{"id":1840,"date":"2004-01-12T19:14:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-12T23:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1840"},"modified":"2004-01-12T19:14:00","modified_gmt":"2004-01-12T23:14:00","slug":"all-the-presidents-fathers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2004\/01\/12\/19\/14\/all-the-presidents-fathers\/","title":{"rendered":"All The President’s Fathers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Four generations of the current president’s family have embroiled the United States in the Middle East through CIA connections, arms shipments, rogue banks, inherited war policies and personal financial links … Ted Koppel put it in a June 1992 “Nightline” program after the 1991 Persian Gulf War: “It is becoming increasingly clear that George [H.W.] Bush, operating largely behind the scenes through the 1980s, initiated and supported much of the financing, intelligence and military help that built Saddam’s Iraq into the aggressive power that the United States ultimately had to destroy.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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