Greg Palast answers a question

[donsu]

Greg Palast answers the question, "Was the Iraq War a Bush Cartel Effort to Divert Attention from Saudi Arabia, the Home and Chief Financier of bin Laden?"

http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/03/08/29_palast.html

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That’s just one of the connections. Now it gets a little bit deeper. It turns out that in 1999 and 2000, Bill Clinton sent two delegations to Saudi Arabia -- this I just reported on BBC -- quietly saying: Here’s a list of royal family members and others around the royals who are giving money to al-Qaeda fronts and people who are trying to kill us. Clinton said, "Knock it off."

Clinton basically got, you know, a fake Lewinsky from the Saudis, but no satisfaction. The Saudi’s response was to hire Vernon Jordan to keep Clinton at bay.

Bush W. comes in -- and the demands on the Saudis come to a dead halt. Further, Bush W. disbands the intelligence unit tracking the Saudi money connection to al-Qaeda. And third, and ugliest, is that Bush –- in particular, his ambassador Barbie Bodine -– pulled the visas of the FBI al-Qaeda investigation team in Yemen, so they’d have to go home. I mean, our own embassy pulled the visas of our own FBI investigators, headed by agent John O’Neill, who was in charge of al-Qaeda prosecutions for the Justice Department.

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Maybe the Saudis had the idea that they would like George Bush and James Baker, Frank Carlucci and the rest of that crew to suddenly have a few million showered upon them. The average partner of Carlyle has $25 million in equity. And the amount they put up, in most cases, is about zero. So it’s the ultimate money for nothing.
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read on............learn the ugly poop on the bloody hands bushgang

[JohnOneillsMemory]

1. Palast nails it down, as usual. Bush family ties to Saudi/bin Ladens.

I wish a network news-magazine show would do the 'Bush Aids Nazis and Bush Aids Terrorists for Riches' story because that parallel is easy for sheeple to digest. They just might get it...

[donsu]

2. after listening to the callers on c-span this a.m. I

wonder if we have a chance at all. many of the callers were so uninformed/misinformed, I didn't know whether to scream or cry (so I went outside and swept up tree leavings :) )

[joanski01]

5. I was thinking the same

thing while I was watching Washington Journal. I said to myself, either you're getting smarter or these people are just dumb. Especially the woman who said that Whistle Ass was a nice good man. And then in response to a woman who said she didn't know what to tell her child about respecting the pResident, a caller said something like how would she like to send her child to an oral sex group.

[terryg11]

3. thought ONeill was told to go home during Clinton year

could be wrong but thought that happened when Clinton was still in office

[BeFree]

4. That explains a lot of things

I always thought Clinton was trying to make peaceful deals in the middle east and thereby continuing fair trade. It's now very clear that this White House thinks trade should benefit only a small minority of America and to hell with everyone else.