by Steven Lendman
World headlines announced the passing of GHW Bush at age-94, eulogizing him, ignoring the disturbing Bush family legacy.
It’s
not pretty. It goes back over four generations – during and after WW I,
closely connected to Wall Street and America’s military, industrial,
security complex.
George H. Walker and Samuel Prescott were dual
founding fathers. Walker was a St. Louis financier, later working for
Averell Harriman, a core member of US foreign policy elders known as
“The Wise Men,” along with Dean Acheson, George Kennan and others.
They
were lawyers, bankers and diplomats, together when Truman became
president in 1945, involved in creating the Truman Doctrine to counter
Soviet Russia, the Marshall Plan to keep European countries from going
communist post-WW II, and Cold War containment, Kennan the chief
architect of containing the Soviet Union after Nazi Germany and imperial
Japan were defeated...
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