Beth willis….don’t include me in the collective shame….I’m quite proud of all I’ve done to stand for and ACT for humanity at great cost to me instead of being one of the stupid sheep who followed the Bush Cabal over the cliff. Anyone who is a bush supporter is as dumb/tasteless/ ignorant as they get.

I saw the KO piece and many others and don’t remember which I saw on Huffington Post (today there’s a vid of her saying the rec $7M in venture capital for that website wc has been around for a few years but hasn’t made a profit yet, although both the VC guy and AH say they are confident it will—me too excellent site) she said she isn’t about the money but “improving the quality of the national conversation.” If she ever runs for office I’m voting for her. Anyway saw McCelllan on one clip saying he is leaning to Obama…but as you said, hasn’t yet decided. On Huffington today said the admin tried to stop his book and now say they will block his testifying.

Mary Lou—It wasn’t my statement but as I noted all quoted from former Air Force Col. Robert Bowman who flew over 100 sorties in Vietnam. He was in the Carter and Reagan administrations and in the Dept of Defense headed up the Star Wars program. He’s a Catholic Priest, has a doctorate and has tirelessly spoken around the country since 2003 trying to get Bush impeached. Why he hasn’t been successful is because of ‘media personalities’ like Monica Crowley who don’t recognize their job is to report NEWS and not to be a mouthpiece/defender for any administration particularly one of mass murdering war criminals. I can just see Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite, Huntley or Brinkley, Charles Collingswood, Robert McNeil,etc——when presented with the insider information in this book about the decision to trick the US public and Congress into the worst debacle in our history—-racing to metaphorically ‘shoot’ the messenger instead of DO THEIR JOBS and start some serious investigative work (or support it) as Woodward & Bernstein did to break the Watergate story. But that was when the Washington Post was a legitimate paper, with an legitimate editor and actual investigative journalists and not someone who castigates just one of many Bush Inc flunkey’s who’ve talked. Great priorities….and so articulate too, ie “uncool.” Murder most foul…you are right. The Bush Administration stinks to the outermost reaches of the Milky Way. It’s all quite sickening.

Ai caramba. Is it too early for a glass of Veuve Clicquot? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qdyh6RnC6Q&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdFTnY5J9eQ

Love Marie Brenner and remember so well the profile of her with pix…years ago…in VF, maybe? Yellow post-its on home office window. Her in great fitted black sweater sleeves pushed up, slim black pants, chic little ballet shoes with some colored bead design I believe. Terrific mix of things in apartment, great white fireplace and wonderful framed blue and white poster over it, from memory, I think. Snazy and inspiring….just like her. But that madhouse of a sale with pawing hordes skirmishing over more junk and sharing a dressing room. No, oh, no! Have trouble breathing just imagining it.

I must have order, not lots of distracting things about, plus a far view—so Mary’s desk is appealing.

Smiles! Applause! Grazie! And more perfection— http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWmK9Xl82CU

Since the CEOs own Congress….the idea that Congress tells their paymasters what to do is pretty laughable.

Kelly Kelly—I agree—-it is embarrassing some of the stupid comments on this site…including Monica Crowley’s. We are talking about as Senator Hagel said…one of the 5 worst blunders in history that has killed over 1 million people, and destroyed our country and pulverized Iraq…. Who the hell cares about proper. Who gives a damn about Sex in the City when innocent people are being blown apart on a daily basis, and the people of New Orleans still are in trailers, and US public parks are being privatized, and we have a sh*t for brains cowboy in the WH whose every word or action is a cringe-worthy. Just LOOK at this jerk. An national humiliation at every turn. This is a president? Dr. Paul Craig Roberts is right, he is insane: http://english.chinamil.com.cn/site2/news-channels/2008-05/29/content_12… Oh and their response to Katrina: http://bagnewsnotes.typepad.com/bagnews/images/bush-mccain-katrina-3.jpg Oh, there’s a war going on, with people getting killed and stuff? http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2007/04/bush2EPA_450x450.jpg http://multimedia.hellomagazine.com/news-in-pics/2007/04/26/bush-dancing… TOTAL TOTAL Global EMBARRASSMENT and Monica is worried about UNCOOL???

The Washington Post did a piece in 2006 about all the Bush insides who were jumping the ship…..in Monica’s words “BEING UNCOOL.” _______________ Embittered Insiders Turn Against Bush By Peter Baker Washington Post Sunday, November 19, 2006 The weekend after the statue of Saddam Hussein fell, Kenneth Adelman and a couple of other promoters of the Iraq war gathered at Vice President Cheney’s residence to celebrate. The invasion had been the “cakewalk” Adelman predicted. Cheney and his guests raised their glasses, toasting President Bush and victory. “It was a euphoric moment,” Adelman recalled. Forty-three months later, the cakewalk looks more like a death march, and Adelman has broken with the Bush team. He had an angry falling-out with Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld this fall. He and Cheney are no longer on speaking terms. And he believes that “the president is ultimately responsible” for what Adelman now calls “the debacle that was Iraq.” Adelman, a former Reagan administration official and onetime member of the Iraq war brain trust, is only the latest voice from inside the Bush circle to speak out against the president or his policies. Heading into the final chapter of his presidency, fresh from the sting of a midterm election defeat, Bush finds himself with fewer and fewer friends. Some of the strongest supporters of the war have grown disenchanted, former insiders are registering public dissent and Republicans on Capitol Hill blame him for losing Congress. “There are a lot of lives that are lost,” Adelman said. “A country’s at stake. A region’s at stake. This is a gigantic situation… . This didn’t have to be managed this bad. It’s just awful.” The sense of Bush abandonment accelerated during the final weeks of the campaign with the publication of a former aide’s book accusing the White House of moral hypocrisy and with Vanity Fair quoting Adelman, Richard N. Perle and other neoconservatives assailing White House leadership. “People expect a level of performance they are not getting,” former House speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) said in a speech. …David Kuo, a former deputy director of the Bush White House’s faith-based initiatives who wrote “Tempting Faith,” a book that accused the White House of pandering to Christian conservatives. “And at the end of the day, this was a White House that held itself up as holy.” …Haass, Richard L. Armitage, Carl W. Ford Jr. and Lawrence B. Wilkerson took public the policy debates they lost on the inside. Many who worked in Iraq returned deeply upset and wrote books such as “Squandered Victory” (Larry Diamond) and “Losing Iraq” (David L. Phillips). Military and CIA officials unloaded culminating in the “generals’ revolt” last spring when retired flag officers called for Rumsfeld’s dismissal. On the domestic side, Bush allies in Congress, interest groups and the conservative media broke their solidarity with the White House out of irritation over a number of issues, including federal spending, illegal immigration, the Supreme Court nomination of Harriet Miers, the response to Hurricane Katrina and the Dubai Ports World deal. Most striking lately, though, has been the criticism from neoconservatives who provided the intellectual framework for Bush’s presidency. Perle, Adelman and others advocated a robust use of U.S. power to advance the ideals of democracy and freedom, targeting Hussein’s Iraq as a threat that could be turned into an opportunity. In an interview last week, Perle said the administration’s big mistake was occupying the country rather than creating an interim Iraqi government led by a coalition of exile groups to take over after Hussein was toppled. “If I had known that the U.S. was going to essentially establish an occupation, then I’d say, ‘Let’s not do it….It was a foolish thing to do.” It may also be, he said, that the mistake was the idea itself — that Iraq could serve as a democratic beacon for the Middle East. “That part of our plan is down the drain,” Muravchik said, “and we have to think about what we can do about keeping alive the idea of democracy.” But in interviews with Vanity Fair, the New Yorker and The Post, Adelman said he became unhappy about the conduct of the war soon after his ebullient night at Cheney’s residence in 2003. The failure to find weapons of mass destruction disturbed him. He said he was disgusted by the failure to stop the looting that followed Hussein’s fall and by Rumsfeld’s casual dismissal of it with the phrase “stuff happens.” The breaking point, he said, was Bush’s decision to award Medals of Freedom to occupation chief L. Paul Bremer, Gen. Tommy R. Franks and then-CIA Director George J. Tenet. “The three individuals who got the highest civilian medals the president can give were responsible for a lot of the debacle that was Iraq,” Adelman said. All told, he said, the Bush national security team has proved to be “the most incompetent” of the past half-century. But, he added, “Obviously, the president is ultimately responsible.” Adelman said he remained silent for so long out of loyalty. “I didn’t want to bad-mouth the administration,” he said. In private, though, he spoke out, resulting in a furious confrontation with Rumsfeld, who summoned him to the Pentagon in September and demanded his resignation from the defense board. “It seemed like nobody was getting it,” Adelman said. “It seemed like everything was locked in. It seemed like everything was stuck.” Most troubling, he said, are his shattered ideals: “The whole philosophy of using American strength for good in the world, for a foreign policy that is really value-based instead of balanced-power-based, I don’t think is disproven by Iraq. But it’s certainly discredited.” UNCOOL, Monica…..the NeoCon architects of this disaster turning on Bush Inc in 2006 in public?

He’s said he’s leaning towards Obama

Who is not cool is Monica Crowley. People a lot higher up than Scott M have tried to warn Americans about this administration a much earlier, like Paul Craig Roberts. I’m thankful McCellan wrote this book now, rather than later. He gave his reasoning why he didn’t do it sooner on MSNBC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc57o0E_kA8

I always admired Colin Powell and his wife. But the fact is that he and Rice KNEW that Iraq was no danger and they are on tape before the fact saying so: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0wbpKCdkkQ Dr. Paul Craig Roberts Paul Craig Roberts is an economist and a nationally syndicated columnist. He served as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration and continues, was an editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, Business Week. Ph.D. from the University of Virginia, post-graduate at the University of California, Berkeley, and Oxford University. In print, he has labeled Condi Rice a moron. He has called for President Bush’s impeachment, labeled Bush criminally insane, called for him to be turned over to the courts in the Hague. “Impeach Bush Now by Paul Craig Roberts The Bush administration has failed catastrophically. Bush has compounded a natural disaster and turned it into the greatest calamity in American history. The US has lost its largest and most strategic port, thousands of lives, and 80% of one of America’s most historic cities is under water. “Prior to 911, the Federal Emergency Management Agency warned that New Orleans was a disaster waiting to happen. Congress authorized the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project (SELA) in order to protect the strategic port, the refineries, and the large population. However, after 2003 the flow of funds to SELA were diverted to the war in Iraq. During 2004 and 2005 the New Orleans Times-Picayune published nine articles citing New Orleans’ loss of hurricane protection to the war in Iraq. Every expert and newspapers as distant as Texas saw the New Orleans catastrophe coming. But President Bush and his insane government preferred war in Iraq to protecting Americans at home. Bush’s war left the Corps of Engineers only 20% of the funding to protect New Orleans from flooding from Lake Pontchartrain. On June 18, 2004, the Corps’ project manager, Al Naomi, told the Times-Picayune: “the levees are sinking. If we don’t get the money to raise them, we can’t stay ahead of the settlement.” Despite the dire warnings delivered by the 2004 hurricane season, the Bush administration made deep budget cuts for flood control and hurricane funding for New Orleans. The US Senate, alarmed at the Bush administration’s insanity, was planning to restore the funding for 2006. But now it is too late. Many multiples of the funding that would have saved the city now have to be spent to rescue it. Not content with leaving New Orleans unprotected, it took the Bush administration five days to get the remnants of the National Guard not serving in Iraq, along with desperately needed food and water, to devastated New Orleans. This is the slowest emergency response by the US government in modern times. By the time the Bush administration could organize any resources for New Orleans, many more people had died and the city was in total chaos. Despite the most dismal performance on record, Bush’s Homeland Security Secretary, Michael Chertoff, said on Thursday that the Bush administration has done a “magnificent job.” The on-the-scene mayor of New Orleans sees it differently: “They’re feeding the people a line of bull, and they are spinning and people are dying.” It is a major deal, one that will affect Americans far beyond New Orleans. 25% of our oil and gasoline comes through the New Orleans port and refineries, all out of commission. Needed goods cannot be imported, and exports will plummet, worsening an already disastrous deficit in the balance of trade. The increased cost of gasoline will soak up consumers’ disposable incomes, with dire effects on consumer spending. US economic growth will be siphoned off into higher energy costs. American lives far from New Orleans will be adversely affected. The destruction of New Orleans is the responsibility of the most incompetent government in American history and perhaps in all history. Americans are rapidly learning that they were deceived by the superpower hubris. The powerful US military cannot successfully occupy Baghdad or control the road to the airport – and this against an insurgency based in only 20% of the Iraqi population. Bush’s pointless war has left Washington so pressed for money that the federal government abandoned New Orleans to catastrophe. The Bush administration is damned by its gross incompetence. Bush has squandered the lives and health of thousands of people. He has run through hundreds of billions of borrowed dollars. He has lost America’s reputation and its allies. With barbaric torture and destruction of our civil liberty, he has stripped America of its inherent goodness and morality. And now Bush has lost America’s largest port and 25 percent of its oil supply. Why? Because Bush started a gratuitous war egged on by a claque of crazy neoconservatives who have sacrificed America’s interests to their insane agenda. The neoconservatives have brought these disasters to all Americans, Democrat and Republican alike. Now they must he held accountable. Bush and his neoconservatives are guilty of criminal negligence and must be prosecuted. What will it take for Americans to reestablish accountability in their government? Bush has got away with lies and an illegal war of aggression, with outing CIA agents, with war crimes against Iraqi civilians, with the horrors of the Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo torture centers, and now with the destruction of New Orleans.” Paul Craig Roberts IS a real man of honor. He got out and spoke out and tried to warn the US public…but the paid talking Fox Heads ie propaganda arm of Bush Inc come out and blast in concert to shut people up. ___________________________________ Here’s what Dr. Robert Bowman said. He was in Reagan and Carter’s administration in charge of Star Wars etc, was a Col. in the USAF and was Director of Advanced Space Programs Development under President Jimmy Carter. He is Presiding Archbishop, Catholic Church. He has been president of the Institute for Space and Security Studies since 1982. Before that he was vice-president of Space Communications Company; manager, Advanced Space Programs for General Dynamics; and director, Advanced Space Programs Development for the Department of Defense, directing the “Star Wars” programs. “I joined the Air Force to protect our borders and our people, not the financial interests of Exxon” “Our freedoms are not under attack from Saddam Hussein. Our freedoms are under attack by John Ashcroft….John Poindexter….Donald Rumsfeld… Dick Cheney….George W. Bush. “As a pilot who flew 101 combat missions in Vietnam, I can tell you that the best thing our government can do for its combat veterans is to quit making more of them. Peace is patriotic; a preemptive war is immoral, illegal, unconstitutional, a war crime, and TREASON. “This war has nothing to do with national security or freedom or democracy or human rights or protecting our allies or weapons of mass destruction or defeating terrorism or disarming Iraq. It has to do with money. It has to do with oil. And it has to do with raw imperial power. It is based on a pack of lies. And it is wrong. Those who forced this war on an unwilling world are guilty of flagrantly violating the US Constitution, the UN Charter, and international law. What they have done is illegal, immoral, unconstitutional and TREASON. “It’s been said that somewhere in Texas there is a village looking for their idiot. Now that may be funny, but it misses the point. George W. Bush is not an imbecile. He is a TRAITOR. “Before this war started, we knew it would fracture NATO, split the United Nations, separate us from our allies, and destroy the great nation we inherited from our fathers who died in World War II. And it has. We knew it would make our beloved country feared and hated, an outcast from the world community, a pariah among the peoples, and the number one rogue nation on earth. And it has. It has done so based on a pack of lies…that is not stupidity. That is TREASON. “We knew this sadistic corporate war would incense the Arab world, provide thousands of new Osama bin Ladens, and enormously increase the terrorist threat. And it has. We knew it would further endanger the American people and destroy our national security. And it has. That is not stupidity, it is TREASON. “The cabal of neoconservatives at PNAC who planned this war (Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Libby, Perle, Jeb Bush) even before W became president, knew the American people would not stand for it unless there was a new Pearl Harbor. 9/11 supplied that. Our government was warned. They were warned by the Clinton Administration. They were warned by 11 other countries. And they were specifically warned by an FBI agent that one of them was planning on flying a hijacked airliner into the World Trade Center. “They not only ignored the warnings, they made sure no fighter jets were scrambled to stop it. If they had just done nothing, and allowed normal procedures to be followed, the Twin Towers would still be standing and thousands of dead Americans would still be alive. This is not stupidity, it is TREASON. “As a combat veteran, I will not stand idly by and watch our security destroyed by a president who went AWOL rather than fight in Vietnam. Honor requires that I call this by its right name. It is TREASON. “As one who has devoted his life to the security of this country, I will not stand by and watch an appointed president send our sons and daughters around the world to kill Arabs for the oil companies without calling it by its right name. It is TREASON. “I joined the Air Force to protect our borders and our people, not the financial interests of Exxon. We’ve had enough corporate wars. No more Iraqs. No more El Salvadors. No more Kosovos. No more Colombias. These are not isolated incidents of stupidity. They are part of a long, bloody history of foreign policy being conducted for the financial benefit of the wealthy few. It is a new colonialism. It violates our Constitution. It endangers our people. And it is TREASON. “Peace is patriotic; a preemptive war is immoral, illegal, unconstitutional, a war crime, and TREASON. I swore to uphold the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic. That includes a renegade president. Wake up, America! It is time for George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and the whole oil mafia to be removed from office and indicted for TREASON. We are the people. We are sovereign. We are the patriots. The whole world is with us. Never allow anyone to intimidate you into silence. Wake up, America! It’s time to speak truth to power. God bless America, and God save us from the traitors in our government.” ————————- It isn’t that there weren’t plenty of decent people speaking it out…it was as Dan Rather said you had the equivalent of a burning rubber tire put around your neck…..and by the Fox News people who got their script straight from the Bush Admin. There’s NOTHING “uncool” about speaking out….it is the paid-off talking heads and the ignorant and apathetic masses who are complicit. The Bush cabal should have been impeached long ago.

Monica Crowley is a Fox News “personality. Fox News???? And let’s not forget her plagiarisms: “On August 9, 1999, an article by Crowley titled “The Day Nixon Said Goodbye,” appeared in the The Wall Street Journal. Four days later, after the paper received charges of plagiarism from at least one reader, they acknowledged what they termed the “striking similarities” between Crowley’s article and an article by Paul Johnson titled In Praise of Richard Nixon[1] published in the October 1988 issue of Commentary Magazine. The Journal editor stated unequivocally: Had we known of the parallels, we would not have published the article.[2] The New York Times reported on the incident the following Monday: A California radiologist, Charles Pfaff, was reading The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page last Monday when he felt a sense of deja vu. The article he was reading, The Day Nixon Said Goodbye, by the former President’s confidante, Monica Crowley, seemed familiar. He was right. The article paralleled a 1988 piece in Commentary: In Praise of Richard Nixon by Paul Johnson. Some parts were repeated almost verbatim.[3] Crowley herself acknowledged the similarity between the pieces: Reached by telephone on Friday afternoon, Ms. Crowley, the author of Nixon Off the Record (Random House, 1996) and Nixon in Winter (Random House, 1998), agreed that “there are clear similarities in the language. I have wracked my brain, and I can honestly tell you that I have not read” Mr. Johnson’s article.[4] On August 23, 1999, Slate Magazine pushed a piece detailing five specific passages in Crowley’s article that contain identical language and phraseology to Johnson’s piece, and concluded that “it just isn’t possible for Crowley not to have read Johnson’s article.” And here she is snottily (as opposed to acting with some ‘journalistic’ decorum predicting the French Unions will lose against Sarkozy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcF2RyUxBOQ&feature=related Let’s see, 6 days ago in the Intl Herald about the strikes-one million workers in the streets..with our huge population differential that’s equivalent of 5 million here. When was the last time we saw 5 million in US streets protesting? The anti-immigration protests were huge and they were one million. http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/22/europe/22unions.php The BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7413967.stm Sarkozy has the worst approval ratings in French history. He has zero chance of succeeding. http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=14970 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/world/europe/25sarkozy.html?n=Top/Refe… Sarkozy is just another right wing imbecile….the ones who’ve been wrecking the world for the past decade. The Fox News gals should spend less time in front of mirrors bleaching their hair and piling on the makeup and a bit more examining their souls. Monica Crowley is another Fox News pundit….no one with any decency works for that outlet. And no one with a brain cares what they think.

Monica Crowley is a NeoCon loving commentator. So asking her opinion on McCellan is as predictable as asking Senator Kerry to comment on Senator Kennedy. This is one of the most criminal, evil, ruinous administrations in the history of the US…the problem isn’t someone stepping forward it is that there aren’t enough doing so. The rats are jumping the Titanic and trying to wash the blood off their hands. The book to discuss is Vincent Bugliosi’s “Prosecution of GWB for Murder” which is what he deserves. Here’s Bugliosi’s short bio: “Vincent Bugliosi received his law degree in 1964. In his career at the L.A. County District Attorney’s office, he successfully prosecuted 105 out of 106 felony jury trials, including 21 murder convictions without a single loss.” Here’s the premise of his book from Bugliosi: “My motivation is not political… George Bush lied to the American public in starting his war with Iraq…Bush should have been impeached, convicted, and removed from office. That’s almost too self-evident to state. But he deserves much more than impeachment. I mean, in America, we apparently impeach presidents for having consensual sex outside of marriage and trying to cover it up. If we impeach presidents for that, then if the president takes the country to war on a lie where thousands of American soldiers die horrible, violent deaths and over 100,000*** innocent Iraqi civilians, including women and children, even babies are killed, the punishment obviously has to be much, much more severe. For anyone interested in true justice, impeachment alone would be a joke for what Bush did. ***{Note: The prestigious Lancet estimates the Iraqi deaths at 1.2 Million out of a population of 27M…..ie the equivalent in the US would be approx 32 Million. The medical journal The Lancet, estimated that over 600,000 Iraqis had been killed as a result of the invasion as of July 2006. Iraqis have continued to be killed since then. The estimate that over a million Iraqis have died received independent confirmation from a prestigious British polling agency in September 2007. Opinion Research Business estimated that 1.2 million Iraqis have been killed violently since the US invasion. This devastating human toll demands greater recognition. It eclipses the Rwandan genocide and our leaders are directly responsible.} Buglosis continues “The New York Times, in a June 17, 2004, editorial, said that in selling this nation on the war in Iraq, “the Bush administration convinced a substantial majority of Americans before the war that Saddam Hussein was somehow linked to 9/ 11, … inexcusably selling the false Iraq-Al Qaeda claim to Americans.” “In a November 15, 2005, editorial, the New York Times said that “the president and his top advisers … did not allow the American people, or even Congress, to have the information necessary to make reasoned judgments of their own. It’s obvious that the Bush administration misled Americans about Mr. Hussein’s weapons and his terrorist connections.” “In early December of 2005, a New York Times-CBS nationwide poll showed that the majority of Americans believed Bush “intentionally misled” the nation to promote a war in Iraq If Bush, in fact, intentionally misled this nation into war, what is the proper punishment for him? Since many Americans routinely want criminal defendants to be executed for murdering only one person, if we weren’t speaking of the president of the United States as the defendant here, to discuss anything less than the death penalty for someone responsible for over 100,000 deaths would on its face seem ludicrous. “Even assuming that Bush is criminally responsible for the deaths of over 100,000 people in the Iraq war, under federal law he could only be prosecuted for the deaths of the 4,000 American soldiers killed in the war. No American court would have jurisdiction to prosecute him for the Iraqi deaths since these victims not only were not Americans, but they were killed in a foreign nation, Iraq. “Bush would be the last person who would quarrel with the proposition that being guilty of mass murder (even one murder, by his lights) calls for the death penalty as opposed to life imprisonment. As governor of Texas, Bush had the highest execution rate of any governor in American history: He was a very strong proponent of the death penalty who even laughingly mocked a condemned young woman who begged him to spare her life (“Please don’t kill me,” Bush mimicked her in a magazine interview with journalist Tucker Carlson), and even refused to commute the sentence of death down to life imprisonment for a young man who was mentally retarded (although as president he set aside the entire prison sentence of his friend Lewis “Scooter” Libby), and had a broad smile on his face when he announced in his second presidential debate with Al Gore that his state, Texas, was about to execute three convicted murderers. In Bush’s two terms as Texas governor, he signed death warrants for an incredible 152 out of 153 executions against convicted murderers, the majority of whom only killed one single person. The only death sentence Bush commuted was for one of the many murders that mass murderer Henry Lucas had been convicted of. Bush was informed that Lucas had falsely confessed to this particular murder and was innocent, his conviction being improper. So in 152 out of 152 cases, Bush refused to show mercy even once, finding that not one of the 152 convicted killers should receive life imprisonment instead of the death penalty. Bush’s perfect 100 percent execution rate is highly uncommon even for the most conservative law-and-order governors.”