COMIC CONSPIRACY
CARTOONISTS TEAM UP IN FANTAGRAPHICS' "THE BUSH JUNTA" TO EXPOSE THE HISTORY OF THE BUSH FAMILY

"The Bush Junta" is a great collection of stories told in comic book form about the darker skeletons in the Bush Family closet.  Far more incendiary that Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 documentary, Junta has the luxury of printed paper to make the facts and figures stick out with permanence.  And to lend credibility to the 24 stories within, there's an extensive bibliography to back it all up.  Granted, as is the case with many anti-conservative themed works, there's not likely many die-hard Bush supporters that would buy this book, but it makes for a spooky read for the Halloween season more chilling than a new Hannibal Lecter book could ever dream of.

I laughed at the title page of the first story, "The Bush-Nazi Connection" thinking right away they were grasping at straws with name calling akin to some of the more outrageous Air America shows, but was amazed by the way they illustrate how Bush family patriarch, Prescott Bush, was involved in laundering Nazi cash for Hitler's regime, while making considerable profits of Auschwitz slave labor.

Among the other claims the book makes:

• Prescott Bush was exposed as a fraudulent War Hero in World War 1.

• While Prescott was a member of the Skull and Bones society, he dug up the bones of Navajo leader Geronimo with 3 others and brought them back to the Yale campus, where they are said to still be.

• George Bush Sr. pardoned Orlando Bosch who was a CIA trained operative who was responsible for bombing a Cubana DC-8 Airliner that caused the deaths of 73 people.

• During the 1980 campaign, Bush, Sr. makes a secret deal with Iran in which they promise to not release the 52 American hostages until after the elections are held, in exchange for military equipment (that was delivered to Iran via Israel). 

• This is during the same time we were funding Iran's enemy, Iraq. 

• Scott Hinckley, the brother of would be Reagan assassin John Hinckley, was to have been a dinner guest of Neil Bush the day after the shooting occurred.  Hinckley's father was a major contributor to Bush's political campaigns, and in the 60s, Bush Sr.'s company, Zapata Oil, bailed out an oil company owned by Hinckley.

• In order to arrest Manuel Noriega, who was given support by a Bush led CIA years earlier, over 2,000 civilians were killed.  Some civilian deaths were recklessly caused by tanks running over cars filled with families and other wanton destruction against non-military targets.  Noriega is now in prison serving a 40 year term, and Panama is home to as much drug-trafficking as before.

• As Governor of Texas, George W during an interview with Talk magazine about the recently executed Karla Faye Tucker, "compassionately mimicked the woman he had put to death, pursing his lips in mock desperation and whimpering: 'Please don't kill me!'"

• During his term as Governor, George W presided over 152 executions.  "Many of these prisoners were mentally ill or severely retarded.  Others were indigents who's court-appointed attorneys fell asleep during their trials."

There's several more chapters about 9/11, the prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, and other scandals.  It's clearly a 1 sided book meant to attack the Bush family legacy, but it's an interesting read nonetheless.  As of next week, "The Bush Junta" will either become an irrelevant footnote to the end of an era, or the fodder for four more years of angry talk radio.  Fans of cutting edge comic book art, will gladly keep it on their bookshelf for a lifetime.

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-Robert Berry
rberry@retrocrush.com