George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography --- by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin
Chapter -XXV- THYROID STORM
Caesar non super grammaticos
(The emperor cannot defy the grammarians.)
--Marcus Pomponius Marcellus to Tiberius
When speaking in his capacity as an ideologue, George Bush has always expressed a great
admiration for Tportrait of Calvin Coolidge placed there by Reagan and replaced it with a likeness of the Roughheodore Roosevelt. When Bush moved into the Oval Office, he removed the (^)
Rider. Bush's references to his devotion to Theodore Roosevelt are strewn across his public career,
and especially his White House years. They came thick and fast during the period of the Panama
invasion, but were also prominent during the Gulf crisis. Here is one from late November, 1990:
Certainly I get inspiration from Teddy Roosevelt. Actually there's a parallel, not an exact parallel
obviously, between San Juan Hill and Kuwait City. I've just been reading an interesting treatise on
Teddy Roosevelt; his conviction and his determination and his leadership inspire me. All of those
things inspire Presidents, I think. [fn 1]
Bush's endorsement for Teddy Roosevelt is an endorsement for a world outlook and for a policy
orientation. Inseparably from that, it is also a statement of affinity for a certain form of
psychopathology that is associated with Teddy.
As one of the authors has shown [fn 2], Roosthe head of the Confederate intelligence services in Europe and the outfitter of the infamousevelt's maternal uncle was Captain James D. Bulloch,
Confederate raiders Alabama, Shenandoah, and others. Theodore Roosevelt's elevation to the
presidency represented a personal union between the New York-Boston patrician financiers with the
secessionist slaveholders. First and foremost, Teddy Roosevelt was a political steward of the
Morgan interests which dominated Wall Street. We see that Teddy Roossome essential features with those of George Bush. In many ways, these are the same networks. evelt's networks shared
In outlook and policy, Theodore Roosevelt was the president who elevated the solidarity of the
white race, and especially of its alleged "Anglo-Saxon" component, above the ideas of the
American Revolution. The argument was that shared "blood," language, culture, and the otherbonds among the "English- speaking peoples" were far more important than the American System (^)
of Franklin, Washington, Hamilton, Henry Clay, and Lincoln. Roosevelt marked the end of the
sharp animosity towards the British crown which had been left in American public life in the wake
of British support for the Confederacy during the Civil War. Roosevelt directed a wave of race
hatred against Chinese and other yellow- skinned orientals; against Latin Americans and peoples ofMediterranean origin; against Germans; and against black and brown skinned people in general.
Teddy Roosevelt was of course a militant imperialist and empire- builder. The "Roosevelt
corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine is no corollary, but rather a total reversal of the original anti-
colonialist intent of Monroe and his Secretary of State, John Quincy Adams. Teddy Roosclaim to exercise international police powers over debtor nations launched a new imperialism, thisevelt's (^)
time based in the United States.
Teddy Roosevelt was a dedicated Malthusian who did everything he could to abort the economic
development of the United States west of the Mississippi. This Malthusian environmentalism lives