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It's now installed in Washington, by way of Connecticut and Texas. The power of the Bush dynasty, writes Phillips, extends for four generations, and its scions have been intimately involved in three of the 20th century's chief growth industries: intelligence, energy and national security. "If there are other families who have more fully epitomized and risen alongside the hundred-year emergence of the military industrial complex, the post-1945 national security state, and the 21st century imperium," he writes," no one has identified them." Fudging the truth, whether over the release of Iranian hostages or the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, is an essential skill in such an enterprise, Phillips argues, and the Bushes (and their Walker kin)are masters of deception. Clandestine skills, money-laundering, and perhaps even election-fixing also figure heavily on the family resume, as do other talents essential to covert action but useless in nation building and humane governance.
Phillips characterizes the Bush coalition as "a narrowly Armageddon-believing electorate" - of no small importance to an administration bent on continued warfare in the Middle East (save Saudi Arabia, where its interests lie) in the name of good versus evil.
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