Why did George W. Bush insist -- with such fanatical certainty, despite the well-established, clearly-stated doubts of his own intelligence services -- that Saddam Hussein was hoarding a vast arsenal of weapons of mass destruction? Why the insistence on this pathological disassociation from reality, which led directly to the death of thousands of innocent people? Why did he tell such lies, such cynical lies, such horrible lies, lies dripping blood, lies breeding more lies like rats on a plague ship?
That's easy -- his family was making money from it.
But last year, Papa retired from the firm, heading off into the sunset to wallow in the government swag that Junior had pumped Carlyle's way -- $2.1 billion in 2003 alone. While he doubtless still has "interests" in a number of Carlyle's shady deals, he's through with the higher hustlerdom. No, today we're dealing with Pop's brother, William, uncle of the current president.
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