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Is Someone Pulling Bush's Strings?
Lowell Ponte
Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2007


Sometimes it's easy to see the Wizards of Oz behind the curtain who make things happen. The Dixie Chicks' five 2007 Grammy Awards — including Album, Song and Record of the Year — are their reward for Bush-bashing from ultra-liberal Manhattan and Hollywood-based recording industry wizards.

Chicks album sales for their nearly-year-old "Taking the Long Way" are only 1.9 million, a huge fall from the 10 million sales of "Fly," their last album unaffected by their nasty public attack on President George W. Bush during a March 2003 London performance. "Long Way" has also sold less than a third of the 6 million sales of their 2002 album "Home," belatedly nipped by the controversy. Despite immense liberal media hype and help, the Chicks keep spiraling downward.

Al Gore's absurdly inaccurate and dishonest global warming doomsday propaganda flick (and commercial for his 2008 presidential campaign), "An Inconvenient Truth," will win two Oscars at this year's Academy Awards, the ultra-liberal Hollywood film industry wizards' reward for Gore promoting socialism's agenda.

Almost everything nowadays has a political agenda, open or secret.

Gore has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize (along with several radio talk hosts), and he might win. The Scandinavian socialist Nobel chairman boasted that former President Jimmy Carter was given the Peace Prize as their way to "kick the shins" of President George W. Bush. (A Carter audio book also won a Grammy this week.) But some behind-the-scenes Wizards are not easily seen.

Why, for example, did President George W. Bush's Justice Department back the prosecution of two Border Patrol agents who allegedly shot and wounded a Mexican drug smuggler?

Why was this smuggler sought out in Mexico and given legal immunity and other benefits in exchange for testifying against our law enforcers?

Why, after these agents were convicted and each sentenced to more than a decade behind bars, was a gang of Mexican illegals allowed to beat one of them in prison?

Why did the case's judge impose a gag order on the agents' defense lawyers, but not on federal prosecutors who continue to trash the agents to reporters?

President Bush has thusfar refused to pardon either agent. The case, according to Republican California Congressman Dana Rohrabacher and several other GOP lawmakers, stinks to high heaven.

President Bush, since becoming governor of Texas, has favored a porous border with Mexico. And President Bush, knowing that new "pro-American" Mexican President Felipe Calderon was elected with less than a 1 percent margin over a radical leftist opponent, is sensitive to Mexican political repercussions of pardoning these agents (themselves Latinos).

President Bush knows this case's chilling effect on other Border Patrol agents, making them afraid of losing their jobs or freedom by confronting illegals. Perhaps Mr. Bush finds this a convenient way to discourage enforcement along our border.


I usually disdain conspiracy theories. But could a sinister secret lurk behind Mr. Bush's seemingly irrational, conservative-angering behavior?

Today George W. Bush is a clean-living born-again Christian. But during the 2000 presidential campaign he was accused of having "wild weekends in Mexico" during his dissolute 30s. These weekends, alleged one partisan accuser, involved not only excesses of alcoholism but also use of cocaine.

During his candidacy in 2000, Mr. Bush never outright denied such accusations, saying only that he used to "drink too much."

Hypothesis: what if George W. Bush's wild adventures in Mexico had been filmed?

Young George W. Bush, remember, was the son of George H.W. Bush, who during that era was a member of Congress, U.N. ambassador, chair of the Republican National Committee, diplomat in China, and director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Film documenting sins by the son could have been staged to blackmail his powerful father.

What if a film exists showing George W. Bush in Mexico involved in embarrassing, depraved or criminal behavior — an orgy, for example, or a homosexual act, or an accident that killed someone? What if such undeniable evidence exists of shameful or illegal acts by President Bush?

What if such evidence was produced or acquired by the Mexican Mafia, longtime invisible rulers of what San Diego talk-radio host Roger Hedgecock calls "the Narco-democracy of Mexico"?

Could it be that George W. Bush has been blackmailed by sinister Mexican bosses since the day he was elected president of the United States?

This is only my wild speculation, unsupported by any empirical evidence, and you are welcome to dismiss my imaginings as you would some fictional Hollywood drama. But evidence can also be circumstantial or logically inferred.

Why, if President Bush isn't being blackmailed, has he relentlessly embraced pro-Mexico policies, even when these policies clearly damage the United States? Bush policies are costing Americans jobs, good schools, and hospital emergency rooms for our children, and hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes. Illegal aliens deplete our social services while shipping $20 billion a year back to relatives in Mexico, its second largest source of revenue.

President Bush is now taking steps towards providing Social Security checks to illegals who work here as little as 18 months while using stolen Social Security numbers. American citizens born here must pay into Social Security for 10 years — "40 quarters" — to qualify for retirement benefits from a system already near bankruptcy as baby boomers retire.

Why does President Bush give every benefit of doubt to a drug runner of the Mexican Mafia but refuse to pardon two American law enforcement agents who tried to stop these drugs?

Could it be that Spanish-speaking President Bush (whose brother Jeb converted to Roman Catholicism to wed a lovely Mexican girl) feels political loyalty to Mexico? Is President Bush trying to dissolve American sovereignty into a merged U.S.-Canada-Mexico? Or to win Mexican-American votes for Republican candidates (who got a diminishing 29 percent of Hispanic votes in 2006)? Or does President Bush have some other secret irrational motive or puppet master pulling his strings?

If not blackmail, then what is your logical explanation for Bush policies that are, as they say in Mexico, loco . . . crazy?