Part of the reason why most Americans--especially conservative Christians--do not comprehend they genuine way power works in the U.S. is due largely to the fact that average citizens believe politicians and power-brokers are just like them. Newsflash... they're NOT! The power base of the Bush family goes back to the Harriman banking family, one of the richest, most powerful families in U.S. history. Prescott Bush--grandfather to the sitting president--was an executive in Brown Brothers Harriman, the oldest and largest partnership bank in the United States. The contemporary Bush family--in particular, George H.W. Bush--has benefited hugely from the Iraq war because of his involvement in The Carlyle Group, a weapons brokerage group, which, by the way, received investment money from the "good" side of the Bin Laden family. Benefiting from war is nothing new to the House of Bush. Great grandfather, Samuel Bush (father of Prescott Bush), served the U.S. government during WWI by awarding government contracts to U.S. weapons manufacturers.