Neil Bush, the Rev. Moon, Paraguay and the U.S. Dept. of Education By Bill Berkowitz

[Demeter]

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2008/3/28/132117/162


Over the past several years, Neil Bush, the younger brother of President George W. Bush and the son of former President George H.W. Bush, has made several international trips of behalf of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon's assorted enterprises. In late February, Bush called on Paraguay's president while in the country as a guest of a business federation founded by the Rev. Moon. A source in the Paraguayan president's office, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, confirmed that Neil had met with President Nicanor Duarte "along with a delegation from the Universal Peace Federation," a group associated with Moon. According to its website, the UPF "is a global alliance of individuals and organizations dedicated to building a world of peace, a world in which everyone can live in freedom, harmony, cooperation, and co-prosperity for all." Neil Bush's trip to Paraguay is all the more interesting when considered against the backdrop of what columnist Ken Layne called the "greatest weirdest Bush Conspiracy." In a recent piece headlined "The Bushes and the Moons," Layne wrote:


The story goes like this: George W. Bush and/or George H.W. Bush bought hundreds of thousands of acres in Paraguay, adjoining a similar spread owned by the Unification Church's Rev. Sun Myung Moon. Both massive parcels are hidden within a remote South American wilderness atop the world's biggest freshwater aquifer adjoining a secret U.S. military airbase. Oh, and there's a special non-extradition law to protect the Bush/Moon families as they enjoy their old age and run drug/weapons smuggling rings, safe from American justice. And they'll own all the drinking water in the world, or something.


Two years ago, Neil Bush, along with Rev. Moon, visited the Philippines and Taiwan. While in the Manilla, Bush was present for the inaugural convocation of the Universal Peace Federation (UPF), and he joined Moon in meeting with Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. The Manila Bulletin reported: "Together with peace leaders that included Neil Bush ... Moon arrived yesterday as part of a 100-day tour that is taking him to 100 cities and 67 nations and covering a journey of almost 100,000 miles."


At home, Neil Bush is best known for his 1980s involvement in the Silverado Savings and Loan debacle, which cost taxpayers more than $1 billion; the lurid details of a messy divorce from Sharon Bush, his wife of 23 years; and his mother Barbara Bush's shameless demand that her contribution to a Hurricane Katrina relief foundation, working with those who had to be relocated to Texas, be used by local schools to acquire Ignite! products.

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. Neil Bush is a peace leader?

:wtf:

And all this time I thought he was an asshole related to the president who liked having sex in Asia and was ripping off school districts by selling overpriced crap that is supposed to raise test scores. Hmmm

[Sal Minella]

2. Well heck, when women knock on a guy's hotel door and ask for sex, what do you expect him to do?

Especially if you have NO idea where they came from?