The first minute and 47 seconds of this documentary is in Dutch with the following translation. The rest is in English. Translation: The war in Iraq is over. The rubble is still smoking while the first bulldozers are already entering the country. After the coalition forces destroyed Baghdad it is now primarily American companies who are to rebuild Iraq. An interesting point is that these companies usually have people on the payroll who have been politicians. Is this a conflict of interests or a new (global) way of doing business? One of the corporations that work this way is the Carlyle Group. On their payroll are people like : George Bush (Sr.), James Baker III and old premier John Major. The Carlyle Group is a private investment bank which doesn't come to the publics attention very often but it is one of the biggest American investors of the defense industry, telecom, property and financial services. What is the Carlyle Group? Who are the people behind the name? And how much power does it have?

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Exposed: The Carlyle Group
Bush and Bin-Laden Family Connections Exposed
USG and Saudi Regime Inter-Connections Exposed
War Companies Lobby For and Cash In on War, Oil and PetroDollars in the Middle East

Shocking European documentary uncovers the
subversion of American democracy by its very leaders.

MIDDLEEAST.ORG - Washington - 26 November 2004: They could have sub-titled this excellent 48 minute Dutch documentary "Cesspool Washington" for it exposes a significant aspect of how the American capital has incestuously and unethically entertwined big business, big money, and government. Exposed in this documentary is a major part of the U.S. war-making and war-profiteering scene of which few Americans are aware. These realities goe a long way to explain how and why U.S. war policies are what they are.

The details exposed in this documentary are shocking and outrageous, scandalous and at a miniumum unethical. What is essentially a high-priced lobbying industry devoted to a kind of legalized political and financial insider trading is more in control of official Washington than ever before in history.

President Dwight Eisenhower warned about the dangers of the then still embryonic "Military-Industrial Complex". Now it has all morphed into a massive "Military-Industrial-Government Complex" with a substantial additional propaganda arm involving many of the Washington think-tanks, government-support Institutes, and interconnected corporate owned media news organizations.

The depth of corruption and war profiteering within the highest circles of the U.S. government has become a major part of how and why the U.S. does what it does both abroad and at home.

In the case of the Carlyle Group the personal involvement of the Bush family and close friends from past Administrations is outrageous. That of course explains why it is all buried under layers of shell corporations, holding companies, foreign banking arrangements, and legalized forms of pay-offs and kick-backs. Everything is carefully camaflouged from easy view and hidden behind media control to mask the realities of the political and financial cesspool that official Washington has now become.

This documentary then, made in Europe and now shown in the U.S., is crucial background to understanding how Washington really works and how and why U.S. policies in the Middle East are what they are, past and present.