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March 11, 2006 — Llewellyn King’s consummate Washington insider newsletter, White House Weekly, never disappoints when it comes to straight and unvarnished reporting from the White House Press Pool. In the March 8, 2006 issue, the press pool reporter describes an account of what happened when the White House press plane touched down to refuel at Shannon Airport in Ireland on its way back to Washington after Bush’s recent trip to India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Upon deplaning and repairing to the airport bar, the reporters encountered a group of returning GIs from Iraq on their way back home to Colorado. After a few beers and whiskeys, one of the returning troops spoke on behalf of his colleagues when asked what they thought of Bush’s war in Iraq. The soldier said, "Well, sir, in the shitter it says, ’Bush can suck my d**k.’" Upon shouts of approval from his fellow troops, the soldier added, "And sir, if you want to find out about morale in the Army, find out the truth, you’ll always find it in the shitter."

And never to miss an opportunity to show himself to be a fool, at a New Delhi press conference with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Bush declared to a confused press, "The United States is looking forward to eating Indian mangoes." Bush was referring to an agreement to drop a U.S. boycott of Indian mangoes brought about 18 years before because of pesticide use. Apparently, the Bush trip to India was a success on mangoes but a disaster on nuclear issues.

March 11, 2006 — Former White House domestic policy advisor Claude Allen "targeted" stores with Democratic roots for shoplifting. Former Bush domestic policy adviser and Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services Claude Allen, arrested by Montgomery County, Maryland police for engaging in a form of shoplifting called "refund fraud," preyed upon Target and Hecht’s. Hecht’s was owned during World War II by Samuel Hecht of Baltimore, an alternate FDR delegate in 1940 to the Democratic National Convention and a later supporter of Roosevelt’s war bonds drive. Target, before 2000, was known as Dayton Hudson Corp. Retiring Minnesota Democratic Senator Mark Dayton is heir to the Dayton Hudson fortune. With Allen’s penchant for stealing from stores with Democratic pedigrees, perhaps Kohl’s Department Store should check its security videotapes for signs of Mr. Allen’s tactic of returning stolen merchandise for credit. Kohl’s is owned by Wisconsin Democratic Senator Herb Kohl. Like a true Republican and Bushite, Claude Allen (left) preferred ripping off merchandise from department stores with Democratic links. Target’s heir, Democratic Senator Mark Dayton (center) and Hecht’s, once owned by FDR alternate delegate Samuel Hecht of Baltimore (right).