HOW THE BUSH FAMILY PULLED THE STRINGS BEHIND THE WORLD'S WORST BANK HEIST-- WITH COOPERATION FROM THE ENTIRE GOP & LOTS OF DEMOCRATIC INSIDERS

Bush accomplished nothing substantive in Israel and Palestine. No one thought he would. Now he's headed for the lair of his family's longtime criminal business associates, the Saudis and bin-Ladens. Yesterday Ray Learsy, author of Over a Barrel: Breaking Oil’s Grip on Our Future, offered a series of questions a diligent and non-self-serving president might ask his Saudi buddies. Bush is clearly not diligent and he is certainly the most self-serving president in recent memory (the last 100 years or so, say).

Bush would do well to ditch the piano-playing goat he's dragging around the Middle East with him and hook up with someone who understands the game the Saudis play. Trade in one used Condi for one souped-up Lucy Komisar. Of course, that's as likely to happen as a rich man getting into Heaven; the game the Saudis play may have worked poorly for the American public, but it has always worked very well for the Bush family.

Komisar's essay in A Game As Old As Empire, "BCCI's Double Game: Banking on America, Banking on Jihad," shows the clear connections between the Bush family and the financial machinations behind drugs, terrorists and flat-out bank robbery. She explains how the Bushes "used and protected the world's most criminal bank." (Even U.S. defense secretary and Bush family retainer Robert Gates remarked that BCCI was "the Bank of Crooks and Criminals International.") The Bush family wealth derives from trading with this country's enemies-- the Nazis when Prescott Bush was in charge of the family, the bin-Ladens under George I and II. The difference is that America shut Bush's grandfather down, and he nearly wound up in the Big House. The current Bush crooks were put into the White House.

The video interview below features Komisar talking about her investigation and research into the BCCI scandal, the biggest bank heist in history, presided over by the Bushes (with the active collusion of political insiders from both sides of the aisle, particularly Republicans Orrin Hatch, Clairborne Pell, Michael Deaver, John McCain, Robert Novak, William Casey, Henry Kissinger, Brent Scowcroft and Oliver North, and Democrats Clark Clifford, Marc Rich and Burt Lance. When Komisar looked into which countries' officials were being most egregiously bribed by BCCI, look at the company the U.S. was keeping:

Argentina, Bangladesh, Botswana, Brazil, Cameroon, China, Colombia, the Congo, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Kuwait, Lebanon, Mauritius, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, Zambia and Zimbabwe

If you don't have time to read the book, or even her chapter in the book, by all means watch the video. The most important bits come in at around 21 minutes.