W's Sister and Brother-In-Law: Iraq Oil Kickbacks

[ozymandius]

"At the same time Enron Chairman Kenneth ("Kenny Boy") Lay was involved in Vice President Dick Cheney's Energy Task Force secret dealings and when he was stuffing hundreds of thousands of dollars into the pockets of George W. Bush and Cheney's political campaign, he also managed to illegally stick $206, 757 into the pockets of Saddam Hussein and his cohorts.

The Iraqi Oil-for-Food scandal also involves one of the Bush children--Dorothy "Doro" Bush Koch, sister of George W. Bush and married to Bobby Koch, reportedly a cousin in the oil industry Koch family, the owner of Koch Industries, which is also one of Bush's largest political donors. The minority committee report indicates that Koch Industries was also a major recipient of illegal Iraqi oil and a huge source of kickbacks to Saddam Hussein.

The total sum in kickbacks from George W. Bush's cousin-in-laws to Saddam's bank accounts: $1,294,620."

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[NMDemDist2]

1. I thought W's sister died as a child? Didn't know there even was

a second sister

[Syrinx]

2. Dorothy was the one that participated in the Republican riot

Down in Florida in 2000. Really.

Here's what wikipedia has:

Dorothy Bush Koch (born August 18, 1959), sometimes called "Doro", is the younger sister and youngest sibling of George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States. Her four siblings are George W. Bush, Jeb Bush, Marvin Bush, and Neil Bush. She is also the younger daughter and youngest child of former President of the United States George H.W. Bush and former First Lady Barbara Bush.

In 1975, during a visit to Beijing, (it is said) she became the first person publicly baptized in China since its communist government began discouraging foreign religious practices in 1949. She has served as a Pioneer fundraiser for her brother's presidential campaigns.

Since the time of her childhood, Dorothy spent most summers and holidays at her sprawling estate, the Bush Compound.

She has two children by her first husband, William LeBlonde, and two children by her second husband, Robert Koch of Koch Industries

[EC]

3. Didn't she also date David Dryer

and couldn't figure out why he didn't make a pass at her?

[Syrinx]

4. not sure, but it sounds very familiar. n/t

[BrklynLiberal]

11. Divorced? Oh my..what about the sanctity of marriage?

[kskiska]

15. Doro was also one of the screamers outside Al Gore's house

Newsweek's Barbara Bush interview):

According to Mrs. Bush:

"It's actually a 'pain in the neck' to be the sibling of a sitting president, she says, and tells how her daughter, Doro Koch, picketed outside Vice President Al Gore's residence 'in disguise' during the 2000 recount. 'That's Doro!' Mrs. Bush hoots when telling about it. 'She felt better' after yelling at the Gore's house for a while, Mrs. Bush says."

Glad to see that Babs thought it was a "hoot," but I wonder if the Gores "felt better" after having crowds of wingnuts scream at them day and night to "get out of Cheney's house."

http://amcop.blogspot.com/2003/10/bushs-sister-consorted-with-armed.html

[lala_rawraw]

5. Wow, each of their children is a criminal

I mean out of 5 children, one could see a bad apple here or there, but the entire lot of them? They are like the plague.

[wiggs]

6. First reading: blockbuster information

On first glance, this seems to be....well, huge and dirty and illegal and scary.

Summary:

Someone seems to be using oil for food investigation as retribution for political dissent, distorting evidence along the way. This is nothing less than an enemies list created by someone and sneaked into an investigation. Coleman, and others, should be arrested for distorting evidence and making criminal allegations for political purposes.

According to this article hose who are truly involved directly or indirectly in the oil for food issue include Enron, Chevron, Condileeza Rice,, GHW Bush, James Baker, Exxon, Texaco, and GWB's sister.

Now, I don't know how Wayne Madsen put this information together, but if documented and IF THERE IS A WILL TO PRESENT IT the ramifications could be mind-blowing. A political enemies list that is created using false, forged, or flimsy information...and this persecution of political enemies really is hiding the truth of the Iraq oil scandl: that the administration IS UP TO ITS SLEAZY EYEBALLS in Iraq profiteering and slush funds for campaigns.

If Madsen's article is true, this really really stinks....worse than Watergate. If I understand the implications, not only is this illegal, it is on par with banana republic justice...kangeroo court immoral...Three Days of the Condor level sneakiness. Three reporters onto this stuff found dead?

Time for an independent investigator on this issue, in addition to abu ghraib, UK memo, Plame, and the rest. And how is it that Volker missed this stuff? Is Madsen for real?

On the other hand, no need to complicate things....looks like we can just start saying that Enron, Bush, and Bush's sister were working with Hussein on oil for food. Pass it on.

[TheGunslinger]

7. Wow!

He could turn that into a book!

[Hatalles]

8. Hey Coleman! Quit shuffling your papers and get on this, huh?

Or is he still recovering from the ass kicking Galloway gave him? :rofl:

[progressoid]

9. Oh. I thought this was a real story.

Madsen led us astray on a couple other major stories in the recent past. Chances are, this story should be ignored as well.

[checks-n-balances]

10. Everybody's wrong occasionally, but Madsen's more often right than wrong

so why discredit him over this? Please clue us in if you know for sure that this story isn't worth pursuing.

[thebigidea]

12. the massive election theft conspiracy he suddenly lost interest in

you'd think cracking a story like that would make a journalist's career...

I've been reading the articles of his posted here for the past few years, and they all tend to be massive red herrings that promise big things, never provide documentation, and never involve any followup... instead its off to cracking the next huge conspiracy.

If I were a lot more paranoid and a tad bit drugged at 2am, I'd guess it was rank disinformation from a guy who still worked for his former masters. But i'm not.

I'd love to be proven wrong, though - what exactly has he been RIGHT about?

[checks-n-balances]

13. Thanks for your reply. He's spot on about the Religious Right

and how dangerous the Dominionism theology is. He and the Yurica Report are the best on the web for that. I can't think of anything else specific right now, since I have to finish out my last 2 days of the school year.

Thanks for clarifying your point.

[progressoid]

16. Madsen's

sometimes coherent ramblings have the appearance of journalism, but any editor worth his/her salt wouldn't publish any of it.

His repeated use of huge assumptions, unnamed sources, & far fetched connections, do not give me an impression of accuracy.

I expect more than "more often right than wrong". I can get that from Fox too. Any other "journalist" that made the blunders he has, would be unemployed.

[Imajika]

14. Had I known it was a Madsen story...

...I wouldn't have bothered to click on it.

Madsen is a total crank. An expert at writing what he knows some would love to believe, whether he has any facts to back it up or not (and as far as I know, he rarely does).

Wayne should get back to the blockbuster stolen election conspiracy he was supposed to be following. I'm just waiting for him to tie it all together with some proof to support what he churns out.

Madsen has proven himself to be an utterly worthless source of information.

Imajika