Daddy's Poem

Her hair was up in a pony tail,

Her favorite dress tied with a bow.

Today was Daddy's Day at school,

And she couldn't wait to go.



But her mommy tried to tell her,

That she probably should stay home;

Why the kids might not understand,

If she went to school alone.



But she was not afraid;

She knew just what to say.

What to tell her classmates

Of why he wasn't there today.



But still her mother worried,

For her to face this day alone.

And that was why, once again,

She tried to keep her daughter home.



But the little girl went to school ,

Eager to tell them all.

About a dad she never sees, a dad

Who never calls.



There were daddies along the wall in

Back, for everyone to meet.

Children squirming impatiently,

Anxious in their seat.



One by one the teacher called

On a student from the class.

To introduce their daddy,

As seconds slowly passed.



At last the teacher called her name,

Every child turned to stare.

Each of them was searching,

A man who wasn't there.



"Where's her daddy at?"

She heard a boy call out.

"She probably doesn't have one,"

Another student dared to shout.



And from somewhere near the back,

She heard a daddy say,

"Looks like another deadbeat dad,

Too busy to waste his day."



The words did not offend her,

As she smiled up at her Mom.

And looked back at her teacher, who

Told her to go on..



And with hands behind her back,

Slowly she began to speak.

And out from the mouth of a child,

Came words incredibly unique.



"My Daddy couldn't be here,

Because he lives so far away.

But I know he wishes he could be,

Since this is such a special day.



And though you cannot meet him,

I wanted you to know

All about my daddy,

And how much he loves me so.



He loved to tell me stories,

He taught me to ride my bike;

He surprised me with pink roses,

And taught me to fly a kite.



We used to share fudge sundaes,

And ice cream in a cone.

And though you cannot see him.

I'm not standing here alone.



'Cause my daddy's always with me,

Even though we are apart;

I know because he told me,

He'll forever be in my heart"



With that, her little hand reached up,

And lay across her chest.

Feeling her own heartbeat,

Beneath her favorite dress.



And from somewhere there in the crowd of dads,

Her mother stood in tears.

Proudly watching her daughter,

Who was wise beyond her years.



For she stood up for the love

Of a man not in her life.

Doing what was best for her,

Doing what was a right.



And when she dropped her hand back

Down, staring straight into the crowd.

She finished with a voice so soft,

But its message clear and loud.



"I love my daddy very much,

he's my shining star.

And if he could, he'd be here,

But heaven's just too far.



You see he is an American Soldier

And he died just this past year,,

When a roadside bomb hit his convoy

And taught Americans to fear.



But sometimes when I close my eyes,

it's like he never went away."

And then she closed her eyes,

And saw him there that day.



And to her mother's amazement,

She witnessed with surprise,

A room full of daddies and children,

All starting to close their eyes.



Who knows what they saw before them;

Who knows what they felt inside.

Perhaps for merely a second,

They saw him at her side.



"I know you're with me Daddy,"

to the silence she called out.

And what happened next made believers,

of those once filled with doubt.



Not one in that room could explain it,

for each of their eyes had been closed.

But there on the desk beside her,

was a fragrant long-stemmed pink rose.



And a child was blessed, if only for

a moment, by the love of her shining star.

And given the gift of believing,

that heaven is never too far.



Take the time....to live and love.



Until eternity



God Bless



There must be many children in the same boat as this little girl, thanks to our servicemen and their families for the sacrifice they are making to keep our country free.

The ULTIMATE sacrifice is being left behind. Don't forget them.

PRAY FOR OUR TROOPS!!!

Confessions of a Former Republican by Brittany Simon

George Carlin got it right: "The Owners don't want it to work for USa."

http://www.youtube.com/embed/PYZpWTvre9c

CLICK HERE to hear George Calin's explaination for why our economic [and political] system does not work for us as citizens of the USA.


From George Orwell's "1984": "(...) From the moment when the machine first made its appearance it was clear to all thinking people that the need for human drudgery, and therefore to a great extent for human inequality, had disappeared. If the machine were used deliberately for that end, hunger, overwork, dirt, illiteracy and disease could be eliminated within a few generations. ... But it was also clear that an all-round increase in wealth threatened the destruction - indeed, in some sense was the destruction - of a hierarchical society. ... the most obvious and perhaps the most important form of inequality would... already have disappeared. If it once became general, wealth would confer no distinction. ... But in practice such a society could not long remain stable. For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance. ... Ignorance is Strength (...)"

On exhibit at the George W. Bush Presidential Center... part of W's briefing papers, I believe.

Ross Perot could not have done it better....

This is the way W thought it was going to work... it works when the Liberation is from Within and NOT from Without Freedom....we can hope.

A day after the ouster of Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian military on Saturday banned top officials from travelling outside the country to ensure that former presidential loyalists don’t flee.

The ban comes into force immediately, an official announcement from the new regime said as Army removed barricades and barbed wires from around the Tahrir Square and the Egyptian capital limped back to normalcy after 18-days of turmoil.

An official statement said that officials could only travel with permission from State Prosecutor or the Armed Forces.

The new move to put restrictions on movements of Mubarak loyalists came as mystery continued to surround the whereabouts of the deposed president and his family.

While officially it is stated that Mr. Mubarak has shifted to his Sharm-al-Sheikh resort on the Red sea, other reports in the Arab media said he may have moved to Europe or the Gulf.

There was no word or mention of the ex-president from the new regime.

The Supreme Military Command Council, which has taken over the reins after Mr. Mubarak fled to his Sharm-al Sheikh resort retreat, announced that night curfew would be now in force only post-midnight.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/article1447555.ece?homepage=true

You might want to pick up the NEXT issue of Texas Monthly....

With the publication of his memoir and the groundbreaking of his library, George W. Bush is poised to get to work on his post-presidency. What comes next?

by Mark K. Updegrove

To see George W. Bush now, open-collared in a sports coat and slacks, sitting comfortably behind his desk in a sleek corner office, a view of downtown Dallas several miles in the distance, is to see a man who seems genuinely content with having left the White House behind. His office doesn’t look like that of a former president. Except for the enlarged photos of him with world leaders that line the halls and the framed shots of his famous family arranged neatly on a credenza, it could be the generic quarters of a C-suite executive at Citibank or Ernst & Young. Nothing particularly presidential is on display, no flag or seal, no intricately carved oak desk, no Frederic Remington sculptures. And that may be the point—Bush has moved on.

We hadn’t heard much from him since January 20, 2009, when boos from partisan members of the record-breaking crowd ...

Feature articles from the most recent two issues are available to magazine subscribers only.


http://www.texasmonthly.com/preview/2010-12-01/feature2

“Take the grips up to the attic.” That was Harry Truman’s response to a reporter who asked him, as he arrived back home in Independence, Missouri, after leaving the White House, what he intended to do first (“grips, ” for all you kids out there, used to be ...a common synonym for “suitcases”). Truman was a famously modest person, but his reply underscores the profound strangeness of leaving the Oval Office. There are few transitions more poignant than the one our outgoing presidents undergo—from the leader of the free world, most powerful human on earth, to private citizen in a matter of minutes.

But far more interesting than what a president does in the first few hours after leaving office is what he (or she— someday it’ll happen) decides to do with the rest of his life. George Washington, the first post-president, returned to Virginia, the state that has sent more presidents to the White House than any other, where he farmed tobacco, corn, and wheat for the rest of his days, with a brief interruption for military service. Thomas Jefferson built the University of Virginia. Ulysses Grant wrote a superb autobiography. Theodore Roosevelt went on safaris. Some have been more involved than others. Lyndon Johnson, burned by an unpopular war and unsure about his place in history, lived out his post-presidency in self-imposed exile on his ranch on the Pedernales River. William Howard Taft, on the other hand, went on to be the chief justice of the Supreme Court for nine years.

Since Truman put his grips away, modern former presidents have taken on a more engaged role. “In contrast to their predecessors, ‘formers’ are living longer, doing more, and {are} in a position to wield greater influence on U.S. policy,” writes Mark Updegrove, the director of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, in Austin, in his 2006 book, Second Acts: Presidential Lives and Legacies After the White House. “In effect, the post–White House years have become a new phase of presidential privilege.” More and more, formers are global brands unto themselves, capable of effecting great change on a variety of issues outside the political process.

The unofficial turning point for this more active stage in the post-presidency comprises two events: the publication of a presidential memoir and the groundbreaking of a presidential library. In November, George W. Bush, our newest post-president, did both, and to see what was coming next for the forty-third president, we sent Updegrove to Bush’s Dallas office for an interview. That Bush had agreed to the interview was news in and of itself. Though he’s recently made the rounds to promote his memoir, Decision Points, he has maintained a decidedly low profile since leaving office. But in this hour-long sit-down he was remarkably frank, ranging over a variety of topics, from his vision for the Bush Institute, at Southern Methodist University, to his relationship with his father to the motives behind his administration’s Africa policy.

What’s clear from this interview (“Bush 2.0”) is that Bush will be the most engaged post-president Texas has ever seen, though the bar for that, to be fair, is not very high. Johnson, whose post-presidency lasted only four years, never did emerge from his exile. And George H. W. Bush, though he’s put in a number of humanitarian appearances, has said that he didn’t intend to “save the world” after the White House. Bush 43, the only Texas president to serve two terms, insists that he wants to stay out of the press (unlike Theodore Roosevelt, who had a reporter posted full-time outside his Long Island home in case he thought of something to say), but he will likely remain active, playing a post-presidential role closer to Richard Nixon’s or Bill Clinton’s than to his father’s.

To which we say, bring it on.

Texas will now have three presidential libraries ...Library or Lie-Bury?

DALLAS—George W. Bush and 3,000 fans celebrated his return to the spotlight Tuesday during a ground-breaking ceremony at Southern Methodist University, where plans to build his presidential library have divided the campus.

Mr. Bush, who left office with low approval ratings and spent two years in relative seclusion, has recently worked to burnish his image, giving interviews to Oprah Winfrey and the Today Show's Matt Lauer to promote his book "Decision Points."

"Staying out of current affairs and politics does not mean staying out of policy," Mr. Bush said to the crowd gathered under a large white tent. "I strongly believe that the principles that guided our service in public office are the right principles to lead our country in the future."

Mr. Bush said a public policy institute attached to the library would promote those principles, as well as improve free markets, global health, political freedom and education.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney, who used a cane to climb to the dais, made a dig at the Obama administration, calling the presidential center "the only shovel-ready project in America," drawing laughs. The president's wife, Laura Bush, an SMU graduate, also attended, as did former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and ex-Colombian President Alvaro Uribe.

Meanwhile, at a nearby corner of the campus of Georgian-style brick buildings, dozens of protesters waved such signs as, "Impeach Bush" and "Library or Lie-Bury?"

"We're here to hold up a big mirror to him to show the world that we have not forgotten the wrongs he committed," said Gerry Fonseca, a Vietnam veteran who traveled from Eureka Springs, Ark. Mr. Fonseca said Mr. Bush should be held accountable for the Iraq invasion and for approving the use of waterboarding on prisoners, which Mr. Fonseca called war crimes.

Universities and cities often angle to be the site of presidential libraries—part of a national network of repositories to hold records of past presidencies. Besides their prestige, they draw scholars and visitors to museums often built alongside.

Texas will have three presidential libraries, the most of any U.S. state. Texas A&M houses the George Bush PTexas will now residential Library and Museum, and the University of Texas at Austin is home to the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library & Museum.

Still, the Bush Center, which has been in the works for almost a decade, has sparked controversy here in the past. While university officials welcomed the presidential library and the archive of materials, some professors complained that the university's independence would be threatened by the Bush Institute, fearing that it would be too partisan in its research.

Officials at his center say they will make all documents from the presidency, which include more than 200 million emails, available so that scholars and historians can reach their own conclusions.

"I'm only hoping that it does provide in as unbiased a way as possible an opportunity for our students to learn the truth about the eight years of his presidency," said Rick Halperin, head of the Embrey Human Rights Program at SMU.

Sidney Milkis, a presidential scholar at the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs, said strong disagreements over Mr. Bush's legacy make sense, because the impact of his most important policy decisions, such as the war in Iraq and the bail-out of the banking sector, are still unknowns.

"As time passes, we'll have a clearer idea about the consequences of those two policies and that's what's going to settle President Bush's place in history," Mr. Milkis said.

A few former residents of the Center's 23-acre site on the edge of campus complained about being forced out to make space for the complex, and people who live close to the project continue to voice concerns about traffic, parking and safety.

The center, a $137 million, three-story 226,565 square-foot building covered in Texas limestone and solar panels, is scheduled to be finished by 2013. The understated, contemporary building, which Mrs. Bush has said is meant to be a showcase but not a monument to her husband's presidency, was designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects. It will include a 67-foot-high tower capped with glass to be called Freedom Hall

My Neighbor is in Parade Magazine this week...

W. Bush with parents George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush in 1955. [Photo by Polaris]

The Best of Friends
By President George W. Bush


Harry Truman, one of my predecessors, is often quoted as saying, “If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.” But while the 33rd president and I are said to have much in common, we diverge on this topic. Now that I’m retired, people ask me for advice, and I tell everyone: Make friends, keep them, and learn from them your entire life.

When I was young, my mother had a doormat that said, “Friends make the world go round.” Although clichéd, the phrase captured how my parents lived. They made friends at every stage of their lives and always found time for them.

The commitment was mutual. When I was 6, my younger sister, Robin, was diagnosed with leukemia. The disease was essentially incurable, but hoping for a miracle, my parents took her from our home in Midland, Tex., to New York City for treatment. One of my earliest memories is of staying at their friends’ houses in Texas whenever they went to the East Coast. When Robin passed away, I was too young to comprehend the wrenching pain my parents felt, but I saw how their friends gave them solace during a time of grief. It was a lesson I’ve always remembered.

At the time, my brother Jeb was just a baby. I felt like an only child for a few years, so I spent my days playing baseball and riding bikes with Mike Proctor, Robert McCleskey, and Joe O’N eill. Nearly 60 years later, they are still among my closest friends.


Click here to enter to win a signed copy of the president’s new memoir, Decision Points!


When I was in seventh grade, my family moved to Houston; two years later, I left the state to attend Phillips Academy in Massachusetts. The transition was extremely challenging, but I made it through those years in large part because of the friends I made. At boarding school and later in college at Yale, I was captivated by the diversity of people I met, like Muhammad Saleh, a Palestinian Muslim who became a successful businessman; Don Etra, a devout Jew who is now a distinguished lawyer; and Roland Betts, a Long Island native, my partner in owning the Texas Rangers and now an entertainment-industry leader. These friends all opened my eyes to new ways of looking at the world.



The future president (in cap) with brothers Neil and Jeb and a friend in 1959.


Quite often, a conversation with a friend has changed the course of my life. It was a Yale classmate, Mike Brooks, who suggested I apply to business school. Two Midland friends, Don Evans and Don Jones, invited me to the Bible study that helped rekindle my faith. And my childhood pal Joe O’Neill invited me to a barbecue where he introduced me to Laura Welch. She was beautiful, intelligent, and warm—and three months later we were married.

People often ask Laura and me how we’ve managed to maintain our friendships. There’s no magic formula—you just stay in touch. I’ve always made it a priority to call, write, or see friends when I have time. During my presidency, I took great joy in welcoming my old pals to Camp David and the White House. Men I’d known since Little League would gaze around the majestic setting of the Oval Office and whisper, “I can’t believe I’m here.” Inevitably, they’d look at me and say, “I can’t believe you’re here!”

When I was president, I depended on my lifelong acquaintances to help me maintain perspective. Sometimes an evening of laughter and memories was just what I needed to lift my spirits and clear my mind. Other times, I’d turn to old friends for candid advice—I knew that they had no agenda other than assisting me.

On Jan. 20, 2009, Laura and I flew home to Texas after President Barack Obama’s inauguration. More than a dozen friends shared that final ride with us. A large crowd had assembled in Midland’s town square to welcome us home, and I was so deeply moved to see the faces of people from my childhood, the oil business, and my days as governor. As I said that day: “They were friends before politics; they were friends during politics; they’ll be my friends after politics.” My friends have truly been one of the greatest gifts of my life.

It’s been said you can judge a person by the friends he keeps—and if that’s true, then I’m a fortunate man indeed

Grant had a great Memoir ... as I remember.

My Neighbor might have fudge a bit in this Memoir...

“Plagiarize! Plagiarize! Remember why God gave you eyes!”—Tom Lehrer (mathematician and satirist).

"Stealing from one source is plagiarism, but stealing from many is called research." -- Mark Twain

"Plagiarism, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence." The Devil's Dictionary (Ambrose Bierce)


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/12/george-bush-book-decision-points_n_782731.html#s180908

When Crown Publishing inked a deal with George W. Bush for his memoirs, the publisher knew it wasn't getting Faulkner. But the book, at least, promises "gripping, never-before-heard detail" about the former president's key decisions, offering to bring readers "aboard Air Force One on 9/11, in the hours after America's most devastating attack since Pearl Harbor; at the head of the table in the Situation Room in the moments before launching the war in Iraq," and other undisclosed and weighty locations.

Crown also got a mash-up of worn-out anecdotes from previously published memoirs written by his subordinates, from which Bush lifts quotes word for word, passing them off as his own recollections. He took equal license in lifting from nonfiction books about his presidency or newspaper or magazine articles from the time. Far from shedding light on how the president approached the crucial "decision points" of his presidency, the clip jobs illuminate something shallower and less surprising about Bush's character: He's too lazy to write his own memoir.

Bush, on his book tour, makes much of the fact that he largely wrote the book himself, guffawing that critics who suspected he didn't know how to read are now getting a comeuppance. Not only does Bush know how to read, it turns out, he knows how to Google, too. Or his assistant does. Bush notes in his acknowledgments that "[m]uch of the research for this book was conducted by the brilliant and tireless Peter Rough. Peter spent the past 18 months digging through archives, searching the internet[s], and sifting through reams of paper." Bush also collaborated on the book with his former speechwriter, Christopher Michel.

Many of Bush's literary misdemeanors exemplify pedestrian sloth, but others are higher crimes against the craft of memoir. In one prime instance, Bush relates a poignant meeting between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and a Tajik warlord on Karzai's Inauguration Day. It's the kind of scene that offers a glimpse of a hopeful future for the beleaguered nation. Witnessing such an exchange could color a president's outlook, could explain perhaps Bush's more optimistic outlook and give insight into his future decisions. Except Bush didn't witness it. Because, as he himself writes later in the book, he wasn't at Karzai's inauguration.



READ MORE ABOVE...CONCLUDING


A Crown official rejected the suggestion that Bush had done anything inappropriate, suggesting that the similarities speak to its inherent accuracy. The editor of Bush's book wasn't immediately able to comment.

But if you already bought Bush's book thinking you were getting only his own thoughts, you haven't entirely wasted your money. Finding lifted passages in Bush's book is like an Easter egg hunt. Look for passages with a number of quotes back to back and then slap the passage into Google Books or plagiarism detection software you might have access to. The slideshow ABOVE shows what HuffPost has found so far. If you find any more, send the passage to ryan@huffingtonpost.com and we'll verify it and add it to the list.

"I hope I'm judged a success. But I'm gonna be dead, Matt, when they finally figure it out. And I'm comfortable knowing that I gave it my all...

"I have written a book," said President George W. Bush, at a trade conference in Chicago, Ill. last month. He joked, "This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write."

Details from Decision Points began to leak in the weeks leading up to its November 9 scheduled release. From reflections on some of the most intense controversies his administration faced, to concerns over former Vice President Dick Cheney coming off to the public as "Darth Vadar," new insights continue to emerge as Bush conducts interviews about the book.

"I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight," explained the former White House leader last month. "I'm going to emerge then submerge."

In a one-on-one interview with NBC News host Matt Lauer this week, Bush spoke about his legacy.

"I hope I'm judged a success. But I'm gonna be dead, Matt, when they finally figure it out," he explained. "And I'm comfortable knowing that I gave it my all, that I love America and I know it was an honor to serve."

While the time Bush spends in the public eye may be short-lived, there's no shortage in details from Decision Points to keep buzz alive about the former president.


Here's a rundown on some of the most intriguing revelations:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/09/decision-points-george-w-bush-book_n_780122.html#s176791

This video does not SHOW that President George Bush is dumb.. it is just a joke based on a famous Abbott and Costello routine called "Who's on First?"

Groundbreaking on the presidential library is set for Nov. 16, and the building is expected to open in 2013.

SMU's Meadows Museum will preview Bush library artifacts

The exhibit, which is free, will run through Feb. 6.

Saddam Hussein's pistol and the bullhorn used by former President George W. Bush at Ground Zero are among the artifacts that go on public display this weekend at a new exhibit at Southern Methodist University.

The show at the Meadows Museum, which opens Saturday, is designed to provide a glimpse of some of the items that will eventually be part of the Bush presidential library center at SMU.

The 20-minute preview showcases some of the thousands of items – and millions of pages of documents – that are temporarily warehoused in Lewisville until the library is built.

National archives officials searched through crates to find exhibit items that they said had become icons associated with the Bush administration, such as the bullhorn he used to talk to rescue workers in New York three days after the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center.

"His first visit – a very memorable moment," Alan Lowe, director of the George W. Bush presidential library, said while pointing to the bullhorn at a media preview Thursday.

Other items on display, which were chosen for their historic significance, include:

• The unloaded pistol U.S. forces confiscated from Saddam Hussein's lap when he was pulled out of a spider hole near Tikrit, Iraq, in 2003.

• The fleece sweatshirt Bush wore when he threw out the ceremonial opening pitch at Game 3 of the 2001 World Series at Yankee Stadium, just weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks. The moment was considered a symbol of the nation's desire to return to normalcy, and spectators chanted "U-S-A!" as Bush left the pitcher's mound.

• A sapphire and diamond jewelry set given to Laura Bush from Saudi Arabia.

• Barney and Miss Beazley's Air Force One dog bowls, complete with presidential seals.

• A letter from U2 lead singer Bono (with a handwritten note to first daughters Barbara and Jenna) thanking Bush for his work to relieve suffering and poverty in Africa.

• The silk dress and Oscar de la Renta bolero jacket worn by Laura Bush at a White House dinner with Queen Elizabeth II.

• Painted wood White House Easter eggs.

• Handwritten notes made by Bush as he prepared to make a statement immediately after the Sept. 11 attacks.

http://gawker.com/5670549/the-george-w-bush-presidential-library-will-be-awesome

Yesterday we watched George W. Bush's gripping book trailer. And this weekend on the campus of Southern Methodist University, a preview exhibit of his presidential library opens. It will show just how much ass he kicked while in office.

The exhibit at the university's Meadows Museum, called "Breaking New Ground: Presenting the George W. Bush Presidential Center," will feature mementos from the Little Bush presidency like the bullhorn he used to address rescue workers at Ground Zero, and a pistol that Saddam Hussein was carrying when he was apprehended in 2003. And really, that shit in Iraq is totally over, so what's wrong with showing off some spoils of war?

A lot, actually, says Tex Sample, a Methodist Church elder:

"I hope that a bullhorn will not become the symbol for the entry of the United States into an unjustified war and that a pistol of Saddam Hussein's is not seen as some strange symbol of victory in that horrendous misjudgment. That these should be the symbols of the values and commitments of the Bush administration and should now become the face of Southern Methodist University is cause for alarm."

Tex ain't happy, but the student body VP told the Times that Bush choosing the university for the site of the library is "an incredible honor."

The exhibit will serve as a preview for the upcoming George W. Bush Presidential Library, which will break ground at Southern Methodist University on November 16.

We can't wait to see what else makes it into the museum.

Road trip?


A RESPONSE to the George W. Bush Library & Policy Institute Groundbreaking
http://warisacrime.org/thepeoplesresponse

A peaceful, nonviolent march and rally will coincide with and protest the George W. Bush Presidential Center groundbreaking in Dallas on November 16, 2010. Join us for a series of events that will move us toward accountability for the past and democracy for the future!


Accountability is the hallmark of a mature democracy: no one is above the law! Remind past, present and future administrations that the truth cannot be buried or changed, and warn the public that the same ideologues who crafted the Bush policies of the last decade will be writing a script for our future. Will this think-tank develop the same kinds of policies that brought us pre-emptive war, economic crisis, environmental disaster, unprecedented presidential power, and diminished civil and human rights? Act now! History is already repeating itself!

Events are planned in Dallas for November 14 -17, 2010, with the march and rally on the 16th. Join us!

Speakers will include: Col. Ann Wright, Dr. Robert Jensen, Ray McGovern, Rev. Dr. William McElvaney, Hadi Jawad, Representative Lon Burnam, Diane Wilson, Marjorie Cohn, Kathy Kelly, David Swanson, Medea Benjamin, and Debra Sweet.

Sponsors and endorsers include: Texans for Peace, North Texas Progressive, The Dallas Peace Center, North Texas Veterans for Peace, Peace Action Denton, Code Pink Greater Dallas, The Peace Center, Arlington, Code Pink Ft Worth, After Downing Street/War Is A Crime, Waco Friends of Peace, Code Pink Houston, Austin Veterans for Peace, The Austin Center for Peace and Justice, Code Pink Austin, Progressive Democrats of America, the Robert Jackson Steering Committee, Dallas ISO, United for Peace and Justice, World Can't Wait, Under the Hood Cafe.

Disastrous Programs Already Launched by the Bush Institute Pre-Groundbreaking

•A plan to put retired military personnel and others with no teacher training or experience in charge of running U.S. public schools.
•Promotion on the Bush Center website of the supposed need for a federal law preempting state restrictions on oil and gas drilling.
•Bush is giving speeches saying his greatest failure was not privatizing Social Security, even though that would have meant destitution for millions of elderly Americans.

Items Unlikely to Be Found in the Bush LIE-bury

Dick Cheney's papers
The 35 Articles of Impeachment
Video of Congressman Dennis Kucinich reading all 35 articles
Statements in support of Bush's impeachment
The 35 Articles of Impeachment and the Case for Prosecuting George W. Bush
The 269 War Crimes
U.S. v. Bush
Historians' ranking of Bush as worst president ever
The Downing Street Minutes
The White House Memo

Quotes That May Not Be Carved into the Bush Center's Walls


“I’d take ’em out, take out the weapons of mass destruction . . . I’m surprised he’s still there." -- Bush in December 1999.

"Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy." -- Minutes recording British spy chief's understanding of White House policy. July 23, 2002.

"The US was thinking of flying U2 reconnaissance aircraft with fighter cover over Iraq, painted in UN colours. If Saddam fired on them, he would be in breach." -- Minutes recording Bush's suggestion to Prime Minister Tony Blair of a way to start a war. January 31, 2003.

“What’s the difference? The possibility that [Saddam] could acquire weapons, if he were to acquire weapons, he would be the danger.” -- Bush to ABC News. December 16, 2003.

"I'd do it again to save lives." -- Bush on torturing a man nearly 200 times with waterboarding. June 2, 2010.

“History? We don’t know. We’ll all be dead.”

-- Bush on how history will judge the War on Iraq.

George W. Bush Presidential Center...

DALLAS – The George W. Bush Presidential Center will tip its hat to the former president's home state, from the Texas limestone and pecan wood paneling inside the complex to the wildflowers, bluebonnets and prairie land outside.

"I applaud the work … in designing a building and landscape that will capture the dignity of the office of the presidency, while at the same time being warm and welcoming to visitors," former President Bush said. "Laura and I were thrilled with the plans."

Former first lady Laura Bush presided over both the design process and the first public presentation of the plans for the complex Wednesday on the Southern Methodist University campus.

"I know we can't please everyone, but I think this almost does," Laura Bush said.