Lt. Colonel Bill Burkett on Hardball live right now

[NNN0LHI]

Discussing the destuction of Bush's military records.

[NNN0LHI]

1. This guy is very credible. WOW! n/t

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. OMG!

This is great. Thanks for the heads up. The heck with pottery class tonight.

[Cooley Hurd]

3. Whoop - there he is!!!!

Sounding credible to me! He's rattling off all the info with remarkable detail! He's describing how he found Shrub's records in the garbage... :thumbsup:

[DoYouEverWonder]

4. Who is Allbraugh?

It was in the crawl. Some dude saying Burkett is full of it?

[NNN0LHI]

5. The guy that knows of Bush's records being destroyed n/t

[bobbieinok]

6. Bush friend; I think he was appointed FEMA director

...

[LoneStarLiberal]

9. Former Governor Bush Chief of Staff

Burkett says that the state Guard commander, Maj. Gen. Daniel James III, discussed "cleansing" Bush's military files of embarrassing or incriminating documents in the summer of 1997. At the time, Burkett was a lieutenant colonel and a chief adviser to James. He says he was just outside James' open office door when his boss discussed the records on a speakerphone with Joe Allbaugh, who was then Gov. Bush's chief of staff.

<http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-02-11-bush-guard-usat_x.htm>

[bigtree]

10. Joe Allbaugh - Mr. Bush's campaign manager in 2000

One of the groups who hope to benefit from the blood and sacrifice of our soldiers and from our nation's garnished wages is named, New Bridge Strategies. The lobbying is headed by Joe Allbaugh, Mr. Bush's campaign manager in 2000. Among the other members of this vulture's club are Edward Rogers and Lanny Griffith, lobbyists who were assistants to president George Bush I and now hope to exploit their close ties to the White House.

The company's website states that, "The opportunities evolving in Iraq today are of such an unprecedented nature and scope that no other existing firm has the necessary skills and experience to be effective both in Washington, D.C., and on the ground in Iraq. (None? No Iraqi firms?)

"(New Bridge) will seek to expedite the creation of free and fair markets and new economic growth in Iraq, consistent with the policies of the Bush Administration."

"Consistent with the policies of the Bush Administration." That's clear enough. New Bridge boasts of its, "25 years of experience in Iraq and throughout the Middle East and the political experience of some of the most successful government and political professionals in Washington, D.C., and London."

They openly hawk their public policy experience, their "positions in the Reagan Administration and both Bush Administrations", and their relationships with "international agencies in the Executive Branch; DOD and the USAID (reconstruction's bank), and links to Congress.

Joe M. Allbaugh, the director of New Bridge, is the CEO of the Allbaugh Company, LLC. Allbaugh is one of many opportunists who have set up shop to take advantage of his old boss' confederation's global power agenda. Allbaugh was gifted with the prime position of director of FEMA after he ran Bush-Cheney's national campaign in 2000.

Allbaugh's appointment to FEMA- a traditional reward from the president for a campaign job well done- was second in political patronage to the secretary of commerce position, which went to the president's old friend and oil roughneck, Don Evans.

The glow of government appropriation power lasted until March 2003, when Allbaugh decided to abandon the scrutiny of his public office and leech onto the new defense money pie from outside of government, behind a slick web page; as a faceless opportunist in the short line for the new appropriated largess.

To support his scheme to hijack the next-generation of defense dollars, which our soldiers desperately need, and our country can scarcely afford, he conspired with Ed Rogers, vice chairman of Barbour Griffith & Rogers, Inc., the firm he founded with Haley Barbour in 1991.



(mods, these are my writings)

[Guava Jelly]

7. damn

this is freaken big.

[DoYouEverWonder]

8. Is time to pop the corks yet?

Wow!

[LoneStarLiberal]

11. Not Quite Yet

We can show Bush is all hat and no cattle.

We still have to show the voters that our ideas and policies are better than his and his cronies.

Two prongs: Specific policy alternative combined with the bigger picture of a pattern of unethical behavior.

So not yet...add some more ice and we'll get there in November!

[havocmom]

13. Don't need to pop a cork. Dancing to the song in my head

"Devil With the Blue Dress On"

This is a good one. Isn't there a post about 2 fellows waiting for bush* to show up in the Alabama unit and never seeing him?

These guys need some protection as Rove has got to be in a tizzy. Look for a lot of guys suddenly remembering bush* showing up in Alabama (and making large deposits to their checking accounts.)

[eaprez]

12. We Know Bush was a drunk.....

.....so how come none of his drinking buddies have come forward????

[NNN0LHI]

14. I still can't believe what I just saw tonight on Hardball

I feel numb. Can you imagine how Bush feels?

Don

[QuidditchFan]

16. Can you sum up for us cube dwellers? <nm>

[Feanorcurufinwe]

17. Yeah, dish the dirt for us n/t

[DoYouEverWonder]

19. Did you hear the gal who was reporting from the WH

She said they were really pissed about this. How dare anyone make such accusations about Bu$h Almighty! Then went on to report all sorts of info from the WH that tried to discredit Burkett.

They are blowing it big time if they try to attack Burkett in this way. They are going to piss off every vet in America.

[mb7588a]

15. Transcript? nt.

[peacetalksforall]

18. Allbaugh and Bartlett

If you search Burkett, Allbaugh, and Bartlett you will find one of the earliest statements by Burkett - which contains a quote by Allbaugh which parallels the CEO of Diebold - something like there is no effort great enough to promote or protect Bush. I paraphrased generously here, but the idea is the same. I wish I had saved it. Check it out. Both Allbaugh and Bartlett helped Bush become Gov, served him there, then still worked for him when the cleansing started to make sure the Repubs wouldn't be embararrased about anything in the enthroned one's past.

Also, about the same time that news about Bush being the Repug candidate was loud - Drudge reported that there was an earnest search to make sure that a photo of someone dancing nude on a table except for boots was located. Well, there are few among us who would have thought that Al Gore or Bill Bradley or Ralph Nader or Pat Buchanen or Gary Bauer or Alan Keyes would be dancing nude on a table with boots on.