VOL. LIV, NO. 14
California State University, Long Beach September 23, 2003
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Bush's big cover up

Karl Kalman

It is an ironic fact that the number of victims in the Sept. 11 World Trade Center bombing is close to the same number of Panamanian civilians human rights experts estimate were killed by American forces in our 1989 "arrest" of Manuel Noriega. "Huh?" Well, when it comes to foreign policy and secret cover ups, the United States is still "numero uno." Did the Daddy Bush administration care about what would happen to the human rights of anti-Saddam rebels after he had declared a "cease-fire" in the Gulf War? Hell No! The only interest of the Bush Administration in Iraq is oil.

President Bush was in one hell of bind last month when it turned out that Saudi Arabia, not Iraq, funded al Qaeda. Realizing we'd invaded the wrong country, Bush did the honorable thing: he has come out against gay marriages. Turns out that unlike the 18 minutes missing from the Nixon tape, the 28 pages missing from Congress' publicly released report on the Sept. 11 attack have been found. And it turns out to be a summary of Saudi Arabia's financing of terrorist fronts including the 'charities' supporting al Qaeda.

Wait! Why has the Bush Administration covered up the Saudi's blood soaked "charity" operations? For the answer, let me take you back to Midland, Texas, 1986. A young man, George W. Bush, seems to have trouble finding oil. But he strikes it rich when his flailing drilling partnership is bought out by Harken Oil. Despite the addition of the business acumen of Bush Jr., Harken faces collapse but is pulled from the brink by a cash infusion from a Saudi, Sheik Bakhsh. The money from Arabia has nothing to do with Dubya's daddy at the time holding the post of vice president of the free world.

The Bakhsh booty continued a pattern of the young Bush being saved from his dire business decisions by a line of Sheik angels. His first oil company, Arbusto, going bust-o, was aided by the American financial representative of the bin Laden family. And following the bombing of our embassies, the Clinton administration sent two delegations to Saudi Arabia to tell their royal highnesses to stop giving money to the guys who are killing us. But Bush, once in office, put the kibosh on unfriendly words to the Saudis.

Furthermore, in the summer of 2001, Bush disbanded the U.S. intelligence unit tracking funding of al Qaeda. What is it our G-men were uncovering? According to two separate sources speaking to BBC, patrons of al Qaeda fronts include those who have previously funded Bush family business and political ventures. Now that's a wee bit embarrassing. Something you wouldn't want in a congressional report.

Soldiers now sit and guard our precious oil in Iraq until the United States sets up another puppet government in favor of the big oil tycoons. Will we hear more about this anytime soon? Next time, Executive Order 13,233 signed by President Dubya to hide government documents from the public that would have exposed his connections with Enron and the current state of California. Stay Tuned!

Karl Kalman is a business finance major and a student at Cal State Long Beach.

 


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