Dallas, TX – Laura Bush is suggesting she, her husband and several aides were poisoned during a 2007 visit to Germany for the G8 summit, one of several new details in the former first lady’s forthcoming memoir, “Spoken From the Heart.”
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Due to hit bookshelves May 4, 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 a poisoning had occurred but were unable to make a definitive conclusion.
News reports filed during the event show the White House did disclose Bush missed a series of morning sessions at the summit because he had contracted an apparent virus, but White House officials did not provide further details at that time.
“Nearly a dozen members of our delegation were stricken, even George, who started to feel sick during an early morning staff briefing,” Mrs. Bush writes. “[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.”
“George felt so ill that he met with [French President Nicolas] Sarkozy and did not even stand up to greet him,” she continues, adding later, “We never learned if any other delegations became ill, or if ours, mysteriously, was the only one.”
Excerpts of the book were first published by The New York Times on Tuesday.
The 432-page memoir is both a recount of the rare experience of being a first lady and a reflection of the eight years she spent in the White House as her husband’s popularity gradually declined.
we certainly miss you at the white house.
Its a good thing it didn’t cause any brain damage
Was that when he hurled on the Japanese guy?
The office meant something it was revered
Mr. President – Please put those posters – MISS ME YET? – all over America. We really do miss ya’.
Is there any way you can run for a third term? Bloomy did!
Greatest president the country ever had!!!
Mr President – I miss you. The country misses you and Israel misses you. The country will always be grateful for the years you served as our beloved president. And Israel will always cherrish the friendship you bestowed on them. Thank you and all the best.
I miss Mr Bush…
Even after all his obvious blunders while in office, he was a real American who cared for this nation and great values she represents! Unlike the white house’s current resident..
Pres Bush was “my kinda guy” 🙂
The most amazing president we have ever had since Reagan
So let me get this straight.
1. The fact that a group of people traveling for hours to a foreign country came down with the same symptoms is not unusual. I happens on cruise ships and flights all the time. All it takes is ONE server on a plane or at the hotel with bad hygiene and everyone gets norovirus.
2. You really want GWB back? For what? To bog us down in another country that is of no threat to us so we can’t properly deal with Iran? To create the largest expansion of entitlements in a generation (prior to Obama)? To deregulate the financial industry to such a level that they could screw anyone they wanted at any time? To give the failed banks the largest bailout in history (TARP)?
No thank you! Good riddance to that moron and his puppeteer (Cheney). They don’t give a darn about anything. At least Obama is up-front about his disgusting socialist programs. Bush and Cheney perfected the art of lying to get us to swallow their garbage and now try to rewrite history!
Obama is well on-track to be as big of a failure as Bush (if not bigger). I can only hope and pray that a REAL Conservative comes forward to run in 2012 before this gets any worse.
Yes, Bush Jr can run again. It wouldn’t be considered a “third term”, as there was a break between the first two and the “new term”. However, I don’t think the majority of anti-Obama’s and Republicans would want Bush in the White House, again. Remember, he and his co-horts [well, he listened to Cheney, who has personal interests, as did the State Dept] got us into this messy Iraqi War, which may have increased anti-Americanism & anti-Westernism in great numbers, since! Yes, I agree he was a good friend to Israel, as long as he didn’t push & pressure, and he was a true “Bible believer” – definitely the opposite of the current Prez! Bottom line: I think Bush Jr had enough of DC and politics and wants to stay away from the limelight, if he can. He doesn’t need to be at the center of attention like some other former Prez we know – Wild Bill Hicock! THAT man just can’t get enough of himself! And he was NO TRUE FRIEND TO ISRAEL! No “chaver”. What BS!
A Yehudiyah in Eretz Yisrael
I suspect Putin had to do with it.