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Frustratedlady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-07-08 08:31 PM
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Did anyone hear that aside by Tweety about Cheney leaving the country?
They sure hushed him up in a hurry. Maybe I heard wrong.
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MANative Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-07-08 08:33 PM
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1. No, you heard right. I heard it too, and gasped in amusement.
I wonder what Tweety knows that we don't!
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Catshrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-07-08 08:35 PM
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2. Headed to the BFEE compound in Paraguay no doubt
Edited on Fri Nov-07-08 08:41 PM by Catshrink
to spend a little quality time with Kenny Boy.

Bush Family Paraguay Hideaway Update: WMR's Paraguayan sources have confirmed that George W. Bush recently bought 42,000 hectares (over 100,000 acres) of land in Paraguay's northern "Chaco" region.



The land, near the town of Chaco, sits atop huge natural gas reserves, according to sources in Asuncion. Moreover, the land deal was consummated in a dinner meeting between Bush's daughter Jenna and Paraguayan President Nicanor Duarte. Although Jenna, who was in Paraguay under the cover of a 10-day UNICEF trip to visit child welfare projects, put the Bush family seal of approval on the land deal, the actual legal papers were worked out by Bush family lawyers and business representatives. Jenna Bush is supposedly working for UNICEF in Panama City. The Bush land is close to a new U.S. military installation, the Mariscal Estigarribia Air Base. It is also nearby a huge tract of land purchased by Sun Myung Moon that sits astride Latin America's largest water aquifer, the Guarani aquifer. According to earlier Madsen reports, Bush and the Carlyle Group are also the owners of major tracts of land along the proposed US super-highway linking Mexico and Canada, land that will be worth hundreds of millions more when the highway is completed. Related: See Neo-Con Escape Plan to Paraguay? below.

Neo-Con Escape Plan to Paraguay? Fascists seem to have a penchant for escaping to this place. Apparently Bush and cronies are allegedly buying land down there .. "An Argentine official regarded the intention of the George W. Bush family to settle on the Acuifero Guarani (Paraguay) as surprising, besides being a bad signal for the governments of the region...Luis D Elia, undersecretary for the Social Habitat in the Argentine Federal Planning Ministry, issued a memo partially reproduced by digital INFOBAE.com, in which he spoke of the purchase by Bush of a 98,842-acre farm in northern Paraguay, between Brazil and Bolivia."

link: http://www.cco.net/~trufax/general/bush_family_paraguay_hideaway_up.html

:tinfoilhat:



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Frustratedlady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-07-08 09:22 PM
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6. Thanks for this. I knew about it, but didn't have that much info.
I got the impression Paraguay wasn't that thrilled. Why would they be safe from possible prosecution in Paraguay? Now, Dubai...I could see them being safe there. God knows they've got the money.
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Catshrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-07-08 09:31 PM
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8. I don't think Paraguay had an extradition treaty with the US until recently.
Okay... I looked it up. Clinton signed it in 1998

http://www.oas.org/JURIDICO/MLA/en/traites/en_traites-ext-usa-pry.pdf

BUT -- it excludes political reasons!

Article IV incorporates a political offense exception to the obligation to extradite. Article IV(1) states generally that extradition shall not be granted for a political offense. The article expressly excludes from the reach of the political offense exception several categories of offenses:
(a) a murder or other willful crime against the physical integrity of the Head of State of one of the Parties, or of a member of the Head of State’s family;
(b) an offense for which both Parties are obliged pursuant to a multilateral international agreement to extradite the person sought or submit the case to their competent authorities for decision as to prosecution; and
(c) a conspiracy or attempt to commit the offenses described above, or participation in the commission of such offenses.
Article IV(2) provides that extradition shall not be granted if the competent authority of the Requested State determines that the request was politically motivated.
Article IV(3) provides that the Requested State may refuse extradition for offenses under military law that are not offenses under ordinary criminal law (for example, desertion).

Link: http://halmasonberg.wordpress.com/2008/09/05/

And here's something from buzzflash about it:

http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/lindorff/094

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Frustratedlady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-07-08 11:54 PM
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9. Thanks! Much more info I hadn't seen.
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book_worm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-07-08 08:44 PM
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3. Any chance he can be delivered to the hague, for trial?
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-07-08 09:29 PM
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7. Just keep telling him his Spanish is rusty ... that's why he doesn't understand
what they're saying ... and that the bars on the windows of his "house" are for his protection ...
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BeatleBoot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-07-08 08:52 PM
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4. Maybe that's why Bush was crying in the Rose garden on TV the other day
He's got to move to Paraguay!


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Generator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-07-08 08:58 PM
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5. As usual Tweets gets it wrong
Cheney is back on his planet-planet evil. (I will miss the Dick-no one and I mean no one gives better hopeless fear than he does but I'm sure he has chips implanted in some of his minions-no not RAHM!)
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