Mr. Ratfucker Continues His History Lesson

The Bush family’s involvement with Middle East oil goes back four generations to George W. Bush’s great-grandfather George H. Walker. Walker was a WWI war profiteer. In the 1920’s Walker oversaw the rebuilding of the Baku oil fields, which were a couple hundred miles north of present-day Iraq. In 1964, when GHWBush ran for the US Senate from Texas, the incumbent Democrat Ralph Yarborough called him a hireling of the sheik of Kuwait. Just after the end of GHWBush’s Gulf War, which was waged to protect Bush family interests in the Kuwait oil fields, the Bank of England shut down one of the world’s largest banks, the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). The reason for the unprecedented shutdown was that BCCI had engaged in “widespread fraud and manipulation”. The bank had a reputation for being a slush fund for the Central Intelligence Agency. CIA head Robert Gates even called it the “Bank of Crooks and Criminals International”. BCCI was founded by Agha Hasan Abedi in Pakistan in 1972. Capital for the startup came from the emir of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, the Bank of America and, it is said, the CIA. But the emir of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahayan, was the major investor. BCCI was used as a laundry service for the heroin labs in Pakistan and for funds for the British and American arms that were being funneled to the Afghan mujahideen. In 1992, John Kerry (D-MA) co-authored a report on BCCI with Senator Hank Brown (R-CO). The report was sent to the Committee on Foreign Relations and brought about the eventual closure of the bank. GHWBush was linked to both the Iran-Contra Scandal and the BCCI scandal. In 1992 Special prosecutor Lawrence E. Walsh said Bush Sr. had been “in the loop” on multiple illegal acts. But his actual role was murky and could not be proved. However, GHWB’s role in supplying aid to Saddam Hussein in the Iran/Iraq war in the 1980’s was much more upfront. In a June 1992 “Nightline” segment, Ted Koppel said, "It is becoming increasingly clear that George [H.W.] Bush, operating largely behind the scenes through the 1980s, initiated and supported much of the financing, intelligence and military help that built Saddam's Iraq into the aggressive power that the United States ultimately had to destroy." Bush family failure, George W. Bush, started his alliance with Middle East oil in the late 1970’s. His connection was Texan James Bath. Bath was the business representative for two Saudis--Salem bin Laden and BCCI director Khalid Mahfouz. Bath put $50,000 in GWB’s Arbusto oil business and it’s widely assumed the money came from the Bin Laden/Bin Mahfouz coffers. When George W Bush’s fledgling company Harken landed a huge contract to drill in the Persian Gulf for the government of Bahrain, Time mag said, “Mahfouz, or other BCCI players, must have had a hand in steering the oil-drilling contract to the president's son." During the 1980’s, now-Florida Guv Jeb Bush entertained and was entertained by Adhur Sakhia, the Miami BCCI branch chief who became a BCCI VIP in the US. After GHWBush left the White House in 1993, son Neil accompanied his parents, his brother Marvin and former Secretary of State James A. Baker III to Kuwait. Neil Bush is best known for his corrupt practices with the Colorado Silverado Savings and Loan where he was director. After Bush Sr. came back to the US, Neil stayed in Kuwait to lobby for business contracts and to start a number of ventures with Syrian-American Jamal Daniel. It may be that Mr. Ratfucker is only getting started with his history lesson about the whoring Bush family and its slimy ties to Middle East governments. Then again, anyone who actually believes that the Iraq war of 2003 had anything remotely to do with fighting terrorism, uplifting the downtrodden or bringing democracy to an oppressed land, is too thick-witted for Mr. Ratfucker to continue to try to educate.