34 Years ago this month

[BOSSHOG]

george bush was suspended from flying while a member of the Texas Air National Guard for FAILING TO TAKE A MEDICAL EXAM WHICH INCLUDED A DRUG TEST.

http://www.bushwatch.com/bushgate2.htm

The manly, swaggering hero of the chickenshit chickenhawks in America DESERTED HIS MILITARY UNIT TO AVOID A DRUG TEST. And today he is the leader of the Republican Party.

[station agent]

1. He's more than leader of the republican party

He's also the butcher of Iraq, and king of the Assholes.

[Infomaniac]

5. Let's Not forget his Other Names

Clown Prince of Global Warming, Emperor Zero (Nero's reincarnated more inept successor, Dumb King George. 'Tis, as my lovely cousin Dehlia said with her Irish brogue, a tad warm here. My brain falls. Help me out he folks. What other honorifics can we bestow upon the worst president in U.S. history?

[AndyA]

2. George Bush is a traitor and a coward as well.

Not only has he evaded serving his country, he's also lied to us, stolen from us, put our lives in more danger than ever before, ignored warnings that cost over 3,000 lives in the worst terrorist attack ever on American soil, burdened us with debt, committed treason, is guilty of international war crimes, has violated the Constitution repeatedly, and generally ruined the good reputation and standing of the United States of America.

If those aren't impeachable offenses, I don't know what would be.

[napi21]

3. You know he's getting his annual physical today don't you?

Saw it on MSNBC.

[tavalon]

9. I'm guessing

That this one won't include a drug test, huh? Or a blood alcohol level either.

[napi21]

10. robably not a mental evaluation either! n/t

[Mabus]

4. Don't forget Aug. 6th - that anniversary is coming up too

It was almost five years ago that Bush ignored the PDB. That's a date that will live in infamy.

Text: President's Daily Brief on Aug. 6, 2001


Saturday, April 10, 2004; 7:24 PM

The following is the text of an Aug. 6, 2001, intelligence briefing for President Bush that outlined al Qaeda plans to strike within the United States. It was released Saturday by the White House.

Declassified and Approved for Release, 10 April 2004

Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US

Clandestine, foreign government, and media reports indicate Bin Ladin since 1997 has wanted to conduct terrorist attacks in the US. Bin Ladin implied in US television interviews in 1997 and 1998 that his followers would follow the example of World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef and "bring the fighting to America."

After US missile strikes on his base in Afghanistan in 1998, Bin Ladin told followers he wanted to retaliate in Washington, according to a ...(redacted portion) ... service.

An Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ) operative told an ... (redacted portion) ... service at the same time that Bin Ladin was planning to exploit the operative's access to the US to mount a terrorist strike.

The millennium plotting in Canada in 1999 may have been part of Bin Ladin's first serious attempt to implement a terrorist strike in the US. Convicted plotter Ahmed Ressam has told the FBI that he conceived the idea to attack Los Angeles International Airport himself, but that Bin Ladin lieutenant Abu Zubaydah encouraged him and helped facilitate the operation. Ressam also said that in 1998 Abu Zubaydah was planning his own US attack.

Ressam says Bin Ladin was aware of the Los Angeles operation.

Although Bin Ladin has not succeeded, his attacks against the US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 demonstrate that he prepares operations years in advance and is not deterred by setbacks. Bin Ladin associates surveilled our Embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam as early as 1993, and some members of the Nairobi cell planning the bombings were arrested and deported in 1997.

Al-Qa'ida members -- including some who are US citizens -- have resided in or traveled to the US for years, and the group apparently maintains a support structure that could aid attacks. Two al-Qa'ida members found guilty in the conspiracy to bomb our Embassies in East Africa were US citizens, and a senior EIJ member lived in California in the mid-1990s.

A clandestine source said in 1998 that a Bin Ladin cell in New York was recruiting Muslim-American youth for attacks.

We have not been able to corroborate some of the more sensational threat reporting, such as that from a ... (redacted portion) ... service in 1998 saying that Bin Ladin wanted to hijack a US aircraft to gain the release of "Blind Shaykh" 'Umar 'Abd al-Rahman and other US-held extremists.

Nevertheless, FBI information since that time indicates patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks, including recent surveillance of federal buildings in New York.

The FBI is conducting approximately 70 full field investigations throughout the US that it considers Bin Ladin-related. CIA and the FBI are investigating a call to our Embassy in the UAE in May saying that a group of Bin Ladin supporters was in the US planning attacks with explosives. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A2285-2004Apr10?language=printer

[global1]

7. Wow - When You Read This PDB Again Today You Wonder....

how could *Co ignore it. It basically lays it all out. If only they took some basic precautions at airports; and mad field agents to check and recheck all their intelligence at that time and put NORAD on notice - they could have prevented or minimized 9/11.

Reading this again - kind of solidifies my belief in LIHOP/MIHOP.

[Mabus]

11. No kidding. How could they ignore it

If only we had had a real president in the WH. Hell, I would settle for the puppet if he had people around him who cared and didn't have their own agendas.

[daydreamer]

6. And I support our government's actions in Vietnam.

---G.W.B.

[elehhhhna]

8. ...and it must have been goooood shit 'cuz he's STILL high!