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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jackhach who wrote (493365)	11/15/2003 11:05:49 PM
From: Red Heeler	Respond to of 769667

"Lucky me, I hit the Trifecta." - GWB So that's what he was talking about. CC

To: jackhach who wrote (493365)	11/15/2003 11:29:57 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

It's true: Shooting frogs with BB guns was apparently pretty standard entertainment for young boys in Texas in the 1950s. But for added amusement, George W. Bush and his friends used to tuck firecrackers into the mouths of frogs, throw them in the air, and watch them explode. The story — recounted with fondness by a Bush childhood friend in a long, flattering New York Times profile of Bush during the 2000 presidential election campaign — never became an issue on the campaign trail. Despite psychiatric evidence that children who are cruel to animals often go on to be abusive adults, the U.S. media apparently decided that the torture of frogs was nothing more than a charming little anecdote from Dubya's early years. (Imagine what the media would make of a charming little childhood anecdote like that, if it were in Saddam Hussein's background.) commondreams.org