advancement has proceeded pari passu with the degradation of the national stage upon
which he has operated and which he has come to dominate. At various phases in his
career, Bush has come into conflict with persons that were intellectually and morally
superior to him. One such was Senator Yarborough, and another was Senator Frank
Church. Our study will be found to catalogue the constant decline in the qualities of
Bush's adversaries as human types until the 1980's, by which time his opponents, as in the
case of Al Haig, are no better than Bush himself.
The exception to this trend is Bush's long-standing personal vendetta against Lyndon
LaRouche, his most consistent and capable adversary. LaRouche was jailed seven days
after Bush's inauguration in the most infamous political frameup of recent US history. As
our study will document, at critical moments in Bush's career, LaRouche's political
interventions have frustrated some of Bush's best-laid political plans: a very clear
example is LaRouche's role in defeating Bush's 1980 presidential bid in the New
Hampshire primary. Over the intervening years, LaRouche has become George Bush's
man in the iron mask, the principled political adversary whom Bush seeks to jail and
silence at all costs. The restoration of justice in this country must include the freeing of
Lyndon LaRouche, LaRouche's political associates, and all the other political prisoners of
the Bush regime.
As for the political relevance of our project, we think that it is very real. During the Gulf
crisis, it would have been important for the public to know more about Bush's business
dealings with the Royal Family of Kuwait. During the 1992 presidential campaign, as
Wall Street's recent crop of junk-bond assisted leveraged buyouts line up at the entrance
to bankruptcy court, and state workers all across the United States are informed that the
retirement pensions they had been promised will never be paid, the relations between
George Bush and Henry Kravis will surely constitute an explosive political issue.
Similarly, once Bush's British and Kissingerian pedigree is recognized, the methods he is
likely to pursue in regard to situations such as the planned Romanian-style overthrow of
the Castro regime in Cuba, or the provocation of a splendid little nuclear war involving
North Korea, or of a new Indo-Pakistani war, will hardly be mysterious.
The authors have been at some pains to make this work intelligible to readers around the
world. We offer this book to those who share our aversion to the imperialist-colonialist
New World Order, and our profound horror at the concept of a return to a single,
worldwide Roman Empire as suggested by Bush's "pax universalis" slogan. This work is
tangible evidence that there is an opposition to Bush inside the United States, and that the
new Caligula is very vulnerable indeed on the level of the exposure of his own misdeeds.
It will be argued that this book should have been published before the 1988 election,
when a Bush presidency might have been avoided. That is certainly true, but it is an
objection, which should also be directed to many institutions and agencies whose
resources for surpass our modest capabilities. We can only remind our fellow citizens that
when he asks for their votes for his re-election, George Bush also enters that court of
public opinion in which he is obliged to answer their questions. They should not waste