Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004): The Carlyle Group Part II

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But sadly, with so much attention focused...
...on the bin Laden family being important Carlyle investors...
...the bin Ladens eventually had to withdraw.
Bush's dad, though, stayed on as senior adviser...
...to Carlyle's Asia board for another two years.
As unseemly as it seems to know that George H.W. Bush...
...was meeting with the bin Laden family...
...while Osama was a wanted terrorist, well before September 11 th...
...it's very discomforting for Americans to know that.
George H.W. Bush is a man who has, obviously, incredible reach...
...into the White House.
He receives daily CIA briefings, which is the right of any ex-president...
...but very few ex-presidents actually exercise that right. He does.
And, I think, in a very real way they are benefiting from the confusion...
...that arises when George H.W. Bush visits Saudi Arabia...
...on behalf of Carlyle and meets with the royal family...
...and meets with the bin Laden family.
Is he representing the United States of America?
Or is he representing an investment firm in the United States?
Or is he representing both?
This company is about money, not conspiracies to run the world...
...or engineer political maneuvering and things like that.
It's about making money, and it's about making a lot of money.
And they've done very well.
I could get you on-the-record on this question.

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