Just because I’m in such a Bush-Bashing mood this morning here are some presidential facts courtesy of The Independent.
Bush telegraph: selected presidential facts:
-In May 2001, Bush’s government gave $43m to the Taliban.
-Bush has never attended a funeral or memorial service for a soldier killed in Iraq.
-In August this year, Bush took the second-longest holiday ever by a US president: 28 days.
-Bush’s 16-member cabinet is the wealthiest in US history, with an average fortune of $10.9m each.
-As governor of Texas, Bush executed 152 prisoners.
-Sixty-one people who raised $100,000 for Bush’s 2000 election campaign have since been given government posts.
-Nine members of Bush’s Defense Policy Board sit on the board of defence contractors or are advisers.
-Bush owns more than 250 autographed baseballs.
-Bush has been arrested three times: for stealing a Christmas wreath from a hotel; for ripping down the Princeton goal posts after a Princeton-Yale game; and for drunk driving.
-Bush infuriated the Russian media by spitting a wad of chewing gum into his hand before signing 2002’s historic Treaty of Moscow with Vladimir Putin.
-While appearing on the David Letterman show in 2000, Bush was caught surreptitiously cleaning his glasses on the jacket of the programme’s executive producer, Maria Pope.
16 November 2003 10:44