Welcome to DU!
The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards.
Join the community:
Create a free account
Support DU (and get rid of ads!):
Become a Star Member
Latest Breaking News
General Discussion
The DU Lounge
All Forums
Issue Forums
Culture Forums
Alliance Forums
Region Forums
Support Forums
Help & Search
General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: Key cocaine dealer in Poppy Bush's IranContra ops applauds choice of John Kerry for SoS [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)66. At Carlyle Group...
...he was brought in for his special relationships with the various roils based in the Arabian penninsula.
The Carlyle Group, a private massive equity firm, the 12th largest defense business with an obscenely high profit margin, is a business "arrangement" between the Bush and Bin Laden families, wealthy Saudis, former British Prime Minister John Major, James Baker III, Afsaneh Masheyekhi, Frank Carlucci, Colin Powell, other former US Government administrators, and Madeleine Albrights daughter. The Carlyle Group is the gatekeeper to the Saudi investment community. It owns 70 percent of Lockheed Martin Marietta, the largest military contractor in the US, and because Carlyle is privately owned, has no scrutiny or accountability whatsoever. A journalist who calls himself a skunk at the garden party described investigating the Carlyle Group, he said its like shadow boxing with a ghost. The Group hires as lobbyists the best known politicians from around the world, in order to influence the politics of war, and privately profit from their previous public policies. The conflict of interest is obvious: President George W. Bush is creating wars as his father, former President George Bush, is globally peddling weapons and "protection". Lockheed Martin Marietta now owns Sandia Laboratories, a private contractor that makes the trigger for nuclear weapons, with a Sandia laboratory facility across the street from Los Alamos and Livermore National Laboratories, where the nuclear bombs are made.
-- "Depleted Uranium: The Trojan Horse of Nuclear War," by Leuren Moret
SOURCE: http://www.american-buddha.com/lit.ungerhouseofbush10.htm
Sorry, hootinholler, I don't have more on the thing. No excuse but, 2001 was a couple of hard drives' back and the GOOGLE, it seems to return new and shinier things these days.
Edit history
Please sign in to view edit histories.
69 replies
= new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight:
NoneDon't highlight anything
5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
RecommendedHighlight replies with 5 or more recommendations
Key cocaine dealer in Poppy Bush's IranContra ops applauds choice of John Kerry for SoS [View all]
blm
Jan 2013
OP
Uncovering IranContra also opened doors to S&L coverups and use of BCCI to fund global terrorism
blm
Jan 2013
#2
if IranContra and BCCI had the focused attention from DC media as Lewinsky case, BushInc would have
blm
Jan 2013
#16
This is my gripe about Clinton and his closeness w/Poppy Bush. However, if you scrutinize
blm
Jan 2013
#27
You should know by now, JR, that I was just being DU civil in using the word 'gripe' here. ;)
blm
Jan 2013
#33
I also see Poppy Bush's covert ops here dumping tons of cheap coke in urban neighborhoods as a way
blm
Jan 2013
#4
Some who studied this time aren't so sure that Poppy Bush even bothered to let Reagan know what
blm
Jan 2013
#7
Ricky Ross was one of the biggest distributors of all that cheap IranContra cocaine
blm
Jan 2013
#13
People forget how complicit corpmedia has been in the DC power elite's targeting of Kerry
blm
Jan 2013
#22
kerry was made a pariah like webb? please. did he lose his job? was he blacklisted? did he
HiPointDem
Jan 2013
#23
how was he marginalized? he continued as a legislator, got committee appointments, became
HiPointDem
Jan 2013
#49
The press regularly dismisses him as an empty suit and rarely mentions his 5 year investigation
blm
Jan 2013
#54
Once you wrap your brain around the facts in IranContra/BCCI everything else that happens in the
blm
Jan 2013
#34
I believe freshwest is right, many people are unaware of the details involved, and US media
blm
Jan 2013
#61