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Bush's UNCLE Pockets $2.7 MILLION Off War Dead

Bush's UNCLE Pockets $2.7 MILLION Off War Dead

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#0Bush's UNCLE Pockets $2.7 MILLION Off War Dead
Posted: 3/23/06 at 9:59am

If that's how much the f*cking uncle makes, how much do you think brother Neil Bush and all the Cheney relatives make?

Snippets from today's LA Times:

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Bush uncle benefits from war spending

By WALTER F. ROCHE JR. , Los Angeles Times

WASHINGTON — As President Bush embarks on a new effort to shore up public support for the war in Iraq, an uncle of the chief executive is collecting $2.7 million in cash and stock from the recent sale of a company that profited from the war.

Bush's UNCLE Pockets $2.7 MILLION Off War Dead
William H.T. Bush better known as "Buckey Bush,"
brother of former President George Bush gestures
while discussing Republican issues at the Town
Hall forum in St. Louis.

A report filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission shows that William H.T. Bush collected a little less than $1.9 million in cash plus stock valued at more than $800,000 as a result of the sale of Engineered Support Systems Inc. to DRS Technologies of New Jersey.

The $1.7 billion deal closed Jan. 31. Both businesses have extensive military contracts.

The elder Bush was a director of Engineered Support Systems. Recent SEC filings show he was paid cash and DRS stock in exchange for shares and options he obtained as a director. ...


Bush uncle benefits from war spending


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#1re: Bush's UNCLE Pockets $2.7 MILLION Off War Dead
Posted: 3/23/06 at 10:14am

Every time I start to think I couldn't possibly dislike that family anymore, I hear something like this.


And, how appropriate that a Bush would own stock in a company with a name like DRS Technologies.


Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be enbered with your old nonsense. ~ Emerson

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#2re: Bush's UNCLE Pockets $2.7 MILLION Off War Dead
Posted: 3/23/06 at 10:27am

LOL...the Bushies ARE Dirty Rotten Scoundrels!


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#3re: Bush's UNCLE Pockets $2.7 MILLION Off War Dead
Posted: 3/23/06 at 10:30am

Not that we needed more proof. re: Bush's UNCLE Pockets $2.7 MILLION Off War Dead


Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be enbered with your old nonsense. ~ Emerson

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#4re: Bush's UNCLE Pockets $2.7 MILLION Off War Dead
Posted: 3/23/06 at 11:15am

How can any of you dislike a man with such obvious charm? Like his nephew, he's the type you'd "wanna have a beer with." And in today's America, that's everything.


"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling

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