Thanks PT,
That is a very good read.. REAL Republicans, should listen to Kevin Phillips.. He has come out with some good stuff lately.. When KP, Bill O'Reilly, Pat Buchanan, etal start questioned the administration's war policy, it is understandable the the White House is puckering up..
I especially liked Phillips bringing out this:
<<The first family member lured by the Middle East’s petroleum wealth was George W. Bush’s great-grandfather, George H. Walker, a buccaneer who was president of Wall Street-based W.A. Harriman & Co. In the 1920s, Walker and his firm participated in rebuilding the Baku oil fields only a few hundred miles north of current-day Iraq. As senior director of Dresser Industries (now part of Halliburton), Walker’s son-in-law Prescott Bush (George W. Bush’s grandfather) became involved with the Middle East in the years after World War II. But it was George H.W. Bush, the current president’s father, who forged the dynasty’s strongest ties to the region.
George H.W. Bush was the first CIA director to come from the oil industry. He went on to became the first vice president - and then the first president - to have either an oil or CIA background. This helps to explain his persistent bent toward the Middle East, covert operations and rogue banks like the Abu Dhabi-based Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), which came to be known by the nickname “Bank of Crooks and Criminals International.” In each of the government offices he held, he encouraged CIA involvement in Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan and other Middle Eastern countries, and he pursued policies that helped make the Middle East into the world’s primary destination for arms shipments.>>
Thanks again,
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