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Octafish

(55,745 posts)
Fri Nov 29, 2013, 05:56 PM Nov 2013

Warmonger George W Bush remembers JFK for ''Service.''

Here's how the pretzeldent remembers President John F. Kennedy:

"Today we remember a dark episode in our Nation's history, and we remember the leader whose life was cut short 50 years ago. John F. Kennedy dedicated himself to public service, and his example moved Americans to do more for our country. He believed in the greatness of the United States and the righteousness of liberty, and he defended them. On this solemn anniversary, Laura and I join our fellow citizens in honoring our 35th President." -- George W Bush, Nov. 22, 2013



That was pretty much the official company line in Dallas last week, too:
"Let's remember his service." How perfectly vacuous.

Anyway, the public beneficiary of the Rehnquist-Scalia 5-4 election theft also said:

"Money trumps peace." -- George W Bush, Feb. 14, 2007

Some concept from the latest in the long line of treasonous warmonger is missing there.


------------- HOW THOSE AROUND JFK REMEMBER HIM --------------

On November 22nd, 1963, my uncle, president John F. Kennedy, went to Dallas intending to condemn as "nonsense" the right-wing notion that "peace is a sign of weakness." He meant to argue that the best way to demonstrate American strength was not by using destructive weapons and threats but by being a nation that "practices what it preaches about equal rights and social justice," striving toward peace instead of "aggressive ambitions." Despite the Cold War rhetoric of his campaign, JFK's greatest ambition as president was to break the militaristic ideology that has dominated our country since World War II. He told his close friend Ben Bradlee that he wanted the epitaph [font color="blue"]"He kept the peace,"[/font color] and said to another friend, William Walton, [font color="blue"]"I am almost a 'peace at any price' president."[/font color] Hugh Sidey, a journalist and friend, wrote that the governing aspect of JFK's leadership was "a total revulsion" of war. Nevertheless, as James W. Douglass argues in his book JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters, JFK's presidency would be a continuous struggle with his own military and intelligence agencies, which engaged in incessant schemes to trap him into escalating the Cold War into a hot one. His first major confrontation with the Pentagon, the Bay of Pigs catastrophe, came only three months into his presidency and would set the course for the next 1,000 days. -- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Nov. 20, 1963

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/john-f-kennedys-vision-of-peace-20131120


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NuclearDem

(16,184 posts)
2. JFK served three years as president and was murdered.
Sat Nov 30, 2013, 12:33 AM
Nov 2013

He stood up to the MIC and embraced the international community.

GWB stole an election, destroyed the economy, squandered trillions of dollars, America's global reputation, and thousands of American and Iraqi lives in a war of imperialist aggression based on lies, let New Orleans drown, established an off shore gulag where torture was commonplace, and callously disregarded blatant warnings of the worst terrorist attack in American history.

That bastard served two terms. If you ever wonder why I'm convinced there is no just and loving God, that's why.

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
3. I can't blame Bush criminality on Fate...
Sat Nov 30, 2013, 02:45 AM
Nov 2013

...It's on purpose. To speed the day they are brought to account, I bring up what they do.



The BFEE brand represents the First Family of War Inc.

A college professor specializing in criminology noticed a pattern of behavior:



The Bush Family: A Continuing Criminal Enterprise?

Gary W. Potter, PhD.
Professor, Criminal Justice
Eastern Kentucky University

The S&Ls, the Mob and the Bushs

During the 1980's hundred of Savings and Loan Banks failed. Those bank failures cost U.S. taxpayers over $500 billion to cover federally insured losses, and much more to investigate the bank failures (Pizzo, Fricker, and Muolo, 1989; Brewton, 1992; Johnston, 1990). More than 75% of the Savings and Loan insolvencies where directly linked to serious and often criminal misconduct by senior financial insiders (Pizzo, Fricker and Muolo, 1989: 305). In fact, less than 10 percent of bank failures are related to economic conditions, the rest are caused by mismanagement or criminal conduct (Pizzo, Fricker and Muolo, 1989: 305).

A good example of the Savings and Loan failures can be found in the activities of Mario Renda, a Savings and Loan insider who often worked in close collaboration with organized crime (Pizzo, Fricker and Muolo, 1989: 123-126;302). Renda served as a middle man in arranging about $5 billion a year in deposits into 130 Savings and Loans, all of which failed (Kwitny, 1992: 27). Many of these deposits were made contingent on an agreement that the Savings and Loan involved would lend money to borrowers recommended by Renda, many of whom were organized crime figures or people entirely unknown to the banking institution involved (Kwitny, 1992: 27).

SNIP...

Prescott Bush: The Yakuza’s Frontman

Finally, and perhaps most seriously, the Bush family pioneered the practice which has now become commonplace of collaboration between corporate and organized criminals. Prescott Bush, uncle of the current President and brother of the former President, played a key role in helping the Japanese Yakuza extend their financial and real estate holdings to the United States. In 1989, Prescott Bush made arrangements for a front company for Japanese organized crime groups to buy into two U.S. corporations and to make a sizeable real investment in the U.S. (Helm, 1991a: 1; Isikoff, 1992: A1). West Tsusho, a Japanese corporation, was identified by Japanese police officials as a front company for one of that country’s largest organized crime syndicates. Prescott Bush was paid a fee of $500,000 for his help in negotiating West Tsusho’s purchase of controlling interest in Assets Management, a U.S. corporation (Helm, 1991a: 1; Isikoff, 1992: A1). Bush also assisted the Japanese mob in investing in Quantam Access, a U.S. software company, which was ultimately taken over by the Japanese (Helm, 1991b: 10; Isikoff, 1992: A1). Both companies ultimately went into bankruptcy (Isikoff, 1992: A1; Moses, 1992).

George Bush Sr.: Shutting Down the Organize Crime Strike Forces

Despite assessments from senior law enforcement officers and experts on organized crime that efforts to control organized crime would be crippled, in December 1989, the administration of George Bush, Sr. abolished all 14 regional organized crime strike forces (McAlister, 1989: A 21; Struck out, 1990). The organized crime strike had been created as independent entities so they would not be subject to political influences or bureaucratic wrangling within federal law enforcement. In the two decades of their operation the strike forces had secured convictions of major organized crime figures in several U.S. cities (Struck out, 1990). It is at the very least curious to note that the federal strike force in Miami had been responsible for indicting Miguel Recarey, the man for whom Jeb Bush had intervened with regulators. Organized crime strike forces had similarly indicted Mario Renda, the organized crime liaison to the S& L’s, as well as several other key figures in the Savings and Loan Fiasco (Pizzo, Fricker, and Mulolo, 1989: 112, 120-123, 303, 337).

CONTINUED...

http://critcrim.org/critpapers/potter.htm



Thank you for grokking, Nuclear Dem. Speed the day of justice.

DrDebug

(3,847 posts)
7. Do you know anything about Prescott Bush and the Lockheed Scandal
Sat Nov 30, 2013, 06:32 AM
Nov 2013

I just saw his name and his ties with the Yakuza. A long time I ago was research Fuji Bank and came across their relation with the Yakuza and Kodama Yoshi (the Japanese Godfather upto the 80s) and in one story there was a reference to the Lockheed scandal and that Prescott Bush was involved, but I couldn't find anything specific except for another Lockheed-Prescott Scandal with Dresser Industries. (http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0204/S00105/what-was-so-special-about-1974.htm)


Snoecks 2002 page 305 (no online source)

In (1976) the U.S. Senate revealed that Lockheed had hidden 7 million dollars in cash in cardbox boxes and shipped them to Kodama Yoshi in order to bribe high officials and politician and encourage them to purchase Lockheed airplanes for All Nippon Airlines. From 1956 until 1975 those encouragements resulted in the sale of over 700 million dollars at the expense of other American airplane manufactorers. Robert Whiting claims that Prescott Bush, brother of George Bush, was deeply involved in this conspiracy.


Great post as usual BTW

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
8. The poor guy was head of US-China Chamber of Commerce, so we're talking Triads.
Sun Dec 1, 2013, 12:29 AM
Dec 2013

Prescott Sheldon Bush, Jr's Rolodex also held all the Top Commie authoritarian insiders, as well as Yakuza and prolly , many of whom are very nice people.

...Middle Kingdom Rainmakers, they call their BFEE chums.

Oh So Social, that made money for the Right People.

China blocks New York Times website after story on leader's family wealth

Wealth? From warfighting? Family specialty. Ask Don Fuller, the federalist judge of the Alabama branch of the Dixie mafia Gov. Don Siegelman, the judge who sent him straight to prison.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022073759

Lockheed would be right up their BFEE alley. The little I know must make them laugh at the iceberg they own.

http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/randy/swas5.htm













 

Spider Jerusalem

(21,786 posts)
5. "Stood up to the MIC" = "presided over the largest-ever peacetime expansion of US military forces"?
Sat Nov 30, 2013, 03:58 AM
Nov 2013

Okay then...

 

RobertEarl

(13,685 posts)
4. No comparison,
Sat Nov 30, 2013, 03:51 AM
Nov 2013

JfK was a man of Peace, and gw is just a piece of......

JFK's vision took us to the moon, and gw took us down the drain.



Major Hogwash

(17,656 posts)
6. That's a great link.
Sat Nov 30, 2013, 04:42 AM
Nov 2013

Some people don't have any idea just how much the last 50 years of history was altered by his murder.

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