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Being subjected to another TV war against an Arab nation, administered (?) by another Bush president after a period of playing footsies with the Enemy, while a sinking economy in America is making the rich richer and the poor poorer is just too much deja vu for me. I'm completely fed up with these dirty Bushies, who I still feel are the biggest stain on our culture and quickly shrinking democracy since that crook, Richard M. Nixon was prominent in American life.

Although the Bushes all appear affable and congenial on the surface, underneath there's a cesspool of greed, selfishness, and self-centeredness that makes the Kennedys look like saints.

If it is true that you can tell something about a man or a woman by the company they keep, we don't have to look any farther than the Bush family connections, which reveal a host of sleazy characters who will certainly end up in the dark place after they are long gone from here.

I remember when Barbara Bush once said of her husband that he had a thousand friends. After researching some of these friends, I've concluded that many of them are nefarious individuals who not only have suspicious links to Islamic fundamentalists, but also include murderous South American dictators as well as creepy cult leaders. Since we're in the middle of another war with an Arab nation, I'm going to concentrate on exploring the inexplicable connections that I've found between the Bush family and the Arab world. Connections outside the Arab World will be discussed in other articles.

When Kenneth Starr started his Bill Clinton witch-hunt, I noticed that various writers when describing Bill Clinton's enemies repeatedly mentioned many of the same names linked to Starr. I made a flow chart, which tried to link the individuals together. An excellent book by Joe Coneson, The Hunting of the President, covers this topic very well. Now, I've found the same thing occurring with articles linking the Bushes with numerous suspect individuals. Before we discuss this, however, I'd like to begin with how these bad Bush connections all started with the current president's grandfather, connection to the Nazis.

I haven't been able to discover much about the Bush family prior to Prescott Bush or how far the Bush family fortune goes back, but I did discover that Prescott's father, Samuel Bush, worked for the Remington Arms Company and became chief of Ordnance, Small Arms and Ammunition Section of the War Industries Board in 1918. Making money off defense and weapons sales continues to sustain the Bush family with George I's involvement with the Carlyle Group, an investment company that represents defense contractors as well as Saudi investors, including up to less than a month ago, the lovely Bid Laden family. See bushwatch.com for more information on Carlyle.

Back to Prescott. He was born in Columbus, Ohio on May 15, 1885. His astrological chart is heavily loaded with Taurus planets, which indicates a very stubborn, materialistic man with very little if any spiritual orientation. He has a stressful aspect involving Jupiter and the Sun which I've labeled, "the shit don't stink" aspect, which makes the owner of it believe that he or she can get away with murder, and often does. Besides Prescott, the two Georges have it, Jeb Bush has it, even the first lady, Laura Bush, has it. The president's mother, Barbara, and the president's twin girls, Jenna and Barbara do not. While all the Bush family members that have the Jupiter Sun aspect have failed to get their comeuppance for their crimes and misdemeanors, Barbara I and Barbara II and Jenna have suffered more than the others. Barbara I had a child who died of leukemia while Barbara II and Jenna have been arrested for underage drinking and have been prominently written about in the tabloids.

The only comeuppance I could find for Prescott was his embarrassment when it was revealed that his mother had lied about his receiving military honors while serving as a captain during World War I. Prescott was so humiliated that he had to later move from his hometown in Ohio to Milton, MA, where George I was born.

Before WWI, Prescott attended Yale and joined the infamous Skull and Bones Society, just as his son, George I, would do years later. According to The Immaculate Deception, The Bush Crime Family Exposed, by Russell S. Bowen, "Skull and Bones was a screening device by Wall Street financiers to acquire ambitious, trustworthy young men of proper lineage to perpetuate their version of British-like aristocracy."

After marrying Dorothy Walker, Prescott was hired by W.A. Harriman & Co. as its vice-president, serving under the Dorothy's father, George Herbert Walker, who was Harriman's president.

One of Prescott's jobs before he became a Senator from Connecticut in 1952 was working for Dresser Industries. This manufacturer of oil drilling equipment was instrumental in trying to make the USSR the number one oil producer. (George Bush I also was employed by Dresser in his younger days, while Dick Cheney was CEO of Halliburton, which bought out Dresser in 1998). After the Bolshevik Revolution, Harriman and CO., while Prescott's father-in-law, George Herbert Walker was president, was involved with infusing the Russian Oil industry with major investments of capital.

But, it was through the Union Banking Corporation and it’s funding of Hitler's government that Prescott as a director of the bank made much of his fortune. The Dutch bank, Bank Voor Handel en Scheepvaart N.V. that gave a 250,000 mark credit for the Nazis, arranged through Rudolf Hess, controlled Union Banking Corp. Several of the directors of Union Banking Corp like H.J. Kouwenhoven and J.G. Groeningen were Nazis. Harriman also helped Hitler with their underwriting of a Standard Oil agreement, which included General Motors as a supplier of ethyl lead to the Nazis.

Like father like son, George Bush the First also had and still has, I'm sure, Nazi friends. Some of you may have forgotten about the big hoopla made in 1988 about the inclusion of old East European Nazis in the Bush campaign for president against Dukakis. Russ Bellant describes this scandal in Old Nazis, the New Right and the Republican Party. George I may have had to throw them out of his campaign but not out of his heart.

Next time I'll identify some of George I's sleazy friends and how they may be connected to our current crisis in Afghanistan.