The Bushes and the Saudis

Dear Editor,

"House of Bush, House of Saud" published in 2004 by Scribner and written by Craig Unger clarifies the problems of international terrorism.

It is a lot like a John Grisham or a James Bond mystery story, only the long relationship between the Bush family and Saudi royal family is true.

Current problems in the Middle East are actually additional chapters to it in 2016.

The Bush family moved to Midland-Odessa, Texas, when George W Bush was an infant. It seemed like a grassy desert compared to Connecticut. George H.W. Bush was a Yale graduate. He became involved in the oil industry.

Their family's connection to the Royal Saudi family would make an exciting movie.

Efforts to push Russia out of Afghanistan included covert operations and germ and chemical warfare.

Dec. 13, 2003, Saddam Hussein was capture after 135,000 U.S. soldiers were caught in a Muslim land war. This was a minor problem compared to Osama bin Laden's terrorist training camps. His relationship to the royal Saudi house was terminated due to his terrorist activities.

Chapter 14 of this book ties in with Donald Trump's proposal to ban displaced individuals from Muslim areas. (We don't know which ones are radical terrorists.)

Hundreds of millions of dollars poured into the Saudis and into the Saudi kingdom from huge oil revenues.

Abusto (Bush in Spanish) was a small oil company owned by the Bush family. They were unsuccessful in drilling for oil. The international oil market collapsed.

George H.W. Bush flew to Saudi Arabia and asked King Fahd for help. In 1986 his company was merged with a Saudi oil company.

After the 9-11 attack the royal family asked George H.W. Bush to get Saudi Arabs out of the U.S. Many of them owned race horses in Kentucky.

(All but two of the terrorists on the planes destroying the World Trade Center, flying into the Pentagon and crashing into the Pennsylvania field were Saudis.)

Helen Ruth Arnold,

Trenton, Neb.