![]() ![]() ![]() For all the cute speculations about an Oedipal rift between Poppy and “W,” they were always more like than different. Men “on assignment,” as he says in conversation, “but not our assignment.” They were political operators in service for generations to the “extractive” industries (oil, gold and other minerals) and the CIA. Who were those masked men, after all, “41” and “43”? They were spooks, Russ Baker reports, persuasively enough. Russ Baker on the lingering Bush mystery, in Family of Secrets, page 466. Dissonant truths would be suppressed, and the tellers of them banished. The result was a government that in essence was not unlike those of third-world oligarchs - a vehicle for military dominance and bountiful favors for supporters and friends. often did with the swagger of the entitled prince. ![]() What Poppy had done quietly, even furtively, W. The appearance has been of a genial Poppy and a born-again if bumptious George W. The actuality has tended toward wars for resources and the preservation of class prerogative, all abetted by secrecy, intimidation and the dark arts of both psychological and covert ops. Russ Baker: “on assignment… but not ours”Ī perceptual gap is at the essence of the Bush enterprise. ![]()
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