The Bush family conspiracy theory is an umbrella term used to describe various conspiracy theory allegations directed towards the family of President George W. Bush, including the President's brothers; Florida Governor Jeb Bush, Marvin Bush, and Neil Bush; their father and former President George H. W. Bush; grandfather Prescott Bush; and great-grandfather George Herbert Walker.

Some allege criminal conspiracies involving United States or multinational corporations, vested interests, U.S. government organizations, and various dictators. While some attach great importance to suggested links which connect individuals and companies, others dismiss some or all of the conspiracy theories as fantasy and claim that these connections are normal for business families and do not imply wrongdoing or malevolence.

Background

Proponents of these conspiracy theories sometimes refer to the alleged secret organization with pejorative terms: Bush League, Bush Buddies, Texas Taliban, Bush Criminal Empire (BCE), or Bush family evil empire. The first is a pun on the baseball term "bush league"— minor league amateurs.

As the Bush family has provided the last two Republican presidents, there may be a confusion of family conspiracy with what is actually normal political maneuvering. (Similarly, the Kennedy and Roosevelt families have produced a number of political and public figures). Additionally, members of the Bush family are politically and economically prominent, so it is natural that they have connections to other major political and business figures, some of whom have unsavory reputations.

A number of allegations have been made about different members of the Bush family at different times: it is not reasonable to discuss these allegations as a whole. Listed below are assorted allegations and rebuttals, but any serious consideration of these allegations should be made on a strictly individual basis. Some allegations have received considerable mainstream attention and debate; others are generally regarded as specious and unsubstantiated.

Various allegations and conspiracy theories

Oil dealings and the Middle East

The Bushes support the oil industry to enhance their own financial interests in the industry.

Ayatollah Khomeini dealt with George H.W. Bush and/or his operatives to arrange the Iran-Contra deal and allegedly the October surprise conspiracy, on behalf of U.S. Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan.

While Vice President, George H.W. Bush was responsible for Saddam Hussein's acquisition of weapons and funding during the Iran-Iraq War.

Osama bin Laden, then a Mujahedeen leader in Afghanistan, is reputed to have been a CIA agent who made use of CIA resources and U.S.-funds to bolster the morale of radical Islamists after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Further, the Bush family, through its ties to the bin Laden family and other connections, otherwise aided bin Laden's rise.

The September 11, 2001 attacks was planned or sanctioned by the Bush administration, to secure oil pipeline routes through Afghanistan in preparation for Peak Oil. (See 9/11 conspiracy theories)

Marvin Bush was in charge of security at the World Trade Center in the months just prior to the 9-11-01 attacks.

The threat of WMDs and terrorism in the wake of the September 11 attacks were political cover for the 2003 implementation of PNAC founders Cheney and Rumsfeld's 1998 plan for the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq[302], originally presented to President Clinton.

The assassination of Olof Palme may have been related to his knowledge of Iran-Contra.[303]

George HW Bush Sr. was a CIA agent since the late 1950's. He was the agent in charge of the failed "Bay of Pigs" invasion of Cuba in 1961. Bush's presence in this event can be proven by the names of the boats used in the operation. The boats were named the "Houston", after Bush's adopted home town, the "Zapata", after his company Zapata Oil, and the "Barbara", after his wife.

CIA agent Bush was in Dallas TX on November 22, 1963, but he claims he "can't remember what he was doing" when President Kennedy was assassinated. George HW Bush would claim in a letter to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover that he had overheard a Texas Young Republican by the name of James Parrot threatening the President. Two CIA agents, E. Howard Hunt and Frank Sturgis were briefly held for questioning in the JFK shooting, but were released after the arrest of Lee Harvey Oswald. Hunt and Sturgis were in the "grassy knoll" area, where many experts believe the fatal gunshot was fired from. Lee Harvey Oswald's journal, currently on display in Washington at the National Archives, contains the name and phone number for George H.W. Bush.

Consolidation of political power

Prescott Bush supported the Nazis. These claims stem from investments he held in Nazi Germany.

While George H.W. Bush was head of the CIA, he may have been involved in the 1976 assassination of Orlando Letelier. Bush remains silent on this issue, and the CIA refuses to release many of the internal documents which could shed some light on it. There was an organized conspiracy between Jeb Bush, Katherine Harris, the U.S. Supreme Court, and ChoicePoint to rig the American presidential election in 2000.

Certain members of the Bush Administration, the United States Supreme Court, and the Republican Party disenfranchised tens of thousands of voters in the 2000 and 2004 elections via voter purging lists, poll harassments, rigged electronic voting machines (see Diebold Election Systems), and fake absentee ballots.

Through legislation and actions which extend executive powers and reduce oversight as justified by the War on Terrorism, the Bush administration is working toward establishing a totalitarian state.

In the Bush administration's ambitions to expand the Texas Medication Algorithm Project to the entire U.S., mandating "mental health" screening of every American and possibly forcing treatments on the "ill", is suspected a range of issues from mere pharmochemical-industry collusion[304] up to a new version of Hitlerian control, demonisation, or eradication of dissidents and mental defectives (i.e. eugenics).[305]

Other

The Bush family supports crime and Satanism through the Skull and Bones Society—only their involvement in the organization is actually known.

Conspiracy of Silence is a 56 minute Discovery Channel documentary film, detailing an alleged Lawrence King child sex scandal that involved many children from Nebraska institution, Boys Town. The organized child sex parties implicated the Reagan and Bush White House during the 1980s.

The Bush family—especially Neil and Jeb Bush—profited from the Savings and Loan crisis of the 1980s. [306]

Jonathan Bush was involved in banking tomfoolery with Riggs Bank. [307]

* The Bush family is actually part of a vast bloodline shared by many European royal families of alien/inhuman Reptoid blood, asserted by David Icke, among others.