No one doubts that Bush transformed the country for the worse: the right-wing leaning Supreme Court that curtails civil liberties and protects corporate interests; an untouchable, unregulated banking elite whose amassed wealth has left a great recession in its wake; and funding an ever-growing military-industrial-complex fighting wars at home and abroad against phantom "terrorists". Yet, no one holds Bush and his clan accountable for any of this?
Points of Interest:
-Bush himself dodged two
years of military service during the Vietnam War by joining the Texas Air
National Guard, but he didn't hesitate to send thousands of National Guardsmen
into combat in Afghanistan and Iraq.
-In 1977, Lt. Col. Bill
Burket reported seeing 20-40 pages of Bush's service record dumped in a trashcan
after Governor Bush's chief of staff, Joe Allbaugh sent Karen Hughes and Dan
Bartlett to Camp Mabry to go through Bush's records. Microfilm containing
Guardsmen's pay records, including Bush's, was also damaged at a national
records center in 1977.
-Bush clan's retaliated by
setting up Bill Burket to pass fake copies of Bush's missing National Guard
documents to CBS. After airing the story, CBS, anchorman Dan Rather, and Burket
became national casualties but the issue on Bush's missing records was left
unresolved.
-Untold news story - Bush's
girlfriend aborted his child in 1971. Later Bush, as president, opposed
abortion and cut funding for organizations that promote contraceptives.
-Bush, with an agenda-driven
religious "experience", became born again Christian to court the
support of evangelical leaders to win Christian votes.
-Key private link between
Tony Blair and Bush was the Gammels, a powerful Scottish banking family with
oil interests. With strong influence of oil companies (British Petroleum and
American oil companies) on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, Blair and Bush
invaded Iraq for oil.
-In 1999, Mickey Herskowitz, who was writing A Charge to Keep, a book intended to introduce Bush, said that Bush had mentioned that if elected president, he hoped to invade Iraq and remove Saddam Hussein. Later, Herskowitz was removed from the book project because of its "unfavorable" content and Karen Hughes finished the book herself.
Dubious Business Connections
It's commonly known that Bush family made their fortune in the oil business with the money of others. Bush family's ventures have been shrouded in mystery in terms of financial dealings, business associates and clients, even their roles in the companies. Bush-connected enterprises have these points in common: "overlay of peculiar money-moving, a general lack of profitability, the participation of foreign interests, and a hint of black intelligence operations."
Points of Interest:
-Zappata Offshore was used
to train Cuban rebels to overthrow Castro. Chief of CIA anti-Castro operations,
John Sherwood admitted that it also "served as a place to pay off
politicians in Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica and elsewhere."
-Dresser Industries' global
sales and acquisition efforts provided cover to CIA operatives.
-Harken Energy
is a bizarre oil enterprise whose financial connections included shady characters
associated with BCCI, gold caches, powerful figures and institutions, Harvard
University, and "an alphabet soup" of secret societies pumping money into
this most unproductive business. Harken is suspected of laundering Golden Lily
Loot recovered in the Philippines.
-Texas Rangers baseball franchise
was a deal about real estate - public funding a new stadium through tax
increase and seizure of private land. Bush, as one of many investors, walked
away with $15 million from his initial $800,000 investment.
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