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I wonder how many people are HONESTLY surprised about this sudden "revelation"?

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Vanity Fair: Bush Had Ties to Abramoff
Wed Mar 8, 5:47 PM ET

WASHINGTON - Convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff says President Bush knew him well enough to joke with him about weightlifting.
"What are you benching, buff guy?" Abramoff said Bush asked him. The president has said he doesn't know Abramoff.

Abramoff said he finds it hard to believe Bush doesn't remember the 10 or so photos he and members of his family had snapped with the president and first lady.

"He (Bush) has one of the best memories of any politician I have ever met," Abramoff wrote in an e-mail,
according to Vanity Fair's April issue being released this week.

"Perhaps he has forgotten everything. Who knows?"



Abramoff pleaded guilty Jan. 4 to charges that he and a former partner, Adam Kidan, concocted a fake wire transfer to make it appear they were putting a sizable stake of their own money into a multimillion-dollar purchase of SunCruz Casinos gambling fleet in 2000. Abramoff also has pleaded guilty to charges stemming from a probe into his ties with members of Congress and the Bush administration.

"I had my picture taken with him, evidently," Bush said of Abramoff on Jan. 26.

"I've had my picture taken with a lot of people."

"I frankly don't even remember having my picture taken with the guy," Bush added. "I don't know him."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060308/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_abramoff;_ylt=AhOh0mClbRPKi0k4YHgw66gDW7oF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

Q: Why is Bush lying?

Hmmmmmm ... maybe THIS has something to do with it ...



June 21, 2005 -Venice, FL.
by Daniel Hopsicker

The MadCowMorningNews has learned exclusive new details about the gangland-style hit in Florida of Gus Boulis,
whose murder figures prominently in lobbyist Jack Abramoff��s rise to power.

The 'secret world' of Jack Abramoff being probed by investigators today has definite connections and unmistakable links to the one inhabited during their final year in the U.S by Mohamed Atta and the other hijackers.

So as the scandal embroiling House Major Domo Tom Delay and Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff grows hotter,
there may be new revelations about the 9.11 attack

One of the most amazing thing about this most amazing scandal—hundreds of millions in slush funds beats Oval Office blowjobs by a mile—is that some of the same names in the Abramoff scandal also surface in connection with Mohamed Atta��s.

Less than a week before the 9.11 attack, for example, Atta and several other hijackers
made a still-unexplained visit onboard one of Abramoff��s casino boats.

What were they doing there? No one knows.

http://www.madcowprod.com/06202005.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Danger

Some commentators have theorized that there are links between Abramoff and Islamic terrorism:
several 9-11 hijackers, including Mohamed Atta, were reported to have made multiple visits to the
SunCruz casino cruise ship. [17], leading to speculation of ties between Abramoff and the hijackers. [18]

In 2002 Abramoff was a registered lobbyist for the General Council for Islamic Banks, for which
he was paid $20,000. [19]

Saleh Abdullah Kamel, the chairman of this Council, was investigated for allegedly funding terrorism
and terrorists including Osama Bin Laden.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Abramoff

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Dictatorship is the Danger

A Reagan-appointed supreme court justice voices her fears over attacks on US democracy

Jonathan Raban
Monday March 13, 2006
The Guardian

Linking the words "America" and "dictatorship" is a daily staple of leftwing blogs, which thrive on the idea that Bush administration policies
since 9/11 are taking the country ever closer to totalitarian rule. Liberal fears that democracy is endangered by Republicans in Congress are
so widespread, so endemic to the jittery political climate in the US, that they hardly bear repeating. It'll surprise no one to learn that another voice
was added to the chorus last Thursday, warning that recent attacks on the American judiciary were putting the democratic fabric in jeopardy and
were the first steps down the treacherous path to dictatorship.

What is surprising - more than that, electrifying - is that the voice belonged to Sandra Day O'Connor,
who retired a few weeks ago from the supreme court. O'Connor is a Republican and a Reagan nominee.

Regarded as the "swing vote" on the court, she swung the presidential election to George Bush in 2000.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0%2C%2C1729350%2C00.html

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Of course he lied...about that and other things. Its more or less expected of presidents, and most voters simply overlook it. Think back to the revelations about his business links to the Bin ladens..and flying their entire family out of the US in short order after 9/11...

Question is: what would it take for him to seriously fall out of favor? How about..a sordid affair?