<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#DDDDDD" style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; width: 1058px; background-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class=""><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" class="subscribe-body" style="width: 1038px; padding: 10px;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class=""><div style="direction: ltr; max-width: 600px; margin: 0px auto; overflow: hidden;" class=""><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#ffffff" class="subscribe-wrapper" style="width: 600px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: left; max-width: 1024px; min-width: 320px; margin: 0px auto;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class=""><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" height="8" background="https://s0.wp.com/i/emails/stripes.gif" class="subscribe-header-wrap" style="width: 600px; background-image: url(https://s0.wp.com/i/emails/stripes.gif); background-color: rgb(67, 164, 208); height: 8px; background-repeat: repeat no-repeat;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class=""></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="subscribe-header" style="width: 600px; color: rgb(0, 136, 204); font-size: 1.6em; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class=""><h2 class="subscribe-title" style="line-height: 1; font-weight: 400; color: rgb(70, 70, 70); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; padding: 0px; font-size: 16px !important; margin: 5px 20px !important;">New post on<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong class="">Caitlin Johnstone</strong></h2></td><td style="text-align: right;" class=""><img border="0" class="head-avatar" src="https://i1.wp.com/caitlinjohnstone.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/cropped-caitlinpic1.jpg?resize=32%2C32&ssl=1" alt="" width="32" height="32" style="margin: 5px 20px 5px 0px; vertical-align: middle;"></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20" bgcolor="#ffffff" style="width: 600px;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class=""><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 560px;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td valign="top" class="the-post"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 560px;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td style="white-space: nowrap; vertical-align: top; width: 60px !important;" class=""><a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com/?author=2" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178); display: block; margin-right: 10px;" class=""><img border="0" alt="" src="http://1.gravatar.com/avatar/12152988a68a6d4dae7506812444c18f?s=50&d=monsterid&r=G" class="avatar avatar-50" height="50" width="50"></a></td><td class=""><h2 class="post-title" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); margin: 0px; font-size: 20px;"><a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2018/03/28/oligarch-owned-media-outlets-really-really-want-you-to-love-george-w-bush/" style="text-decoration: none !important; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">Oligarch-Owned Media Outlets Really, REALLY Want You To Love George W Bush</a></h2><span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136);" class="">by<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com/?author=2" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(136, 136, 136) !important;" class="">Caitlin Johnstone</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="post-content" style="direction: ltr; margin-top: 1em; max-width: 560px;"><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">There's a major breaking news story being reported on by both liberal and conservative mainstream media outlets across America, and it urgently needs your attention.</p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">The major news story can be summed up as follows: a former US president went to a wedding where there was dancing, and that former US president joined in the dancing. He bent his knees in time to the beat and moved his arms a bit. The song he was dancing to was Dead or Alive's mid-1980s hit "<em class="">You Spin Me Round</em> (Like a Record)".</p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">That's it. That's the whole entire news report.</p><div class="embed-twitter" style="direction: ltr;"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true" style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 1.1em; font-style: italic; color: rgb(135, 135, 135); border-left-width: 3px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1em; margin: 1em 1em 1em 2em;"><p lang="en" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">Watch former President George W. Bush bust a move on the dance floor<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://t.co/QNH2dfEQOT" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">https://t.co/QNH2dfEQOT</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://t.co/8JWDbQdLQi" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">pic.twitter.com/8JWDbQdLQi</a></p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">— CNN (@CNN)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/CNN/status/978721584633532416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">March 27, 2018</a></p></blockquote></div><div class="embed-twitter" style="direction: ltr;"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true" style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 1.1em; font-style: italic; color: rgb(135, 135, 135); border-left-width: 3px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1em; margin: 1em 1em 1em 2em;"><p lang="en" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">Bust a move! Former President George W. Bush tears up the dance floor at his nephew’s wedding<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://t.co/O8YnrrpYam" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">pic.twitter.com/O8YnrrpYam</a></p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">— FOX & friends (@foxandfriends)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/foxandfriends/status/978616124333002752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">March 27, 2018</a></p></blockquote></div><div class="embed-twitter" style="direction: ltr;"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true" style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 1.1em; font-style: italic; color: rgb(135, 135, 135); border-left-width: 3px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1em; margin: 1em 1em 1em 2em;"><p lang="en" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">George W. Bush tearing up the dance floor at this wedding is a true sight to behold<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://t.co/IRKUjHMj9b" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">https://t.co/IRKUjHMj9b</a></p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">— TIME (@TIME)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/TIME/status/978673033710796800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">March 27, 2018</a></p></blockquote></div><div class="embed-twitter" style="direction: ltr;"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true" style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 1.1em; font-style: italic; color: rgb(135, 135, 135); border-left-width: 3px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1em; margin: 1em 1em 1em 2em;"><p lang="en" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">Watch George W. Bush tear up the dance floor at nephew's wedding<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://t.co/395YpaC2oa" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">https://t.co/395YpaC2oa</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://t.co/RFU7xMr8pX" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">pic.twitter.com/RFU7xMr8pX</a></p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">— TODAY (@TODAYshow)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/TODAYshow/status/978654153294729216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">March 27, 2018</a></p></blockquote></div><div class="embed-twitter" style="direction: ltr;"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true" style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 1.1em; font-style: italic; color: rgb(135, 135, 135); border-left-width: 3px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1em; margin: 1em 1em 1em 2em;"><p lang="en" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">WATCH: George W. Bush shows off his dance moves at nephew's wedding<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://t.co/wllfx4KljM" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">https://t.co/wllfx4KljM</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://t.co/jI1qdiHNzj" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">pic.twitter.com/jI1qdiHNzj</a></p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/dcexaminer/status/978758836986302465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">March 27, 2018</a></p></blockquote></div><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">That's right, all the plutocrat-controlled media, from the Murdoch-controlled <a href="https://twitter.com/foxandfriends/status/978616124333002752" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class=""><em class="">Fox and Friends</em></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to the Brian L. Roberts-controlled<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/TODAYshow/status/978604649153531905" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class=""><em class="">Today Show</em></a> to the Zucker and Bewkes-controlled<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/CNN/status/978721584633532416" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">CNN</a> to the Phillip Anschutz-controlled<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/dcexaminer/status/978758836986302465" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class=""><em class="">Washington Examiner</em></a> to the Koch-controlled <a href="https://twitter.com/TIME/status/978673033710796800" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class=""><em class="">Time Magazine</em></a> urgently wants you to know that former US president George W Bush is capable of bobbing in time to music like a normal human being. It is very important to these oligarchic lackeys that you be made aware of a few seconds of video footage showing a war criminal dancing around being happy with no visible blood on his hands.</p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">This is just the latest episode in the mass media's endless campaign to endear a Hague fugitive to the unwashed masses. From his appearance<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK6D8rCj6eM" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">dancing and frolicking with Ellen Degeneres</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>last year to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/09/29/miss-these-guys-yet-you-betcha/?utm_term=.7b25a8c8e01c&tid=sm_tw" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">Bezos-controlled op-eds</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>about how much everyone misses him, these oligarchic propaganda firms have been working tirelessly to ensure a rehabilitated image of the 43rd president.</p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">And it's been working. A CNN poll from earlier this year<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2018/01/22/politics/george-w-bush-favorable-poll/index.html" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">found</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>that Bush's approval ratings have done a complete 180, and he is now on the receiving of warm, gooshy feelings from 61 percent of the US population. His approval among Democrats has shot up from a mere 11 percent in 2009 to 54 percent today, without his having done anything during that time period except paint pictures of his feet.</p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">Bush hasn't changed since 2009. He's still the guy who deceived the world into decimating Iraq and killing a million human beings, and no amount of rhythmic knee-bending is ever going to change that. The man hasn't changed, but the perception of him has. This is because public perception of the Bush administration is being very carefully managed and manipulated. And this is happening for a reason.</p><div class="embed-twitter" style="direction: ltr;"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="550" data-dnt="true" style="font-family: Times, serif; font-size: 1.1em; font-style: italic; color: rgb(135, 135, 135); border-left-width: 3px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1em; margin: 1em 1em 1em 2em;"><p lang="en" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">The 1% owned mass media don't know how to "fix" our broken system because the fact that our sources of information are owned by billionaires IS the broken system. Stop expecting the problem to give you the solutions.</p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">— Redacted Tonight (@RedactedTonight)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://twitter.com/RedactedTonight/status/978698669301161989?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">March 27, 2018</a></p></blockquote></div><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">These oligarch-owned media outlets are working to make the public support George W Bush for the same reason they did so after 9/11: because wars are planned, and the oligarchs stand to benefit from them.</p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">Iraq-raping neoconservatives have been increasingly elevated to positions of power in the current administration, and with Mike Pompeo as Secretary of State and John Bolton as national security advisor this administration is now arguably packed with even more neocon bloodlust than the Bush administration was. There is in my opinion no reason for such insatiable vampires to be elevated to such positions unless wars are planned, but good luck trying to point to the Bush administration as a way of sounding the alarm to Trump's political opposition about that now.</p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">The<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/on-the-syria-occupation-and-the-new-face-of-imperialism-689ee34a7ff6" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">US-centralized empire</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is built on and sustained by endless warfare. Without endless warfare, the foundation that the US oligarchy is built upon would vanish as America is forced to develop a real economy that isn't propped up with the barrel of a gun, and the oligarchic kingdoms would collapse. This is why nearly all US media is<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/katevinton/2016/06/01/these-15-billionaires-own-americas-news-media-companies/#1884c3f2660a" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">owned by billionaires</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://thefreethoughtproject.com/wikileaks-exposes-cfr-media-control/" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">dominated by plutocrat-funded foreign policy think tanks</a>. This is also why liberal and conservative mainstream media outlets<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/04/07/the-spoils-of-war-trump-lavished-with-media-and-bipartisan-praise-for-bombing-syria/" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">always unite in approval</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>when it is time for war.</p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RC1Mepk_Sw" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class=""><img border="0" src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/9RC1Mepk_Sw/0.jpg" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto; margin-bottom: 12px;" class=""></a></p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">Iraq was part of a preexisting plan, and so are<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RC1Mepk_Sw" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">many other Middle Eastern countries</a>. The US-centralized and plutocrat-owned empire is<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/the-us-empire-is-acting-like-a-desperate-cornered-animal-because-thats-what-it-is-25308ee10221" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">according to its own data</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>fast approaching post-primacy, and it needs to disrupt all potential rivals to its hegemony as quickly as possible to prevent that from happening. The Iran hawks that are filling this administration, the Russia hysteria, the Syria lies, the North Korea panic, all fit together in this same agenda.</p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">They are rehabilitating the image of the Bush administration because they want to have another one.</p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">I remember toward the end of Bush's first term people in conspiracy circles were saying there might never be another presidential election following<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/11/election.day.delay/" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(37, 133, 178);" class="">reports</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>that the administration had been looking for ways to postpone Election Day in the event of a new terrorist attack. It turns out that those conspiracy buffs were right all along: Bush never left office. He just changed skin color a couple of times. From pale to brown, from brown to orange.</p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">And now that everyone has forgotten the horrors of the Iraq invasion and a new generation of soldiers is coming of age, they are ready to start ramping up the action again. We are now being pummeled with relentless narratives about what Russia, Iran, North Korea and Syria are up to, all with basically as much evidence as we were given for Saddam Hussein having weapons of mass destruction, and all serving the agendas of the US-centralized empire to disrupt geopolitical rivals to avoid post-primacy and the rise of a multipolar world.</p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">George W Bush is evil. Everyone who facilitated his wars is evil. The decimation of Iraq was evil, and is unforgivable. The people who inflicted this evil upon our world are not the people who should be in the driver's seat. We need to take our world back from these monsters.</p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class="">_____________________</p><p style="direction: ltr; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.4em; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 1em;" class=""><em class="">Thanks for reading, clear-eyed rebel. 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