- 3 – Mr. Bush

To fully understand the political context it is important to gain further knowledge about the man who is behind all this: Mr. Bush.

3.1 Who is this man?

George Walker Bush is the 43rd President of the United States. He was born on July 6, 1946 in New Haven, Connecticut. His father was the 41st President of the US, George Herbert Walker Bush. In 1959, George (from now on I am referring to the current president of the USA) was enrolled in the Kinkaid School near Houston, Texas, a private academy in one of the nation’s wealthiest suburbs. He did not stay there for very long, because 1961 his parents decided to enrol him at the Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, the school his father went to.
“He was an average student who never made honour roll”, so says the school’s yearbook and a dean at Andover doubted that George would be good enough to be accepted at Yale University.0 Of course George wouldn’t break this tradition and went there, too. He received a bachelor’s degree from Yale University in 1968 and then served the military as a as an F-102 fighter pilot in the Texas Air National Guard.
“Bush had taken the Air Force Officers Qualification Test at Westover Air Force Base in Massachusetts, scoring only 25 percent on the “pilot aptitude” section (the lowest acceptable grade) and 50 percent for navigator aptitude. But he scored 95 percent on test questions designed to determine “officer quality.” There were a few Guard openings, and a waiting list of other applicants. Bush was given the last slot and was sworn in as an airman the same day he applied. “He was,” according to Los Angeles Times reporter Richard A. Serrano, “able to jump into the officer ranks without the exceptional credentials many other officer candidates possessed.” Indeed, while “Bush quickly won a place among the Guard’s elite fighter pilots, other young men who earned their wings first had to build up extensive military experience and aviation skills.”"
- Coincidently, his father was an influential congressional representative at the time.
During this time (America was fighting in the Vietnam War), applying for the National Guard was seen as a denial of military service, because the NG operates inside the US only.
In 1975, Bush received a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Harvard Business School. He then returned to Texas and began his career in the oil business as a free-lance agent; he started working on behalf of different oil companies. Bush established his first oil company named “Arbusto” in 1977 (“Arbusto” is Spanish for “bush”) which soon after ended in ruin.
He graduated and then moved back to Texas to begin a career in the energy business. Usually you expect a career to be something special and good. In his case, it was only the first. His career in the oil business was shocking in a special way:
Molly Ivans, a journalist, describes his development like this:
“When you want to look at George W. [Bushs] development in the oil business, you have to visualize the following: He never created or even found a single source of income, if you don’t count at all the dollars that seeped into the texican underground.”
Until 1986, he earned his money from acting as a CEO6 of several companies. One of these companies was “Spectrum 7″.
“In 1986, Spectrum 7 merged with Dallas-based Harken Oil & Gas, which specialized in the purchase of small, insolvent companies. Its largest stockholder at the time (46.8 percent) was Hungarian-born billionaire George Soros, the international financier and currency speculator […]. Paul Rea, Spectrum 7’s president, told the Washington Post: “One of the reasons Harken was so interested in merging was because of George [Bush]. They believed having George’s name there would be a big help to them. They wanted him on their board.”"
He learnt that his name would open him doors, he never had thought of.
After his more or less “unsuccessful” career so far, he started supporting his dad’s presidential campaign, which turned out to be successful. And on the business side,
in 1989, a group formed by Bush Junior bought the Texas Rangers, a Major League Baseball team. He personally invested not more then $606,000. But when the team was sold some years thereafter, his shares were worth over $14.9 million – a tremendous gain made possible by using his fathers’ connections in the background. This is how Mr. Bush finally earned enough money to finance his election.
After 8 years experience in politics (governor of Texas) he was put up as republican presidential candidate, in the coming November he won the election by 271 to 267 electoral votes. He lost the official tally with 50,158,094 to 49,820,518 votes for Al Gore.7
In 2001, he officially started his presidency and took over Bill Clinton (a democrat) who beat his father in the 1992’s presidential election.

3.2 His business connections

Some of Bush’s connections to the Arabian states are known and transparent, but others are very well hidden and can only be discovered when looking at his personal background relations. The overall picture shows a striking evidence of close contacts to the bin Laden clan.
A series of coincidences starts in 1968 when George Bush meets and befriends with James Bath, a former Air force pilot and budding entrepreneur. This Mr. Bath functioned as a contact man between the Bush family and the Saudi Arabian Royals, and later on the Laden Clan. With the help of James Bath, these ties became closer and closer over the years. Salem bin Laden for example, Osama’s older brother, had a trust agreement with Bath whereby James would act as his representative for North America. From that point on money was invested in Bush’s business ventures. The business relations grew: In the early 90’s bin Mahfouz, the bin Laden clan’s and Saudi’ banker bought 20% of the BCCI.8

Globalresearch9 wrote:
“Could it, then, perhaps have been nothing more than a coincidence that a brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden, Khalid bin Mahfouz, was reported in the early 90′s to own a 20% stake in BCCI10 – and that bin Mahfouz, as reported by the Houston Chronicle on June 4, 1992, had intimate business dealings with James Bath, the personal representative of bin Laden brother Salim who had invested $50,000 in George W. Bush’s company, Arbusto? Bin Mahfouz, incidentally, had taken over Salim bin Laden’s interest in the Houston Gulf Airport after Salim met his demise in an airplane crash over Houston in 1988″11
Later, the Saudi Royal sheikh Abdellah Taha Bakhsh bought 17,6 % of Harken12 (Oil and energy related company from Houston, Texas where Bush worked) and therefore became the main shareholder. In their research “Outlaw Bank” Jonathan Beaty and S.C. Gwyne report ,that there were numerous other investments by Saudi Royals in Texas. Most of them were handled by the chambers of Baker&Botts, a company owned by James Baker, the man that did business with the bin Laden and Bush Clan. Based on this fact you can say, that there had been relations between the Bush’s and the Laden’s for a long time. Bush, when asked to comment on this said that those connections were no longer active. This is obviously not correct as the Carlyle Group (mentioned later on) still does business with them.
Another surprising fact was discovered by The Guerrilla News Network13, Their authors reportthat Bush Senior authorized several programs to upgrade Iraq’s military in order to support the war against Iran. After the first gulf war was over those relations did not break up at all. In 1991, the US military was “wondering” when fighting the gulf war one why the Iraqi soldiers had similar ammunition and arms. Thus you can say that the former Bush administration maintained and arranged business relations with the Iraq. This fact was well known to the other governmental facilities, but hence no one wanted to loose their position or get defaced no one dared to release the needed information to stop those relations.
But the Iraqi regime did not only receive military equipment.14
This is a widely known fact as well. I compiled a list with the help of different books that demonstrates how these dual-use technology deals worked.15
Last, but not least to mention the Carlyle Group, where Mr. James A. Baker, III, works (for more information see “3.3″). This multinational company earns over 5 billions Dollars a year and employs about 40.000 workers. Just to clarify what the Carlyle Group does I have attached several examples.16
This company is a global player and supplies numerous goods to the US military. At least 5 of their sub companies work on researching projects for the US military. Those include aero-technology (for fighter and transporter engines), missile technology (air to air and ground to air), fiber optic technology for use in military vehicles and combat wear, as well as software needed to operate those military devices. If there was a war going on, this company would have been among the number one firms to profit from it. Hence Bush Senior and other powerful men work for them, it is not too much of a surprise that the current Bush administration “play” an aggressive political style. Carlyle also works with the bin Laden Clan and the Saudi Royals. Together with the bin Laden Clan they built numerous huge and expensive buildings in Saudi Arabia.17
For example they were hired to rebuild the Khobar Towers in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, after the bombing on the 25th June 1996.18 This incident is very ironical due to the fact that US investigators blamed Osama bin Laden for this terrorist attack. (19 US soldiers died and 500 were wounded)19

3.3 His Personal connections:

George Bush’s father worked for the Carlyle Group after his presidency and had regular meetings with members of the Bin Laden Clan. It is a known fact, that the Bin Laden Clan had invested at least over two million dollars in Carlyle projects.20
Prince Bandar who is a member of the Saudi Royal Family and also the ambassador to the US is a close friend to the Bush family as well. Bush’s nickname for the Prince is “Bandar Bush”. (Robert Baer “Sleeping with the Devil” crown, 2003)
The prince and Mr. Bush are reported to be meeting on a regular basis to dine together, Bandar also took place in Barbara Bush’s 75th birthday celebrations.21
Ambassador Bandar even took George Bush Senior to England for a pheasants hunt. In conclusion you can say that their relation was very close.
Another common friend is James Baker, a lawyer working for both the Saudi Royal family and the Bush family, he is also employed at the Carlyle Group in Washington and served the Bush administration as Secretary of State just a decade ago. This man is another good example for the close personal and business ties.