The Afghanistan Papers
How is George W. Bush portrayed in the nonfiction book, The Afghanistan Papers?
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Bush is a scion of extremely wealthy and well-connected political family. He is the son of the forty-first president of the United States George H.W. Bush and the grandson of the Connecticut Senator and financier Prescott Bush. Russ Baker’s excellent book, Family of Secrets makes a compelling case that the Bush family is part of an elite cabal that hordes wealth and political influence and controls various unseen levers of the US political system for its own conspiratorial purposes, at times operating through the Central Intelligence Agency, where George H.W. Bush was entrenched from an early age. Baker convincingly implicates George H.W. Bush in the conspiracies to assassinate John F. Kennedy in 1963 and to force Richard Nixon from office through the Watergate scandal of 1972. As relates to George W., Baker’s premise is that the lazy, inept, selfish, and mean-spirited son had his path to the White House pre-paved for him at various points in his life, with his family using back channels to have his AWOL status with the National Guard of Alabama clerically disappeared and his string of business and personal failures kept from public scrutiny.
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