness for torture as shown in action entertainment – like Fox Network’s “24” – where torture is a common-sense shortcut to get results. But the larger danger arises when the exceptional case becomes the routine, when it’s no longer the clearly guilty al-Qaeda mass murderer, but it is now the distraught Iraqi father trying to avenge the death of his child killed by American bombs. Rather than the dramatic scenes on TV, the reality is usually more like that desperate creature in Guantanamo lying in his own waste and pulling out his hair. The situation can get even worse when torture takes on the industrial quality of government policy, with subjects processed through the gulags or the concentration camps. That also is why the United States and other civilized countries have long banned torture and prohibited the intentional killing of civilians. The goal of international law has been to set standards that couldn’t be violated even in extreme situations or in the passions of the moment. Yet, Bush – with his limited world experience – was easily sold on the notion of U.S. “exceptionalism” where America’s innate goodness frees it from the legal constraints that apply to lesser countries. Bush also came to believe in the wisdom of his “gut” judgments. After his widely praised ouster of Afghanistan’s Taliban government in late 2001, Bush set his sights on invading Iraq. Like a hot gambler in Las Vegas doubling his bets, Bush’s instincts were on a roll. Now, however, as the Iraqi insurgency continues to grow and inflict more casualties on both U.S. troops and Iraqis who have thrown in their lot with the Americans, Bush finds himself facing a narrowing list of very tough choices. Bush could acknowledge his mistakes and seek international help in extricating U.S. forces from Iraq. But Bush abhors admitting errors, even small ones. Plus, Bush’s belligerent tone hasn’t created much incentive for other countries to bail him out.