George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography

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was in constant contact with British foreign policy operatives like Sir Eric Roll of S.G.
Warburg in London, Lord Trend, Lord Victor Rothschild, the Barings bank, and others.


On May 10, 1982, in a speech entitled "Reflections on a Partnership" given at the Royal
Institute of International Affairs at Chatham House in London, Henry Kissinger openly
expounded his role and philosophy as a British agent of influence within the US
government during the Nixon and Ford years:


"The British were so matter-of-factly helpful that they became a participant in internal
American deliberations, to a degree probably never before practiced between sovereign
nations. In my period in office, the British played a seminal part in certain American
bilateral negotiations with the Soviet Union--indeed, they helped draft the key document.
In my White House incarnation then, I kept the British Foreign Office better informed
and more closely engaged than I did the American State Department.... In my
negotiations over Rhodesia I worked from a British draft with British spelling even when
I did not fully grasp the distinction between a working paper and a Cabinet- approved
document."


Kissinger was also careful to point out that the United States must support colonial and
neo-colonial strategies against the developing sector:


"Americans from Franklin Roosevelt onward believed that the United States, with its
`revolutionary' heritage, was the natural ally of people struggling against colonialism; we
could win the allegiance of these new nations by opposing and occasionally undermining
our European allies in the areas of their colonial dominance. Churchill, of course, resisted
these American pressures.... In this context, the experience of Suez is instructive.... Our
humiliation of Britain and France over Suez was a shattering blow to these countries' role
as world powers. It accelerated their shedding of international responsibilities, some of
the consequences of which we saw in succeeding decades when reality forced us to step
into their shoes--in the Persian Gulf, to take one notable example. Suez thus added
enormously to America's burdens."


Kissinger was the high priest of imperialism and neocolonialism, animated by an
instinctive hatred for Indira Gandhi, Aldo Moro, Ali Bhutto, and other nationalist world
leaders. Kissinger's British geopolitics simply accentuated Bush's own fanatically
Anglophile point of view which he had acquired from father Prescott and imbibed from
the atmosphere of the family firm, Brown Brothers Harriman, originally the US branch of
a British counting house.


Kissinger was also a Zionist, dedicated to economic, diplomatic, and military support of
Israeli aggression and expansionism to keep the Middle East in turmoil so as to prevent
Arab unity and Arab economic development while using the region to mount challenges
to the Soviets. Kissinger's soul-mates were figures like Gen. Ariel Sharon, the harbinger
of endless wars in the Middle East. In this he was a follower of British Prime Minister
Benjamin Disraeli and Lord Balfour. In the 1973 Middle East war which he had connived
to unleash, Kissinger would mastermind the US resupply of Israel and would declare a

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