Because of a hatred of Muslims on the part of the Bush family.
That's the argument made in a story published by the Iraq Times. In 1830, the report asserts, George Bush -- grandfather of Bully Boy Bush (George W. Bush) -- wrote a book attacking Islam.
I think it is important to follow stories like this. What they say -- beyond facts -- is that there is an audience for such a claim and that goes to the way the United States is viewed in Iraq.
Because I've tried to figure who the hell they're talking about in this article for over an hour and a half so we're writing it about it now. The report in the Iraq Times is false.
Did you know the Bush family was part of the anti-slavery movement? I didn't. So good for them for that.
The Iraq Times argues that Bush's grandfather wrote a book attacking the Muslim faith and praising Christianity. George W. Bush -- Bully Boy Bush -- is the grandson of Prescott Bush who was a US senator. They're not talking about Prescott, he couldn't have written a book in the 1830. Prescott's father (George HW's grandfather) was Rev. James Smith Bush. He did write books on faith. But couldn't have written the 1830 book because he was born in 1825. Which takes us to his father Obadiah Bush who was an abolitionist (I did not know that until I got stuck in the rabbit hole of research).
1796 to 1859 is the life span the Iraq Times gives for the unnamed Bush. Obadiah Bush was born in 1797 so that's close. But he's not known to write any books. Maybe it's the Walker side of the family? George E. Walker was born 1797 so that's close. Thomas Walker (a slave trader) was born 1758. Neither Walker is know to have penned books.
They keep using George Bush as the name. The Library of Congress notes this book from 1830 written by a George Bush:
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| LC control no. | 22022541 |
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| Type of material | Book |
| Personal name | Bush, George, 1796-1859. |
| Main title | The life of Mohammed; founder of the religion of Islam, and of the empire of the Saracens. |
| Published/Created | New-York, Printed by J. & J. Harper, 1830. |
| Description | 261 p. front. (fold. plan) 16 cm. |
| Subjects | Muḥammad, Prophet, -632. |
| LC classification | BP75 .B8 1830 |
This George Bush, "Rev George Bush," also has the right dates (born in 1796, died in 1859).
And if you're interested in reading the book -- I'm not, I don't have that kind of time -- you can read it online at the Internet Archive -- click here. You can buy it Amazon (why you would, I don't know -- especially on Kindle when the Internet Archive offers it for free).
If Rev George Bush was a grandfather, great-grandfather, great-great grandfather of Bully Boy Bush, it wouldn't necessarily indicate anything about how Bully Boy Bush felt about Muslims. I will applaud the Bush family for having an abolitionist in its ranks but I won't pretend that this had any real impact on Bully Boy Bush or the way he viewed the world.
But the Rev George Bush is not a grandfather or immediate relation to Bully Boy Bush or his father or his father's father or . . .
Via the Wayback Machine, the US State Dept issued this at the end of 2004:
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Is the Author of a Book Critical of Islam an Ancestor of President Bush?Media allegations say that Life of Mohammed author is grandfather of President George W. BushThe December 13, 2004, issue of the London-based, pan-Arab newspaper Al Hayat contains an article stating that Cairo’s Al-Azhar Islamic Academy wishes to ban a book critical of Islam authored by the alleged grandfather of President George W. Bush, who was also named George Bush. Reuters carried a story on the controversy on December 13, 2004, describing the book’s author as an ancestor of the current president. The facts on this allegation are as follows:
• Reverend Bush was NOT the grandfather or a direct ancestor of the current president, as verified by the authoritative book Ancestors of American Presidents. • President Bush’s grandfather was Senator Prescott Bush, who was born in 1895 and died in 1972. • Two independent genealogies show Reverend Bush was the cousin of Obadiah Bush, who was the great-great-great grandfather of the current president. This makes the Reverend Bush a distant relative of the current president, five generations removed, but NOT his direct ancestor. • The Life of Mohammed book was out of print from 1901 to 2002. The small Book Tree publishing house decided to reprint individual copies on demand in 2002 as "an interesting historical curiosity." It has sold only 50 copies since then. • In the Al Hayat article, the Al-Azhar Department of Research, Translation, and Writings claims the book slanders Arabs and Muslims and describes them as being "degenerate races, insects, rats, and snakes." • The book is available online, and is searchable by word. Word searches find no instances of the words "insect, insects, rat, rats, or snake," although in one section Reverend Bush does compare Muslims to locusts. There were two references to snakes, neither of them in a characterization of Arabs or Muslims. The word "degenerate" is used twice, both times in a characterization of the state of the Christian church at the time of Mohammed. There were 17 instances of the word "race," none of them in a characterization of Arabs or Muslims. • The book is a product of its more parochial times and takes a harshly negative attitude toward Islam. It refers to Mohammed as an "impostor" and describes Islam as a "heresy" and "horrid superstition," although it reserves its strongest criticism for Roman Catholicism. • These views have nothing to do with the attitudes of current President Bush, who is respectful of Islam as one of the world’s great religions, as evidenced in his remarks on September 17, 2001. • The antiquated views of a 175 year-old book, which sold 50 copies in the past three years, should be viewed as an historical curiosity not reflective in any way of current U.S. views on Islam.
Created: 20 Dec 2004 Updated: 27 Jan 2005
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You may have caught that in real time. I didn't. If I heard of it -- I don't remember hearing of it -- I would've immediately tuned out because I try to judge people by what they do, not what their family did or their ancestors.
Bully Boy Bush started an illegal war (that Barack's continued) and millions have died. I don't need to concern myself with what a cousin of a great-great-(great?)-grandfather of Bully Boy Bush's did anymore than I need to fret over what Ann Dunham was really doing in Indonesia while 'with' the Ford Foundation. For the record, John Pilger's not lying. Ann was working with the CIA. I didn't know Ann. In the related time period, Elaine was dating a British diplomat. We were in London at a function -- Elaine, her UK official and me -- when an ugly, fat woman with a loud voice, an American, made a beeline for us. I hate that woman, I always have. She's the kind of person who pretends to have a conversation but is really just pumping you for information. (When Elaine and I used FOIA requests to get our files, we found that this woman we kept out of our lives was providing basic details about us during this London period.)
So at the UK function, Elaine's beau made a comment about the woman under his breath -- he made a comment under his breath in which the only conclusion was the woman was CIA -- and I immediately figured out what he was saying (he didn't care for her either). He confirmed it and confirmed that she would be leaving England shortly because everyone knew she was CIA.
This horrid woman would surface in the media in 2008 talking about Ann. That woman was CIA, she was close to Ann then, Ann was CIA -- that explains why Ann went to Indonesia to begin with and she spent her time there spying for colonialism. I've shared this story before -- at Third -- and I know Elaine has before at her site. But since I'm noting it and linking to John Pilger, I want to point out that he's not crazy, he's telling the truth. The fat, ugly woman (who also stank and I believe still stinks, I still avoid her though she pretends to be a lefty today) was considered 'pretty' in other cultures and slept with every man she could for the CIA.
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