Reply #27: Origins of the G.W. Bush-Carlyle-Nazi Axis

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Interesting reading for those who want to trace the direct line from Wall Street to the OSS to the CIA leadership to the NAZI-Gehlen spies to the GOP and post-November 22, 1963 America:

Origins of the G.W. Bush-Carlyle-Nazi Axis

By Alex Constantine

Even loyal conservatives must admit that George Bush, Jr. is a strange bird. Texans have never truly accepted him as one of their own. "Like his father," the UK's Observer jeered in 1994, "his home-grown credentials are questioned." In general, the natives were somewhat uneasy about the occasional bizarre antic - like the first day of a local dove shoot, highlighted by Bush bagging a protected songbird, not the designated target (Ed Vulliamy, "White Hot Mama fights a Texan Bush War," Observer, October 2, 1994). "No real Texan would have done that!" barked then Governor Ann Richards.

But then, in the mid-90s, the Texas political landscape shifted radically, the old order crumbling and a home-grown right-wing mutation plowing through the crust. Democrats had dominated the state since the Civil War, but with missionary zeal the Christian Right rallied and seized control of the Republican Party, led by the state's Christian Coalition and Eagle Forum, and went on to demonstrate that any political machine is mutable, even in the deep South.

But Bush still didn't quite fit the ticket, some Texans felt. True, his business was petroleum. But shortly after George, Jr. joined the board of Harken Oil, BCCI, the international bank that parlayed middle eastern oil profits into political influence, not to mention engaging in child prostitution and arming Iraq, dropped a number of lucrative drilling contracts in his lap (Petzinger, Truell & Abramson, 'Family Ties,' Wall Street Journal, December 5, 1991, p. 1). Texans were left to ponder the question: Why in tarnation was Bush, Jr. in business with the scandal-ridden Shiek Khalifah bin-Salmon al-Khalifah, the ruling emir of Bahrain? In 1990, the Shiek's name surfaced on a list of primary shareholders in BCCI's parent company, BCCI Holdings in Luxembourg. Bush had pulled strings to throw the contracts to Harken. In return, Harken Oil helped BCCI investment bankers gain a foothold in the U.S. When the Iraqgate scandal broke, W. attempted to separate himself from it, blaming a former aide who had gone to work for BCCI and resigned when the press caught a whiff of the deal.

At the same time, it was clear that Junior had his eye fixed on his father's old eyrie in Washington. W. had been one of Bush, Sr.'s leading advisors, a "lead player," in "the campaign to oust White House Chief of Staff John Sununu" (Pertzinger, Truell & Abramson). He was an old hand at gamesmanship by the time he landed his gubernatorial seat.
The W.S. Journal looked into Bush's business dealings and found a "complex pattern" of provocative personal and financial ties, but Bush refused to respond to questions: "George W. Bush, a managing partner of the Texas Rangers baseball team, declined to be interviewed," but "he did provide brief responses to written questions through an intermediary." Where was the Texas moralist with an aversion to "even" the vaguest appearance of wrong-doing? In hiding.

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