Did the Saudis buy a president? Bushes and Saudi money.

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http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2004/03/12/unger_2/index.html

Did the Saudis buy a president?
How much money has flowed from the House of Saud to the Bush family and its friends and allies over the years? No one will ever know -- but the number is at least $1.477 billion.


Editor's note: Part 2 of Salon's exclusive excerpt from "House of Bush, House of Saud," to be published on March 16 by Scribner.
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By Craig Unger

March 12, 2004  |  If the Saudis had been happy with the presidency of George H.W. Bush -- and they were -- they must have been truly ecstatic, in the summer of 2000, that his son was the Republican candidate for president. Indeed, the relationship between the two dynasties had come a long way since the seventies when Saudi banking billionaire Khalid bin Mahfouz and Salem bin Laden had flown halfway around the world to Texas to see James Bath, George W. Bush's old friend from decades before. Even bin Mahfouz's subsequent financing of the Houston skyscraper for James Baker's family bank or the Saudi bailout of Harken Energy that helped George W. Bush make his fortune were small potatoes compared with what had happened since.

The Bushes and their allies controlled, influenced or possessed substantial positions in a vast array of companies that dominated the energy and defense sectors. Put it all together, and there were myriad ways for the House of Bush to engage in lucrative business deals with the House of Saud and the Saudi merchant elite.

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1. We should OUT James Bath and George Bush once and for all.

You would think the media would have noticed by now that Bath was grounded from flying with Bush on the same day and wonder where his records are in relation to Bush's missing year.

Plus the Bath connection to Bush, Harken and Bin Laden money. (BCCi)