By George! An British look at bush

[wabeewoman]

Great article!! Much more in article but look at what you DON'T hear in the US press:
Bush telegraph: selected presidential facts

In May 2001, Bush's government gave $43m to the Taliban.

Bush has never attended a funeral or memorial service for a soldier killed in Iraq.

In August this year, Bush took the second-longest holiday ever by a US president: 28 days.

Bush's 16-member cabinet is the wealthiest in US history, with an average fortune of $10.9m each.

As governor of Texas, Bush executed 152 prisoners.

Sixty-one people who raised $100,000 for Bush's 2000 election campaign have since been given government posts.

Nine members of Bush's Defense Policy Board sit on the board of defence contractors or are advisers.

Bush owns more than 250 autographed baseballs.

Bush has been arrested three times: for stealing a Christmas wreath from a hotel; for ripping down the Princeton goal posts after a Princeton-Yale game; and for drunk driving.

Bush infuriated the Russian media by spitting a wad of chewing gum into his hand before signing 2002's historic Treaty of Moscow with Vladimir Putin.

While appearing on the David Letterman show in 2000, Bush was caught surreptitiously cleaning his glasses on the jacket of the programme's executive producer, Maria Pope.



http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=463147

[La_Serpiente]

1. I hate to break it to you

but I have to correct one thing in that article.

I am just trying to be intelectually honest here.

It is true that 43 million dollars DID go into Afghanistan. However, it did not go straight to the Taliban. It went to the non-governmental aid agencies stationed there so they could continue to provide the basic needs for the people.

http://www.spinsanity.org/columns/20031016.html

(While doing a critique on Michale Moore's previous book)

In two places in Dude, Where's My Country?, Moore implicitly acknowledges mistakes in his earlier works. On several occasions over the past two years, Moore has asserted that (as he put it on "Politically Incorrect") "the Bush Administration gave $43 million in aid to the Taliban in part to -- give money to the poppy growers for the money they would lose because they can't grow heroin anymore." "Bowling for Columbine" continued the canard, asserting that the US gave $245 million in aid to the Taliban government of Afghanistan. Both of these are false; the aid, intended to help relive famine, was given to non-governmental organizations, not the Taliban. In his latest book, Moore finally gets it right, noting that the aid "was to be distributed by international organizations." (page 34)

This is one of the main reasons why Moore should not be the standard-bearer for the left. He doesn't get his facts straight, thus allowing columns like these to pop up in the foreign press.

[cliss]

2. Yeah well, not every

detail may be 100% accurate, but they're accurate enough for me. Besides, why do I feel that people in other countries are privy to more information than we are here in the US?

Could it be that the media in the US is controlled?

[Kurovski]

3. Is America's media controlled?

NO. Of course it isn't. This is the US of A , for God's sake! Don't you love God? You shouldn't ask such questions! Why do you ask these things? For the love of God stop asking questions! Why is it you don't love God? Do you love Stalin instead?!!:crazy: