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had Bath's name blacked out.
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Why didn't Bush want the press
:27:08
and public to see Bath's name
:27:10
on his military records?
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Perhaps he was worried
:27:13
that the American people would find out
:27:15
that at one time James R. Bath
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was the Texas money manager for the bin Ladens.
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Bush and Bath had become good friends
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when they both served
in the Texas National Guard.
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After they were discharged,
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when Bush's dad was head of the CIA,
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Bath opened up his own aviation business,
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after selling a plane to a man named Salem bin Laden,
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heir to the second largest fortune in Saudi Arabia:
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the Saudi bin Laden Group.
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W at that time was just starting out
:27:48
in the world as a business man.
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Because he's a guy
:27:52
who¡¯s always tried to emulate his father,
:27:53
uh, he decided to go into the oil business.
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He founded an oil company, a drilling company,
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out of west Texas called Arbusto,
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which was very very good at drilling dry holes
:28:02
that nothing came out of.
:28:04
But the question has always been
:28:06
where did this money come from?
:28:07
Now his dad was rich.
:28:10
His dad could have done this for him.
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But his dad didn't do this for him.
:28:14
There's no indication that his daddy
:28:15
wrote a check to start him off in this company.
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So where did George W. Bush get his money?
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One person who did invest in him was
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James R. Bath.
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Bush's good friend James Bath
:28:31
was hired by the bin Laden family
:28:33
to manage their money in Texas
:28:35
and invest in businesses.
:28:41
And James Bath himself in turn
:28:43
invested in George W. Bush.
:28:49
Bush ran Arbusto into the ground,
:28:52
as he did every other company
:28:53
he was involved in.
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Until finally one of his companies
:28:56
was bought by Harken Energy.