Comments on: FDL Book Salon Welcomes Russ Baker, Author of Family of Secrets

By: RevBev

RevBev — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:03:25 +0000

Yep…but not really surprising. That early action by W was totally conspicuous and self-serving. I have mentioned to my daughter a number of times that I recall exactly where I was when I heard that extention announcement….not even subtle.

By: Sinead

Sinead — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 12:09:22 +0000

See my comment (#193) – Gannon was NOT a vet. He was just another chickenhawk lying about military service he never performed.

By: Sinead

Sinead — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 12:07:31 +0000

Just for the record, Jeff Gannon was NEVER in the military. It was just another lie.

I’m a vet and I can’t stand chickenhawks like Gannon who pretend to have been in the service because in their eyes it somehow makes them seem more “manly.”

Gannon was a fake reporter AND a fake Marine.

It concerns me that Mr. Baker would make a comment about Gannon having been a vet when it’s been known for years that he wasn’t. I hope the rest of the book is better researched. I definitely consider the Bush family to be a criminal if not downright psychopathic one, but this tidbit makes me more likely to be skeptical about Mr. Baker’s other claims.

By: tpfleming

tpfleming — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 09:58:57 +0000

Baker’s book has been met with deafening silence by the mainstream media. This is probably a good thing, since he would be smeared as a kook or indicted as a sensationalist liar. I, for one, think he should be lauded for his bravery.

Tim Fleming
www.eloquentbooks.com/MurderOfAnAmericanNazi.html
http://leftlooking.blogspot.com

By: NewsNag

NewsNag — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 08:01:29 +0000

plunger, just because he knows more than you do doesn’t make him a conspiracy theorist.

By: Sara

Sara — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 05:40:43 +0000

EW — sorry I got knocked out of the conversation. Just after I posted my question at 63, Firedoglake refused to load me in as “logged on” — I probably attempted ten versions of “recycle” — two total new bootings, and I could not get beyond comment 62 (just before mine) and could not stay logged on after clicking extended remarks, etc. In otherwords, posting put me into a loop that neither allowed me to read further, nor to post. Tis now past midnight, and if this posts it seems sanity has returned to cyberland.

By: BillWalker

BillWalker — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 01:56:05 +0000

Zapata. Here’s a great documentary about the Bush/JFK connection. Pretty thorough.
http://video.google.com/videop.....#038;hl=en

By: NewsNag

NewsNag — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 01:40:20 +0000

George W’s Alabama Air National Guard unit was an intelligence wing (spying), its Phantom jets retrofitted with cameras and used for reconnaisance missions in Vietnam and elsewhere. Also, a small plain-clothes contingent from that Guard unit is said to have been in Memphis at and around the time MLK was killed (though W wasn’t around yet in those days, but just sayin’).

Also, Fortunate Son, the W biography, says W worked for a Houston man (wish I remembered his name), who ran an “agricultural” company, and W said he scouted locations for “greenhouses” in Latin America for this company. This was prior to W’s working in Alaska, and by the way the Alaskan employer was a different person than the one owning the “agricultural” company.

Regarding Mr. George Bush of the CIA in that 1963 memo re J. Edgar Hoover, that particular memo has been widely known for decades. And for those who didn’t know about it, another helpful piece of information is that Poppy Bush’s oil services company in 1962 (again, not remembering its name) owned two ships, the Barbara and the Houston, that were used on loan as supply ships during the Bay of Pigs fiasco.

All of this is on-the-record information. It’s good fodder, no?

By: KayInMaine

KayInMaine — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 01:21:32 +0000

I would say he’s a typical old guy who has the time now to look back on his life. He’s most likely embarrassed & shamed by what he’s done and how his legacy has lived on in his children. He’s very fragile emotionally and I’ve never chalked it up as him being sincere. He’s just like the murderer who gets caught and is suddenly all apologetic and crying for mercy.

He and his wife have hurt America and I’ve never been fooled by their persona. In fact, most people who live near them down in Kennebunkport, Maine aren’t fooled by them either. Most don’t like them as neighbors.

By: pdaly

pdaly — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:59:39 +0000

Agreed, but it makes one wonder then why all the sobbing from Bush senior. His boy succeeded afterall.

Sorry to have missed this interesting book salon. I was busy reading upthread, but by the time I arrived here everyone had already moved on.