I read the first 50 pages last night of “>House of Bush, House of Saud, which thus far, has been a pretty fascinating history. Some, I’m sure would call it fiction or partisan history, but basically it’s been tracing the history of some relationships between the elder Bush , his “texas friends” , James Bath, Salem Bin Laden (elder brother of Osama) , and Khalid bin Mahfouz, and GW plus James Bakker. Dick Cheney has not yet entered the narrative.

The things that strike me thus far: For all the Republican smear campaign against Kerry for his “elitism”, the Bush family is steeped in it. The elder Bush is the son of Prescott Bush (big banker in the Northeast) , and GW attended Yale as the son of an “elite family”, which they raz Kerry for his “elite education”.

The other thing is how the Rep. Campaign makes a huge deal out of Saddam’s use of biological weapons, which were supplied by the United States, and the US continued to support and aid Iraq all the while Iraq was using these biological weapons.