Barbara Bush and George H. W. Bush's brother, Prescott Bush, belong to a
political organization, AmeriCares.  AmeriCares is a CIA front that
supports rightwing military operations while posing as a humanitarian group.

J. Peter Grace, the chair of AmeriCares from 1982 to 1995, also worked
with the ultra-right racist think tank, the Liberty Lobby.  Grace was
the key participant in Project Paperclip, a covert operation which
recruited nine hundred Nazi scientists to work in the U. S. after World
War II.  Many of those Nazis had been found guilty of experimentation on
humans. ("Censored 1999:  The News That Didn't Make The News," Seven
Stories Press, 1999)

Sara Flounders is a writer and Co-Coordinator of the International
Action Center (IAC), a group that has opposed U. S. sanctions on
third-world countries.  In an article published in "Censored 1999,"
Flounders reported that Barbara Bush was then AmeriCares
ambassador-at-large.

Flounders said George H. W. Bush's brother, Prescott Bush, was on
AmeriCares board of directors.  As former CIA director, George H. W.
Bush is aware of J. Peter Grace's part in bringing Nazi scientists to
the U. S., and of Grace's work with the Liberty Lobby.

Here's a brief look at the Liberty Lobby's history:  According to
Deborah Lipstadt (DENYING THE HOLOCAUST, Penguin Books, 1994), the
far-right organization, the Liberty Lobby, was founded by Willis A.
Carto.  Lipstadt says that The Wall Street Journal has labeled Carto and
the Liberty Lobby anti-Semitic.  She writes that investigative columnist,
Drew Pearson, identified Carto as a Hitler "fan."  Pearson said the Liberty Lobby
is "infiltrated by Nazis who revere the memory of Hitler."

Lipstadt writes that The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) describes Carto as
the most powerful anti-Semite in the U. S.  The ADL also says the Liberty Lobby
heads a "publishing and organizational complex that for more than two decades has
propagated anti-Semitism and racism in the United States."

Carto once sued The Wall Street Journal for calling the Liberty Lobby anti-Semitic.
The District Court for the District of Columbia ruled against Carto saying it would be
hard to find a case where evidence of anti-Semitism was "more compelling."

Conservative William F. Buckley once said the Liberty Lobby is a "hotbed
of anti-Semitism," and the conservative magazine Human Events reported
that Carto has long been a Hitler sympathizer.  Lipstadt says Carto has
a "revulsion for Jews and a belief in the need for an absolutist
government that would protect the 'racial heritage' of the United States."

Lipstadt writes that the racist Carto also believes Jewish people and
African-Americans are "at the root of civilization's problems."  Carto
argued during World War II that Jewish influence on American policy had
blinded the U. S. to the advantages of uniting with Hitler.  He later
organized the Joint Council for Repatriation, for the purpose of
returning all black Americans to Africa.

In 1957, Carto told Judge Tom P. Brady, founder of the anti-civil-rights
organization, the White Citizens' Council, that the Citizens' Council
should unite with the Joint Council for Repatriation but keep the link
between the two groups secret.  At the time, Brady was also a member of
the Mississippi Supreme Court.

Why would George H. W. Bush, his brother Prescott, and Barbara Bush
actively support an organization whose chair worked with the Liberty
Lobby?  If that were the only thing amiss about AmeriCares and its
history, it might be different, but there's more.

AmeriCares also funnels money and "humanitarian" supplies to various
rightwing military forces, including, for example, contra forces in
Afghanistan.  Sara Flounders says the AmeriCares Web site reveals that
its shipments tend to go "wherever the CIA is most active."

The New York Times, August 13, 1985, reported that a front organization
of Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church (The Nicaraguan Freedom
Fund) funneled $350,000 to AmeriCares.  New York Newsday, April 13,
1988, reported that AmeriCares tax returns showed AmeriCares gave cash
and supplies to Contra leader Adolfo Calero.

Former AmeriCares chair, J. Peter Grace, also played a prominent role in
putting together the fascist coup that overthrew democratically elected
Salvador Allende in Chile.  Sara Flounders says AmeriCares presents
itself on its Web site as the "humanitarian arm of Corporate America."

One corporation, the large oil company Amoco, has given more than $46
million to AmeriCares.  Flounders mentions that Amoco was a direct
beneficiary of the Gulf War.

In the context of the recent presidential election, where the complaints of
thousands of disenfranchised African-American and Jewish voters were largely
ignored by Jeb and George W. Bush, the Bush family's willingness to actively
support an organization once chaired by J. Peter Grace is not surprising.

AmeriCares' support of ultra-rightwing regimes, and Grace's help in bringing
Nazis to the U. S. and his assistance in overthrowing democratically elected leaders,
are actions that fit right in with what happened in the 2000 election.

If it should turn out that African-Americans were definitely targeted
for "voter cleansing," -- if black people were in fact falsely declared
felons and deliberately removed from voter roles by the thousands, that
would seem to be standard practice for folks who knowingly and
contentedly hobnob with reactionary regimes, and who tacitly condone
people such as J. Peter Grace and his peers.