George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography - Get a Free Blog

Henry Kravis, Robert Mosbacher, T. Boone Pickens, Nicholas Brady, James Baker III
and the City of London will be decisive. If covert operations and dirty tricks are on the
agenda, then there is a whole stable of CIA old boys with whom he will consult, and so
on down the line. During much of 1989, despite his control over the presidency, Bush
appeared as a weak and passive executive waiting for his networks to show him what it
was he was supposed to do. When German reunification and the crumbling of the Soviet
empire spurred those --primarily British- networks into action, Bush was suddenly
capable of violent and daring adventures. As his battle for a second term approaches,
Bush may be showing increasing signs of a rage-driven self-starter capability, especially
when it comes to starting new wars designed to secure his re-election.
Biography has its own inherent discipline: it must be concerned with the life of its
protagonist, and cannot stray too far away. In no way has it been our intention to offer an
account of American history during the lifetime of George Bush. The present study
nevertheless reflects many aspects of that recent history of US decline. It will be noted
that Bush has succeeded in proportion as the country has failed, and that Bush's
advancement has proceeded pari passu with the degradation of the national stage upon
which he has operated and which he has come to dominate. At various phases in his
career, Bush has come into conflict with persons that were intellectually and morally
superior to him. One such was Senator Yarborough, and another was Senator Frank
Church. Our study will be found to catalogue the constant decline in the qualities of
Bush's adversaries as human types until the 1980's, by which time his opponents, as in the
case of Al Haig, are no better than Bush himself.
As for the political relevance of our project, we think that it is very real. During the Gulf
crisis, it would have been important for the public to know more about Bush's business
dealings with the Royal Family of Kuwait. During the 1992 presidential campaign, as
Wall Street's recent crop of junk-bond assisted leveraged buyouts line up at the entrance
to bankruptcy court, and state workers all across the United States are informed that the
retirement pensions they had been promised will never be paid, the relations between
George Bush and Henry Kravis will surely constitute an explosive political issue.
Similarly, once Bush's British and Kissingerian pedigree is recognized, the methods he is
likely to pursue in regard to situations such as the planned Romanian-style overthrow of
the Castro regime in Cuba, or the provocation of a splendid little nuclear war involving
North Korea, or of a new Indo-Pakistani war, will hardly be mysterious.
The authors have been at some pains to make this work intelligible to readers around the
world. We offer this book to those who share our aversion to the imperialist-colonialist
New World Order, and our profound horror at the concept of a return to a single,
worldwide Roman Empire as suggested by Bush's "pax universalis" slogan. This work is
tangible evidence that there is an opposition to Bush inside the United States, and that the
new Caligula is very vulnerable indeed on the level of the exposure of his own misdeeds.
It will be argued that this book should have been published before the 1988 election,
when a Bush presidency might have been avoided. That is certainly true, but it is an
objection which should also be directed to many institutions and agencies whose