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tetedur

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4. The family business is war.

Reply to merrily (Reply #1)

Wed Oct 1, 2014, 07:47 AM

Oct 2014

From WWI when Samuel was on the War Industries Board to Prescott who was a banker for Fritz Thysen in WWII. Senator Prescott played golf with Eisenhower and mentored Nixon who mentored GHW Bush. After Nixon was out, GHW was head of the CIA like his father's business partner Allen Dulles, Cheney was in with Rummy who was in with Ford. The Reagan era gave us Iran-Contra and the Sales and Loan Banking Scandals. GHW gave us the first Iraq war. But the son GW out did old Dad. Yep he sure did.

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