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I've seen nothing but open disdain and criticism of Saudi Arabia for many years, especially during GW Bush's presidency due to the very deep links between the House of Saud and the Bush family.

Incidentally there's some pretty interesting reading on that topic for anyone curious: Family of Secrets from 2009,
and House of Bush, House of Saud from 2004.


Conversely, things wound up pretty chilly on the Obama/House of Saud front.

https://www.amazon.com/Devils-Chessboard-Dulles-Americas-Government/dp/0062276174

https://www.amazon.com/JFK-Unspeakable-Why-Died-Matters/dp/1439193886/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

https://www.amazon.com/Family-Secrets-Americas-Invisible-Government/dp/1608190064

https://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Economic-Hit-John-Perkins/dp/0452287081

https://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Government-Michael-Glennon/dp/0190206446


Those are the books that you should read.

Here are also some good resources:

Paul Craig Roberts worked in the Reagan administration: http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/

This is a good multi-part article excerpted from one of the books above: http://whowhatwhy.org/2013/09/16/part-1-mr-george-bush-of-the-central-intelligence-agency/

Michael Glennon’s abstract about his book: http://harvardnsj.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Glennon-Final.pdf

A PDF of the “Confessions of an Economic Hitman” book if you don’t want to buy it: http://resistir.info/livros/john_perkins_confessions_of_an_economic_hit_man.pdf

This is when the reporter asked Bill Clinton about Mena: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDMktUYvC7k

Article on the coup attempt in France: http://whowhatwhy.org/2015/10/20/jfk-assassination-plot-mirrored-in-1961-france-part-1/

All of whowhatwhy.org is very good. There is probably a lot of good information there most haven’t heard of. The main guy, Russ Baker, is a Pulitzer prize winning journalist.

Bet you didn’t know that Bob Woodward was a state intelligence asset/disinformationist? https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/710466456941686784

All part of the record…. Enjoy.

George W. Bush went to Yale. He never got a single job without the help of his father. Not one.

Source: https://www.amazon.com/Family-Secrets-Americas-Invisible-Government/dp/1608190064/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1522258008&sr=8-1&keywords=family+of+secrets

If you want crazy you should read his book Family of Secrets

In it, among other things, he suggests that GHWB was recruited by the CIA right out of Yale. Allan Dulles, the first director of the CIA, was a friend of George's father, Prescott, and may have seen potential in the young Poppy Bush. He was a patriot and a war hero, after all, and had the breeding and connections to be a great agent.

The author believes that GHWB throughout his career as an oilman, and later politician, was Agency all the way. It might explain why, in 1977, apparently out the blue, he was tapped to head up the CIA in the wake of the Church Committee's excoriation of the organization.

Great read, but, you know, full on crazy.

http://www.amazon.com/Family-Secrets-Americas-Invisible-Government/dp/1608190064

It is Not a Rumor.

• The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade
  
• Chasing the Scream
  
• Dark Alliance: Movie Tie-In Edition: The CIA, the Contras, and the Cocaine Explosion
  
• The Big White Lie: The CIA and the Cocaine/Crack Epidemic
  
• Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America, Updated Edition
  
• Drug War Capitalism
  
  See Also:
  
  
• Propaganda by Edward Bernays
  
• Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, America's Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years
  
• The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government
  
• Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & the Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream -- CIA created the counterculture drug movement.
  
• The Open Conspiracy: What Are We to Do with Our Lives? --HG Wells

It is easy to understand a proclivity to believe every President (since JFK) as being controlled by Deep State Puppet masters.

The control the Puppet Masters are able to exert though, on each President since 1963 has varied individually and in degrees relative to time.

Not including JFK or Trump, the President's only marginally controlled by the Puppet Masters were,

• Reagan. For Reagan, the Deep State was able to eventually obtain greater control through subterfuge and threats (attempted assassination.) Reagan was definitely his own man, but George HW Bush's was purposefully able to associate Iran/Contra with the Reagan Administration, with the idea of eventually forcing Reagan to step aside before his second term ended, allowing GHWB to run as an incumbent in 1988, with all the powers of the Presidency.
  
• Carter. Carter was his own man like Reagan. Unlike Reagan, he lacked a loyal base of supporters that could push back against Deep State operatives. Any chances of being elected to a second term were severely damaged when George HW Bush and his CIA minions were able to delay the release of the Iranian Hostages. Interestingly, Stefan Halper show's up as an instigator in the "October Surprise" that delayed the release of hostages until after the 1980 election. Peter Strzok Sr. of course was working in Iran during the Revolution for a subsidiary of Bell Helicopter. (Bell Helicopter is a deep state Red Flag going back to the JFK assassination. Stefan Halper's father in law, Ray S. Cline - CIA Deputy Director, has a few mentions as a possible "manager" of the JFK hit team.)
  
  Under Greater Deep State Control
  
  
• Nixon and Johnson were under greater control by the Deep State than either Reagan or Carter. Both were involved in the JFK Assassination (Nixon only marginally as the Point Man for setting up the Cuban composed Operation 40 hit team to take out Castro, but which was used to take out JFK instead.) Nixon's attempts to push back against the Deep State were thwarted. Russ Baker's "Family of Secrets" makes a pretty good argument that "Poppy Bush" was part of the effort to force Nixon's Resignation via the Watergate Burglary Cover Up. Some of The Dallas '63 attendees of course show up as part of the Burglary Crew (notably E. Howard Hunt and a few Cubans.)
  
  Significantly Under Deep State Control
  
  
• President Ford was appointed by the Deep State so it is not like he had any inclination to Push Back against his handlers. His cover-up of the Warren Commission Investigation assured permanent control by the Deep State. He of course appointed "Poppy Bush" to be Director of the CIA.
  
  Deep State Presidents Controlled via Compromise
  
  
• Clinton - Ollie North (Out of the VP Office of Poppy Bush) ran Contra Cocaine into the Airport in Mena, Arkansas. The choice to use Arkansas was undoubtedly because Bill Clinton as Governor had already been compromised via Honey Pot stings and/or because of his own Cocaine use. You can rest assured, in some CIA vault, there is a photo or video of Bill Clinton with a teen aged girl, or with a line of coke, or with a teen aged girl and a line of coke.
  
• Obama - Obama never mentioned in his autobiography the time he spent in Pakistan. Likely because he worked for the CIA. If the CIA does not have his real birth certificate, then they likely have photo's or videos of him in the company of men.
  
  Deep State President Controlled via Family Connections
  
  
• George W. Bush - I would not call W. an actual Deep State President. His father Poppy mostly pulled the strings through Cheney, Rumsfeld, and others.
  
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• George Herbert Walker Bush - His Family's Rockefeller Connections and later Post WWII OSS/CIA affiliations allowed GHWB to accumulate a lot of power. He has managed to exert Deep State influence since JFK was killed on every US President. His status as the scion of the Deep State accounts for his otherwise un-electable persona. Poppy certainly lacked the charisma of JFK, the communication skills of Reagan or the outsider status of Carter. Nevertheless, he managed to reach the Presidency and other high positions in Government early in his career without a Resume.
  
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Family of Secrets

Saw it. McNamara is still a loyal servant of a corporatist enterprise whose only logical outcome was his spawn, Rumsfeld.

McNamara's vanity was to be remembered as a good soldier. Rumsfeld's was to go down without a single regret. But both would never out the chest of corpses that they were hiding. Rumsfeld doesn't even pretend to. McNamara on the other hand, carefully presents the public relations hot points that liberals will take as a measure of good will. Read JFK and the Unspeakable by Douglass http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1439193886/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_1?pf_rd_p=1944687502&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=1608190064&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0PQRARQ4WQ7GKPCWAG33. Or Russ Baker's Family of Secrets http://www.amazon.com/Family-Secrets-Americas-Invisible-Government/dp/1608190064