Wednesday, November 26, 2003
The Houston Chronicle and Houston local TV are the best places to find all the weird shit coming out of lil' brother Neil Bush's divorce filings:
. . . The Bush divorce, completed in April, was prompted in part by Bush's relationship with another woman. He admitted in the deposition that he previously had sex with several other women while on trips to Thailand and Hong Kong at least five years ago.
The women, he said, simply knocked on the door of his hotel room, entered and engaged in sex with him. He said he did not know if they were prostitutes because they never asked for money and he did not pay them.
"Mr Bush, you have to admit it's a pretty remarkable thing for a man just to go to a hotel room door and open it and have a woman standing there and have sex with her," Brown said.
"It was very unusual," Bush said. . . .
. . . The Bush divorce, completed in April, was prompted in part by Bush's relationship with another woman. He admitted in the deposition that he previously had sex with several other women while on trips to Thailand and Hong Kong at least five years ago.
The women, he said, simply knocked on the door of his hotel room, entered and engaged in sex with him. He said he did not know if they were prostitutes because they never asked for money and he did not pay them.
"Mr Bush, you have to admit it's a pretty remarkable thing for a man just to go to a hotel room door and open it and have a woman standing there and have sex with her," Brown said.
"It was very unusual," Bush said. . . .
Times of London:
US General who governed Iraq exposes errors
BY AGENCIES
General Jay Garner, the American first put in charge of running postwar Iraq, has revealed the extent of rivalry in Washington that affected plans for rebuilding the country.
The General, former chief of Iraq's interim administration, said that the communication between his bosses at the Pentagon and the State Department was so bad that he was unaware that Colin Powell's team had carried out a year-long project to plan for post-conflict Iraq until just weeks before the invasion. . . .
US General who governed Iraq exposes errors
BY AGENCIES
General Jay Garner, the American first put in charge of running postwar Iraq, has revealed the extent of rivalry in Washington that affected plans for rebuilding the country.
The General, former chief of Iraq's interim administration, said that the communication between his bosses at the Pentagon and the State Department was so bad that he was unaware that Colin Powell's team had carried out a year-long project to plan for post-conflict Iraq until just weeks before the invasion. . . .
Missed this one last week:
Guardian UK:
War critics astonished as US hawk admits invasion was illegal
International lawyers and anti-war campaigners reacted with astonishment yesterday after the influential Pentagon hawk Richard Perle conceded that the invasion of Iraq had been illegal.
In a startling break with the official White House and Downing Street lines, Mr Perle told an audience in London: "I think in this case international law stood in the way of doing the right thing."
President George Bush has consistently argued that the war was legal either because of existing UN security council resolutions on Iraq - also the British government's publicly stated view - or as an act of self-defence permitted by international law.
But Mr Perle, a key member of the defence policy board, which advises the US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, said that "international law ... would have required us to leave Saddam Hussein alone", and this would have been morally unacceptable. . . .
Guardian UK:
War critics astonished as US hawk admits invasion was illegal
International lawyers and anti-war campaigners reacted with astonishment yesterday after the influential Pentagon hawk Richard Perle conceded that the invasion of Iraq had been illegal.
In a startling break with the official White House and Downing Street lines, Mr Perle told an audience in London: "I think in this case international law stood in the way of doing the right thing."
President George Bush has consistently argued that the war was legal either because of existing UN security council resolutions on Iraq - also the British government's publicly stated view - or as an act of self-defence permitted by international law.
But Mr Perle, a key member of the defence policy board, which advises the US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, said that "international law ... would have required us to leave Saddam Hussein alone", and this would have been morally unacceptable. . . .
