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March 11, 2008
George Bush Tied To Prostitution Ring
Bob Fertik has the details of this explosive and appalling story.
—Jonathan Schwarz
Posted at March 11, 2008 07:52 PMHow about a link?
Posted by: sisyphus at March 11, 2008 07:57 PMMy job is just to say stuff. It's up to you to figure out which page on the internet I'm referring to.
Posted by: Jonathan Schwarz at March 11, 2008 08:10 PMBob Fertik: For a REAL good time, call Nancy @1-202-225-0100. (I don't believe she has heard about all this.)
Posted by: Mike Meyer at March 11, 2008 08:37 PMThey are dressed in tight jeans, low-cut tops and knee-high boots, but the girls' make-up can't disguise the fact that most are in their mid-teens. It's a strange sight in a conservative Muslim country, but this is the sex business, and it's booming as a result of the war in Iraq.
It's one way of further secularizing the Muslim countries. We work in covert ways spreading our values before us.
And speaking of hot under-13 year olds:
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — State legislators passed a law Saturday that would require adults who French kiss a child younger than 13 to register as a sex offender.
Which immediately made me ask: French kissing? Why isn't it freedom kissing?
Posted by: angryman@24:10 at March 11, 2008 08:45 PMHell, if anyone knows how to make use of this IMMENSE OPPORTUNITY (to use the words of our enemies), this could be the equivalent of busting Capone for tax evasion.
Posted by: En Ming Hee at March 11, 2008 08:53 PMbut Bush believes in Jesus.
Posted by: sam at March 11, 2008 10:52 PMIf by "explosive and appalling story" you mean "a meandering, pipe dream blog entry with no hard facts to back up its assertion" then yeah, totally. "Resignation or impeachment expected?" Are you kidding me? This is like telling a kid you're taking them to Disneyland, driving to a pet store and saying "Hey, they both involve mice."
Posted by: jmh at March 12, 2008 02:57 AMwell, the linked blog makes a fair point, but jeepers, it's like a good one-liner at a cocktail party that someone drags out into an hour long windbag monologue.
Posted by: xyz at March 12, 2008 07:27 AMpeople who don't officially exist really do make the best prostitutes.
Posted by: hapa at March 12, 2008 09:12 AM"explosive and appalling story" - yes, in that our invasion of Iraq has had yet another harsh unintended, unforeseen (though not unpredictable) consequence.
"George Bush Tied To Prostitution Ring" - no, unless you mean he is guilty of yet another war crime, but he neither hired nor pimped these children.
"Resignation or impeachment expected?" - you have got to be kidding me.
a below average post for the usually reliable A Tiny Revolution.
Posted by: money at March 12, 2008 01:21 PMmoney: Ouite right, until a LARGE number of CITIZENS call for IMPEACHMENT, then nothing will come of the matter. Should that even happen, Congress would still resist at every turn, (they fear retribution for their own indiscretions in the matter) therefore it WILL be an uphill fight to the end.
Posted by: Mike Meyer at March 12, 2008 02:52 PMAccording to reports, when Saddam Hussein was trying to get The Kuwaitis to come through with the money they had promised Iraq to help Iraq with reconstruction during The Iran-Iraq War, The Kuwaits told Hussein that the Iraqi women should earn the money on the streets.
Posted by: cemmcs at March 12, 2008 04:09 PMSo what has Jeff Gannon been up to these days?
Posted by: BobS. at March 13, 2008 07:25 AM
