Bartcop Entertainment - Tuesday, 25 March, 2003
Tuesday
25 March, 2003
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Issue #47
Disinfotainment Today
By Michael Dare
"Not Affiliated with Disinfotainment Yesterday"
ISSUE #47
is brought to you by
I Didn't See the News Today, Oh Boy
by Michael Dare
I can't watch this. I keep trying to watch something else and it keeps interrupting, like a bad dream, and I can't wake up unless I stick to HBO and STARZ. Anything but the news. Ebert and Roeper, Sunday morning, halfway though their Oscar picks for this year, ABC decided I'd be more interested in a body count. I changed to the Cartoon Channel where they had no compulsion to interrupt Spongebob with another quote from a madman, unlike another channel, another night, The Simpsons, interrupted by Fox to show unrehearsed footage of Iraqis dancing in the street in joy at America's arrival. They think I'm a gullible idiot.
I can't watch this. I'd rather watch ANYTHING else. I hate boxing and I'd rather watch a prizefight than this. I hate football and I'd rather watch football than this. Give me Friends, give me Donnie and Marie. I'd rather watch every ex I've ever had nagging at me for hours on end about stuff I forgot than this. Anything but this.
I only learned one thing from 9/11. It's bad to kill innocent people, which is something I already knew. Watching more innocent people die makes me want to puke. Why do they want me to puke? Have they got something against me? Maybe if I were just a tiny bit more gullible, I wouldn't want to puke so much. Interesting trade-off.
I can't watch this. Don't look to me for the details. I'm avoiding it like the plague. I'd rather sit here, in the other room, typing, pounding the ends of my fingers in a furious escapade of rhythmic rapping, fiction, non-fiction, letters, who cares, just writing, not even wanting to look at e-mail, avoiding THAT folder, the NEWS folder, the one with all the pictures of explosions and stoicism and pain and confusion, of lives ruined to save lives from ruination, of people doing what they're told, literally refusing to THINK ABOUT WHAT THEY'RE DOING. You couldn't have gotten me to do it. Never. Not in a million years. I would have moved to Canada where I understand they need people like me. Where are the heroes? Where are the deployment dodgers? Where are the people in reserves who REFUSE TO SERVE? Where are the George W. Bushes in this war?
I can't watch this. I can't believe the world can be this dumb. It's like they're purposely trying to disprove evolution. After all, if mankind EVOLVED, we wouldn't be killing each other, would we? If mankind evolved, we'd be beyond these petty squabbles. I personally believe in evolution because I have personally evolved. I'm already better than I once was, I'm getting better still, and it's a snap, anyone can do it. Every once in a while, forget absolutely everything you think you know, and start over. Reboot. You'll discover all these peripheral programs you picked up over the years that you don't need any more because you've upgraded your operating system.
I can't watch this. I can't believe my species still behaves this way. It's like that nature footage of lemmings going over a cliff, you know the one, hundreds and hundreds of them plummeting to their deaths on The Wonderful World of Color, the faked footage, where they don't show the guy behind the lemmings, chasing them towards the cliff, like the news, it's all the Lemming Channel, they want us to believe what we're seeing. There they are, one after another, each one watching the one in front of them, doing what they're told, blindly following without a thought. Generations of gullible people believed that lemmings were suicidal idiots because they didn't CHECK IT OUT, they still believe it, even though in nature, it's never happened, showing how easy it is for fiction to become fact, which is why you've got to believe NOTHING and DIG for the truth, expose it, show it to everyone you know until they see things for what they really are because if you don't, WE are the only lemmings.
I can't watch this. I'm proud to say I haven't flipped to CNN once, I only go to networks to see specific shows, and if the show is pre-empted, I switch to something else. I switched channels when the Oscars cut to a war report, as though it were their duty to legitimize the atrocity. I don't remember who won best supporting actress but I do remember "fictional election giving us a fictional president." If you're living in fiction, what must the facts look like? They'd look like fiction. Death is life. War is salvation. Our leadership has our best interests at heart.
I can't watch this. They keep calling the UN mission ineffectual. Are they kidding? They think I'm a gullible idiot. The UN mission was perfectly effective. The weapons inspections WORKED. They told the U.S. where to find Iraqi weaponry in preparation for invasion, which is all they were ever meant to do. If you were going to attack somebody, wouldn't you want to send an inspection team in first to find out where the weapons were hidden? Brilliant. And they say Bush is a moron.
I can't watch this. I don't want to hear about it. My soul hasn't callused sufficiently. If anything, I've grown MORE sensitive to human suffering over the years. Horace Walpole said "Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel," which means those of us who both think and feel are totally fucked. The war news can't possibly be anything I want to know. Just anesthetize me now and wake me when it's over.
Hey, cool, if the war goes on, I could wake up in 2050 having missed the whole thing. Will the Farmer's Market still be there? If not, kill me now.
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New York City 2001 Perp right there in the smoke |
Baghdad 2003 Perp miles away from actual scene |
"The only connection between the events of 9/11/01 and the events of 3/21/03 is George W. Bush."
- Xarvon, alien investigator -
Don't Take My Word For It
"I feel really superb."
"Millions of people have been liberated."
"Yeah, from their bodies."
"The fact that Iraq is situated in a highly volatile, highly unstable and highly hostile neighborhood is not mentioned. The fact that Turkey wants a chunk of northern Iraq, and Iran wants a chunk of southern Iraq, is not mentioned. The fact that Israel is the biggest threat to Iraq is not mentioned. Nor that Israel can hit Iraq whenever it wants to like they have in the past. The fact that the best deterrent to an attack from your enemies is a powerful military is not mentioned. Oh yes, it is okay for the U.S. to beef up its military but for others to maintain they need their military to thwart hostiles -- nope, that's a no no."
"Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, contrary to what you have just seen, war is neither glamorous nor fun. There are no winners, only losers. There are no good wars, with the following exceptions: The American Revolution, World War II, and The Star Wars Trilogy."
- Bart Simpson -
"We are going to be in such a fix when this war is over, or before this war is over. Our grandchildren's grandchildren are going to be paying for this war. I look at our future as, I'm sorry, being very, very dark."
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Walter Cronkite -
"Bush tried to blame France for causing the war by threatening to use its veto. What hypocrisy: since the United Nations creation, the United States has used its veto 76 times, and 41 of those vetoes in the last three decades concerned attempts by the United Nations to call Israel to account for its violations of multiple U.N. resolutions. By asserting the United States' right to invade whomever it likes whenever it likes, Bush's speech brought the world to the most dangerous moment in its history since the Cuban missile crisis of 1962."
"Today I weep for my country. I have watched the events of recent months with a heavy, heavy heart. No more is the image of America one of strong, yet benevolent peacekeeper. The image of America has changed. Around the globe, our friends mistrust us, our word is disputed, our intentions are questioned. Instead of reasoning with those with whom we disagree, we demand obedience or threaten recrimination. Instead of isolating Saddam Hussein, we seem to have isolated ourselves. We proclaim a new doctrine of preemption which is understood by few and feared by many. We say that the United States has the right to turn its firepower on any corner of the globe which might be suspect in the war on terrorism. We assert that right without the sanction of any international body. As a result, the world has become a much more dangerous place."
"As we plunge into the most reckless, unjustified, and immoral war since the Philippines and commit a blunder that may echo down through the decades; let's say it clearly, without shading or pretense, without genuflection or fig leaf: our President is a liar. A serial, repetitive, egregious liar. A man who lies not only in the service of his single minded crass policies, but who does so automatically - as a reflex. Mr. Bush isn't just the most dishonest President I've seen in 4 decades of watching them, he's the most consistently dishonest politician I've ever seen."
"I wonder if anybody watching this Shock and Awe bombing Friday noted that Iraq didn't have a plane. There is no joy to kill the bull unless he fights. You can't call this a war. The television people, and the politicians in Washington, said this was an extraordinary exhibition of bombing that never has been seen before. They used the right word, exhibition. It's an exhibition war, not a real war. You'll take it right now, if it keeps these young men of ours alive. Take it and gag on it, for this is a total character collapse of a country that was supposed to be so far above this loathsome act. You become the thing you hate. And Friday, we did. We became the Germany of 1939."
"Iraq probably has no weapons of mass destruction - namely, a credible device capable of being delivered against strategic city targets. It probably does still have biological toxins and battlefield chemical munitions. But it has had them since the 1980s when the US sold Saddam the anthrax agents and the then British government built his chemical and munitions factories."
"TV hacks keep telling us that Saddam places military targets near civilians. We are meant to infer that this exonerates Bush in advance for any massacres of innocents. But consider this - if Washington were attacked would we think it was our evil government that had intentionally placed strategic targets in the midst of a civilian populace or would we think that only evil lunatics would fire missiles into a large concentration of human life? Saddam is horrible despot but the fact that capital cities are strategic locations, full of civilians, is not the result of his evil planning. This is why it used to be considered unacceptable to bomb cities."
"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder."
- George Washington -
"If you want to make enemies, try to change something."
- President Woodrow Wilson -
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
- Hunter S. Thompson -
"If triangles had a God, he would have 3 sides."
- Montesquieu -
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
- Philip K. Dick -
"To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards out of men."
- Abraham Lincoln -
"Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government. And paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell."
- Justice Hugo Black in the Pentagon Papers case (New York Times vs. United States) -
"In Venezuela, psychologists are studying a new mental illness they're calling 'infophrenia'. The illness occurs when what you see on television is the exact diametric opposite of what you know from your own experience to be the reality."
"The gods can either take away evil from the world and will not, or, being willing to do so, cannot; or they neither can nor will, or lastly, they are both able and willing. If they have the will to remove evil and cannot, then they are not omnipotent. If they can, but will not, than they are not benevolent. If they are neither able nor willing, then they are neither omnipotent nor benevolent. Lastly, if they are both able and willing to annihilate evil, how does it exist?"
- Epicures, 300 B.C. -
"The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naive and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair."
- H.L. Mencken -
"Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought."
- Henri Bergson -
"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty"
- Mahatma Ghandi -
"The famine is worse than in the '80s. 28 million Africans are in immediate need of food. When we come back, how the war will effect the Oscars."
- Peter Jennings: ABC News, March 18, 2003 -
You Know Something's Wrong When I Agree with the Vatican
No, Really, I Didn't Make This Up
Music Video of the Week
Film of the Week
Protest of the Week
The Uruk-Hai Anti-Defamation League (UADL) announced
that it would be boycotting the premiere of The Return of the King,
and would picket theaters because they are unhappy with
their portrayal so far in The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
I Feel So Much Safer Now
War is now a more popular web search term than sex, Britney Spears, or travel.
BELATED CHRISTMAS GIFT FROM HELL
HISTORY LESSON FROM HELL
Rumsfield and Saddam
By Denis Mueller
In 1988, the war between Iraq and Iran had reached gruesome proportions. Chemical warfare between the two counties shocked the world. It was at this time the infamous gassing incident regarding the Kurds happened. But in 1983, President Ronald Reagan turned to a former secretary of defense to carry a handwritten letter to Saddam Hussein saying the United States wanted to restore normal diplomatic relations with Iraq. The man who carried the message was none other than Donald Rumsfield.
Rumsfield was the highest ranking official to visit Baghdad in nearly six years. The meeting was cordial with Saddam telling Rumsfield Iraq was not interested in causing trouble in the region and Rumsfield commenting that the U.S. was interested in a relationship with Iraq. The United States quickly informed Iraq's neighbors that its defeat would not be in the United States' interest.
During this period, Iraq was desperately
purchasing military hardware from American firms. This went on with the total blessing of the Reagan administration. Saddam was a busy shopper. He bought 60 Hughes helicopters worth over $200 million. While all this was going on, the UN issued a report about the allegations of Iraq's use of chemical weapons. Rumsfield said nothing and the New York Times reported that "American diplomats pronounce themselves satisfied with relations between Iraq and the United States and suggest that normal diplomatic ties have been resorted in all but name."
In May of 1984 Rumsfield resigned and, later that year, full diplomatic relations were restored between the two countries. A couple of years later, Rumsfield was testing the waters, regarding a possible run for the presidency in 1988, and was pushing his achievements in helping to re-open ties with Iraq. All of this was occurring at a time when Saddam was gassing the Kurds.
What makes this important now is that, in 1984, Rumsfield was in a position to condemn Saddam but said nothing. Furthermore, despite the gassing of the Kurds and the use of chemical weapons, Rumsfield viewed his work as one of his accomplishments. He could have asked questions but he didn't. Which brings us to today and our question of the day: Why didn't Rumsfield say anything?
At the time, Iran was viewed as a threat. So, anyone fighting Iran was considered our friend. We knew about Saddam and what he was doing quite well. He had murdered leftists and followers of Nasser, but that was all right with us. So Saddam was a thug all along, the only difference being that he was, at one time, our thug. His great crime was to become an independent thug. The idea that this war is being done for democracy is not at all connected with the past history of the area. It is hard to believe.
Sources: Washington Post, New York Times, Newly de-classified documents
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Bs sure to check out
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who believe every word out of Bush's mouth.
Republican? Can't tell your ass from your elbow?
Here's a site that will help.
Contact pResident Bush -
president@whitehouse.gov
Contact Saddam Hussein -
press@uruklink.net
Contact Kim Jong Il:
eng-info@kcna.co.jp
Contact Jacques Chirac -
france-presse@un.int
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In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Very foggy morning, overcast afternoon.
Had problems with mail, again yesterday. Sent 1 piece of mail from the yahoo account to the aol account 5 times. Never got to the aol account, and it never bounced back to yahoo. Tried sending it from the yahoo account to
the hotmail account. No problem. Tried sending it from the hotmail account to yahoo. No problem. Tried sending from the hotmail account to aol, again, no go. Even tried changing the subject line, but, nothing. How carnivorous is aol?
Before I get any lectures on the nature of ao-hell, I maintain the account
for simplicity in dealing with some relatives. They think I know what I'm doing & expect me to explain stuff to them. And it's easier to explain something when one can see what it is that they're bitching about.
One of my pals was born in France (American parents, so she's a US citizen - cripes, her parents were with the OSS), and raised in Belgium. She's been Stateside for almost 30 years now, and has a small, successful koi business in the Valley.
She also has a bit of what I always thought was a charmning accent. Today, one of her suppliers (over 15 years of bills paid on time) told her to take her business elsewhere - he wanted nothing to do with anyone or anything 'French'.
Tonight, Tuesday, CBS is supposed to start the evening with a RERUN 'JAG', followed by a FRESH 'special' -
'Celine In Las Vegas...Opening Night Live!', then a RERUN 'Judging Amy'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave, with guest host Bill Cosby, are John Travolta and D4.
Scheduled on a FRESH Craiggers are Michael Rapaport, Dallas Maverick Steve Nash, and David J. Nash.
NBC has bailed their schedule tonight, and are supposed to have a traditional Thursday line-up. First up, a RERUN 'Friends',
followed by a RERUN 'Scrubs', then a RERUN 'Will & Grace', followed by a RERUN
'Good Morning, Miami'. Then, it'll probably be a 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jay are Chris Rock, Hilary Swank, and Sean Paul.
Scheduled on a FRESH Conan are Ringo Starr and Eddie Izzard.
Scheduled on a FRESH Carson Daly are Kiefer Sutherland, Jerry O'Connell, and the Ben Taylor Band.
ABC is supposed to have a FRESH '8 Simple Rules', followed by a FRESH 'Jim', then a
FRESH 'Bonnie', followed by the Season Finale 'Bonnie', and then a FRESH 'The Family'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Kimmel are David Boreanaz, Stone Cold Steve Austin, and Mr. Cheeks, with this week's guest co-host Slash.
The WB is supposed to offer a RERUN 'Gilmore Girls', and a RERUN 'Smallville'.
Faux is supposed to have a FRESH 'American Idol', and a FRESH '24' (Day 2 - 11pm - midnight).
UPN is supposed to have a FRESH 'Buffy', and then a RERUN 'Twilight Zone'.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
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An aerial view shows a peace symbol formed with rolled up parachutes in Ronneburg near Frankfurt, March 23, 2003. About 100 members of a German Paraglide team formed the symbol to protest against the U.S.-led war against Iraq.
Photo by Michael Dalder
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Lawsuit Over 'Jack' Settled
'Will & Grace'
An interior designer who claimed he was the uncredited model for the flamboyantly gay character Jack McFarland on the NBC sitcom "Will & Grace" settled his lawsuit with one of the show's writers for an undisclosed sum, his attorney said on Monday.
In his lawsuit, Jack Deamer contended that writer Jason "Max" Mutchnick reneged on a promise to buy him a house and car if Deamer would allow the Jack character, a pal and sometime irritant to Will Truman and Grace Adler, to be based on him.
Deamer initially named NBC as a defendant in the lawsuit, but a judge dismissed the network, which is owned by General Electric Co. from the case last year.
The case, filed in March 2001, was scheduled to go to trial this week in Los Angeles Superior Court. "The lawsuit was resolved by mutual agreement of the parties," Deamer's attorney Alan Harris told Reuters.
Deamer and Mutchnick were friends for 10 years before Mutchnick created the 1998 "Will & Grace" pilot and told Deamer that it included a character named Jack, the lawsuit said.
Upon watching the pilot, Deamer was "chagrined, embarrassed and devastated as he realized that the 'TV Jack' character was a thinly veiled caricature of himself," the lawsuit said.
The "flamboyantly gay, constantly over the top, promiscuous and irresponsible" character shared Deamer's favorite pastimes and his style of wearing a turtleneck with a sweater tied around his neck, khaki pants and sneakers.
The suit said "Will & Grace" writers asked Deamer for his used sneakers so that actor Sean Hays, who plays "TV Jack," could wear them in the show.
Mutchnick mined his conversations with Deamer to write dialogue, the suit said.
Deamer pleaded with Mutchnick to rename his TV alter-ego. Mutchnick refused but said if the show was a success he would buy Deamer a house and a car worth $500,000, the suit said.
Although the show was sold into syndication in March 2000 for a reported $100 million, the suit said, Mutchnick refused to honor his verbal agreement with Deamer.
'Will & Grace'
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A South African demonstrator hold a poster against U.S. military action in Iraq, outside the Wanderers Cricket Stadium, before the Final Cricket World Cup Match between India and Australia, in Johannesburg, South Africa, Sunday, March 23, 2003.
Photo by Aman Sharma
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Gets a Makeover
Wonder Woman
Her bullet-deflecting bracelets are gone, her golden tiara has disappeared and her long, flowing locks have been shorn.
After 60 years of fighting evil, Wonder Woman has a new, edgy look, complete with short, spiky hair and a camouflage bustier. The new Wonder Woman will appear in this Wednesday's DC Comics issue.
With characteristic finesse, a somewhat shocked Wonder Woman looks in the mirror and takes her new 'do in stride: "It's hair. It will grow back."
The makeover is part of Wonder Woman's latest six-part adventure, a harrowing scenario in which she gets amnesia and must fight demons without her superpower strength. Luckily, her brains out-muscle the brawn.
In Issue 190, Wonder Woman decides she must go undercover if she is to survive her ordeal and reclaim her identity.
To foil her enemies, a slight trim won't do. So, Wonder Woman chops her hair, dons a pair of glasses (a nod to Clark Kent and his superhero alter ego Superman) and trades in her star-spangled leotard for the camouflage bustier.
The look is more boot camp than beauty queen
Wonder Woman
DC Comic
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Baby News
J.K. Rowling
"Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling, 37, has given birth to her second child, a baby boy, a spokeswoman for the millionaire writer said.
"Both mother and baby are doing well," Rowling's publicist Nicky Stonehill announced the day after David's birth at Edinburgh's Royal Infirmary.
Stonehill would not give any further details, but confirmed Rowling and the baby -- her first child with her second husband Neil Murray, 31 -- had been released from hospital.
J.K. Rowling
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K-Dog a Bottle Nose Dolphin belonging to Commander Task Unit (CTU-55.4.3) leaps out of the water in front of Sergeant Andrew Garrett while training near the USS Gunston Hall (LSD 44) operating in the Arabian Gulf, March 18, 2003. This is a multinational team consisting of Naval Special Clearance Team-One, Fleet Diving Unit Three from the United Kingdom, Clearance Dive Team from Australia, and Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Units Six and Eight. These units are conducting deep/shallow water mine counter measure operations to clear shipping lanes for humanitarian relief.
Photo by Brien Aho
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Drawn to 'Criminal' Ilk
Nick Nolte
Nick Nolte, who made headlines last year when he was arrested for driving under the influence of drugs, says he's now clean and sober but still finds himself drawn to "criminal" characters.
"I'm not a fan of real life," Nolte told the New York Daily News, adding that he has publicly "fabricated" many stories from his private life. "Real life's got some strange kind of rules."
Nolte says he gravitates toward characters who reflect his antiestablishment persona.
"Socialization is difficult for me," the actor explained. "I'm not comfortable with a lot of people I don't know, so I'll pick out the criminal and go talk to the suffering one."
"I always said I had substance abuse problems," Nolte said. "You deal with it. You keep it under control. Sometimes you don't. Withdrawal is tough, so you go to a hospital... You learn to wash your own underwear. After 30 days, you're clean. Now the trick is not to relapse."
Nick Nolte
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Formerly 'The Vidiot'
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In Talks to Settle Lawsuit
Olivia Harrison
The widow of pop icon George Harrison is in talks to settle her lawsuit against an ex-relative she accused of stealing personal items from the Harrisons' Los Angeles home and trying to sell them a day after the ex-Beatle's 2001 death, her attorney said on Monday.
The terms of the potential settlement between Olivia Arias Harrison and her former brother-in-law, Carl Roles, were not made public.
Roles, who was once married to Olivia Harrison's sister, is alleged in the lawsuit to have stole personal papers, clothing, photographs and recordings when he lived at the Harrisons' home as a caretaker in the 1970s. George Harrison died of lung cancer on Nov. 29, 2001, at age 58, at a friend's home in Los Angeles.
The next day, Roles tried to peddle the items to an Arizona journalist, the lawsuit said. Roles told the prospective buyer "there was a lot of money to be made from memorabilia related to George Harrison, given his recent death," the lawsuit said.
The unnamed journalist notified Gavin de Becker, a security expert who works for Harrison's estate. De Becker called the FBI, which sent an undercover agent to meet with Roles and his wife, the lawsuit said.
During the meeting with the agent, Roles allegedly admitted stealing 10 boxes of property while he and his former wife, Linda Arias, lived rent-free at the Harrisons' home. The couple later divorced and Roles remarried.
Olivia Harrison
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Trotz des Golfkriegs ist die Show «Wetten, dass...?» am Samstagabend nicht ausgefallen.
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Defends Spawn
Poppy
George Bush, the US president during the 1991 Gulf War, defended his son's handling of Iraq while taking a swipe at France and Germany in a interview.
"What burns me up are these statements that are critical of the president and of (Secretary of State) Colin Powell (referring to) 'failed diplomacy'," Bush said in an interview with Newsweek.
"It's a very different problem he faces, and my coalition building was far easier because you could see the troops from Iraq in Kuwait," he noted, recalling that even then it had been tough to get the French on board.
"There's always been some friction," he said, adding that history would reveal some "very interesting things" about the French refusal to back the US-led invasion of Iraq.
"And I'm annoyed at the German position," he told the magazine.
"I don't talk about it publicly, but I know a lot of German people not in the government of (Chancellor Gerhard) Schroeder who are very, very upset about the position of their government," he said.
Asked whether current resident George W. Bush was taking care of unfinished family business in Iraq, his father replied: "That's the question that irritates me most, because the mission (in 1991) was not to kill Saddam Hussein; the mission wasn't to occupy Baghdad back then."
Poppy
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An anti-war protestor wearing a mask looking like former President George Bush gives the thumbs up as he demonstrates across the street from the Transamerica Building in downtown San Francisco against the war in Iraq, March 24, 2003. Demonstrators were specifically targeting the Carlyle Group, one of the nation's biggest defense contractors, who have offices in the building. The protesters said former President Bush is an investor and advisor with Carlyle.
Photo by Lou Dematteis
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