The Bush and Cheney families benefited financially from increasing oil prices and Halliburton contracts.

There were a lot of monopolies at the turn of the 19th Century to the early part of the 20th Century in the United States.

Electing Bush and Cheney would have been equivalent at that time to electing someone like John D. Rockefeller as President with William Randolph Hearst as V.P.

Rockefeller was an oil man and Hearst started 'yellow journalism'.

Yellow journalism:

http://alt.tnt.tv/movies/tntoriginals/roughriders/jour.home.html

'In 1898, newspapers provided the major source of news in
America. At this time, it was common practice for a
newspaper to report the editor's interpretation of the news
rather than objective journalism. If the information
reported was inaccurate or biased, the American public had
little means for verification.'

Sound familiar?

Rupert Murdock and Fox News?

Read about how the Spanish American War got started!

http://alt.tnt.tv/movies/tntoriginals/roughriders/jour.influencewar.html

well said

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