Bush is with America' enemies; many are close personal friends of the Bush family

Submitted by Steve Klein (United States), Nov 15, 2007 at 09:56

This is no big surprise. In 1987, Saudi banking mogul, Khalid bin Mahfouz, along with the Bank of Credit and Commerce (BCCI -- look it up) rescued young George W. Bush from a failing Texas oil company known as Harken Energy. Bush got a wonderful deal for his failing stock from Saudi Wahhabi princes.

The Carlyle Group is a Washington, D.C. based global private equity investment firm with more than $75.6 billion of equity capital under management.

George Herbert Walker Bush (Bush Sr.) is Carlyle Group senior advisor. Former Secretary of State James Baker III is the group's senior counsel. Other notables are involved in the Carlyle Group.

According to sources, some of the sectors and companies in which Carlyle invests are highly sensitive to political activity; indeed, its actions may be viewed as a form of political arbitrage ("riskless profit"). This may create conflicts of interest when political decision makers have their own personal wealth linked to such investments.

Saudi Arabian interests are reputed to have given $1.4 billion to firms connected to the Bush family.

The Saudi Arabian relatives of Osama bin Laden were also investors in Carlyle until October 2001 when the family sold its $2.02 million investment back to the firm in light of the public controversy surrounding bin Laden's family after the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001.

According to Elsa Walsh, the New Yorker, President Bush promised August 2001 -- in a two page letter to then Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz -- he would work to establish a Palestinian (no doubt, terrorist) state in the Holy Land. Abdullah played a little brinkmanship with Bush. Bush blinked.

Only days after the September 11, 2001 atrocities (which was essentially a Saudi job) Bush made his "vision" of a Palestinian terrorist state public. Early October 2001, Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon protested, pleading with Bush to not sacrifice Israel for a convenient temporary solution; to not appease the Arabs at Israel's expense; to not repeat the dreadful mistakes that were made at Munich 1938, when the great powers sacrificed Czechoslovakia to the Nazis. After a couple of stern phone calls from Secretary of State Colin Powell, the politically weak Sharon was quickly brought back in line.

Mr. Bush meets, holds hands with, prays with, kisses, etc., members of what are known as the Saudi Wahhabi lobby. Several of these men, it turns out, are on the FBI watch-list because they actively support the global jihad. Former University of South Florida (convicted Palestinian Islamic Jihadist) professor Sami Al-Araian was a strong supporter of then candidate Bush. Bush family has many Muslim friends with questionable loyalties. Former Saudi Ambassador to Washington, Prince Bandar was / is a close Bush family friend. Bandar and his wife Haifa gave approximately $130,000 through a Saudi conduit to two of the September hijackers.

Bush calls arch-terrorist / Holocaust denier, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, "a man dedicated to peace." Mr. Bush is seeking to establish a Palestinian terrorist state in the West Bank, east Jerusalem and Gaza at the upcoming Annapolis conference, late November or early December. George W. Bush is selling-out America's only reliable ally in the Middle East, plain and simple. Make no mistake about it.

There is no question, this Palestinian state will be fully dedicated to the annihilation of what remains of the Jewish state. Mr. Bush has many Arab friends. Bush has many Muslim friends. U.S. security and our ally Israel's security is not a priority with Bush. It would appear the free-flow of oil from the Middle East is a priority and whatever it takes to appease these nations -- especially Saudi Arabia -- for Bush is indeed a first priority, regardless of the cost in terms of innocent human lives.

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