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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bill who wrote (353037)	2/3/2003 6:56:55 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I know all about Silverado S+L. Neil Bush is a weak-minded dolt. He is the runt of the litter mentally speaking. He wants to make money and find a purpose for his life. He wants to be one of the "big boys". But he doesn't know to do anything by himself. So he simply let himself be used and paid off as a board member of Silverado, whose owners wanted him for added protection from intrusive federal inspections of their cooked books. Neil should have known what was going on but he may have been to dim to realize it. His brothers are much sharper, especially Jeb. Their shady deals not only made them money but curried favor with investors who would later buy into their political careers. They also got away with it all, including a lot of stuff bordering on white collar crime. Neil didn't get away with it. Although he was never indicted either. All of this comes from the source itself, Bush Sr., who knows how to appear a elder of integrity but has a secret side of him which is sneaky, greedy, shadowy (maybe his CIA background) and meglomaniacal. This also goes for his counsel in chief James Baker. Great elder statesmen with lots and lots of skeletons in their financial closets. Bush Sr. was definitely "in the loop". But you can never prove it, can you? They make sure you cannot.

To: Bill who wrote (353037)	2/4/2003 10:40:13 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

If there is a conflict of interest in doing business with people to whom the bank loans money, it is because Neil could affect their business with the bank. Of course, that does not mean that he did anything wrong, beyond the impropriety of the undisclosed conflicts. I am not going to research newspaper archives for a fee to clear this up, especially when I cannot even link the results. I imagine it is possible that the Austin paper is inferring too much from the conflict, and I do not want to make a mistake here. Thus, I will unreservedly concede that there is a different between a conflict of interest and actually having pushed loans of persons from whom one financially benefits.......