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To: calebcar
This is what I was talking about, doesn't look good.

----------------------------------------------------------- I put this here from your link that you posted as I heard at the top of the hour news that they were going to investigate Bush while he was the Governor of Texas. ***********************************************************

Enron's Ken Lay and the Bush Boys

Enron Founder and Chairman Kenneth Lay also worked in the Pentagon for the Nixon administration during the Vietnam War.

Lay is a close friend of George Bush, Sr. In fact, his Houston home in River Oaks is near the Tanglewood residence of the former President and CIA Director.

Although there have been no published reports of Bush Sr. doing favors for Lay, three of the Bush Boys have used their father's name to get contracts for Enron.

According to an article by Seymour Hersh in the New Yorker, Neil and Marvin Bush tried to influence government officials for an Enron bid to rebuild Shuaiba North power plant in Kuwait.

Ironically this power plant was destroyed in George Bush's Persian Gulf War. Enron abandoned the bid a year ago.

In 1988, then Texas governor George Bush Jr., reportedly telephoned Rodolfo Terragno, Argentina's Public Works Minister, to ask him to award Enron a contract to build a pipeline from Chile to Argentina.

"He assumed that the fact he was the son of the president would exert influence. I felt pressured. It was not proper for him to make that kind of call," Terragno told The Nation.

Finally, when Carlos Menem, another Bush Sr. crony, became president of Argentina, Enron won the bid.

Neil Bush, director of the failed Denver-based Silverado Savings and Loan, created a subsidiary of his oil company to conduct business in Argentina in 1987.

Argentina finally got so fed up with the Bush Boys, they formally had a parliamentary investigation regarding their so-called "business dealings ***********************************************************

I believe this is going to get real ugly as ones try and save their butts.

From the: Barr to be on CNN thread

44 posted on 01/10/2002 10:37:55 PM PST by horsewhispersc
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To: horsewhispersc
You're right. It doesn't look good at all. In fact, it looks like a damned pack of lies.

GWB, for instance, was not governor of Texas in 1988.

45 posted on 01/10/2002 11:39:33 PM PST by Post Toasties
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