Revelations of Bush-Saudi family ties disturbing

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20040425/ai_n12543134

Chicago Sun-Times, Apr 25, 2004 by William O'Rourke

Why the Bush White House cooperated so assiduously with Bob Woodward for his new book, Plan of Attack, remains puzzling. Woodward's career has been unique: Having gotten a taste for changing history with his early 1970s Watergate reporting, he continues to want to be a player in current events, not merely history's chronicler.

Woodward's first book on the Bush presidency, Bush at War, was considered a plus for President Bush. But why was that book aided by the White House?

One answer, of course, is that Bush's handlers decided Woodward could write a book without the president's approval, so by cooperating they could help shape it. Woodward is a curious hybrid: an investigative reporter who values the status quo. He is the official scribe of Washington power politics. Woodward's books are written in a mock heroic style, shorn of editorial comment, which anoints all the participants with grandeur and gravitas -- especially, in the case of Bush at War, President Bush. snip

Over the years, the Saudi royal family and the Bush family have been so close they appear related. Today's high gas prices allow the Saudis to take their profits now. They will barely notice the dip that will take place in the fall, and after Nov. 5 the prices will be able to rise again.

During the Iraq invasion, our military made use of the high-tech underground command-and-control bases we built in Saudi Arabia over the years, and our government continues to look the other way even after the Saudis nurtured 15 of the 19 terrorists who manned the 9/ 11 attacks; and it looks the other way as the Saudi royal family suppresses whomever it wishes and enriches those it chooses to, including the Bush family and its circle.

House....but the media never followed up or published it so the public would know what they were actually dealing with.
BushCo did a remarkable job of covering up all the unpleasant realities so as to grease the road to the White House as best they could. Ironically, if it had not been for the Supreme Court that Bush Sr set up, all the trickery would have failed.