Posted on 04/28/2010 11:37:02 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
The former first lady Laura Bush has opened a diplomatic can of worms by writing in her new book that she and her husband may have been poisoned during a state visit to a G8 summit in Germany in 2007.
The passage of Spoken From the Heart in which she discusses the incident amounts to the first time that the idea has been floated that George Bush's illness at the summit may have been the result of poisoning. The then US president succumbed to a stomach complaint, as did his wife and several members of their entourage, during a three-day meeting of world leaders in Heiligendamm.
The book is to be published early next month but a sneak preview of it was gained by the New York Times.
On Thursday 7 June 2008 the Bushes attended an official dinner at the summit along with other leaders of the industrialised countries that form the G8. The meeting at the Baltic Sea resort focused on the fight against Aids, malaria and other diseases affecting poor countries around the world.
The following morning the US president was reported sick and had to skip a couple of working sessions. Bush's adviser Dan Bartlett told reporters at the time that he was "very much under the weather", though his condition was "not serious".
"I'm not sure if it's a stomach virus yet or something like that, but he's just not feeling well in the stomach." up drinking.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
I was just going to post that. Never heard a whisper of that, but want to know more. Where? When? Who?
I have a picture of my father (Squadron Commander 385th Bomb Group) with Gen. LeMay framed and hanging in my home. Dad said many times it was an honor to have served with him.
“Laura Bush memoir claims president was poisoned at G8 summit”
is not the same as
“Laura Bush has opened a diplomatic can of worms by writing in her new book that she and her husband may have been poisoned during a state visit to a G8 summit in Germany in 2007.”
“I’m not sure if it’s a stomach virus yet or something like that, but he’s just not feeling well in the stomach.” up drinking”
WTF.
up drinking? BS BS BS
Who added, up drinking???????
When you click on the article, up drinking, isn’t in it.
The following morning the US president was reported sick and had to skip a couple of working sessions. Bush’s adviser Dan Bartlett told reporters at the time that he was “very much under the weather”, though his condition was “not serious”.
“I’m not sure if it’s a stomach virus yet or something like that, but he’s just not feeling well in the stomach.”
Nicolas Sarkozy, the newly elected president of France, said at the time that “Bush is slightly indisposed this morning and will rejoin the working meeting as soon as he can.”
Well, the authorities unscrewed the handle from the public pump. That was it. That was the entire solution to the cholera epidemic.
And it worked.
$$$$
Lucky for the people in London that people in authority were willing to do something that was considered too harsh: that pump was known for the best-tasting water.
I get the same feeling that I am looking at that pump, when I look at the food in almost any fast food outlet.
was it the squid eyes? or pickled eel?
Actually, the words “up drinking” are the last two words of the whole Guardian article, which must have been written by an intern.
Ex:
The incident, in her home town of Midland, west Texas, was only reported for the first time in March 2000, when her and her husband were on the campaign trail during the presidential election that would see him enter the White House.
Frightening, if correct!
He gets the job done, God love him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX3aaWlUmpc&NR=1
Where is Nick ???
Interesting video on the Secret Service for Pres. Bush
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydEIVnjXSLo&feature=related
About the Secret Service
One of my faves .. the visit to Iraq
Very heartening .. an Oval Office visit with Pres. Bush by the Chairman of the Board of the Presidential Prayer Team
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmctLQPUN6Y
Final salute for Pres. Bush
And the homecoming
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUeyG89MOsA
... sniff
You make deals with scum, you sometimes feel scummy...
Amazing about the poisoning, isn't it? Wow. So grateful everyone recovered. Incredible.
Thanks again!!
THANK YOU for posting so many AWESOME links . . . I just love the videoclip of President Bush ‘protecting’ his secret service agent [I hope Nick was with him at the G-8 conference!]
Thanks for the links. Nice memories!
I never knew that two presidential planes were used for the trip to Iraq.
Thank you, dear STARWISE!
...Many of these people have vendettas....
^^^
Not to mention diseases such as drug-resistant TB.
That's the truth!
We have come a long way in sanitation measures since 1850, but we live such interconnected lives these days that we are back to putting ourselves very frequently in danger of catching a ‘bug’ from someone who handles the food we then eat.
^^^
And I am often astounded by how cavalier people are about hygiene. I, myself, will not eat anything unless I can wash my hands first. If I attend an affair and people insist on shaking my hand, I make sure I get to the ladies’ room to wash my hand before I pick up any food with my right hand. But I notice that few people are as hyper about this as I am.
Oh, THANK you for those videos, STARWISE. God love him, indeed!
Wow. How do you do it??
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