Bush-Nazi links and Skull and Bones History in NYTimes #1 bestseller

[seventhson]

From Mother Jones

Excerpt:

Reviewed By Douglas Brinkley

January/February 2004 Issue



All in the Family
By Kevin Phillips
Viking. 331 pages.

Over the past year a cottage industry of anti-Bush diatribes has exploded onto the best-seller list. Many have unforgettable titles like Molly Ivins' Bushwhacked or Hunter S. Thompson's Kingdom of Fear or Al Franken's Lies (And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them). These books are brimming with nasty one-liners and parlor jokes portraying George W. Bush as a dangerous dunce, an aristocratic oil brat unfit for the Oval Office. The Bush Cabinet fares no better: Vice President Dick Cheney, for example, has been characterized as an utterly corrupt stalking horse for Halliburton, while Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has become Dr. Strangelove incarnate.

Given this left-liberal publishing phenomenon, where evil Bushies lurk around every civic bend dismantling our constitutional rights, it is with welcome relief that political commentator and one-time GOP strategist Kevin Phillips has stepped into the fray. Unlike the recent spate of anti-Bush books, Phillips' American Dynasty -- an erudite manifesto on the dangers of cronyism, hereditary privilege, "paper entrepreneurialism," and tax shelters -- is devastating due to its analytical fair-mindedness. Essentially, he traces how four generations of Bushes corrupted U.S. foreign policy through international business ventures that benefited the family. The most recent two George Bushes aren't evil people, Phillips argues, just greedy and ambitious Ivy League Texans. The Bush family has brought the American political system to a "perilous state," he believes, due to their cunning brand of petro-politics. "The family's ties to oil date back to Ohio steelmaker Samuel Bush's relationship to Standard Oil a century ago, while its ultimately dynastic connection to Enron spanned the first national Bush administration, the six years of George W. Bush's governorship of Texas, and the first year of his Washington incumbency," he writes. "No other presidential family has made such prolonged efforts on behalf of a single corporation."

With great skill, Phillips illuminates how the "Bush Dynasty" has long used such old-boy organizations as Yale's Skull and Bones, the CIA, Dillon Read, and most recently the Carlyle Group to further its main objective: political-economic power. He delineates the family's ethically questionable dealings with such companies as Enron, Zapata Petroleum, and Halliburton. We even learn that Prescott Bush, George H.W.'s father and a U.S. senator from Connecticut, had investment dealings with Nazi Germany in the 1930s while working for the banking firm Brown Brothers Harriman.


http://www.motherjones.com/arts/books/2004/01/12_103.html


Another reason IMHO why NOT to elect Bonesman Kerry either.

BTW: John Buchanan's articles show that this Nazi-Bush relationship continued into WWII and the business relationships continued until 1950's. nhgazette.com

[seventhson]

1. Nothing to see here. Move along

well - I thought it was cool

[gulfcoastliberal]

2. I'm reading "American Dynasty" Right Now

Haven't made it too far in, but have read about the secret society. And the problem with orgs such as S&B according to Phillips is that they stunt emotional and intellectual growth into middle-age, when one should be above such immaturity. GHWBush played all sorts of inappropriate pranks on people such as using exploding chalk golf balls, and showed an inordinate fascination with childish games. This led to people rightly viewing GHW as not very bright or intellectually curious (sound familiar?). Kinda how aWol adopts stupid nicknames for people and so on. I really wish Kerry would just come out and say, hey, I was in college, it was a fraternity and it doesn't matter now. The fact these two are "blood brothers" is slightly disturbing, I agree. But still, I think JFK will be lightyears better than shrub. Let us all hope Kerry makes to to the election - ie, doesn't get "Wellstoned".

edited to add the sentence about ghw not being very bright.

[progressivebydesign]

3. "JFK"? Oh, you mean John Kerry? N/T

[bobthedrummer]

4. And on the Internet this is the mother of all Bush/Nazi links

http://falloutshelternews.com/BushHitlerLinks.html