PRESIDENTIAL VEHICLES

A progression?


President Truman in the Lincoln made for President Roosevelt




1950 Lincoln with first bubble top - Eisenhower's idea




1961 Continental X100 - Kennedy was shot in this vehicle





1972 Lincoln - Nixon, Ford, Carter and Reagan




1983 Cadillac – Reagan




1989 - Used by President George H. W. Bush




1993 Cadillac - President Clinton




2001 Cadillac DTS - President George W. Bush




GUESS WHO ? ? ?




I can't lay claim to this piece of ingenuity: a friend & Charter Member of Team STORMBRINGER; Code Name CLADIDDLEHOPPER sent this in response to my piece on Racial Profiling:


I sent this in recognition of your post dealing with racial profiling. Of course, the Bernardine Dohrn questioning addresses a different aspect of profiling such as its fallacy but, oh well . . .

I think that like so many other things in life, profiling is a great thing in moderation. In Israel for instance, its highly depended upon for "initial assesments".


To those of you who like to throw the tired, old "racist" stereotype out there - be advised: CLADIDDLEHOPPER is an old comrade-in-arms going back to the early 90's, at one point he was the Equal Opportunity NCO for the US Army Special Operations Command, and without getting too personal I can tell you there is no way on God's Green Earth is he a racist - and neither is this post. In fact I bet right now there's a whole pack of soul brothers out there laughing their asses off because it's just . . . plain . . . FUNNY ! ! !


SEAN LINNANE SENDS


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CLINTON CABINET MEMBER: LET IRAQ SHOOT DOWN A U-2

A US Air Force U-2R high altitude surveillance aircraft takes off from forward-deployed location supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003.

General Hugh Shelton, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during parts of the Clinton and George W. Bush administrations, has a new memoir out that contains this anecdote: Back in the late 1990s, Shelton says a member of Clinton’s cabinet asked him to allow Saddam Hussein to shoot down an American plane over Iraq as a pretext for starting a war. The way Shelton tells the story, this was a serious request.

Remember, the context here is the Clinton Administration’s years of trying to overthrow Saddam — including in a little-remembered 1996 CIA coup attempt. In December 1998 (most likely after the request was made to Shelton), Clinton bombed Iraq for four days in Operation Desert Fox, which Clinton said was a response to Saddam’s lack of cooperation with U.N. weapons inspectors.


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ORIGINS OF THE MORTGAGE MELTDOWN

NEW YORK TIMES 30 SEPT 1999
(click on image for larger readable version)


I suppose Bush told Clinton to do it ? ? ? . . . . NOT!!!