BUSH FAMILY GOT ABOUT $1.5 BILLION FROM SAUDIS

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Did the Saudis buy a president?

http://salon.com/books/feature/2004/03/12/unger_2/index_np.html

How much money has flowed from the House of Saud to the Bush family and its friends and allies over the years? No one will ever know -- but the number is at least $1.477 billion.

If the Saudis had been happy with the presidency of George H.W. Bush -- and they were -- they must have been truly ecstatic, in the summer of 2000, that his son was the Republican candidate for president. Indeed, the relationship between the two dynasties had come a long way since the seventies when Saudi banking billionaire Khalid bin Mahfouz and Salem bin Laden had flown halfway around the world to buy a secondhand airplane from James Bath, George W. Bush's old friend from decades before. Even bin Mahfouz's subsequent financing of the Houston skyscraper for James Baker's family bank or the Saudi bailout of Harken Energy that helped George W. Bush make his fortune were small potatoes compared with what had happened since.

[acmavm]

1. Yeah, saw that earlier. Bought like a bunch of cattle at an auction.

These people are the real traitors to this country. They operate on the Larry, Darryl & Darryl principle of 'anything for a buck'. This includes working with the Nazi party, destabilizing foreign governments to get ahold of their assets, running drugs and using the money to arm the Contras, etc. Nice crowd. Hope to see them all in the Hague some day.

[Syrinx]

2. the Bushes are very, very rich

I don't have any links, but this a true statement. Bush Sr. gave a huge donation to an ivy league school, Harvard I guess it was. I don't remember the amount, but I noticed at the time that was significantly larger than his supposed net worth.

[teryang]

3. It is true that they are very rich but

...compared to the real money behind the throne, they are small potatoes.