History is replete with tyrants who have done without candy for Lent.
Bush: I quit golf over Iraq war
Tue May 13, 10:01 PM ET
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President George W. Bush said in an interview out Tuesday that he quit playing golf in 2003 out of respect for the families of US soldiers killed in the conflict in Iraq, now in its sixth year.
“I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal,” he said in an interview for Yahoo! News and Politico magazine.
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W is certainly not the first Bush to practice self-sacrifice
during times of upheaval.
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His Grandfather Prescott Bush sacrificed patriotism for treason
to help the Nazi Cause.
MANCHESTER GUARDIAN
September 25, 2004
George Bush’s grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany.
The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism.
His business dealings, which continued until his company’s assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy.
The evidence has also prompted one former US Nazi war crimes prosecutor to argue that the late senator’s action should have been grounds for prosecution for giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
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His dad George XLI sacrificed honesty and principle
to help the Contras of Nicaragua.
Shultz Memoirs Say Bush Knew Of the Arms-for-Hostages Affair
NEW YORK TIMES
By ROBERT D. HERSHEY JR.
Published: February 1, 1993
In a new book, former Secretary of State George P. Shultz disputes assertions by George Bush that Mr. Bush had only vague knowledge of the arms-for-hostages arrangement in the mid-1980’s.
Mr. Shultz contends that he argued the issue directly with Mr. Bush, who was then Vice President, and was “astonished” on one occasion when Mr. Bush said he had no knowledge of the deal.
The United States sold arms to Iran starting in 1985 to obtain the release of American hostages in Lebanon. Mr. Shultz’s version of the episode emerges in excerpts from his memoirs in the Feb. 8 issue of Time magazine, which will be on newsstands on Monday.
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OTHER GREAT SACRIFICES BY NON-BUSHES
In order to comfort the families of those who died under his Inquisitorial questioning, Torquemada did not eat Mrs. Paul’s Fish Sticks for seven years.
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Louis XVI–AKA “Lou Sez”–discontinued his wildly successful Liberace et Moi lounge act in August, 1792 because the Revolution would not adopt his proposal of
“Liberté Egalité, Mickey Hargitay.”
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Mao Tse-tung’s feelings for the victims of the Cultural Revolution were so deep that he refused to watch THE MATCH GAME from 1966–1968.
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