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The Saudis with all their newfound wealth needed alliances and that is where James Bath and George Bush came in and were important to them. Favors beget favors and patience is a virtue in that part of the world. Favors and support which was guaranteed then comes back later and that is why Prince Bandar kept those ties close and used them to get Saudis out of the country after 9/11 (See Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 and the Ungar book.).
"Flooded with petrodollars, the Saudis still urgently needed a partner. As a result, the kingdom began to weave a tight alliance with the United States, militarily, economically, and politically (and with those who would become key players, i.e. George W. Bush). As the petrodollars poured in over the next twenty-five years, roughly eighty-five housand `high-net-worth' Saudis invested a staggering $860 billion in American companies--an average of more than $10 million a person and a sum that is roughly equivalent to the gross domestic product of Spin. They took the United States by storm, selling crude, buying banks, building skyscrapers, buying weapons, investing everywhere."{Unger)
"Most important, the Saudis sought strong political ties to the UnitedStates through PERSONAL FRIENDSHIPS with the powers that be. Education, training, and connections with American power brokers became prerequisitesfor the next generation of the Saudi elite, `they started sending their sons to school int he U.S.,' says Nawaf Obaid, a Saudi oil analyst who himself was educated at Harvard and MIT. `They wanted to build up relationships with key people at the same time they had return on investments.'" (ibid)
George W. Bush was one of those important personal friendships. It is the reason Bush has succeeded even when his businesses should have failed. There was always the money and there was always the political pressure and influence to carry him all the way to the White House (Bushisms and all).
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"The ever-growing social inequality in America is incompatible with any meaningful conception of democracy, because democracy has more than just political dimensions. It has economic dimensions as well. A society which permits (let alone encourages) such disparities in wealth has a shallow notion of democracy, indeed. In fact, one might say that there is an unbridgeable contradiction between political democracy and economic servitude. If the former produces the latter, then only one of them is real. As the U.S. Supreme Court Judge Louis Brandeis noted years ago, `We can either have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.'" (Valdas Anelauskas, "Discovering America as It Is" - 1999)

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		~ Wednesday, September 15, 2004 The Saudis with all their newfound wealth needed alliances and that is where James Bath and George Bush came in and were important to them. Favors beget favors and patience is a virtue in that part of the world. Favors and support which was guaranteed then comes back later and that is why Prince Bandar kept those ties close and used them to get Saudis out of the country after 9/11 (See Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 and the Ungar book.). "Flooded with petrodollars, the Saudis still urgently needed a partner. As a result, the kingdom began to weave a tight alliance with the United States, militarily, economically, and politically (and with those who would become key players, i.e. George W. Bush). As the petrodollars poured in over the next twenty-five years, roughly eighty-five housand `high-net-worth' Saudis invested a staggering $860 billion in American companies--an average of more than $10 million a person and a sum that is roughly equivalent to the gross domestic product of Spin. They took the United States by storm, selling crude, buying banks, building skyscrapers, buying weapons, investing everywhere."{Unger) "Most important, the Saudis sought strong political ties to the UnitedStates through PERSONAL FRIENDSHIPS with the powers that be. Education, training, and connections with American power brokers became prerequisitesfor the next generation of the Saudi elite, `they started sending their sons to school int he U.S.,' says Nawaf Obaid, a Saudi oil analyst who himself was educated at Harvard and MIT. `They wanted to build up relationships with key people at the same time they had return on investments.'" (ibid) George W. Bush was one of those important personal friendships. It is the reason Bush has succeeded even when his businesses should have failed. There was always the money and there was always the political pressure and influence to carry him all the way to the White House (Bushisms and all). URGENT: Follow the link... Read Article Here View my complete profile posted by Margot at 5:56 PM ~ Tuesday, September 14, 2004 "The ever-growing social inequality in America is incompatible with any meaningful conception of democracy, because democracy has more than just political dimensions. It has economic dimensions as well. A society which permits (let alone encourages) such disparities in wealth has a shallow notion of democracy, indeed. In fact, one might say that there is an unbridgeable contradiction between political democracy and economic servitude. If the former produces the latter, then only one of them is real. As the U.S. Supreme Court Judge Louis Brandeis noted years ago, `We can either have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.'" (Valdas Anelauskas, "Discovering America as It Is" - 1999) View my complete profile posted by Margot at 9:35 PM