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The Bush family conspiracy theory is an umbrella term used to describe various conspiracy theory allegations directed towards the family of President George W. Bush, including the President's brothers; Florida Governor Jeb Bush, Marvin Bush, and Neil Bush; their father and former President George H. W. Bush; grandfather Prescott Bush; and great-grandfather George Herbert Walker. Image File history File links Stop_hand. ... Ongoing events â€¢ Abramoff-Reed gambling scandal â€¢ Al Jazeera bombing memo â€¢ Avian influenza (H5N1) outbreak â€¢ Black sites scandal â€¢ Conservative leadership race (UK) â€¢ Fuel prices â€¢ Irans nuclear program â€¢ Jilin chemical plant explosions â€¢ Kashmir earthquake â€¢ Malawi food crisis â€¢ Malaysian prisoner abuse scandal â€¢ New Delhi bombings investigation â€¢ Niger food crisis â€¢ North Indian cyclone... This proposed logo for the US Information Awareness Office was dropped due to fears that its Masonic symbolism would provoke conspiracy theories. ... President is a title held by many leaders of organizations, companies, universities, and countries. ... George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States and a former governor of Texas. ... John Ellis Jeb Bush (born February 11, 1953), a Republican, is the forty-third and current Governor of Florida. ... Marvin Pierce Bush (born October 22, 1956) is the youngest son of George H. W. Bush and Barbara Pierce, and brother of George W., John (Jeb), Neil and Dorothy. ... Neil Bush Neil Mallon Bush (born January 22, 1955 in Midland, Texas) is the son of former President George Herbert Walker Bush and Barbara Bush (Barbara Lane Pierce) and younger brother of President George Walker Bush and Governor Jeb Bush. ... George Herbert Walker Bush, GCB, (born June 12, 1924 in Milton, MA) was the 41st President of the United States (1989â€“1993). ... Prescott Sheldon Bush (born May 15, 1895 in Columbus, Ohio â€” died October 8, 1972 in New York City, New York,) was a United States Senator from Connecticut and a Wall Street executive banker with Brown Brothers Harriman. ... George Herbert Walker (June 11, 1875 in St. ...

Some allege criminal conspiracies involving United States or multinational corporations, vested interests, U.S. government organizations, and various dictators. While some attach great importance to suggested links which connect individuals and companies, others dismiss some or all of the conspiracy theories as fantasy and claim that these connections are normal for business families and do not imply wrongdoing or malevolence. For other uses, see Crime (disambiguation). ... In the criminal law, a conspiracy is an agreement between two or more natural persons to break the law at some time in the future, so a natural person identified with the mind of a legal entity cannot conspire with the company alone. ... A multinational corporation (MNC) or multinational enterprise (MNE) or transnational corporation (TNC) is a corporation/enterprise that manages production establishments or delivers services in at least two countries. ... Vested interests are people or groups who stand to gain financially from some policy, usually a public policy. ... An organization or organisation (read more about -ize vs -ise) is a formal group of people with one or more shared goals. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Dictatorship. ... See fantasy for an account of the literary genre involving the development of common or popular fantasies. ...

1 Background
2 Various allegations and conspiracy theories
3 Information Used as Evidential Support
4 Possible Explanations
5 Further reading
6 Documentaries
7 See also
8 Acts implemented by George W. Bush
9 External links
- 9.1 Investigative Journalism

Background

Proponents of these conspiracy theories sometimes refer to the alleged secret organization with pejorative terms: Bush League, Bush Buddies, Texas Taliban, Bush Criminal Empire (BCE), or Bush family evil empire. The first is a pun on the baseball term "bush league"— minor league amateurs. Look up pejorative in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Official language(s) None. ... Flag flown by the Taliban. ... Baseball is a team sport in which a player on one team (the pitcher) attempts to throw a hard, fist-sized ball within a zone over home plate while a player on the other team (the batter) attempts to hit the baseball with a tapered, smooth, cylindrical bat that can... Bush league is a general term used to describe an action or thing as being amateur, inferior or crude. ...

As the Bush family has provided the last two Republican presidents, there may be a confusion of family conspiracy with what is actually normal political maneuvering. (Similarly, the Kennedy and Roosevelt families have produced a number of political and public figures). Additionally, members of the Bush family are politically and economically prominent, and have been members of covert organizations including the CIA, so it is natural that they have connections to other major political and business figures, some of whom have unsavory reputations. Barbara Bush, Jeb Bush, George H.W. Bush, Laura Bush, and George W. Bush watch tee ball on the White House lawn. ... The Republican Party is one of the two major political parties in the United States two-party system, the other one being the Democratic Party. ... John, Robert, and Edward Kennedy The Kennedy family is a prominent family in American politics and government descending from the marriage of Joseph P. and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. ...

A number of allegations have been made about different members of the Bush family at different times: it is not reasonable to discuss these allegations as a whole. Listed below are assorted allegations and rebuttals, but any serious consideration of these allegations should be made on a strictly individual basis. Some allegations have received considerable mainstream attention and debate; others are generally regarded as specious and unsubstantiated.

Various allegations and conspiracy theories

Oil dealings and the Middle East

The Bushes support the oil industry to enhance their own financial interests in the industry.
Ayatollah Khomeini dealt with George H.W. Bush and/or his operatives to arrange the Iran-Contra deal and the October surprise conspiracy, on behalf of U.S. Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan.
While Vice President, George H.W. Bush was responsible for Saddam Hussein's acquisition of weapons and funding during the Iran-Iraq War.
Osama bin Laden, then a Mujahedeen leader in Afghanistan, is reputed to have been a CIA agent who made use of CIA resources and U.S.-funds to bolster the morale of radical Islamists after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Further, the Bush family, through its ties to the bin Laden family and other connections, otherwise aided bin Laden's rise.
The September 11, 2001 attacks was planned or sanctioned by the Bush administration, to secure oil pipeline routes through Afghanistan in preparation for Peak Oil. (See 9/11 conspiracy theories)
Marvin Bush was in charge of security at the World Trade Center in the months just prior to the 9-11-01 attacks.
The threat of WMDs and terrorism in the wake of the September 11 attacks were political cover for the 2003 implementation of PNAC founders Cheney and Rumsfeld's 1998 plan for the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq[1], originally presented to President Clinton.
The assassination of Olof Palme may have been related to his knowledge of Iran-Contra.[2]
George H.W. Bush Sr. was a CIA agent since the late 1950's. He was the agent in charge of the failed "Bay of Pigs" invasion of Cuba in 1961. Bush's presence in this event can be proven by the names of the boats used in the operation. The boats were named the "Houston", after Bush's adopted home town, the "Zapata", after his company Zapata Oil, and the "Barbara", after his wife.
CIA agent Bush was in Dallas TX on November 22, 1963, but he claims he "can't remember what he was doing" when President Kennedy was assassinated. George H.W. Bush would claim in a letter to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover that he had overheard a Texas Young Republican by the name of James Parrot threatening the President. Two CIA agents, E. Howard Hunt and Frank Sturgis were briefly held for questioning in the JFK shooting, but were released after the arrest of Lee Harvey Oswald. Hunt and Sturgis were in the "grassy knoll" area, where many experts believe the fatal gunshot was fired from. Lee Harvey Oswald's journal, currently on display in Washington at the National Archives, contains the name and phone number for George H.W. Bush.

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Consolidation of political power

Prescott Bush supported the Nazis. These claims stem from investments he held in Nazi Germany.
While George H.W. Bush was head of the CIA, he may have been involved in the 1976 assassination of Orlando Letelier. Bush remains silent on this issue, and the CIA refuses to release many of the internal documents which could shed some light on it.
There was an organized conspiracy between Jeb Bush, Katherine Harris, the U.S. Supreme Court, and ChoicePoint to rig the American presidential election in 2000.
Certain members of the Bush Administration, the United States Supreme Court, and the Republican Party disenfranchised tens of thousands of voters in the 2000 and 2004 elections via voter purging lists, poll harassments, rigged electronic voting machines (see Diebold Election Systems), and fake absentee ballots.
Through legislation and actions which extend executive powers and reduce oversight as justified by the War on Terrorism, the Bush administration is working toward establishing a totalitarian state.
In the Bush administration's ambitions to expand the Texas Medication Algorithm Project to the entire U.S., mandating "mental health" screening of every American and possibly forcing treatments on the "ill", is suspected a range of issues from mere pharmochemical-industry collusion[3] up to a new version of Hitlerian control, demonisation, or eradication of dissidents and mental defectives (i.e. eugenics).[4]

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Other

The Bush family supports crime and Satanism through the Skull and Bones Society—only their involvement in the organization is actually known.
Conspiracy of Silence is a 56 minute Discovery Channel documentary film, detailing an alleged Lawrence King child sex scandal that involved many children from Nebraska institution, Boys Town. The organized child sex parties implicated the Reagan and Bush White House during the 1980s.
The Bush family—especially Neil and Jeb Bush—profited from the Savings and Loan crisis of the 1980s. [5]
Jonathan Bush was involved in banking tomfoolery with Riggs Bank. [6]
The Bush family is actually part of a vast bloodline shared by many European royal families of alien/inhuman Reptoid blood, asserted by David Icke, among others.
The Bush family is related to Rev. George Bush (biblical scholar) (1796-1859) a leading 19th-century Hebrew scholar, Presbyterian minister and professor who wrote "The Life of Mohammed" [7] (1830 (Bush geneological chart included in the edition published by The Book Tree)), an anti-Muslim polemic. According to one theory, George W. Bush's foreign policy towards Islamic nations is an attempt to engage in a religious war that has been planned for generations.

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Information Used as Evidential Support

The following are the parts of known history which have led people (see references) to make further claims (see allegations above).

Businesses associated with Prescott Bush, such as the Union Banking Corporation, were shut down in November, 1942 — nearly one year after America's entrance into World War II — under the Trading With the Enemy Act for working with Nazis.
George H.W. Bush, Prescott Bush, and George W. Bush were members of the Skull and Bones secret society, along with John Kerry. (Bush's membership in the Skull and Bones society was the subject of several Doonesbury cartoons.)
George H.W. Bush was head of the Central Intelligence Agency in 1976-77.
Ronald Reagan's would-be assassin John Hinckley Jr is the son of one of George H.W. Bush's better supporters in his campaign against Reagan; the Hinckleys' Vanderbilt Energy was threatened with a $2-million fine the morning of the assassination attempt; Scott Hinckley and Neil Bush had a dinner appointment for the next day.[8]
George W. Bush has sealed the presidential records of both himself and his father.
Saddam Hussein was provided with weapons and funding during the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s during the Reagan administration, when George H.W. Bush was Vice President. In addition, Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense under George W. Bush was the Special Envoy to the Middle East in this period, appointed by President Reagan. He met personally with Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war.
Dick Cheney was G.H.W. Bush's Defense Secretary, and is currently G.W. Bush's Vice-President. Cheney is the former President and CEO of Halliburton Company which has been given an exclusive and unbidded contract in postwar Iraq. In addition, Halliburton's accounting firm was Arthur Andersen, which has been convicted of obstruction of justice, and allegedly committed fraud.
The Carlyle Group is an investment group which includes members of the Bush family and the bin Laden family (one of the richest in Saudi Arabia). George H. W. Bush and bin Ladens were at a Carlyle meeting in a DC hotel the morning of 9/11. George Bush's private plane landed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on the morning of 9/11. While private flights were grounded after 9/11, permission was granted to fly several bin Ladens to a gathering location. They left the U.S. before air traffic resumed. In total, four planes were allowed to leave the U.S. with Saudi citizens when the American airspace was closed. [9]
George W. Bush and Salem bin Laden were coinvestors/business partners in Arbusto Energy.
The 2000 Presidential Election was won by George W. Bush in Florida, the governor of which was his brother, Jeb Bush, after a decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. The court decision was divided 5-4.
During Election Night of the 2000 Presidential Election, John Prescott Ellis, a full cousin of George W. Bush, was a consultant to Fox News, analyzing data from the Voter News Service. He regularly contacted Jeb and George Bush by phone that evening.
The Project for the New American Century, which in 1990s advocated the invasion of Iraq for reasons of geopolitical strategy, included Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, and John R. Bolton, all of whom subsequently held influential positions in the Bush administration.
The Bush administration does not accept the International Criminal Court's authority over American citizens, and members of the administration have questioned the usefulness of the United Nations. George W. Bush appointed John R. Bolton to a recess appointment as Ambassador to the United Nations although Bolton had previously made disparaging remarks about the U.N.[10]
The George W. Bush administration pushed for the USA PATRIOT Act and has used the new powers in a variety of cases.
George W. Bush, during the 2003 State of the Union Address, said that British intelligence had learned Iraq had been attempting to purchase uranium from Africa. That claim was based on information which the CIA said it could not verify, and CIA head George Tenet accepted responsibility for failing to remove the assertion from the speech in the fact-checking stage. An earlier document specifically documenting a supposed buy from Niger was known to be a forgery and was not referred to in any Bush speech.
George W. Bush has made remarks suggesting that he saw footage of the first 9/11 impact on network television, even though that crash was not broadcast until hours later[11].
Bush plans to have nuclear waste stored at the Yucca Mountain facility.
Bush has made the following statements:
- "I told all four [congressional leaders] that there were going to be some times where we don't agree with each other. But that's OK. If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." December 18, 2000, [12] [13]
- Answering a repeated reporter question about the anti-Bush gwbush.com, "But how far should these guys go?", Bush replied "There ought to be limits to freedom. We're aware of the site, and this guy is just a garbage man, that's all he is. Of course I don't appreciate it. And you wouldn't, either." May 21, 1999 [14] [15]
When the White House had released a copy of a National Guard Bureau document, Aeronautical Orders Number 87, September 29, 1972, they inked out James R. Bath's name (which was revealed by comparing it to a 2000 release of the same document, Bath's name uncensored). The allegation is that the White House was afraid of drawing attention to George W. Bush's relationship with James R. Bath, who managed funds for members of the Bin Laden family, and was the Director of BCCI.

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Possible Explanations

That G.H.W. Bush was vice-president during the Reagan Administration does not necessarily link Bush to Saddam's acquisition of weapons and funding during the Iran-Iraq War. It is a fact that most vice-presidents have little role in the working of an administration and often have little practical influence over policy or decision-making.

G.H.W. Bush was head of the CIA for 11 months, between 1976 and 1977. Osama bin Laden's period as an alleged CIA agent occurred a decade later, when Bush was president. Presidents are, because of their workload, not involved in the hiring of CIA agents.

Many people work in a number of administrations. That Dick Cheney worked in the administrations of G.H.W. Bush and G.W. Bush is neither unusual nor does it demonstrate a conspiracy. He also served in the administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.

Many people internationally are associated with the Carlyle Group. As it is a large international investment group, it would be surprising if the Bush and bin Laden families were not in it or in some other group together. Former British Prime Minister John Major is also associated with it.

Many presidents have said "The job of the President would be easier, if I were a dictator" or something similar, including Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy. In those cases the comment was made tongue-in-cheek. There is no evidence that Bush intended it in any other way. Similar arguments are applied to the "limits on freedom" statement.

While proponents of the conspiracy link Bush family members to a range of groups, from Nazis to Ayatollah Khomeini, Saddam Hussein to the Carlyle Group and the bin Ladens, supporters of Bush argue that there is no connection between Bush, these people, and each other. They further note that although Bush may have had dealings with the bin Ladens, he did not have such dealings with Osama bin Laden himself.

Many wealthy Americans and companies became involved with the Nazis. Which makes it okay.

Many persons of European origin (including most prominent American figures) have royal or aristocratic ancestors if one looks back far enough. As a result, critics of Bush family conspiracy theories see them as a string of unconnected claims which have at most circumstantial evidence but which contains no hard evidence of any longterm conspiracy.

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Documentaries

The Great Conspiracy: the 9/11 News Special You Never Saw by Barrie Zwicker
Martial Law 9-11: Rise of the Police State by Alex Jones
Unprecedented: the 2000 Presidential Election (2002) by Robert Greenwald
Uncovered: The War on Iraq (2004) by Robert Greenwald
Unconstitutional: The War on Our Civil Liberties (2004) by Robert Greenwald
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) by Michael Moore

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Acts implemented by George W. Bush

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External links

The Straight Dope: Was President Bush's great-grandfather a Nazi?
GWBUSH.COM
American Holocaust
Gold Fillings, Auschwitz and George Bush
The Indiscreet Charm of the Bush Nazi Web Conspiranoids
The Windsor-Bush Bloodline
Coincidence Theorist's Guide to 9/11
House of Bush
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A detailed chart of connections between the Bush family and various groups
Reptoid Resistance Group
Watch "Loose Change" conspiricy documentary online Free!
Timeline of Treason: The Bush Family Connection to the Nazis
Links to Over 3000 Anti-Bush Sites

Investigative Journalism

Peak Oil and the U.S Response
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