ext_238555 ([identity profile] retrofire.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] talkpolitics 2010-06-19 07:00 am (UTC)

I have a fun fact

The Bush family had close business ties to both Hitler and Osama Bin Laden!

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. His business dealings continued until his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act.

In 1978, Bush and Osama bin Laden's brother, Salem bin Laden, founded Arbusto Energy, an oil company based in Texas. George Bush's dad was closely associated with the Bin Laden family having business dealings through the Carlyle group.


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