{"id":8581,"date":"2023-03-16T14:52:02","date_gmt":"2023-03-16T21:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=8581"},"modified":"2023-04-18T17:06:56","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T00:06:56","slug":"rewind-master-dubya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=8581","title":{"rendered":"Rewind: Master Dubya"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>2023 marks the 20th anniversary of the BilgeBucket Gazette. Our first issue was on May 19, 2003 and we\u2019ve been shoveling it to the public, just like the corporate media, ever since. We changed our format to a WordPress blog in 2011 so all of our earlier material was archived. We\u2019ve been reposting many of those archived articles, headlines, photo-toons, BilgeBucket Lists and other content over the past twelve years. In honor of our 20th, and because we\u2019re sick of the current state of affairs in the world, we\u2019ll be reposting more items from 2003 through 2009 throughout this year.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Iraq War was a complete clusterf*ck and the Bush Administration was responsible for everything that went wrong with that ill-advised war. One of the more unsettling events that occurred during the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"early days of occupation was that American soldiers tortured Iraqis at the infamous Abu-Ghraib facilities and then Bush Admin officials denied that they did (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/report\/2011\/07\/12\/getting-away-torture\/bush-administration-and-mistreatment-detainees\" target=\"_blank\">early days of occupation was that American soldiers tortured Iraqis at the infamous Abu-Ghraib facilities and then Bush Admin officials denied that they did<\/a>. (Hmmm.  Republicans f*cking up, gaslighting and avoiding consequences. Some things never change, eh.)  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s our DubToon from our <strong>September 17, 2006<\/strong> issue featuring Master Dubya convincingly denying the use of torture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<table class=\"wp-block-table\"><tbody><tr><td><strong> &#8220;We do not condone torture. I have never ordered torture. I will never order torture. The values of this country are such that torture is not a part of our soul and our being.&#8221; <\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><em><strong>George W. Bush<\/strong><\/em> <br><em><strong>06-22-2004<\/strong><\/em><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"115\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bushtorture.jpg\" alt=\"Master George W. Bush convincingly denies that America uses torture on Iraqi citizens.\" class=\"wp-image-8586\"\/><figcaption>&#8220;America does not torture&#8230;except for waterboarding, attack dogs, electrodes to genitals&#8230;&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2023 marks the 20th anniversary of the BilgeBucket Gazette. Our first issue was on May 19, 2003 and we\u2019ve been shoveling it to the public, just like the corporate media, ever since. We changed our format to a WordPress blog in 2011 so all of our earlier material was archived. We\u2019ve been reposting many of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=8581\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rewind: Master Dubya&#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":[49,2417],"tags":[377,2431,1745,50,112,1554,1058,2418,52,1538,115,458,98,976,491],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8581"}],"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=8581"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8591,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8581\/revisions\/8591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}