of her Congressional campaign in the beginning.
Jeb's father is connected with Cuban "exiles" back to the time well before the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba by US forces. Jeb's grandfather, Preston, owned property in Cuba before the Revolution. Jeb's father donated two of his own boats to the invasion of Cuba.
He worked, as Director of the CIA with MANY Cuban "exiles," many of whom were terrorists who worked against Cuba's government in their effort to overthrow the people's government which overthrew THEM.
ALL the
Bushes are connected to these guys to the point during one of
George W. Bush's speeches made in Miami, there was one of their terrorists sitting on stage right behind him.
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Sixto Reinaldo Aquit Manrique (aka, El Chino Aquit), sharing
the platform with Bush in Miami, May 20, 2002.The UN Rapporteur
cited Aquit firing a 50 caliber machine gun at a Cypriot tanker in
Cuban waters in his 1994 annual report on human rights in Cuba. February 4, 2003
Terrorists Are On the Run
Some Away from Bush, Others Toward His Nurturing Arms
by SAUL LANDAU
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his brother Jeb, the Florida Governor and his Attorney General John Ashcroft, have made a point of not only harboring, but actually coddling in 1950 Joe McCarthy falsely accused the State Department of "coddling communists" terrorists. On May 20, 2002, Bush specifically invited several famous notorious? terrorists to hear his speech in Miami.
Orlando Bosch at first received an invitation to sit on the platform. Later, when one of his advisers discovered that Bosch had earned the FBI's label of the Western Hemisphere's most dangerous terrorist, the seating arrangement changed and Bosch got dis-invited off the platform and moved into the audience. Bosch claimed credit in an interview with the Miami New Times (see Oct. 4, 2001 for further reference) for helping to blow up a Cuban commercial airliner over Barbados in October 1976. The police caught him after he fired a bazooka at a Polish ship in the Miami Harbor in 1967. This former pediatrician has cared little about children's health, but found his calling in violence and spent much of his adult life after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution in January 1959 practicing that vocation. Observers noted the Bush family attachment to violent Cubans when President George Bush I (41), with help from Otto Reich, his then Ambassador to Venezuela, overruled strong advice from the FBI and INS and admitted Orlando Bosch into the United States.
Similarly, just before 9/11, Bush (43) also disregarded strong opinions from the FBI and INS and ordered the freeing from INS deportation custody of Virgilio Paz and Jose Dionisio Suarez. Both men had received twelve year sentences for confessing to conspiring with Chilean Secret Police officials to assassinate Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt in a September 1976 car-bombing in Washington DC.
But a photograph showed a lesser terrorist actually sharing the platform with President Bush. According to a former, federal law enforcement official, the Prez must have told the Secret Service to find a seat for "that good old boy."
This referred to Sixto Reinaldo Aquit Manrique (aka El Chino Aquit). The Secret Service apparently seated Aquit, arrested in Florida in 1994, a few rows behind the President as he spoke.
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