George Bush Has Always Enjoyed Torturing Others >>>

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George Bush Has Always Enjoyed Torturing Others >>>

Edited on Mon Nov-07-05 04:33 PM by Stephanie

As a child he blew up frogs with firecrackers and shot at his little brothers with bb guns. As a college student he was president of a fraternity that branded the new pledges. Torture is nothing new to George Bush, so he doesn't see anything wrong with it.

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The rest of the series is here:

http://dke.org/doonesbury.html
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http://www.ucsc.edu/currents/99-00/10-04/archer.html

October 4, 1999
Professor shares a laugh with 'Doonesbury' cartoonist
By Jennifer McNulty

It's a fair bet that nobody got as big a kick out of Garry Trudeau's recent "Doonesbury" strips as sociology's Dane Archer.

The strips, which can be viewed on the Web at dke.org/doonesbury.html, called attention to a controversy that rocked the campus of Yale University in 1967, when an expos� in the student newspaper revealed a particularly heinous hazing practice taking place at the local chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon (DKE) fraternity. Under the leadership of George W. Bush Jr., who was president of the fraternity, members branded the backsides of initiates with hot irons, scarring pledges with small deltas, the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet.

Archer, as coeditor of the Yale Daily News' weekly magazine at the time, ran a lengthy article about the practice with a front-page photo of an initiate's rear. ("Forgive me for that," he quips today. "I was young.") Trudeau, who was a Yale student at the time, reproduced the photo in his cartoon strip on September 21.

For seven days, Trudeau featured his character Roland Hedley, "chief portal correspondent" for yap.com, pursuing the Texas governor to find out whether Bush had "suffered what he was dishing out."

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May 21, 2000
New York Times
A Philosophy With Roots In Conservative Texas Soil
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

http://www.makethemaccountable.com/articles/A_Philosophy_With_Roots_in_Conservative_Texas_Soil.htm

In addition to church groups, various civic organizations were also active, and one of the local rituals for children was the meetings with cookies and milk at the home of a nice old lady who represented the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

The cookies were digested more thoroughly than the teachings.

''We were terrible to animals,'' recalled Mr. Throckmorton, laughing. A dip behind the Bush home turned into a small lake after a good rain, and thousands of frogs would come out.

''Everybody would get BB guns and shoot them,'' Mr. Throckmorton said. ''Or we'd put firecrackers in the frogs and throw them and blow them up.''

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Close friends say he had nightmares for years after {his three year old sister Robin died}. The death also left him as a quasi-only child, for his next-oldest sibling, Jeb, was six and a half years younger. Neil and Marvin were 9 and 10 years younger than George, and Dorothy was 13 years younger. So while George occasionally used Jeb as a punching bag in childhood squabbles, and always relished his role as elder brother, most of the time his playmates and confidants were friends and roommates rather than siblings.

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Not Your Dad's BB Gun

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13603-2004Nov25.html

When George W. Bush was 16 or so, the frogs in the pond outside his boyhood home in Midland, Tex., weren't the only targets the future president shot at with his trusty BB gun.

"He said, 'I'm going to count to 10, and you run all the way down the hall,' " the president's little brother, Neil Bush, recalled at a Utah Republican Party dinner in Provo two years ago, according to the Deseret News.

Big brother drawing a bead on the backsides of siblings Neil and Jeb must have left a mark because Neil also told the story to a class of Richmond second-graders. "I was running as fast as I can with my little lightweight summer pj's on, and then '7, 8, 9, 10!' Boom! I felt it on my right cheek," the Richmond.com news reported his recounting.

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