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• Thursday, February 23, 2006 11:14 PM

  Bush family tradition

  The Bush's have never been ones to allow national interest or national security to get in the way of a business deal.

  The President's great grandfather was on the War Production Board that ran the American economy during the First World War. He was accused of directing small arms contracts to Remmington that had been bought by the Rockefellers and Harrimans with whom he had close ties. (In honesty, I've never been able to find a clear confirmation of that charge.)

  Prescott Bush, the President's grandfather, played a major role in financing the rearmament of Nazi Germany and was the director of two banks seized after the war started as German agents. Why he was never prosecuted is an interesting question. I suspect he was just too well connected.

  George H. W. Bush played a major role in selling arms to Iran during the Regan years, and I personally believe he was involved in a secret deal to keep American hostages locked up in Iran until after the 1980 election. That, of course, was never proven, but was not seriously investigated either.

  One of the reasons that George W. Bush has been so successful in pushing through tax cuts for rich Americans and other such stuff is that the American people are not prepared to believe that a President would run the Country to benefit himself, his family and their rich friends. Sadly, that seems to be the situation we are in.

  Roger A. Webb

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