{"id":4334,"date":"2015-10-21T18:21:52","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T01:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=4334"},"modified":"2015-10-21T18:21:52","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T01:21:52","slug":"rewind-bushs-lap-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=4334","title":{"rendered":"Rewind: Bush&#8217;s Lap Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s return to those thrilling days of yesteryear, right before the Iraq War&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Well, it turns out that examining Hillary Clinton&#8217;s emails is revealing a treasure trove of information. Thanks to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3277402\/Smoking-gun-emails-reveal-Blair-s-deal-blood-George-Bush-Iraq-war-forged-YEAR-invasion-started.html\" target=\"_blank\">memo dated March 28, 2002, then Secretary of State Colin Powell assured Bush that former British Prime Minister and Bush lapdog, Tony &#8216;Poopsie&#8217; Blair, would be on board for a war against Iraq<\/a>. This is almost a year before the invasion and proves that Bush and Blair plotted behind closed doors to manipulate public opinion in America and Britain to push for that clusterf*ck known as the Iraq War. At that time though, Blair told his fellow Brits that they were seeking diplomatic solutions. <em><strong>Golly<\/strong><\/em> <em><strong>Gee, you mean Bush and Blair both lied!<\/strong><\/em> Imagine that! We encourage everyone to click on the link and read the article.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, we always knew that Blair was just Bush&#8217;s lapdog. Here&#8217;s a photo-toon from our March 14, 2004 edition.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4335\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4335\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bushblairlapdog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4335\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bushblairlapdog.jpg\" alt=\"President Bush officially makes Tony 'Poopsie' Blair the new White House lapdog, replacing Spot, who died last month.\" width=\"500\" height=\"376\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bushblairlapdog.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bushblairlapdog-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4335\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Bush officially makes Tony &#8216;Poopsie&#8217; Blair the new White House lapdog, replacing Spot, who died last month.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s return to those thrilling days of yesteryear, right before the Iraq War&#8230; Well, it turns out that examining Hillary Clinton&#8217;s emails is revealing a treasure trove of information. Thanks to a memo dated March 28, 2002, then Secretary of State Colin Powell assured Bush that former British Prime Minister and Bush lapdog, Tony &#8216;Poopsie&#8217; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=4334\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rewind: Bush&#8217;s Lap Dog&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,60,49,8,3],"tags":[50,155,22,52,1186,115,458,199,21,98,596,1043,19,1193],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4334"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4337,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4334\/revisions\/4337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}