WTF???

C’mon… this is a joke right? It’s really an exploding Medal Of Freedom and at the same time you’re gonna give Clinton one of those exploding cigars, right? That would be FUNNY!!! har har :|

Oh, gawd help ‘em all. I don’t care to read what – I can only anticipate – is a self-adulating/congratulatory POS story. However, I do have to ask, what’s the medal for? In honor of Daddy throwing up on the Japanese back when he was Pres or for spawning Junior? Lord knows the second one is quite the feat.

Obama got a Nobel Piss…errrr…Peace Prize, I guess he wants to pass on the good fortune.

Can Obama even control himself anymore? Stop pandering! STOP IT!

Obama is such an embarrassment. I seriously hope we have someone else running 2012 on the Dem ticket. pathetic!

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Quid pro quo: The announcement was made a day after former President George W. Bush respectfully declined to criticize President Obama, during a press conference in Dallas at the future site of the Bush library.

This only denigrates the meaning of the medal for the other recipients. Bush Sr never freed anyone. He is an enabler of the enslavement of the American people and the American system.

Well if they give it to this man, I might as well get it too. Evidently this is a gesture to a party that would tar and feather the President if they could. And this won’t make a difference except to make the groveling for compromise that much more sickening. And it makes no sense.

Stupid!!!!

I second that WTF! There are so many more deserving of this award. Poppy Bush?!

Obama continues to sorely disappoint. I am ready to support a primary candidate to run against him.

G.H.W. Bush was only responsible for the needless deaths of hundreds of thousands in Nicaragua, El Salvador and elsewhere in Central America,……. just for starters.

You know, we seem to be getting more like the British all the time. We have become an oligarchy, and now we have investiture ceremonies. Why don’t we just knight the bugger?

Can someone take out a full page ad in the Washington Post to that effect? Perhaps somehow the message will get to him?????????? Perhaps if he just read the Webster Dictionary definition of “leadership” or “lead”? All he does anymore it seems is figure out which way the wind is blowing ( as told to him by someone who does not know what truly happened with the last election….geeze!!) and then head in that direction with the rest of the republicans. He really does not know what it means to LEAD and sadly we all thought he did when he was running as president. He got all swallowed up by the black hole in Washington. I think it started when his kids got a $3500 swing set for the back yard of the White house.

Well, I guess if you can’t be one of Keith Olbermann’s “Worst Person(s) in the World,” you can be a Medal of Freedom winner. I doubt you could be both, and with the bar this low, you have to be one or the other.

PUUUUKKEE!!! Sorry, couldn’t help myself.

Ronald Reagan sold weapons to our enemies. Broke the law to do it. Lied to the citizens of the United States about it. An investigation into this treason was stopped by Bush Sr, because he pardoned everyone before we ever able to find out why. Did Reagan do it as paying our enemy back the favorite when the enemy held off releasing the hostages in order to help Ronald Reagan win the election? We will never know thanks to traitor Bush Sr.

Look at these dates:

August 25, 1988 Iraq gasess Kurds near the Turkish borders. What did Bush Sr do?

Oct. 2, 1989 Bush Sr signs National Security Directive 26, calling for closer US ties to Iraq. That is what Bush Sr did.

How about this:

Jan 1990 Investigations discover $3 billion in unauthorized BNL loans to Iraq. What did Bush Sr do?

Jan 17, 1990 Bush Sr waives embargo placed by Congress on Eximbank credits to Iraq.

Bush Sr then conned this nation into a war with Iraq all the while pretending the Ms. Glaspie tapes didn’t exist.

The first Gulf War was nothing more than a live exhibition of war toys. Bush Sr went on to work for a war profiteering company as did Sec of Defense Dick Cheney.

When a Republican pats you on the back, he’s just feeling where to stick the knife.

As a newspaper boy (delivery kid) back in the ’60s, who delivered the morning edition and evening editions, and read them both daily, I recall the morning of the JFK assassination a news story citing former VP Richard Nixon warning Kennedy to stay out of Dallas.

Nixon was claiming the city was in a very dangerous mood, and it was intended as an adult, and serious, suggestion to JFK.

Shortly before Nixon’s death, he gave an interview which never got much publicity, ‘natch. The foreign reporter questioned him on this warning, and Nixon claimed it was due to three people he had seen the day prior in Dallas: David Atlee Phillips (chief of CIA’s Western Hemisphere Operations and career disinformation specialist), Jack Ruby (who had his name legally changed from Rubenstein when he married into the mob; Nixon had known him when he worked for the House Select Committee on UnAmerican Activities as a private investigator), and young George H.W. Bush.

Nixon wasn’t sure what was up at that time, but he was damned suspicious and actually concerned for President Kennedy’s health.

The banksters, beginning with Richard Nixon in 1960, wanted to choose every present and future president. They failed with that election — probably because old Joe Kennedy, the nation’s youngest bank president and possibly most brilliant criminal mastermind (was suspected of being the mastermind behind Prohibition, from which he, and a number of other Wall Streeters, profited enormously) — interfered with their plans by buying up the occasional ward boss during that election.

Of course, Kennedy turned out quite differently than many might have suspected: his Alliance for Progress in Latin America went counter to United Fruit, later to be changed to Chiquita corporation, his talk of doing away with the oil depletion allowance, his suggestion to increase the financial transaction tax (in effect since 1914, with the establishment of the Revenue Act, and increased during the Great Depression by FDR, later to disappear altogether during the Johnson Administration in 1966), standing up to US Steel (heavily owned, if not entirely, by the Rockefeller family), General Electric and others, and shortly prior to his death JFK sent out memos to the State Department and Pentagon to plan for withdrawal of all US military advisors in South Vietnam.

That, and many other activities on Kennedy’s part, did not sit well with the bank-oil cartel, and especially with the Rockefellers and Harrimans (both David Rockefeller, and Averell Harriman, were zero degree removed from almost everyone involved with the assassination of JFK and the subsequent Warren Commission, the only two exceptions being Oswald, and Jack Ruby, formerly Rubenstein, from whom they were only one degree of separation — they knew someone who knew each of them).

Since at least the Nixon presidency, each and every president has been the bankster choice: Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama.

Over the previous 35 years every president or vice-president has been a member of David Rockefeller’s Trilateral Commission; and that ain’t NO COINCIDENCE. (Including Dick Cheney and George H.W. Bush.)

Oy vey.

I just love the theater.

For services to the Carlyle Group, above and beyond the call of duty…

Anyone who has read the book “Family of Secrets” by Russ Baker is puking upon reading the article.

If anyone is less worthy of any “freedom” award, it’s George H.W. Bush, and it’s very sad to see Obama playing along with the charade.

I can’t believe reading that Obama is licking up war criminal Bush family’s anus. Obama is a total crap out!

Well thank God that dispite all the problems facing the world, Obama is able to find the time to deal with what is really important…what a joke. Can Obama’s team do anything less important? Isn’t there some sports team that Obama hasn’t met with at the White House?

You got it, sir!

..for what..?

After receiving the medal Bush might be heard whispering, “Thanks Cuz”.

They are 10th Cousin’s once removed.

Still think any ole American can be President…

Hell, Might as well give one to Glen Beck

Theater of the absurd

GEEZUS FUCKING KRYST!!! I’m either going to have to leave this fucking nightmare fantasyland of a country or end up re-starting my alcoholism! How much MORE of this shit can one stand!!!

I would like to think that some of these prospective recipients are so rich in conscience that they would decline to participate,

Just goes to show – there’s only one party with two fake heads, and we join one head or the other, and argue over which head is politically correct, while the one party just moves forward more and more towards a police state. Meanwhile, one head awards the other head the slavery is freedom medal.

How honorable!

Way to energize the base, Mr. President!

But the most damning thing about these choices is the lack of imagination.

You have got to be kidding me. This is an Onion article right?

Why not give one to Prescott too? Obama you are an utter failure.

You can say that again. Is he still trying to earn the peace prize through compromise with the GOP?

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A Man that quite possibly helped or could be implicated in the assassination of JFK, and was an acquaintance to the Hinckley family, possibly involved with the Reagan attempt.
Bush the CIA Hack, that started the Police State.
I submit that America is Stumbling Drunk when we honor a Monster like this.

I should read the book. It is difficult for me to believe that President Obama is connected with these scoundrels. I think he is constantly being squeezed by these guys or this cartel, but I cannot believe he is one of them. He would not be so hated by the Rthugs if he were one of them. He has championed reigning in big banks and health insurance company rip-offs. Having not yet read the book, it seems that you extrapolated the legacy to Obama. If Clinton and Obama are part of the crime ring, why do the rethugs hate them so much?

F~ obama ! After today he is among the names Uncapitalized

YOU will neva get my F~ing vote ever again

he should have named George Soros

Cool!! Now Obama can swap his Nobel prize for Georgies Medal of freedom.

Be a shitty president and get a medal and an aircraft carrier named after you. What are the reasons to be proud to be “American” any more?

Medals for criminals, gee isn’t that special.

In other news: White House hails George W. and Sarah Palin as having superior intellectual minds.

WTF!!!!!!!!!!!

He’s got be fucking kidding!

Who ever said the Dems and Repukes, especially President ASSHOLE, are any different from each other needs psyche exam!

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bo, was that for what he did to JFK ?

Indeed, ghwb was “free” to bail out on his crew in WWII

roflmao, you cant make this stuff up can you:D

Did you hear the Coast to Coast Episode about this?

I didn’t know Gloria was sick…

The belief in either a monarchy, or that intelligence agencies
should infiltrate the Executive Branch is not worthy of a Medal of Freedom, unless it refers to the freedom of the plutocrats to do whatever the hell they want.

DING DING DING!
http://tinyurl.com/carlylegrp
The Best Enemies Money Can Buy
From Hitler To Saddam Hussein to Osama bin Laden – Insider Connections and the Bush Family’s Partnership with Killers of Americans
Brown Brothers, Harriman – BNL- and the Carlyle Group

he has paid lip service to actually reigning in the banks and health insurance companies. i heard the author of ‘family of secrets’ interviewed on a talk radio show, and his thought was that obama was actually warned off of real reform, and did just enough to keep himself from jfk’s fate.
presidents come and go, the banksters stay. give the people a little ‘reform’ to shut them up for a while, then work the loopholes and it’s business as usual.
you want real reform…..see what politicians back publicly financed campaigns.
find any???

Throw the book at them!

how about ‘unfit for command but fit for shit’ Kerry, endangering his own crew to the point where they wouldn’t even get on the boat with the asshole??

A new level of gutlessness for Obama. Bush Sr. shodl be indicted for the 2,000 Panamanian civilians killed during the “arrest” of Manny Noriega, Bush Sr.’s ex-fishing buddy.

no

That’s political theater, and that’s all that has ever been. Reflect on how much time Bill Clinton has spent with George (pappy) HW Bush, and how the Clintons became worth over $100 million in the few years after he left office (principally from lobbying for all those “free trade” agreements, or the offshoring of all American jobs, and more tax bennies and financial deregs for the multinationals).

Obama spent 12 years in the University of Chicago academic system as a prof or asst. prof., and no authentic dem has ever come out of that place, originally financed by John D. Rockefeller and long known as the true Rockefeller U.

Look at all the members of Obama’s administration who were former members of David Rockefeller’s Trilateral Commission: (p. 13, but please read all the members)

http://www.trilateral.org/download/file/TC%20list%2011-10(2).pdf

And Diana Farrell (queen of jobs offshoring), Larry Summers, Timothy Geithner (both first appointed by Geo. H.W. Bush) are not the choices of an authentic democrat.

And he left Gates in as SecDef — whatever for? And Mueller in as FBI director– WTF???

Negative, Obama is looking foward to a future Goldman Sachs partnership or millions to come — that’s always the deal.

any mind would be superior to yours.

yeah…. especially when it’s the nobel peace prize for bashing America and apologizing to the world for it’s greatness.

as what???? top commie scum bag of the world?

who asked you … go play in traffic

Only in the USa would they give this award to a spook wow talk about unreality

Possibly involved in the Reagan attempt? Possibly? Really?

wow…. there’s something ringing in your head…. and it’s hitting no obstructions at all!

he certainly energized the voter base in the last election!!! LOFLMAO

Looks like your …”yes we can” guy is looking like a….”guess I couldn’t” little girl!!!

rlau290541 ~ go chase roadkill, Pokey

Another unsubstantiated swift boat load of bullshit from a dickless wonder.

link?

Jaimie11….. it looks like the head you should stay away from is the head on a beer…. sounds like you’ve had just a few too many!!!

Yer not very bright are ya ?

Barak, Shellacked, Obama, finally coming to his senses, giving tax brakes to people who can actually create jobs, giving credit where credit is due….. what’s next??? will he voluntarily dismantile his deathcare plan and put a lot of corpsemen out of work???? LOL

Let’s create some sort of drinking club for expatriates that haven’t left the country.

Where are the jobs ?

bo and ghwb now have one thing in common for certain one term

wha wha wha…. don’t cry libby….. hey look lib… there’s Bill the draft dodger clinton getting an award too!!! Bill couldn’t serve in the U.S. Army…because he was afraid of guns…. especially the M16 he was going to have to carry in Vietnam!! LOFLMAO

Don’t ever forget, Kerry VOLUNTEERED FOR COMBAT!
Dumbya never saw combat, Daddy Dumbya made sure of that while he snorted coke at some frat house keg party while people like Kerry faced combat.
Little Dumbya failed at everything in life, including his war criminal presidency.

Again, Dumbys is and always will be a coward, and people like Kerry are brave combat vets.

Get a grip of a few facts before repeating the same old and tired lies everyone has heard for years.

bobby are you referring to Barney Frank??? I’m not him…or her for that matter either. LOL

We’ve got a troll trying hard to stir the pot. Pay no heed to and ignore him/her, it’ll eventually go away.

In other words, don’t feed the troll.

“… Hi I’m Barak, Shellacked, Obama…. I’ve apologized and kissed the ass of the of the world for America’s greatness, and now it’s time to kiss the ass of every Republican in the United States that I love…. let me start by giving tax brakes to those that can actually create a job that produces true goods and services, and then i’ll take water on my healthcare plan and then i’ll give credit to a true hero George H. Bush and then I’ll attempt to bow to every man woman and child that voted for the repulicans and then I’ll…… ” An the capitulation list goes on and on, and on etc…..

Even if half of your b.s. were half truths, which they’re not….. George W. Bush did succeed in doing what President Shellack Obama won’t… that’s to get a second term!! Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha He can’t even get support from amont his morons on this comment section!!!! LOFLMAO

Hey, Barak Shellacked, Obama once had a dream of world peace…..Let’s give him the Nobel Peace Prize!!!!

Is it getting crowded under that bus, libbies??? the one that ‘Shellacked’ threw you all under???? Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha

Liars and war criminals. All of them.

dems, repubs, all the same. Hope this turns a few more still supporting Obama

I heard that Shellack’s going to give the American Freedom Award to Bernie Madoff, and Charlie Rangel for their work in “Alchemy” and “Creative Tax Solutions”, respectively.

Bush didn’t win either of his elections. Obama has won one. So Obama already is up 1 to 0!

I think I’m going to be sick.

I think I’m going to be sick. Of all the war criminals…

Bimbo Harvester…..is it getting a little crowded under that bus??

The choices the President has made for this awared cover a wide spectrum and I think that honoring the elder President Bush was a good choice because of his work with President Clinton. It seems that once a President leaves office he can go on and leave politics behind and cooperate beyond political divides.

…”a new level of gulessness for Obama..” and they said libs and conservatives never agree!!! LOFLMAO

Brighter and happier than you whinny libby!!!

“….F…Obama he’ll never get my vote again” Sob Sob Sob wha i’m a whinny lib and I didn’t get my way… my president barak shellacked obama didn’t ruin my country fast enought and i’m not going to CAPITALIZE his name ever ever again…. and i’m going to hold my breath untill one half of my brain cells die and my I.Q. will be cut in half to 10!!! I’ll show him!!!”

Obombya knows who his masters are. What a freakin’ puppet.

I sincerely hope so!!!!!

I heard that Jimmy Carter’s also getting an award…. for being the World’s Second Best Loser.

well good night all…. Have to admit…. i’m getting chills running up and down my legs thinking of how Barry threw all you left of left libs….UNDER THE BUS!!!!

Ha ha ha ha. George W. Bush DID NOT SUCCEED in winning a second term. John Kerry won the 2004 election, and it wasn’t even that close. Of course, Kerry shouldn’t have been the candidate in 2004, except for the fact that Al Gore was cheated in 2000.

George W. Bush is the only president in American history who was elected AND reelected under fraudulent circumstances. Think about that, Mr. Troll. Disenfranchisement of legal voters enabled his first election AND his second. That’s not a political opinion, that’s a statement of fact based on the evidence.

Why haven’t the American people been told the truth? Because the media were collectively afraid (with just reason) that to tell the truth would engender a backlash from advertisers and stockholders.

Dude… this was the guy who killed Kennedy. WTF?

Sucking up to the GOP, again.

America’s GREATNESS? Hello? Have you been reading the paper recently? Have you followed the economic data? I don’t know whether Obama deserved the Nobel Peace Prize or not…but I know for a fact that the notion of America’s greatness is a myth from a bygone generation.

There’s no evidence that George H.W. Bush was involved in JFK’s murder. But it is passing strange that he is the only American over the age of 60 who doesn’t remember exactly where he was on Nov. 22, 1963.

When asked where he was, Bush Sr. said, “I think I was in Houston.” HE THINKS?

tell you what robert the moron, I think about being disenfranchised everytime a vote gets cast by your racist taxpayer funded whorehouse for underage girls political activist group ACORN. As for you laughing about being a loser??? and you are robert…. no one cares what you think SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED IN 2000, AND 2004, MORON BUSH WON!!!!!!

p.s. robert….is it crowed like they say under that bus that Shellacked threw you under??? LOLr

Robert I apologize…. I meant you are the moron…..not Bush! Bush won and was a fantastic president for EIGHT YEARS!!!!!

Nixon was quoted as saying, “The Warren Commission was the greatest myth ever perpetuated (sic) on the American people.”

I think he meant “perpetrated.” But to give the devil his due, Nixon (who wasn’t JFK’s closest friend) did express his true feelings about the Warren Commission, which had been assembled by LBJ for one purpose only…to eliminate nasty rumors that might have interfered with LBJ’s 1964 re-election campagin. It succeeded, tragically enough.

Birds of a feather stick together. Jeb Bush will return the favor.

Stupid is , is stupid does…

They don’t hate them. But they’re willing to pretend otherwise in order to marshal political power.

You take the Republicans at face value. That’s wrong. What they’re about is simply being in control. They don’t care about governing. They don’t care about what’s best for the country. They care about themselves. The essence of laissez-faire capitalism is greed, i.e., enlightened self-interest. That translates as profit on Wall Street, and as power in Washington.

Well that does point out a very big difference between consevatives and liberals like you robert. We are proud of our country and will fight when we have to, to preserve it and to make it prosper. You commie libs can’t wait to suck the life out of it and to bash it LIKE YOU JUST DID, any time you get a chance. How does that retarded marine, TarHead moron think about that??? How does Bimbo Harvester???

Why don’t you get on a slow boat to China and be happy?? There are a lot of commies there like you!

And to mother-killer, pedophile-priest protector, “ex”-Nazi Poop Nazinger.

good go throw up on Bimbo Harvester and Jarhead.

sob sob sob…. whaaaaa

Yeah he’s sucking up to the Winners!!!!

He should give him a life sentence along with both his bastard sons.

Jeb in 2012 …the end of life as we know it !

Um…rlau290541…

Anyone who actually believes that continuing lavish tax-breaks to the idle class = “giving tax brakes to those that can actually create a job that produces true goods and services” needs to take Economics 101 – again…

Jobs – and the businesses(*) which provide them – are NOT created or sustained by people opening businesses…they are created and sustained by a large-enough pool of consumers who need, want (and this is the MOST IMPORTANT PART…so read carefully & take notes) and can AFFORD to purchase the product or service that business provides. Most of those jobs have been shipped overseas, so many if not most of the U.S. population is underemployed — too poor and insecure to buy much of anything…except Chinese crap from MallWart.

The wealthy have had their lavish tax-cuts for the last 7 years – including the last 2 years of this current recession – and we’re STILL waiting for all of the jobs they’re supposed to create if they just get their tax-cuts a little longer…or a little bigger?. How long are the WrongWing Pol gonna lie to the gullible Wrong-Wing Voters — and how long are those gullible Wrong-Wing Voters gonna keep standing in the rain, waiting for the benevolence of their wealthy masters, until it dawns on them that they’ve been had?

(*) There are, of course, a few exceptions…the wealthy always have disposable income to spend on luxury items like $20,000 watches and $250,000 autos – but most of those luxury items are manufactured overseas (meaning few `real’ jobs on these shores).

to: Myth_buster, W.C. Fields, and robertlockwoodmills: Wow. I sure have a lot to learn. I thought I was cynical! I am disappointed now. Are you really telling me that my vote did not count? Are you telling me that her majesty $arah might be a cartel rethug, too? Is that how she got in? She seems easier to control than Obama. My husband is now very curious about all these connections. We are ordering today, not Bush’s book. Also, it seems that you guys are saying that my previous posts predicting Jeb in 2012 is more than likely going to happen, no matter how I vote. Maybe the youth of America who did not show-up or mail-in their votes for the primaries this month know more about the inner workings than I. Thanks for the education in reality. This is truly disheartening.

We’ve always been at War with Eurasia. Winston is doing a heckuva job at the Ministry of Truth.

THIS COUNTRY SUCKS!!!!

Wasn’t the Medal of freedom also given to george tenet by baby bush? So it has already been devalued by bush jr. Not so much of a big deal after that. So he is giving a not so valued metal to a not so valued man. I wish the rest of them would decline

The worlds greatest drug dealing covert murder is getting the presidential medal of freedom. If this doesn’t drive the nail home to all of us who really owns and runs this country. Then we gotta get of the meds. There was a coup in this country 11/22/1963 and they have been in charge ever since. Rewriting history in the best orwellian manner.

Bingo ! he never won an election

Right on!

A little insight of the HERO for out younger viewers.

Bush’s Betrayal

Chester Mierzejewski, an old war buddy of Bush, who said he was angered by the “false assertions” made by candidate Bush when describing the incident, gave a different account.

After 44 years of silence, Mierzejewski, who also was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, told the New York Post that Bush had abandoned his crew to death when there was another choice.

He said he was approximately 100 feet in front of Bush’s plane as the turret gunner for Squadron Commander Douglas Melvin’s plane, “so close he could see in the cockpit” of Bush’s bomber. Mierzejewski’s close wartime buddy was one of the two crew members in Bush’s plane.

According to Mierzejewski, the squadron was in a tight-formation bombing raid against a Japanese radio installation on an island reported to be heavily fortified. He saw “a puff of smoke” come from Bush’s plane which quickly disappeared and was certain only one man parachuted from the plane and that it was Bush, the pilot.

Mierzejewski said the Avenger torpedo bomber was engineered so that it could successfully crash land on water and that Bush doomed his own crew by bailing out and leaving the bomber out of control.

Other World War II veterans also expressed concern about Bush parachuting out of the aircraft. “He had a moral obligation to put that plane in the water in an emergency landing,” Robert Flood, a former B-17 bombardier told the press. “He violated the primary rule for a captain of a multi-crew aircraft: The pilot never leaves the airplane with anybody in it.”

Pete Brandon, a Marine Corps Avenger pilot, who also served in the South Pacific, said an Avenger pilot had two choices: Set the plane down in the water or hold it steady until the two crewmen could prepare to jump.

“In an Avenger, only the pilot wore a parachute,” Brandon said. “The two crewmen wore harnesses. If the order came to bail out, they had to take chest parachutes from a shelf and strap them on – and bail out. The Avenger was very unstable. The pilot had to be at the controls the whole time or it would go right over on its back.”

Steve Hart, then Vice President Press Secretary, described Mierzejewski’s account as absurd. Hart said, “The Vice President has told us time and time again what happened that day. To suggest that the account is inaccurate is absurd.”

What is absurd is the conflicting or missing reports of exactly what happened to Bush’s two crew members. According to the Post, the intelligence report on the loss of Bush’s plane in September, 1944 notes that it had become “standard doctrine” for VT 51, Bush’s bomber squadron, “to make bombing runs on targets near water so as to retire over the water. This puts pilot and crew in position for water rescue in event of forced landing . . . ”

The same document reports, without attribution, that “smoke and flame” engulfed Bush’s engine, and that “Bush and one other person were seen to bail out. The chute of the other person who bailed out did not open.”

The report was signed by Melvin and an intelligence officer, Lt. Martin E. Kilpatrick. Contrary to normal military procedure, the report was not dated and Navy archives were unable to supply a subsequently completed report.

Gunner Lawrence Mueller, who lives in Milwaukee, flew on the ChiChi Jima mission. When asked who had the best view, he replied unhesitatingly: “The turret gunner in Melvin’s plane.”

Mueller’s recollections, jogged by a log book that he kept, support Mierzejewski’s account. And it was noted that Bush’s plane was the only one from the squadron that did not return. Mueller told the Post, “No parachute was sighted except Bush’s when the plane went down.” He also said no one mentioned a fire engulfing Bush’s plane or he would have noted it in the log book.

The Finback, the sub which picked up Bush from his raft in the water, made no report of a fire on Bush’s plane, but did comment on his crew: “Bush stated that he failed to see his crew’s parachutes and believed they had jumped when the plane was still over ChiChi Jima, or they had gone down with the plane.”

About six hours later, the Finback picked up another pilot, James W. Beckman, from the USS Enterprise, who stated that it was known that only one man had parachuted from Bush’s plane. “This decided us to discontinue any further search of that area . . .”

Although the heart of Bush’s story about the incident remains the same, Mierzejewski is adamant Bush’s account is not the truth and blames Bush for the abandonment and deaths of both men.

“I think he could have saved those lives, if they were alive. I don’t know that they were, but at least they had a chance if he had attempted a water landing,” Mierzejewski said.

http://www.usvetdsp.com/story46.htm

PS This was the second Avenger that he lost.

more kissing ass from Obama…what a surprise.

I don’t know why Obama doesn’t change his last name to Bush.

Former President George H.W. Bush started the Desert Storm after giving Saddam the Green light to attack Kuwait.He is a War Criminal and the only award he deserves is an Electric Chair.

Yeah but Obama only does things that are good, so G Bush must be good other wise Obama wouldn’t give him this award.
Signed
Obama-bots

And don’t say anything to me I worked and spent my own money campaigning for that chickenshit trojan horse Obama.

Hey bro good job…now cash that disability check and buy some Steel Reserve.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25166.htm

This time the boob in the white house has gone beyond the point of no return …

You couldn’t find a better way to SHIT on your base and I sincerely hope you pay for this in 2012

in spades !

God, I don’t know if I can handle much more of Obama’s bipartisanship. This is sickening.

Bush the Elder was up to his ears in a number of slimy operations over his life in politics. The one that perhaps should have gotten him hung for treason was the October Surprise that involved secret negotiations with the Iranians to keep the embassy hostages captive until after the 1980 election in order to deny a victory to then-President Carter. This operation involved arranging weapons shipments to an enemy of the American people at that time and later morphed into the Iran-Contra Scandal. Both Reagan and Bush should have been tried for treason.

pos

Yup , at 12:30 pm Friday

or a long tie

I wonder if any liberals feel remorse for all the shit they talked over the past ten years only to realize now that George Bush was only a symptom of one monstrous Federal system gone bad.

I hope it felt good to demonize cowboys( even though W never was an actual cowboy, just a new england frat boy). It sure must feel good to look down your nose at common working class folks and say that they were duped into voting for Republicans that didn’t represent their interests. Hope you enjoyed it for 8 years. Now its clear Democrats aren’t any more intelligent but most democrats probably don’t even have the attention span to appreciate the irony.

I agree, this is too much.
What is Obama thinking?

Bush Sr attacked a small country in order to arrest ONE PERSON!

(Panama and Noriega)
23 American troops killed and 325 wounded.
Afterward, Panama was lead by essentially the same kind of leader as Noriega.

It cost a small fortune and according to Wiki:
“For nearly two weeks after the invasion, there was widespread looting and lawlessness, a contingency which the United States military indicated it had not anticipated.”

Sound familiar?
Do you miss him yet?

Oh, and at the end of Bush the Elder’s one-term Presidency, he pardoned the all the people that had been indicted by the Iran-Contra Special Prosecutor, Lawrence Walsch. The Bush Administration – and their Rethugliecon allies – demonized Walsch, who was an old-school Republican, for doing his job. Walsch was stonewalled for years in the investigation and had slowly worked his way up the food chain to a couple of major players with the hope that some on them would turn. Bush ended that by pardoning all of them.

This is where I draw the line in the sand …

Ah, F~ no!

GHWB was a war hero before he was a war criminal.

There used to be some information on the net-redacted in the last year or so-that JFK boinked Babs when Georgie was away at the war. JFK remarked that the “cheap ass” ring that Babs had meant Georgie wasn’t serious.

GHWB did get his picture taken with Babe Ruth, though.

And if you need any more evidence Obozo has NO balls, here it is. Worthless president, completely worthless. I pray he gets kicked out in 2012.

FROM ONE PHONY PEACE MEDAL WINNER TO ANOTHER!!! ONLY IN THE BIZZARO USURPED STATE OF AMERIKA USA. WOW!!

PEACE BUDDAH

WHO CARES! It’s there party. Its there corporation. YES, the United States of America, Inc. is a business and those that contribute to the growth and expansion of the business will be rewarded. YOU are a part of the corporation also through the 14th amendment BUT you are a lower class “person”. You do not know that because you are ignorant of the history of this country, and the legal aspects that by which you are bound.

So, I say who gives a rats ass. But they’ll be two billion conversations and billions of hours wasted on this inside blow job. Big deal. Let it go. There are much more important things to be concerned with in todays world.

Here is some starter reading material. This will tell you what the USA is about, and why you are treated the way you are. Its a hard truth to swallow, and most will either ignore it or denounce it. I say to those, let them wallow in their excrement because you get what you deserve.

I offer these freely for you to investigate. If you do not, your ignorance will not result in bliss. i can guarantee you that much.

Start your investigation HERE:

freedom-school.com

AND, Google these two documents and read them until you understand them. In fact, you should read these two documents first before conducting more detailed research at freedom-school.com. Freedom school does have these documents though.

Sui Juris
PARDON ME, but… #5
Nord Davis, Jr

A Belligerent Claimant
by Michael Keehn
11-22-2006

They are excellent documents BUT you will have to dedicate at least 4 – 8 hours reading and comprehending. I know I know…that’s a lot for you folks. LOL. Good luck.

Watch this Nazi Squirm in this interview…….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK_T9atkaEg

I’d rather have it be hollow than full of shit………get my drift Jackboot?

In an attempt to answer ALL your ???s……………YES

I did say POSSIBLY, right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcHwMqc5pTA

There was a coup in this country on 11.22.63 and the bush crime family have been running things ever since. Have you seen the picture of bush in front of the TSBD on that date. Nixon was a bush man, Reagan was not calling the shots, bush was, October surprise, Iran contra, pardons, stolen elections, 9/11, anthrax, never mind go back to sleep.

Republican-Democratic incest at its best. Or worst.

Uh, huh? GW in a large part made the federal system bad. You know, tax breaks for billionaires and huge corporations. 2 wars, no way to pay for it – except for, of course, the middle and working classes – which are ceasing to exist. And how about those bank bailout outs, yeah – we really could afford those.

W. wasn’t a cowboy, he’s afraid of horses. His daddy, GHWB – isn’t a cowboy either. He’s is an East Coast Ivy League Elite, Skull & Cross Bones Member, buries so deep in covert CIA ops NO ONE will ever here of them. Lets not forget dear Prescott Bush – Hilter’s Banker.
Before you start spewing about the intelligence of democrats find out about the subject you are SO willing to defend.

Now Obama is best brokeback buddies with Tom Donahue of The Chamber and former mass murderer of many many thousands of Iraqi civilians, George. H.W. Bush. Bush would had to resign as VP if William Casey had been able to testify to the treasonous actions of those negotiating with Iranian hostage takers and then embargo breaking weapons trading.

I know I can’t stand when people go on and on and on and on and fill up 1 or 2 pages of just their opinion. Unless they are copy-and-pasting from factual documents, they can ‘zip it, Edith’.

hey, you’re picking on “pleasant Barry”

Medal of FREEDOM??????

This S.O.B. bailed out of his plane during WWII out of sheer cowardice, leaving his two co-pilots left in the plane to burn to death. For this he gets a Medal? pardon me while I puke!

He was NOT a “war hero.” He bailed out of his plane and left his co-pilots to burn to death, instead of making a water landing which would have saved the crew. he was totally selfish and immoral and had no balls, then and now.

So I ggues you’re admitting to your own racism here, eh? I mean, if Obama had had balls and stuck to his agenda, you would have hated his guts for that. So now he’s capitulated to the GOP and you STILL hate his guts.

So what are you saying? You hate him no matter what.

Sorry Johnie I was refering to Obama as well. Looks like they have all had the same agenda. Johnson. Nixon. Ford, Carter ( neoliberal CFR member whose agenda fits by slightly differnt means), Reagan ( Conservative actor fool, whom they controlled and tried to assasinate), Bush 1 ( king pin), Clinton( Bush 1 in neoliberal muderous clothing), Bush 2, Obama.

After that incident…..Good soldiers would have fragged him.

So the guy that was intimate with the Operation paperclip Nazi spies being brought into the US after WWII, the guy that ran the Bay of Pigs fiasco, the guy that organized and ran the assassination of JFK, the guy that assassinated the Clilean diplomat IN D.C>, that was business partner with John Hinkley Sr, the guy that was a business partner of Salim bin-Laden, is to get the highest FREEDOM Medal from Obama???

TELL ME AGAIN THE CIA DOESN’T RIG THE ELECTIONS.

Oh yeah, and Clinton: we know who took Hale Boggs to the airport the day his “plane went down.”

Assholes.

if the medal were a thick rope, to be given on a limb from a sturdy oak tree, THEN it would make sense.

Glad to see they want to HONOR this cretin before he meets the devil.

I vote for a stake in the heart. It’s the only way to be sure.

Pedophiles in high places stick together. If anyone doubts this, I dare you to watch Conspiracy Of Silence and then try and tell me different.

If I were one of the other recipients, I’d refuse the “honor” on the basis of it being negated by Bush’s receiving of one. The most likely candidates to do this are “cellist Yo-Yo Ma, poet and author Maya Angelou, holocaust survivor Gerda Weissmann Klein”. It’ll be interesting to see if any of them do that.

how wonderful
now Bush can join his friends

Blair Bremer Cheney Greenspan Kissinger Merkel Podhoretz Rockefeller Rummy Tenet Uribe

The presidential Medal of Freedom for George H Bush is as much a joke as the Nobel Peace Prize awarded the new criminal president Obama.

For the full story about the Bush Crime Family check out “Family of Secrets : The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces That Put It in the White House, and What Their Influence Means for America” by Russ Baker. Excellent full exposure of the whole criminal cabal, their shell companies as cover for CIA covert operations, friendship with the Bin Laden family and much more.

George H. W. Bush once stated he didn’t remember where he was on November 22, 1963 and then concocted an elaborate cover story to “prove” he was not in Dallas . He was connected with George de Mohrenschildt, a shady white Russian emigre, who had befriended Lee Harvey Oswald and his wife Marina in 1962 and did favors for them. Just one degree of separation between “Papa” Bush and the patsy assassin of Kennedy!

Several days ago in a radio interview Russ Baker explained that the Bush family are actually just foot solders for the power elite.

It wouldn’t be very surprising to me if these thugs had an active hand in the false flag 9/11 attacks.

Find more @ : http://www.familyofsecrets.com/

Not necessarily jg murphy. I hate enemies of my Country, whether they be black, or white or yellow or red. This country has fought communists since 1919 and now I fear, it has elected one as its president. And if he is not, he’s doing an awful good impression of one. The word “awful” is a one word description of this one term loser’s administration. Did you check out the last election, lib? It’s going to get worse for you leftists in ’12 when we take back EVERYTHING!

Took me a bit to find it again.

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2009/12/05

The medal of freedom is a bad joke.

~~ This country has fought communists since 1919 and now I fear, it has elected one as its president. ~~

FFS.

At one time the British empire though America communist what with their government for, by and of the people.

Further Jesus was communal. Any real Christian is communal. The Essenes were communal and the first pilgrims to land in America were communal.

Is a government for by and of the people communist?

I guess so since so many think that it should be run by the financial, military industrial, real estate and insurance cartels. Full blown empire where citizens are subjects and often to stupid to know better.

No, I’m well aware you were. It just seemed a good place to drop my comment.

Surprised by the false flag attack? No surprise there. They are generations of murdering criminals. I bet that wasn’t even Mama Bush’s fetus in the jar… I bet it was just dinner.

as if these “awards” really mean anything any more

If he was going to give the medal of honor for charitable works Carter and Clinton are more deserving the Bush! He certainly didn’t do anything voluntarily! No previous republican president has done more voluntarily than Carter or Clinton. The ex republican presidents usually just play golf and drink! He is too feeble and old to be much help. I always wondered why anyone would ask him for help and now we know! He needed to have a reason to deserve the medal of honor and this was it. Jeez, sounds like a cheesey award not really an honor any more. First Tenet and now papa bush. wow.

Made a faux pas yesterday. I said I felt former Bush Sr. deserved this medal. I am admitting I was ignorant of Senior’s policies. I only got interested in politics when President Obama ran for office. I was one of the silent majority who accepted what was. I felt that if two people of opposite sides of the spectrum could work together for peace and for the good of the people was enough. I am aware that President Carter has done and continues to do more for charities and for peace than any other President other than Clinton. I have a letter from President Carter on my wall in reply to one I wrote him.

Again, I apologize for supporting this medal because of my political ignorance.

Gry online

Please tell me it isn’t so! The Bush Senior is a greater criminal than the Bush Younger! Just take a look at his CIA career! Oh yea, Obama’s parents were CIA, also!

The CIA, the KKK and the USA
http://globalpoliticalawakening.blogspot.com/2010/10/cia-kkk-and-usa.html

criminals award criminals, thats the way it works, the bigger the evil they commit the higher award they receive. Thankfully people already know who they are, they are nothing but pure evil and the universe or karma will take care of them, they will eventually be awarded what they truly deserve and they deserve nothing but hell and thats precisely what they will enjoy in not too distant future. Get ready folks for your final journey, enjoy the ride!

I just wanted to add this to your list. http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/conspiracy-of-silence/

Let’s not just rely on the Law of Karma…Bush must be brought to a court of Law and tried for treason against the United States…he invaded a sovereign nation based on false evidence and cost not only many Iraqui but also many American lives, and all for the greed of himself and his corporate cronies…

This Nazi, pedophile, mass murdering, drug-dealing, monster shouldn’t be getting a medal, he should be getting executed.

Obama Bin Lyin and the likes are stupid; thinking that the little pieces of coloured metals, in rows, is something to swindle,steal and murder for! Like the glass-beads they gave to the Indians.They are only a guarantee of robotism.

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Yeah, I was being facetious. I think it’s not only possible, it’s probable.

There are photographs of that day in Dallas and Chimpo Pére is definitely in some of them, including one from in front of the Texas School Depository Building.

http://redactednews.blogspot.com/2010/11/jfk-assassination-if-it-was-conspiracy_22.html

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Useful reading. Thank you, finally a decent website with good information in it.

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“invaded a sovereign nation based on false evidence” — Are you referring to Dubya invading Iraq in 2003 over WMD evidence?

This medal is for Bush Sr. Not Dubya.

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Seems like there is no end to the many ways Obama continues to kiss the Republicans behind while he ignores the plight of the average Amercan, the non ending foreclosures, the lack of jobs, and the continued war in the Middle East.

Seems like there is no end to the many ways Obama continues to kiss the Republicans behind while he ignores the plight of the average Amercan, the non ending foreclosures, the lack of jobs, and the continued war in the Middle East.

Seems like there is no end to the many ways Obama continues to kiss the Republicans behind while he ignores the plight of the average Amercan, the non ending foreclosures, the lack of jobs, and the continued war in the Middle East.

Seems like there is no end to the many ways Obama continues to kiss the Republicans behind while he ignores the plight of the average Amercan, the non ending foreclosures, the lack of jobs, and the continued war in the Middle East.

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