We as spiritual beings or souls come to earth in order to experience the human condition. This includes the good and the bad scenarios of this world. Our world is a duality planet and no amount of love or grace will eliminate evil or nastiness. We will return again and again until we have pierced the illusions of this density. The purpose of human life is to awaken to universal truth. This also means that we must awaken to the lies and deceit mankind is subjected to. To pierce the third density illusion is a must in order to remove ourselves from the wheel of human existences. Love is the Answer by means of Knowledge and Awareness!

God, 911 and George Bush
by Don Flesher

The following article was written and compiled with the purpose of causing 
you the reader to question the news coverage of the 9/11 attacks.  Most of 
all it's written to cause you to question how you formulate your opinions 
and beliefs based the information received from your favorite news sources. 
This is not just limited to television, radio, newspaper and Internet, but 
includes family, friends, coworkers, etc.

The following statement is an extraordinarily bizarre and outlandish 
statement concerning the 9/11 attacks. The statement is as follows: "U.S. 
President George W. Bush had complete foreknowledge of the 9/11 attacks and 
he actively participated in them to ensure their success."  The first part 
of this article will delve into the how and why of how this statement can be 
true without the mass population being wise to the facts.  The later part 
will provide you with information resources so that you can do your own 
study and come to your own informed conclusion.

To those readers who dismiss the above statement as "conspiracy theory", 
answer this, what does it take for a "conspiracy theory" to become a 
"conspiracy fact"?  Will it require CNN coverage for an entire week, will it 
require firsthand knowledge or will it require a close and trusted 
acquaintance with first hand knowledge?  When I make the above statement to 
people from all walks of life and all education levels, a common reply I get 
is, "I can see the possibility of that being factual".  

When massive amounts of money and power are involved, anything can happen 
and does happen.  Here lies a derivation of Murphy's Law, which states, "if 
anything can go wrong it will go wrong" and the derivation is "if anything 
can go corrupt it will go corrupt".  All across America and the World people 
are expanding their scope of vision to see large scale conspired corruption.

Imagine that all knowledge is placed on a large circle marked off by 360 
degrees.  If all we view throughout our lives are limited sectors, let's say 
between 0 – 90 degrees and 180 – 270 degrees.  At that rate we blank out 
half of the available knowledge.  Now let's say that we start to look past 
each side of those sectors, then whole new views open up.  When Christopher 
Columbus sailed the ocean, he had to keep his compass under wraps away from 
the crew. Many of them believed that it was the hand of the devil that made 
the needle move. 

Obviously all they lacked was the knowledge and understanding of magnetism. 
In the 1890's the head of the US Patent Office said: "we should shut the 
Patent Office down because everything that will be invented has been 
invented".  Wouldn't he be embarrassed and amazed to take a technology tour 
today?

Since 9/11 the words "God Bless America" have become extremely popular. This 
article will consider the nature of God in relationship to George W. Bush 
and the above statement as well as a later statement about his father George 
H.W. Bush.  The title of "God" can be used loosely to address anyone or 
anything that a person pays close respect to.  From this point here on, 
"God" will refer to the compassionate creator of mankind who has endowed us 
with freewill.  To choose to live on a system of moral values and enjoy the 
benefits or to ignore them and live a life that is lacking in the intangible 
elements.
*******

The real war is not in Afghanistan nor against terrorism, it's raging away 
within the borders of America. The objective of this war is to capture the 
freethinking minds of anyone willing to abandon theirs and to steal any 
allegiance to God our creator that we may have left. How could God's "enemy" 
(see definition below) attempt to make the boldest statement of superiority, 
would God's enemy achieve superiority through forcible conquest?  No, the 
most damaging way to engage this war against God and all upright people is 
covertly and over an extended period of time.  In this fashion mankind's 
allegiance is slowly handed to the enemy by consent versus being taken by 
force. 

ENEMY - by definition from Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary – one that is 
antagonistic to another – one seeking to injure, overthrow or confound an 
opponent (emphasis added) – something harmful or deadly – military adversary 
– hostile unit or force. It's said that if you put a frog in a pot of water 
and very slowly bring the water to a boil, the frog will stay in the pot and 
ultimately boil to death. 

Just before the frog goes unconscious, it's in its comfort zone, there in 
its own little hot tub not aware that it's soon to be someone's dinner.  Is 
America the frog?  Consider three basic components of relationship to God. 
The first component is "freewill", secondly "do to others as you would have 
them do to you" and thirdly is our  "capacity to go beyond the five senses". 
These are elements that are being slowly and methodically boiled out of the 
American public.  The result is a society of "blind followers".

We like to think of our "leaders" as devoted protectors of our Nation and 
our God given rights.  But what if many of these "leaders" are not as they 
appear?  What if these "leaders" are blind to borders, blind to compassion, 
blind to everything except their own self-serving interests?  Why would our 
own "leaders" perpetrate such heinous crimes as the 9/11 attacks, what's the 
motive?  One major motive is to increasingly suppress our constitutional 
rights and freedoms, which was done through the anti-terrorism bill, passed 
just six weeks after the 9/11 attacks.  More on that subject shortly.  

Other motives are profits made from war, oil and drugs. The aspect of drugs 
will be addressed later in this article.  The American public picks up the 
tab for the war while the groups who plan and manipulate the war share in 
the profits.  The second section of this paper is a separate article which 
provides you with five pages of facts and history covering three generations 
of the Bush family and their arming of American enemies.

The Hegelian Dialectic process provides a simple recipe to manipulate a 
situation.  It works by creating a problem known as the "thesis" (terrorist 
attack), the next step is to provide a "solution", called the "antithesis" 
(heightened security, restricted freedoms and military action – the "war on 
terrorism").  The party causing the problem appears to be different from the 
party providing the "solution", however behind the scenes they are one in 
the same. 

The "solution provider" achieves the intended result of enraging Americans 
to support a war and further restrict the personal freedoms of Americans. 
This is known as the "synthesis".  In summary, create a problem, provide a 
solution and achieve the desired result with the full blessings of the mass 
population.  

The bottom line is an increasing police state where compliance is the easy 
way out for the masses.  America now has armed military guards posted in its 
airports, which makes many people feel more safe and secure. Americans are 
now more apt to say,  "it's for the good of the country that police can 
search and seize without a warrant". There goes the Constitution by consent.
Article IV of our Constitutional Bill of Rights states: The right of the 
people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against 
unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated and no warrant 
shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation and 
particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things 
to be seized.

How would you feel if there were a knock at your door and when you answer 
it, the official at the door says something like? "There's a suspected 
terrorist, burglar, car thief, shop lifter, speeding driver, jay walker, dog 
without a licensee at large in your neighborhood and we're performing a 
search of each house so that we can apprehend this person/dog."  This 
scenario is outlandish right now but keep in mind that every practice has a 
foundation and in five, ten, fifteen or twenty years what's unthinkable now 
has the potential to become commonplace when draconian laws such as you will 
read about next have been passed.

Congress has turned its back on the Constitution and passed anti-terrorism 
bills (H.R. 2975 and S. 1510) that authorize completely unconstitutional 
activities such as the "delayed notice" provision, Section 213, allowing the 
government to conduct covert searches. This means that law enforcement 
agencies can enter a person's home or office, search through the person's 
possessions, in some cases seize physical objects or electronic information, 
without the person knowing that law enforcement agents were there.
*******

Churches frequently speak of the evil that emanates from Satan or the Devil. 
The message within the average church is mostly limited to the behavioral 
manifestations commonly associated with Satan such as, murder, greed, 
idolatry, jealousy, envy, lust, pride, etc.  In other words the branches of 
evil. "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is 
striking at the root."  
Henry David Thoreau

From here on the words EVIL and CORRUPT will be used frequently. The 
following definitions are from Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary.  Read 
the definitions several times over to get a feel for the essence of them.

EVIL  - something that brings sorrow, distress or calamity – morally 
reprehensible – arriving from actual or imputed bad character or conduct – 
causing discomfort or repulsion – offensive – disagreeable – pernicious.

- Versus -

COMPASSION – sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a 
desire to alleviate it

CORRUPT  – to change from good to bad in moral, manners or actions – to 
degrade with unsound principles or moral values – to alter from the original 
or to change form or version – to become tainted or rotten – to become 
morally debased – to cause disintegration or ruin – morally degenerate and 
perverted.

- Versus -

INTEGRITY – an unimpaired condition: soundness – firm adherence to a code of 
moral values: incorruptibility – the quality or state of being complete or 
undivided
The root of physical evil is the corrupt institutions set in place by 
self-serving groups.  These institutions profit while continually placing 
stumbling blocks in front of the unsuspecting mass population, which causes 
human weaknesses (the branches of evil) to surface and multiply. The end 
result is a whole society in decay.  Every aspect of modern living puts us 
in contact with these institutions that are involved in; banking, 
healthcare, education, foods, technology, transportation, entertainment and 
more.  If a vital society is ever going to prevail individuals must become 
knowledgeable of the institutions that suppress the full capacities of all 
unaware persons.

A prime example of an evil and corrupt institution is the Federal Reserve 
Bank. This is a privately owned bank, simply look underneath Federal Express 
in the white page section of the yellow pages and you will find the listing 
for the Federal Reserve Bank. You will not find it in the Blue 
Pages/Government listings. This concoction of self-serving men (the 
moneychangers) has possibly caused more pain and suffering than all the wars 
of the 20th century combined.  A book titled, "The Creature from Jekyll 
Island" by E.G. Griffin thoroughly details the travesties of the 
moneychangers. Jekyll Island, Georgia is where the Federal Reserve Act was 
secretly drafted in 1910 by a group of seven men representing one-quarter of 
the wealth of the world.  This book also gives a detailed account of the 
calculated methodical staging of wars by the moneychangers and the profits 
made from wars.

The practices of the Federal Reserve Bank have turned America into a debtor 
nation.  The Federal Reserve has been the monetary source behind America's 
easy credit, buy now pay later materialistic consumer society that has 
caused us to esteem "things" above people.  The easy credit atmosphere has 
spawned a massive wave of irrational and unbridled spending.   America is 
way over it's head in personal and business debt to the point that every day 
the majority of American's must wake up and hit the floor running just to 
pay the bank.   When working longer hours becomes mandatory to stay above 
board it takes away from the joy that life has to offer. 
Could the phrase "God Bless America" be interchanged with "Freemarket Bless 
America?"  Freemarket means commerce, commerce to keep the bills paid.  

Keeping the bills paid is a fundamental responsibility.  Unfortunately easy 
credit has created an atmosphere of financial irresponsibility and everybody 
from the street cleaner to the heart surgeon has fallen victim to over 
borrowing and overspending.  For many people, "FREEDOM" in America means 5 
year 0.0% APR financing on a new vehicle.  So how does banking relate to the 
9/11 attacks?  It's one of many tools that keep Americans distracted and 
financially confined while idolizing commerce in order to maintain.  The 
collateral damage from this institution is massive!  Study up on it!

Thanks to one reader who noted that this article addresses all of the people 
who: "insist on keeping their heads buried in the sand of 'house payments' 
and 'flag waving'.  A side note about flags, it's ironic that most of those 
flags are made in communist Chinese factories that went into overtime on 9/13.
*******

Two scenarios for mankind exist; the first is under the moral principles of 
God our compassionate creator. In this scenario freewill carries mutual 
respect.  It's the place where "do to others as you would have them do to 
you" is the natural action in all aspects of life. 
The alternative scenario is under the practices of the corrupt opposite of 
God, commonly know as Satan or Lucifer.  Whether you do or do not believe in 
Satan is not the issue here.  

The issue is can you believe that there are humans that group together on a 
global scale who are greed driven, EVIL and CORRUPT and whose intention it 
is to control the masses for their own gain?  An extreme society under a 
group of these people would probably be very similar to the society depicted 
in George Orwell's book "1984", an absolute police state where "Big Brother" 
is watching and manipulating our every move. Keep in mind that God's enemy 
works secretly and slowly, working to bring a state of affairs that might 
seem impossible today into the reality of the future.

A police force is necessary to enforce reasonable laws that are dictated by 
basic morals such as don't lie, steal, injure or kill.  What is a police 
state?  A police state is a society with intense restrictions and scrutiny, 
where all persons are guilty until proven innocent. It's a place where all 
aspects of life are made public and an arm of government is placed to 
enforce volumes of manmade laws.  These laws tend to be hidden and 
self-serving to the corrupt groups that put them in place. 

"The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind 
the scenes." - Felix Frankfurter, an attorney for the framers of the Federal 
Reserve Act and a Supreme Court Justice. 
Evil and corrupt hands have a firm grip on every facet of society and one of 
their key grips is the media. In the U.S. the major media is controlled by 
less than a dozen corporations where corporate spin-doctors are richly 
rewarded for molding the public opinion through their media outlets.  When a 
group can control what people perceive to be the facts, then the world is 
firmly in their control.

Asked to give a toast before the prestigious New York Press Club in 1953, 
John Swinton, the former Chief of Staff at the New York Times, made this 
candid confession [it's worth noting that other newsmen, who admired him 
greatly, called Swinton "The Dean of His Profession"]: "There is no such 
thing, at this date of the world's history, as an independent press. You 
know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dare to write your honest 
opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in 
print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am 
connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, 
and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be 
out on the streets looking for another job.

If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before 
twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the 
journalist is to DESTROY the TRUTH; to lie outright; to pervert; to vilify; 
to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell the country for his daily bread. 
You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting an independent 
press. We are the tools and vassals of the rich men behind the scenes. We 
are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our 
possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are 
intellectual PROSTITUTES."

The spin of: CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, The New York Times etc. and the opinions of 
society at large are how the vast majority of America derives its way of 
thinking. We watch very distinguished appearing and learned sounding media 
newsmen like Bernard Shaw, Ted Koppel and MacNeil & Lehrer and most of 
America believes that the reporting just doesn't get any more real and 
thorough. 
*******

As the sayings go  "like father like son" or "where there's smoke there's 
fire".  George Bush, Sr. deserves mention as well. Here is another bizarre 
and outlandish statement.  George Bush, Sr. is the largest trafficker of 
narcotics in North America and possibly the entire globe.

Let's start out with a little logic.  People need to question the "War on 
Drugs". If America had ever truly waged a war on drugs the war could have 
been finished within the course of several years or even much less.  After 
all isn't America "the most powerful nation on Earth" with almost unlimited 
resources?  What's the motive for drug trafficking?  Two major functions 
are; first a facility to weaken society with the burden of drug addiction to 
gain increasing control (a weaker society is much easier to manipulate) and 
the second is money.  Money to buy support and to finance separate agendas.  

Morals have a way of disappearing fast when large sums of money are made 
available to individuals, corporations and foreign governments. A major 
metropolitan paper ran a story about the number of drug addicts in that city 
and the amount of drugs they consume. Some of the addicts buy drugs with 
money they earn but many need to steal cash and or property to sell in order 
to support their habits. As an example if an addict has a $100/day habit, 
the addict might need to steel $1000/day in property to raise $100. The 
total collateral theft citywide is in the billions of dollars annually. 

In response to the rising crime from drug related activity the populous 
cries out – "help protect us - give us more police"!  More police arrive on 
the scene and the situation can arise where some police have an interest in 
keeping the drug trade going. No drugs, equals no job and no possible 
collusion. 

Cathy O‘Brien grew up in a multi-generation incest-abused family.  As a 
child Cathy's father and uncle produced bestiality films featuring her and 
the family dog.  Federal authorities apprehended her father and uncle in the 
distribution process of these films, to escape prosecution they were offered 
the opportunity to enter Cathy into a CIA sponsored program called MK-Ultra 
or Monarch programming.  Monarch programming is trauma induced (primarily 
electroshock) mind control (enslavement), the best subjects are 
multi-generation incest-abused children.  For nearly twenty years Cathy was 
enslaved in a mind-controlled state where she served in covert operations, 
drug hauling and appeasing the perverse sexual pleasures of her notable 
handlers (persons trained to trigger and utilize her mind-controlled 
programming).

Her first handler of notability, from her home state of Michigan was then 
U.S. Representative Gerald Ford, later to become U.S. President.  Cathy went 
on to be a "Presidential Model" serving, Ronald Reagan and then George Bush, 
Sr.  In 1988 Cathy was rescued from her handlers and taken to the serenity 
of Alaska where with help she was able to regain the independent use of her 
mind.  She wrote a book titled "TRANCE-Formation of America". Cathy names 
many notable names in politics, religion, sports and entertainment as 
participants in government sponsored corruption focusing on drug 
trafficking.  Here are a few from entertainment and sports with whom Cathy 
had personal interactions: Jimmy Buffet, Kris Kristopherson, Tommy LaSorda 
and Nolan Ryan.  Excerpts from the book are on the following website. 

HYPERLINK 
"http://www.trance-formation.org/index2.htm"http://www.trance-formation.org/ 
index2.htm
Up until this point the emphasis has been to suggest to you how the mass 
population is being molded, shaped and manipulated.  The events of 9/11 are 
a very small but very tragic part of the big picture.  The mainstream news 
sources noted previously will never show us the big picture, they might 
obtain and show us a very small piece of it but never the whole picture. The 
websites below are excellent resources that piece together the big picture 
in detail.  These websites also provide information covering the drug 
trafficking at the highest levels of government (no pun intended).  

http://www.copvcia.com http://www.copvcia.com 
http://www.skolnicksreport.com/  
http://www.spectrumnews10.com/   
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com  
http://www.insightmag.com/main.cfm 
http://www.fourwinds10.com /corner/black-pope.htm	

At this point the degree to which you agree or disagree with the content of 
this article could be put on a scale ranging from plus ten to negative ten. 
A plus ten highly agrees and a negative ten highly disagrees.  Where are you 
on the scale?  Do you find any or all of the content of this article 
sounding ludicrous?  Is this because you're saying to yourself something 
along the line of,  "I'm smart, I have smart friends, if this content is 
true why haven't any of us seen it openly?" How has your perception been 
shaped by your family, friends, peer groups, professional associations, 
religious affiliations, media, education, job, career field, social clubs, 
etc?  The following link provides an interesting overview of the "science" 
of shaping public perception.  
http://mercola.com/2001/aug/15/perception.htm 
*******

In the Old Testament of the Bible, the book of Proverbs says, "get wisdom 
(applied knowledge) and understanding".  These valuable resources put up a 
shield against the granddaddy of all lies. The lie is that "our elected and 
appointed public servants have no self-serving interests and are working to 
elevate the citizenry to its highest potential".  Obviously not every 
elected and appointed official is corrupt, it's the top core that's corrupt. 

Advocates for the citizenry are forced to do one of three things; 1) fight 
the corruption 2) become corrupt 3) leave public service in disgust. The war 
raging against us is a "softwar" against the gray matter of our brains where 
lies are the bullets of the enemy.  Adolph Hitler was masterful at 
manipulating his countryman to support his agenda; his secret was to repeat 
the lie until everyone believed it.  

As president, George Bush, Sr. frequently spoke of creating a "New World 
Order".  Who did George Bush, Sr. take the phrase from?  The first person 
who spoke of creating a "New World Order", Adolph Hitler!

Sun Tsu (dominant 6th century BC Chinese general) in "The Art of War" states: 
"Know yourself and know your enemy and you will win one hundred percent of 
the time" 

"Know yourself but do not know your enemy and you will win fifty percent of 
the time"

"Know your enemy but do not know yourself and you will win fifty percent of 
the time"

"Know neither yourself nor your enemy and you will lose one hundred percent 
of the time"

Acknowledging a problem is the first step toward establishing a solution! It 
must be noted that this writer is in no way anti-government.  To the 
contrary, this writer is extremely pro-government and maintains a strong 
conviction that a government based on the Constitution is vital for an 
upright populous to flourish.  This writer is anti-corruption!  

Do you believe that the corruption described above is taking place?  Do you 
feel helpless to do anything about it?  If you feel helpless, please don't!  
Build your knowledge base of the existing corruption and then share your 
knowledge with others, this builds momentum which is a powerful force 
against corruption. The worthy war that we have on our hands is the war for 
Truth.

"WE ARE APT TO SHUT OUR EYES AGAINST A PAINFUL TRUTH... FOR MY PART, I AM 
WILLING TO KNOW THE WHOLE TRUTH; TO KNOW THE WORST; AND TO PROVIDE FOR IT." 
---- Patrick Henry

Don Flesher  mailto:dflesher@ttinational.net 


Copyright 2001
All Rights Reserved
May be reprinted or distributed for non-profit purposes only. #2303

It's exciting to see many people opening up to the facts.  On November 28, 
2001 at Portland State University, Michael Ruppert the author of the 
following article presented a two-hour lecture presenting evidence of 
government complicity in the 9/11 attacks.  Approximately 1,000 people 
attended and upon the conclusion of his lecture he received a two-minute 
standing ovation.  If you see any value in these articles, please distribute 
them to your email list.

PRIVATE The Best Enemies Money Can Buy
From Hitler To Saddam Hussein to Osama bin Laden – Insider Connections and 
the Bush Family's Partnership with Killers of Americans Brown Brothers, 
Harriman - BNL- and the Carlyle Group By
Michael C. Ruppert

P.O. Box 6061-350, Sherman Oaks, CA 91413 [© Copyright 2001. All Rights 
Reserved, Michael C. Ruppert and From The Wilderness Publications, 

http://www.copvcia.com/"http://www.copvcia.com/

May be reprinted or distributed for non-profit purposes only.] FTW, Oct. 9, 
2001 - Since the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the 
Pentagon, major media powerhouses and the increasingly influential 
alternative media alike have begun to focus attention on Bush family 
connections and a long history of arming and financing America's attackers 
in the months and years prior to the outbreak of war. Recent stories in the 
Wall Street Journal (Sept. 27 & 28, 2001), ABC News (Oct. 1, 2001), as well 
as a host of reports from so-called alternative news sources have begun to 
focus attention on the Bush family's profit-making role in creating and 
arming our enemies.

The following is a more comprehensive look at the documented history of 
these relationships that will also open some new avenues of inquiry for the 
press, Congress and the American people.

In a world now filled with biowarfare agents, backpack nuclear devices, and 
chemical weapons like Sarin gas -- where there are people in many countries 
with reasons to oppose the United States -- the Bush Administration is 
following predictable strategies in a way that redefines the concept of 
brinksmanship. Human survival may depend upon the will and the ability of 
both the Congress and the press to focus on these relationships and to take 
appropriate action. Moreover – and I am not the first to say this – if a 
national security priority is to seize the financial assets of those who 
support terrorists, then perhaps we should start right here at home.

Adolph Hitler
Meticulous research, including U.S. government records from the era, along 
with contemporaneous news stories from the New York Times and other papers 
is presented in the 1992 book entitled, "George Bush, The Unauthorized 
Biography" by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin, Published by 

The Executive Intelligence Review and located at HYPERLINK 
"http://www.tarpley.net/bushb.htm"http://www.tarpley.net/bushb.htm. The 
following is sourced entirely from Chapter II of this essential work. [Note: 
Although FTW does not always agree with conclusions reached by the Executive 
Intelligence Review, or its founder Lyndon La Rouche, we have never found a 
single flaw in any of their factual research. History is history, no matter 
who presents it. And this history is essential to understanding our era.] 
George W. Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush, was the Managing Director of 
the investment bank Brown Brothers, Harriman from the 1920s through the 1940s. 

It was Brown Brothers, in conjunction with Averell Harriman, the Rockefeller 
family, Standard Oil, the DuPonts, the Morgans and the Fords who served as 
the principal funding arm in helping to finance Adolph Hitler's rise to 
power starting in 1923. This included direct funding for the SS and SA 
channeled through a variety of German firms. Prescott Bush, through 
associations with the Hamburg-Amerika Steamship line, Nazi banker Fritz 
Thyssen (pronounced Tee-sen), Standard Oil of Germany, The German Steel 
Trust (founded by Dillon Read founder, Clarence Dillon), and I.G. Farben, 
used the Union Bank Corporation to funnel vast quantities of money to the 
Nazis and to manage their American interests. 

The profits from those investments came back to Bush allies on Wall Street. 
Thyssen is universally regarded as having been Hitler's private banker and 
ultimate owner of the Union Bank Corporation. Early support for Hitler came 
from Prescott Bush through the Hamburg-Amerika Steamship line -- also funded 
by Brown Bothers -- that funneled large sums of money and weapons to 
Hitler's storm troopers in the 1920s.

According to Tarpley and Chaitkin, "In May 1933, just after the Hitler 
regime was consolidated, an agreement was reached in Berlin for the 
coordination of all Nazi commerce with the U.S.A. The Harriman International 
Company… was to head a syndicate of 150 firms and individuals, to conduct 
all exports from Hitler Germany to the United States." Furthermore, a 1942 
U.S. government investigative report that surfaced during 1945 Senate 
hearings found that the Union Bank, with Prescott Bush on the board, was an 
"interlocking concern" with the German Steel Trust that had produced:
- 50.8% of Nazi Germany's pig iron
- 41.4% of Nazi Germany's universal plate - 36% of Nazi Germany's heavy plate
- 38.5% of Nazi Germany's galvanized sheet - 45.5% of Nazi Germany's pipes 
and tubes - 22.1% of Nazi Germany's wire 
- 35% of Nazi Germany's explosives 

The business relationships established by Bush in 1923 continued even after 
the war started until they became so offensive and overt as to warrant 
seizure by the U.S. government under the Trading with the Enemy Act in 1942. 
In 1942, "Under the Trading with the Enemy Act, the government took over 
Union Banking Corporation, in which Bush was a director. The U.S. Alien 
Property Custodian seized Union Banking Corp.'s stock shares… "… all of 
which shares are held for the benefit of… members of the Thyssen family, 
[and] is property of nationals… of a designated enemy country." "On October 
28, the government issued orders seizing two Nazi front organizations run by 
the Bush-Harriman bank: the Holland-American Trading Corporation and the 
Seamless Steel Equipment Corporation." 

"Nazi interests in the Silesian-American Corporation, long managed by 
Prescott Bush and his father in law George Herbert Walker, were seized under 
the Trading with the Enemy Act on Nov. 17, 1942…" These seizures of Bush 
businesses were reported in a number of American papers including The New 
York Times and The Wall Street Journal.

Prescott Bush went on to become an influential Republican Senator from 
Connecticut who went on to be a regular golfing partner of President Dwight 
Eisenhower. His attorneys were the lawyers John Foster and Allen Dulles, the 
later became the CIA Director under Eisenhower.

Saddam Hussein
After becoming President in January 1989, Prescott Bush's son, George 
Herbert Walker Bush – father of our current President – authorized a series 
of programs that not only armed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein but also 
provided him with technology that assisted in his development of chemical 
weapons like Sarin gas, and biological weapons, which he still possesses. 
Apologists for Bush (the elder) say that, after the Iran-Iraq War of the 
1980s left the region unstable, he was just trying to establish a new 
balance of power. Not so. Bush directives and policies, including 
relationships with the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), and 
the Banca Nacional del Lavoro (BNL) were directly and deliberately 
responsible for creating the army the U.S. fought in 1991.

A story by Russ W. Baker, in the March/April issue the Colombia Journalism 
Review (CJR), provided the most compelling overview of Iraqgate that I have 
seen. "ABC News Nightline opened last June 9 with words to make the heart 
stop ‘It is becoming increasingly clear,' said a grave Ted Koppel, ‘that 
George Bush, operating largely behind the scenes throughout 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…
"Why, then, have some of our top papers provided so little coverage?" Baker 
poignantly asks.

"The result: readers who neither grasp nor care about the facts behind 
facile imagery like The Butcher of Baghdad and Operation Desert Storm. In 
particular, readers who do not follow the story of the Banca Nacional del 
Lavoro, which apparently served as a paymaster for Saddam's arms buildup, 
and thus became a player in the largest bank-fraud case in U.S. history.

"Complex, challenging, mind-boggling stories (from Iran-Contra to the S&L 
crisis to BCCI) increasingly define our times: yet we don't appear to be 
getting any better at telling them…
"Much of what Saddam received from the West was not arms per se, but 
so-called dual-use technology -- ultra sophisticated computers, armored 
ambulances, helicopters, chemicals, and the like, with potential civilian 
uses as well as military applications. We've learned that a vast network of 
companies, based in the U.S. and abroad, eagerly fed the Iraqi war machine 
right up until August 1990, when Saddam invaded Kuwait.

"And we've learned that the obscure Atlanta Branch of Italy's largest bank, 
Banca Nacional del Lavoro, relying partly on U.S. taxpayer-guaranteed loans, 
funneled $5 billion to Iraq from 1985 to 1989. Some government-backed loans 
were supposed to be for agricultural purposes, but were used to facilitate 
the purchase of stronger stuff than wheat. Federal Reserve and Agriculture 
department memos warned of suspected abuses by Iraq, which apparently took 
advantage of the loans to free up funds for munitions. U.S. taxpayers have 
been left holding the bag for what looks like $2 billion in defaulted loans 
to Iraq.

"… In fact, we now know that in February 1990, then Attorney General Dick 
Thornburgh [appointed by George H.W. Bush] blocked U.S. investigators from 
traveling to Rome and Istanbul to pursue the case… "… As New York Times 
columnist William Safire argued last December 7, ‘Iraqgate is uniquely 
horrendous: a scandal about the Systematic abuse of power by misguided 
leaders of three democratic nations [The U.S., Britain, and Italy] to 
secretly finance the arms buildup of a dictator." 

While Democrat Henry Gonzales, Chairman of the House Banking Committee 
during the period, stood as the lone voice from the wilderness in raising 
alarms about Bush's obvious corruption, the rest of the Congress sheepishly 
ignored all the signs demanding immediate action. Gonzales' voice reportedly 
fell silent after his empty car was machine-gunned in a Washington suburb in 
what passed for a drive-by shooting.

The CJR continues: "Meanwhile, The Village Voice published a major 
investigation by free-lancer Murray Waas in its December 18, 1990 issue… 
"That American troops could be killed or maimed because of a covert decision 
to arm Iraq,' Waas wrote, "is the most serious consequence of a U.S. foreign 
policy formulated and executed in secret, without the advice and consent of 
the American public…"

The L.A. Times, on Feb 23, 1992, dug deep enough to find secret National 
Security Decision Directives by the Bush Administration in 1989 ordering 
closer ties with Baghdad and paving the way for $1 billion in new aid. The 
Times' series, co-authored with Waas, emphasized that, "buried deep in a 
1991 Washington Press piece – that Secretary of State James Baker, after 
meeting with Iraqi foreign minister Tariq Aziz in October 1989, intervened 
personally to support U.S. government loans guarantees to Iraq." Baker's CJR 
report also noted, "On October 3, the [Wall Street] Journal reported [BNL 
official Christopher] Drogoul's assertion that the director general of 
Iraq's Ministry of Industry and Military Production had told him, ‘We are 
all in this together. The intelligence service of the U.S. government works 
very closely with the intelligence service of the Iraqi government.' 

Three weeks later, the Journal reported that [Henry] Gonzales ‘produced a 
phone-book-sized packet of documents' showing the involvement of U.S. 
exporting firms… The documents mentioned one… which designed parts for 
Iraq's howitzers and was financed through BNL…" In the wake of highly 
suspicious anthrax outbreaks in Florida, just miles from where several of 
the WTC suicide pilots trained, we add one final note. 

In his 1998 book "Bringing the War Home" author William Thomas writes, 
"Under that same [weapons transfer] program, 19 containers of Anthrax 
bacteria were supplied to Iraq in 1988 by the American Type Culture 
Collection company, located near Fort Detrick, MD, the site of the US Army's 
high security germ warfare labs."

The Carlyle Group, the Bushes and bin Laden The warnings about the Carlyle 
Group, the nation's 11th largest defense contractor, and the Bushes came 
long before the World Trade Center attacks. 
The Carlyle Group is a closely held corporation, exempt, for that reason, 
from reporting its affairs to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Little 
is known of what it actually does except that it buys and sells defense 
contractors. As of October 4, 2001, it has removed its corporate web site 
from the World Wide Web making further investigation through that channel 
impossible. Its Directors include Frank Curlicue, former Reagan Secretary of 
Defense; James Baker, former Bush Secretary of State; and Richard Barman, a 
former White House aide to Ronald Reagan and Republican Party operative.

On March 3, 2001, just weeks after George W Bush's inauguration, the 
conservative Washington lobbying group Judicial Watch issued a press 
release. 

It said:
"(Washington, D.C.) Judicial Watch, the public interest law firm that 
investigates and prosecutes government abuse and corruption, called on 
former President George Herbert Walker Bush to resign immediately from the 
Carlyle Group, a private investment firm, while his son President George W. 
Bush is in office. Today's New York Times reported that the elder Bush is an 
"ambassador" for the $12 billion private investment firm and last year 
traveled to the Middle East on its behalf. The former president also helped 
the firm in South Korea.

"The New York Times reported that as compensation, the elder Bush is allowed 
to buy a stake in the Carlyle Group's investments, which include ownership 
in at least 164 companies throughout the world (thereby by giving the 
current president an indirect benefit). James Baker, the former Secretary of 
State, who served as President George W. Bush's point man in Florida's 
election dispute, is a partner in the firm. 

The firm also gave George W. Bush help in the early 1990's when it placed 
him on one of its subsidiary's board of directors. "This is simply 
inappropriate. Former President Bush should immediately resign from the 
Carlyle Group because it is an obvious conflict of interest. 
Any foreign government or foreign investor trying to curry favor with the 
current Bush Administration is sure to throw business to the Carlyle Group. 

And with the former President Bush promoting the firm's investments abroad, 
foreign nationals could understandably confuse the Carlyle Group's interests 
with the interests of the United States government," stated Larry Klayman, 
Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel. 

"Questions are now bound to be raised if the recent Bush Administration 
change in policy towards Iraq has the fingerprints of the Carlyle Group, 
which is trying to gain investments from other Arab countries who [sic] 
would presumably benefit from the new policy," stated Judicial Watch 
President Tom Fitton." 

Judicial Watch noted that "even the Clinton Administration called on the 
Rodham brothers to stop their business dealings in [The former Soviet 
Republic of] Georgia because those dealings started to destabilize that 
country."

Since the WTC attacks the Wall Street Journal has reported (Sept. 28, 2001) 
that, "George H.W. Bush, the father of President Bush, works for the bin 
Laden family business in Saudi Arabia through the Carlyle Group, an 
international consulting firm." The senior Bush had met with the bin Laden 
family at least twice in the last three years – 1998 and 2000 -- as a 
representative of Carlyle, seeking to expand business dealings with one of 
the wealthiest Saudi families, which some experts argue, has never fully 
severed its ties with black sheep Osama in spite of current reports in a 
mainstream press that is afraid of offending the current administration.

The Nation, on March 27, 2000 – in a story co-authored by David Corn and 
Paul Lashmar – wrote, "In January former President George Bush and former 
British Prime Minister John Major paid a social call on Saudi Arabian Crown 
Prince Abdullah…" This story confirms at least one meeting between the elder 
Bush and Saudi leaders, including the bin Ladens. That the bin Ladens 
attended this meeting was confirmed in a subsequent September 27, 2001 Wall 
Street Journal (WSJ) story. The January 2000 meeting with the bin Ladens was 
also later confirmed by Bush (the elder's) Chief of Staff Jean Becker, only 
after the WSJ presented her with a thank you note sent by Bush to the bin 
Ladens after that meeting.

James Baker visited the bin Ladens in 1998 and 1999 with Carlyle CEO Frank 
Carlucci. 

The WSJ story went on to note, "A Carlyle executive said that the bin Laden 
family committed $2 million through a London investment arm in 1995 in 
Carlyle Partners II Fund, which raised $1.3 billion overall. The fund has 
purchased several aerospace companies among 29 deals. So far, the family has 
received $1.3 million back in completed investments and should ultimately 
realize a 40% annualized rate of return, the Carlyle executive said.

"But a foreign financier with ties to the bin Laden family says the family's 
overall investment with Carlyle is considerably larger…" In other words, 
Osama bin Laden's attacks on the WTC and Pentagon, with the resulting 
massive increase in the U.S. defense budget have just made his family a 
great big pile of money.

More Bush connections appear in relation to the bin Ladens. The WSJ story 
also notes that, "During the past several years, the [bin Laden] family's 
close ties to the Saudi royal family prompted executives and staff from 
closely held New York publisher Forbes, Inc. to make two trips to the family 
headquarters, according to Forbes Chairman Caspar Weinberger, a former U.S. 
Secretary of Defense in the Reagan administration. ‘We would call on them to 
get their view of the country and what would be of interest to investors.'" 
President G.H.W. Bush pardoned Weinberger for his criminal conduct in the 
Iran-Contra scandal in 1989.

Our current President, George W. Bush has also had -- at minimum -- indirect 
dealings with Carlyle and the bin Ladens. In 1976 his firm Arbusto Energy 
was funded with $50,000 from Texas investment banker James R. Bath who was 
also the U.S. investment counselor for the bin Laden family. In his 
watershed 1992 book, "The Mafia, The CIA and George Bush," award winning 
Texas investigative journalist Pete Brewton dug deeply into Bath's 
background, revealing connections with the CIA and major fraudulent 
activities connected with the Savings & Loan scandal that took $500 billion 
out of the pockets of American taxpayers. A long-time friend of George W. 
Bush, Bath was connected to a number of covert financing operations in the 
Iran-Contra scandal, which also linked to bin Laden friend Adnan Khashoggi. 

One of the richest men in the world, Khashoggi was the arms merchant at the 
center of the whole Iran-Contra scandal. Khashoggi, whose connections to the 
bin Ladens is more than superficial, got his first business break by acting 
as middle-man for a large truck purchase by Osama bin Laden's older brother, 
Salem.

Another key player in the Bush Administration, Deputy Secretary of Defense 
Richard Armitage, left his post as an Assistant Secretary of Defense in the 
Reagan Administration after a series of scandals connected to CIA operatives 
Ed Wilson, Ted Shackley, Richard Secord and Tom Clines placed him at the 
brink of criminal indictment and jail. Shackley and Secord are veterans of 
Vietnam operations and have long been linked to opium/heroin smuggling. The 
Armitage scandals all focused on the illegal provision of weapons and war 
materiel to potential or actual enemies of the U.S. and to the Contras in 
Central America.

Armitage, a former Navy SEAL, who reportedly enjoyed combat missions and 
killing during covert operations in Laos during the Vietnam War, has never 
been far from the Bush family's side. Throughout his career, both in and out 
of government, he has been perpetually connected to CIA drug smuggling 
operations. Secretary of State Colin Powell, in a 1995 Washington Post 
story, called Armitage, "my white son." In 1990, then President Bush 
dispatched Armitage to Russia to aid in its "transition" to capitalism. 

Armitage's Russian work for Bush has been frequently connected to the 
explosion of drug trafficking under the Russian Mafias, which became virtual 
rulers of the nation afterwards. In the early 1990s Armitage had extensive 
involvement in Albania at the same time that the Albanian ally, Kosovo 
Liberation Army was coming to power and consolidating its grip, according to 
The Christian Science Monitor, on 70% of the heroin entering western Europe. 
[See FTW Vol. II, No 2 – April 24, 1999] Armitage and Carlucci are both 
Board Members of the influential Washington think tank, the Middle East 
Policy Council.

The connections continue with Vice President Dick Cheney. Amongst the 
multitude of oil pipeline construction running through the new war zone is 
one project – according to a Sept. 19, 2001 Wall Street Journal story – a 
joint venture in which the bin Laden family joined with the construction 
firm H.C. Price. A researcher named "Phoenix," writing for the Internet news 
site Rumor Mills News Agency located at HYPERLINK 
"http://www.rumormillnews.com/"http://www.rumormillnews.com/, reported that 
Price subsequently changed its name to Bredero Shaw, Inc. and is now owned 
by a subsidiary of the Halliburton Corporation, Dresser Industries. 

It was Dresser industries that gave George H.W. Bush his first post war job 
in 1948. A check of the relevant corporate web sites has confirmed this. 
Vice President Dick Cheney, who served as Secretary of Defense during Desert 
Storm, directing the campaign against Saddam Hussein, was Halliburton's CEO 
until last year's election. And, according to a 2000 story from Harper's 
Magazine, in 1990 our current President, through a position as a corporate 
director of Caterair, owned by the Carlyle Group – at a time when the bin 
Laden's were invested in Carlyle – had additional connections to the bin 
Laden family. 

In addition, on March 1, 1995, when George W. Bush was Texas governor and a 
senior Trustee of the university, the University of Texas Endowment voted to 
place $10 million in investments with the Carlyle Group. As to how much of 
that money went to the bin Ladens we can only guess. But we do know that 
there is a long tradition in the Bush family of giving money to those who 
kill Americans.

Now, as the people of America are beginning to awaken to what is really 
being unleashed upon them, as a few brave souls are asking who's going to 
get all the money the Bush Administration is "borrowing" from government 
coffers and who's going to pay for it - the above history is more than 
ominous. 

Considering that during the 1980s, under the pretext of fighting a 
Sandinista regime in Nicaragua that never once launched an attack on the 
U.S., these same people oversaw an explosion in U.S. cocaine consumption 
that went from 80 metric tons in 1979 to 600 metric tons in 1989 - 
considering that the CIA trained and equipped death squads that tortured and 
murdered hundreds of thousands of people from Guatemala to Panama – 
considering that these same people have brutalized Iraq, leaving portions of 
it radioactively contaminated by depleted uranium for the next 4 billion 
years and causing a fivefold increase in the number of childhood leukemia 
cases amidst a starving population, one can only wonder what they will 
produce for the world now given the context of the World Trade Center attacks.