I was recently reading about Ronald Regan's assassination attempt by John Hinckley Jr. in 1981:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDIVheB5kIM
and discovered that George Bush Senior, who was Director of the CIA 1976-1977, was running against Regan in the 1980 presidential election, losing to him, and then became Vice President of the United States Jan 20, 1981, when Regan took office:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._W._Bush
Two months into Regan's presidency (remember that George Bush senior, former CIA head, was running against him and lost), on March 30th, 1981, Regan was shot by John Hinckley Jr. in a failed assassination attempt.
Now here's the interesting part:
John Hinkley Jr's father, John Hinckley Sr., was the chairman of Vanderbilt Energy Corp. which was one of George Bush Sr.'s largest financial contributors in the 1980 Presidential campaign. Further, the Vice chairman of Vanderbilt, Jonh Hinckley Jr.'s brother Scott Hinckley, was scheduled to have dinner with George Bush's son, Neil Bush, the day after the attempt was made, but scheduled before the assassination attempt:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reagan_assassination_attempt
Hinckley family connections (excerpt from the link above)
John Hinckley Jr. is the son of John Hinckley Sr., chairman of the oil company Vanderbilt Energy Corp., one of Vice President George H.W. Bush's larger political and financial supporters in his 1980 presidential primary campaign against Ronald Reagan. Also, John Hinckley Jr.'s older brother, Vanderbilt vice president Scott Hinckley, and the Vice President's son Neil Bush, had a dinner appointment scheduled for the next day.[25]
The Associated Press published the following short note on March 31, 1981:
"The family of the man charged with trying to assassinate President Reagan is acquainted with the family of Vice President George Bush and had made large contributions to his political campaign....Scott Hinckley, brother of John W. Hinckley Jr. who allegedly shot at Reagan, was to have dined tonight in Denver at the home of Neil Bush, one of the Vice President's sons....The Houston Post said it was unable to reach Scott Hinckley, vice president of his father's Denver-based firm, Vanderbilt Energy Corp., for comment. Neil Bush lives in Denver, where he works for Standard Oil Co. of Indiana. In 1978, Neil Bush served as campaign manager for his brother, George W. Bush, the Vice President's eldest son, who made an unsuccessful bid for Congress. Neil lived in Lubbock, Texas, throughout much of 1978, where John Hinckley lived from 1974 through 1980."
Apparently, John Hinckley Jr's reason for the attempt to assassinate Regan, was to impress actress Jodi Foster, by acting out a plot in the movie Taxi Driver. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity. A kind of neat and tidy clean up to it all.
This doesn't sound like coincidence to me.
Further, from 1983-1989, former CIA operative Manuel Noreiga, who was also the President of Panama, was removed from Panama when he rebelled against the CIA, in favor of protecting Panama's interests by going rogue:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Noriega
George Bush, who knew Manuel Noreiga was on the CIA payroll, invaded Panama to remove and incarcerate him for undermining US interests of the Panama Canal, a key trade route that was to be handed back over to Panama under the "Torrijos-Carter Treaty" in the year 2000. In 1977, when Bush was Director of CIA and Jimmy Carter was President, the treaty was signed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrijos–Carter_Treaties
Guess who ordered the invasion? George Bush. The reason? To protect the canal, because Noriega went rogue, and his Presidency (installed by the US) threatened the stability of the Canal for trading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Panama
The Panama Canal is an important trade route, because it connects the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, allowing North American trade with the world (i.e. ships from Japan can pass through to Africa and African ships can travel to Japan, and trade can occur with all the major continents. Whomever controls this canal, controls the most direct trading route for the world.)
So, the CIA employed and installed Manuel Noreiga, who provided weapons and money to American backed guerillas in order to overthrow an internal conflict (probably established by the CIA in the first place to undermine and destabilize the country), and allowed America to profit from this war by securing the Canal for US interests by Maneul Noriega. Only Noriega went rogue, and the US plans failed, until George Bush invaded the small country, and overthew the installed President, and incarcerated him.
Meanwhile in Iraq, from 1980-1988, Saddamm Hussein was President, and the US, when Regan and Bush were in power, publicly supported Saddam Hussein and former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld shakes hands with Saddam Hussein, meeting with him in 1983 to secure a new oil pipeline:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaP7ZrmkcuU
However, simultaneously, the Regan/Bush administration secretly provided weapons and funding to Iran to undermine Iraq's efforts with the war, destabilizing the region:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Contra_affair
with proceeds of the arms sales going to fund Nicaraguan guerillas.
This must have pissed off Saddam Hussein, as the US was secretly helping Iran, yet publicly supporting him, for the new oil pipeline.
When the relationship between Saddam Hussein and Bush fell through because of the Iran-Contra Affair, the US went to war with Iraq under the Bush administration. Saddam Hussein remained in power
Later, under George Bush Jr's rule, the US would implicate Iraq with the 911 attacks, and condemn them for having weapons of mass destruction (of course, the US was charging them with possession of weapon's of mass destruction while having the largest nuclear arsenal in the world, and stockpiles of biological and chemical weapons):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYI7JXGqd0o
Defense Secretary Rumsfeld would later resign in 2006,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Rumsfeld#Resignation
but not before Secretary of State Colin Powell
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Powell
(who was the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff, the highest ranking position in the military, and part of the invasion of Panama and Iraq war I under George Bush Sr.), decided to resign in 2004, both under George Bush Jr's administration.
Then of course the US captures Saddam Hussein, finding him buried underground in Iraq, and is tried not for possessing weapons of mass destruction, or being involved in 911, but for the killing of 148 people the US and it's allies labeled as "genocide" and "crimes against humanity". This would be later criticize by Amnesty International for being "deeply flawed and unfair"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Saddam_Hussein
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein
And of course, let's not forget about Osama Bin Laden, who was backed by the US during the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, and whom was provided weapons and training by the CIA in the 80's:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Invasion_of_Afghanistan
and whose family was a business partner of George Bush Jr's oil company before he was President (see Michale Moore's movie Fahrenheit 911 for more on this), who were the only ones who were allowed air travel out of the US the days following 911.
And Bush wanted him killed. They can find Saddam Hussein buried underground in Iraq, but can't find this guy.
What this all comes down to is that the US supported all these leaders in the past, specifically the Bush family, and later had them incarcerated and/or killed when their business interests fell through (i.e. the ownership of the panama canal, the oil pipeline in Iraq, and undermining the Soviets in Afghanistan.).
This is what is fully disclosed and what we know about the Bush family. What we don't know scares me much more. I have no doubt the Bush family tried to have Regan killed, used national resources for personal gain, and put a lot of soldiers and their families in harm's way for that end.
Just a thought. But a scary one indeed. The Bush family has been involved in shaping the most important political events (save for the fall of the Berlin Wall) within the last 30 years, both in office and within their personal relationships.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDIVheB5kIM
and discovered that George Bush Senior, who was Director of the CIA 1976-1977, was running against Regan in the 1980 presidential election, losing to him, and then became Vice President of the United States Jan 20, 1981, when Regan took office:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._W._Bush
Two months into Regan's presidency (remember that George Bush senior, former CIA head, was running against him and lost), on March 30th, 1981, Regan was shot by John Hinckley Jr. in a failed assassination attempt.
Now here's the interesting part:
John Hinkley Jr's father, John Hinckley Sr., was the chairman of Vanderbilt Energy Corp. which was one of George Bush Sr.'s largest financial contributors in the 1980 Presidential campaign. Further, the Vice chairman of Vanderbilt, Jonh Hinckley Jr.'s brother Scott Hinckley, was scheduled to have dinner with George Bush's son, Neil Bush, the day after the attempt was made, but scheduled before the assassination attempt:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reagan_assassination_attempt
Hinckley family connections (excerpt from the link above)
John Hinckley Jr. is the son of John Hinckley Sr., chairman of the oil company Vanderbilt Energy Corp., one of Vice President George H.W. Bush's larger political and financial supporters in his 1980 presidential primary campaign against Ronald Reagan. Also, John Hinckley Jr.'s older brother, Vanderbilt vice president Scott Hinckley, and the Vice President's son Neil Bush, had a dinner appointment scheduled for the next day.[25]
The Associated Press published the following short note on March 31, 1981:
"The family of the man charged with trying to assassinate President Reagan is acquainted with the family of Vice President George Bush and had made large contributions to his political campaign....Scott Hinckley, brother of John W. Hinckley Jr. who allegedly shot at Reagan, was to have dined tonight in Denver at the home of Neil Bush, one of the Vice President's sons....The Houston Post said it was unable to reach Scott Hinckley, vice president of his father's Denver-based firm, Vanderbilt Energy Corp., for comment. Neil Bush lives in Denver, where he works for Standard Oil Co. of Indiana. In 1978, Neil Bush served as campaign manager for his brother, George W. Bush, the Vice President's eldest son, who made an unsuccessful bid for Congress. Neil lived in Lubbock, Texas, throughout much of 1978, where John Hinckley lived from 1974 through 1980."
Apparently, John Hinckley Jr's reason for the attempt to assassinate Regan, was to impress actress Jodi Foster, by acting out a plot in the movie Taxi Driver. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity. A kind of neat and tidy clean up to it all.
This doesn't sound like coincidence to me.
Further, from 1983-1989, former CIA operative Manuel Noreiga, who was also the President of Panama, was removed from Panama when he rebelled against the CIA, in favor of protecting Panama's interests by going rogue:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Noriega
George Bush, who knew Manuel Noreiga was on the CIA payroll, invaded Panama to remove and incarcerate him for undermining US interests of the Panama Canal, a key trade route that was to be handed back over to Panama under the "Torrijos-Carter Treaty" in the year 2000. In 1977, when Bush was Director of CIA and Jimmy Carter was President, the treaty was signed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrijos–Carter_Treaties
Guess who ordered the invasion? George Bush. The reason? To protect the canal, because Noriega went rogue, and his Presidency (installed by the US) threatened the stability of the Canal for trading:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Panama
The Panama Canal is an important trade route, because it connects the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, allowing North American trade with the world (i.e. ships from Japan can pass through to Africa and African ships can travel to Japan, and trade can occur with all the major continents. Whomever controls this canal, controls the most direct trading route for the world.)
So, the CIA employed and installed Manuel Noreiga, who provided weapons and money to American backed guerillas in order to overthrow an internal conflict (probably established by the CIA in the first place to undermine and destabilize the country), and allowed America to profit from this war by securing the Canal for US interests by Maneul Noriega. Only Noriega went rogue, and the US plans failed, until George Bush invaded the small country, and overthew the installed President, and incarcerated him.
Meanwhile in Iraq, from 1980-1988, Saddamm Hussein was President, and the US, when Regan and Bush were in power, publicly supported Saddam Hussein and former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld shakes hands with Saddam Hussein, meeting with him in 1983 to secure a new oil pipeline:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaP7ZrmkcuU
However, simultaneously, the Regan/Bush administration secretly provided weapons and funding to Iran to undermine Iraq's efforts with the war, destabilizing the region:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Contra_affair
with proceeds of the arms sales going to fund Nicaraguan guerillas.
This must have pissed off Saddam Hussein, as the US was secretly helping Iran, yet publicly supporting him, for the new oil pipeline.
When the relationship between Saddam Hussein and Bush fell through because of the Iran-Contra Affair, the US went to war with Iraq under the Bush administration. Saddam Hussein remained in power
Later, under George Bush Jr's rule, the US would implicate Iraq with the 911 attacks, and condemn them for having weapons of mass destruction (of course, the US was charging them with possession of weapon's of mass destruction while having the largest nuclear arsenal in the world, and stockpiles of biological and chemical weapons):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYI7JXGqd0o
Defense Secretary Rumsfeld would later resign in 2006,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Rumsfeld#Resignation
but not before Secretary of State Colin Powell
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Powell
(who was the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of staff, the highest ranking position in the military, and part of the invasion of Panama and Iraq war I under George Bush Sr.), decided to resign in 2004, both under George Bush Jr's administration.
Then of course the US captures Saddam Hussein, finding him buried underground in Iraq, and is tried not for possessing weapons of mass destruction, or being involved in 911, but for the killing of 148 people the US and it's allies labeled as "genocide" and "crimes against humanity". This would be later criticize by Amnesty International for being "deeply flawed and unfair"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Saddam_Hussein
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein
And of course, let's not forget about Osama Bin Laden, who was backed by the US during the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, and whom was provided weapons and training by the CIA in the 80's:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Invasion_of_Afghanistan
and whose family was a business partner of George Bush Jr's oil company before he was President (see Michale Moore's movie Fahrenheit 911 for more on this), who were the only ones who were allowed air travel out of the US the days following 911.
And Bush wanted him killed. They can find Saddam Hussein buried underground in Iraq, but can't find this guy.
What this all comes down to is that the US supported all these leaders in the past, specifically the Bush family, and later had them incarcerated and/or killed when their business interests fell through (i.e. the ownership of the panama canal, the oil pipeline in Iraq, and undermining the Soviets in Afghanistan.).
This is what is fully disclosed and what we know about the Bush family. What we don't know scares me much more. I have no doubt the Bush family tried to have Regan killed, used national resources for personal gain, and put a lot of soldiers and their families in harm's way for that end.
Just a thought. But a scary one indeed. The Bush family has been involved in shaping the most important political events (save for the fall of the Berlin Wall) within the last 30 years, both in office and within their personal relationships.
