I’m beginning to question Jeb Bush’s intellect. I don’t understand why he continues to support his older brother and his administration for their illegal and immoral acts. He is either in denial, or, worse yet, actually believes that his brother’s actions were justified.

He has now sided with his brother and Dick Cheney against his father’s new book. Titled “Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush,” or 41^st president and father of the 43^rd heavily criticizes Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. The senior Bush says in his book, which will be available on Tuesday that Cheney “had his own empire there and marched to his own drummer. It just showed me that you cannot do it that way. The president should not have that worry.”

He doesn’t let up on Donald Rumsfeld. He says Rumsfeld also “served the president badly. In addition: “I don’t like what he did, and I think it hurt the president having his iron-ass view of everything. I don’t like what he did, and I think it hurt the president having his iron-ass view of everything.”

Jeb Bush: Dick Cheney “served my brother well as vice president.” He had nothing to say about Rumsfeld.

Interesting that a former president’s father had the courage to say something the mainstream media was aware of, but afraid to say. The truth is seldom revealed by the major news services.

This is my major complaint. Any American with average intelligence knew this to be the truth, but fear of reprisal, such as what happened to CBS on “60 Minutes” when ‘W’ was in office illustrating his falsified military record, and consideration of sponsors before the American people who deserved the truth, has made the media inept and even cowardly.

The truth is not in the major newspapers or on broadcast television, (and of course FOX Noise is included in this criticism), it is in blogs and smaller publications who do not depend on advertisers with huge budgets.

The loser in this situation will undoubtedly be Jeb Bush. His first mistake was allowing his older brother and his failed presidency into his campaign. Defending everything he did as our 43^rd president removes any and all credibility from his campaign platform.

George H.W. Bush is respected as a man who cared about his nation, which means all of the citizens of the United States. His mistakes while in office have been forgiven, primarily because he admitted to them, and the American people are aware that no one is perfect. The denial by George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and now Jeb Bush, that the Bush administration made no mistakes is unforgivable. If they truly believe, and that includes Jeb, that the attacks on 9/11 could not have been prevented, or that the Iraqi invasion was in any way justified, or that the refusal of our government to allow the capture or death of Osama Bin Laden, even when we knew where he was, was the right decision, they truly live in another world. In addition Bush’s fiscal ‘trickle-down’ economic program bankrupt our nation.

There is no doubt in my mind that George H.W. Bush would never have allowed the practice of torture encouraged by Cheney. The family patriarch was the Director of the CIA during his career, and had a far greater sense of morality, and a belief in the stature and reputation of our nation.

Jeb Bush continues to take steps backwards. Polling at four percent, after his support of his brother and the denial of his father’s truisms, he will soon be at less than zero.

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By James Turnage

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