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 ...
Shockingly, the charge made in the headline is never grounded in the body of the article.
Laura says these 2 people still haven't gone back to normal.
This might really cramp my love for Mexican food.
They’re reporting it from excerpts from HER book.
“Due to be released May 4 but acquired early by The New York Times, Mrs. Bush says she and former President George W. Bush became mysteriously sick on the Germany trip to such a degree that the president became bedridden. According to Mrs. Bush, doctors and the Secret Service investigated the possibility that a poisoning had occurred but were unable to make a definitive conclusion.”
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/04/28/laura.bush.book/
— 2007 G-8 summit in Heiligendamm, Germany: “I arrived and began my events, but by the afternoon of [June] seventh, I could barely stand up. … Over the next day nearly a dozen members of our delegation were stricken, even George, who started to feel sick during an early morning staff briefing. … [O]ne of our military aides had difficulty walking and a White House staffer lost all hearing in one ear. Exceedingly alarmed, the Secret Service went on full alert, combing the resort for potential poisons. In the past year, there had been several high-profile poisonings, including one with suspected nuclear material, in and around Europe. The overriding fear was that terrorists had gotten control of a dangerous substance and planted it at the resort. … [O]ur military aide’s gait has never returned to normal, no has our senior staffer regained full hearing in that ear. The most concrete conclusion any doctors could reach was that we contracted a virus that attacks a nerve near the inner ear and is prevalent in Heiligendamm.” (pp. 390-1)
It's hard to be a really tough negotiator when you thinking about where the nearest toilet is.
The New York Times just can’t resist. They are supposed to wait until publication day. Little babies.
I just read a fascinating book on the discovery in London about 1850 of the transmission mode of cholera. The doctor/researcher who made the connection was not believed by the ‘majority’ for a number of years more. They thought it was transmitted by bad air.
The water supply at one public pump had been contaminated by the bugs from the “index” patient. He realized by mapping the cases that people using this particular pump seemed to be the great majority of those affected.
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.
Certain plants or plant seeds can cause one to be sick as a dog, but not kill if used in small amounts.
There have been all kinds of incidents where the illegal cooks and servers have planted nasty stuff in the food...This has even occurred several times to those in law enforcement.
If they'll do the cops, they'll do anyone.
I had an experience like that in California. I spent 14 hours with dry heaves and feeling about the worst I’ve ever felt in my life. It was a Mexican restaurant. To this day, I have not eaten Mexican food in a restaurant again, just at home prepared by me. It was that bad.
Cneney reminds me of Gen. Curtis LeMay, who eventually headed SAC. The Soviets were literally afraid he actually WOULD bomb them back to the Stone Age. They saw what he did to Japan and viewed him as a credible threat, unlike today’s “leaders.”
Sorry...that should be’Cheney’ at the beginning.
I remember that video, that was amazing, he turned around,walked back and reached through the throng of humanity and pulled his Agent in with him, then walked up those steps adjusting his jacket, made it look like "No Big Deal", he totally kept his cool about him. That was a really stunning piece of video. It would've been a international incident if Barry Hussein Obummer had been involved, as he'd have been physically squashed amongst all the foreign security. LOL
Reading some of the responses in the New York Slimes made me want to almost throw up
I have three Mexican cookbooks. Making it myself, well, it never tastes as good as what is available in family-run Mexican restaurants. But some things not authentically Mexican, like tamale pie, though time consuming, are still successful and pass muster.
President Bush almost always made me proud when he was on the world stage.
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.
And everybody said "Oooooooohhhhhhh. Now I see."
A “poisoning” doesn’t mean it was deliberate — maybe his cutlet was a bit “off.” Seems to me like this is being hyped up by the media into something that it may not have been intended to be.
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