President Bush’s uncle, William H. T. (“Bucky”) Bush, has made $2.7 million off the recent sale of a company with war contracts, for which he served as a director, according to the Los Angeles Times:
As President Bush embarks on a new effort to shore up public support for the war in Iraq, an uncle of the commander in chief is collecting $2.7 million in cash and stock from the recent sale of a company that profited from the war.
A report filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission shows that William H.T. Bush collected just under $1.9 million in cash plus stock valued at more than $800,000 from the sale of Engineered Support Systems Inc. to DRS Technologies of New Jersey.
The Bush family has a history of war profiteering, most notably including the president’s grandfather:
George Bush’s grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany.
The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism.
His business dealings, which continued until his company’s assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy.
We need a Way-Back Machine to put Bush back with his granddaddy, and give him another chance to fight in a good war. Then we can go into the future and get that ” future president” that Bush talked about. President Gore? Or Feingold? With our luck it will be President Rove! ARRGG!!
Welcome to THE FAMILY, Uncle Bucky.
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There may come a day when you’ll be asked to do a favor for THE FAMILY
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