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Laura Bush book suggests poison at German summit

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France24 - Laura Bush book suggests poison at German summit: report

AFP - Former first lady Laura Bush writes in her forthcoming autobiography that she and her husband George W. Bush may have been poisoned when they became ill at a summit in Germany in 2007, the New York Times reported Wednesday.

Writing in her book "Spoken from the Heart," due to be released in May, Laura Bush says that the US Secret Service probed whether the presidential delegation may have been poisoned at the G8 summit.

George W. Bush spent part of the summit bedridden.

Doctors concluded that they had contracted a virus, she said, according to the Times report.

However "we never learned if any other delegations became ill, or if ours, mysteriously, was the only one," Laura Bush wrote.

Dear Mrs Bush,

May I be so bold as to remind you that Germany did not take part in the assassination of foreign leaders such as Saddam Hussein?

May I be so bold once again as to remind you that the last time a POTUS was killed, it did not happen in Europe but down in Texas?

Have a nice retirement.

Yours trully.
 
France24 - Laura Bush book suggests poison at German summit: report



Dear Mrs Bush,

May I be so bold as to remind you that Germany did not take part in the assassination of foreign leaders such as Saddam Hussein?

Ah revisionist history.

Saddam was tried in a court of law and hanged.

Pick up a dictionary.

May I be so bold once again as to remind you that the last time a POTUS was killed, it did not happen in Europe but down in Texas?

Have a nice retirement.

Yours trully.

So your logic is that presidents only get assassinated in Texas?

Step away from the wine and your 32 hour work week.
 
Ah revisionist history.

Saddam was tried in a court of law and hanged.

Pick up a dictionary.

So your logic is that presidents only get assassinated in Texas?

Step away from the wine and your 32 hour work week.

"The U.S. Military's Assassination Problem," by David Case. Mother Jones, April 2008

"Since 1976, when it was revealed that the cia had made repeated attempts on the life of Fidel Castro, every American president has issued an executive order banning political assassinations. This ban, however, never applied to leaders with whom the United States is at war, and so the military has launched strikes against Saddam Hussein, Slobodan Milosevic..."

Also, are you denying that the only time a POTUS was killed, it happened in Texas, USA?

PS: Some of us enjoy a 35 hour work week btw. Educate yourself. I recommend you stay away from Texas textbooks...
 
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Dear Mrs Bush,

May I be so bold as to remind you that Germany did not take part in the assassination of foreign leaders such as Saddam Hussein?

And this has what to do with whether or not someone tried to poison them? Since it hasn't happened before, it can't be possible?:roll:
 
Also, are you denying that the only time a POTUS was killed, it happened in Texas, USA?

he doesn't have to. 2/3 presidents that have been assissnated in the US were killed in D.C. (see lincoln & garfield).

there was also an attempt on reagan in D.C.
 
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he doesn't have to. 2/3 presidents that have been assissnated in the US were killed in D.C. (see lincoln & garfield).

there was also an attempt on reagan in D.C.

I did not know, thank you. But still, all of these assassinations happened on US soil, not in Europe....
 
I did not know, thank you. But still, all of these assassinations happened on US soil, not in Europe....

Which does not mean that an assassination could not take place in a foreign country.
 
And this has what to do with whether or not someone tried to poison them? Since it hasn't happened before, it can't be possible?:roll:

History just shows that we do not try to kill your leaders, even when we dislike them, period. That is a practice you do on your own:shock:
 
Which does not mean that an assassination could not take place in a foreign country.

Of course not, but come on, you have to admit that you are more enclined to do it than us, as your history shows.
 
Of course not, but come on, you have to admit that you are more enclined to do it than us, as your history shows.

Okay? So what?
 
Of course not, but come on, you have to admit that you are more enclined to do it than us, as your history shows.

What?
How many French leaders have been executed by the French? Do you all even bother keeping count anymore?
 
"The U.S. Military's Assassination Problem," by David Case. Mother Jones, April 2008

"Since 1976, when it was revealed that the cia had made repeated attempts on the life of Fidel Castro, every American president has issued an executive order banning political assassinations. This ban, however, never applied to leaders with whom the United States is at war, and so the military has launched strikes against Saddam Hussein, Slobodan Milosevic..."

Also, are you denying that the only time a POTUS was killed, it happened in Texas, USA?

PS: Some of us enjoy a 35 hour work week btw. Educate yourself. I recommend you stay away from Texas textbooks...

I'll say it again real slow.

Saddam Hussein was not assassinated.

Presidents have been assassinated in more states than Texas.

I know its hard for you but try and keep up.

35 hours? Oh excuse me! You guys are definitely hard core! :rofl
 
he doesn't have to. 2/3 presidents that have been assissnated in the US were killed in D.C. (see lincoln & garfield).

there was also an attempt on reagan in D.C.

How dare you use facts against the OP!
 
What?
How many French leaders have been executed by the French? Do you all even bother keeping count anymore?

Were we not talking about the POTUS, as in President Of The United States?

I do not recall us trying to kill any of YOUR leaders, that is all.
 
No, she's a nice lady. Why don't you stuff it instead?

Because I don't go around making unsubstantiated claim about being poisoned while visiting the US.
 
I'll say it again real slow.

Saddam Hussein was not assassinated.

Presidents have been assassinated in more states than Texas.

I know its hard for you but try and keep up.

35 hours? Oh excuse me! You guys are definitely hard core! :rofl

Your military has tried to kill Saddam several times without success (only adding to the civilian death toll) before he was found, tried and hung. You also tried to kill Fidel Castro and Milosevic before that.

I admitted my error previously. I did not know about Lincoln and Garfield, both killed on US soil. Anyway, the last time it happened, it still was in Texas. Hard-Core indeed!
 
Of course not, but come on, you have to admit that you are more enclined to do it than us, as your history shows.

Your history shows you to be suckered by the likes of Napolean, and Hitler just to your east.

What is your freaking point?

You helped us beat the British in our revolution, thanks. But never forget, if it wasn't for the United States, your country and all of its people would be exterminated or fully German now.

And thanks for your fries. They're yummy.
 
Assassinated French leaders, courtesy of Wikipedia:

France
Charles d'Espagne, (1354), constable of France
Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans, (1407)
John the Fearless, (1419)
Gaspard de Coligny, (1572)
Henri III, (1589), King of France
Henri IV, (1610), King of France, stabbed by François Ravaillac
Jacques de Flesselles, (1789), Provost of Paris
Jean-Paul Marat, (1793), revolutionary, stabbed in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday
Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry, (1820, February 13), younger son of the future King Charles X, stabbed by Louis Pierre Louvel
Marie François Sadi Carnot, (1894 June 24), President of France, shot by anarchist in Lyon[10]
Jean Jaurès, (1914 July 30), politician, pacifist [13]
Gaston Calmette, (1914 March 16), editor of Le Figaro newspaper, [13] by Henriette Caillaux, wife of minister of Finance Joseph Caillaux
Paul Doumer, (1932 May 6), President of France, shot in Paris[10]
Louis Barthou, (1934), foreign minister of France killed along with King Alexander I of Yugoslavia at Marseille
Ernst vom Rath, (1938), German diplomat in France
François Darlan, (1942 December 24), admiral of the Fleet and former Prime Minister of Vichy government, by a young monarchist in Algiers [11]
Constant Chevillon, (1944), head of FUDOFSI, by Gestapo in Lyon
Philippe Henriot, (1944), State secretary for Information and Propaganda of Vichy government, by french resistants in Paris
Georges Mandel, (1944), former radical-socialist minister and french resistant, by miliciens in forest of Fontainebleau
Eugène Deloncle, (1944), milicien and former leader of clandestine far-right organisation La Cagoule, by Gestapo
Mehdi Ben Barka, (1965), Moroccan socialist leader and Third-World Tricontinental leader, disappeared in Paris
Outel Bono, (1973), Chadian medical doctor and anti-Tombalbaye activist
Jean de Broglie, (1976), former minister and one of the french negotiators of the Évian Accords
Henri Curiel, (1978), anticolonialist activist
José Miguel Beñaran Ordeñana "Argala", (1978), Basque leader
Pierre Goldman, (1979), left-wing activist
Robert Boulin, (1979), minister of Labor and many times minister since 1961. Officially suicide, but a lot of anomalies revealed since.
Joseph Fontanet, (1980), former minister
Salah al-Din Bitar, (1980), Syrian Baath politician
Yehia El-Mashad, (1980), Egyptian atomic scientist.
Jean-Pierre Maïone-Libaude, (1982), right-wing activist and criminal
Georges Besse, (1986), Renault executive, by far-left activists of Action directe
Dulcie September, (1988), African National Congress representative, in Paris
Joseph Doucé, (1990), activist for sexual minorities
Shapour Bakhtiar, (1991), Prime Minister of Iran briefly in 1979, stabbed to death at his home in France
Abdelbaki Sahraoui, (1995), co-founder of the Algerian Islamic Salvation Front, in Paris
Claude Erignac, (1998), prefect of Corsica
 
Assassinated French leaders, courtesy of Wikipedia:

....and that's leaving some out. What about Louis XVI and his German wife Marie? Maybe they're not counting the Guillotine.
 
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France24 - Laura Bush book suggests poison at German summit: report



Dear Mrs Bush,

May I be so bold as to remind you that Germany did not take part in the assassination of foreign leaders such as Saddam Hussein?

May I be so bold once again as to remind you that the last time a POTUS was killed, it did not happen in Europe but down in Texas?

Have a nice retirement.

Yours trully.
Your comment here is motivated by pure emotionalism and has nothing to do with common sense.

Saddam's execution(As a result of a trial, not the history revisionism you're promoting here) and JFK's assassination have next to nothing to do with Laura's fear of deliberate poisoning here.

I don't even understand what your line of thought was and what did you expect to gain by bringing up such issues.
 
I don't even understand what your line of thought was and what did you expect to gain by bringing up such issues.

Exactly. Laura Bush didn't say who, she just said where and what.
 
Also, are you denying that the only time a POTUS was killed, it happened in Texas, USA?

Like you were told, you should keep your ignorance to yourself.

Lincoln was murdered by an assassins bullet.

Didn't happen in Texas.

McKinley was murdered by an assassin's bullet.

Didn't happen in Texas.

Garfield was murdered by an assassin's bullet.

Didn't happen in Texas.

Kennedy was killed in Dallas, and you guessed lucky that Dallas is in Texas.
 
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