Reply #80: The script is maudlin--started with a phony folksy talk about things like

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how "the happiest day" of his life was 1998, when his two sons were elected governors of Texas and Florida. Then he gets to the point...


"The retired president had just finished a folksy address on leadership by telling the audience how deeply hurt he feels when his son the president is criticized.

"'This son is not going to back away," Bush said, his voice quivering. 'He's not going to change his view because some poll says this or some poll says that, or some heartfelt comments from the lady who feels deeply in her heart about something. You can't be president of the United States and conduct yourself if you're going to cut and run. This is going to work out in Iraq. I understand the anxiety. It's not easy.'"

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"This is going to work out in Iraq." There it is. I think that's the whole point of the speech, on a cognitive level. But there is a subtext...

Just noticed that it's Association Press (AP). Now I KNOW something's not right. It says Bush was speaking to "Gulf Arabs attending a leadership conference here." --in Abu Dhabi, UAE. That's it. No formal name for the "leadership conference." Sponsor? Invitees? Location (other than city)? Who else spoke? "Leadership" in regard to what? Political? (--in the UAE, where politics gets you tortured and 'disappeared'?). Military? Intelligence? Oil industry? All the article reveals is that it is a conference "of young business leaders." NO CONTEXT.

I think the whole thing is phony--a set up.

The subtext is that we're supposed to love mass slaughter and torture and chaos and destabilization of the Middle East, because George loves his sons, yes he does, and they are just a normal family in which fatherly love pours like sunshine upon his progeny, and he just bursts with pride at their accomplishments.

"The elder Bush...brimmed with pride as he told the audience — including dozens of women in black robes and headscarves — of his two sons, George, the U.S. president, and Jeb, the governor of Florida."

Dozens of women in black robes and headscarves. Hm-m. Makes you wonder how they were primed. The harem DOES NOT SPEAK OUT OF TURN without instructions to do so. Sorry, but this was simply not spontaneous. So what would the Arab male domionists' motives be in sicking the inferior sex on Bush Sr.? Could be they were all in on the script. And the script is? Something to do with "father authority" reassuring the war profiteers (many in the UAE, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia) that the hogpen is still open and will remain so. The antiwar Democrats will not get their clutches on Junior. Daddy's here.

The comment from the "college student in Abu Dhabi" that "U.S. wars were aimed at opening markets for American companies" may have been a further signal to war profiteers that this is all about money, and there will be more of it for the privileged few. A reassurance. A promise. Bush Sr. replies that that is "weird" and "nuts." Read the opposite. (Always read the opposite when a Bush speaks--it's a good rule of thumb.) This was just a bit of Bush Cartel "humor" (if you can call it that). Money. Is. All.

Bush Sr. coyly refers to "reporters" in the room. (He can't say what advice he gives Junior cuz there are "reporters present" and they would broadcast it to the world.) But he makes it seem as if it's a public event. My guess: It was one reporter, by special invitation--just AP (CIA?). The article is unsigned. At the end are the letters "jk-wnt," but I'm not sure if they are initials or what.

That may be it. He intends it to be broadcast to the world that his advice to Junior is "stay the course." There is more money to be made--and the sultans will swim in it.

This is a stealth job. A very crafted job. I'm not sure I've gotten to the bottom of it. But you can be sure that there is no love lost between Sr. and Jr., but that, in order to make more money off the Iraq adventure, Sr.'s services (and Baker's) were needed. Jr. & Co. made lots of loot for everybody, but Jr. didn't know how to keep it going. And the Arab sultans want more of the action.

(Note: It's my guess that Rumsfeld is in very serious shit on the Plame/Brewster-Jennings matter, and maybe on 9/11. He was the money man for the war profiteers. Jr. is a total idiot. Enter James Baker.)

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