The Unholy Alliance

 Bush Dynasty & Cuban Hardliners 

     Americans are NOT supposed to be smart enough or brave enough to make judgments on this kiss although it is very important to them and their democracy. That's Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen kissing presidential wannabee Jeb Bush on their stomping grounds in Miami. Yesterday -- August 18, 2016 -- these two political kissing cousins co-wrote a long, long article in a right-wing rag -- The National Review. The article is entitled: "The President's Rapproachement Has Not Helped the Struggling Cuban People." Every word of that article is a right-wing propaganda piece designed to make the insatiable point that anti-Castro zealots like the Havana-born Ros-Lehtinen and the fiercely anti-Cuban Jeb Bush have spent their self-serving political careers helping the struggling Cuban people while President Obama is not helping the struggling Cuban people, although Obama has done more to help the struggling Cuban people than any American in history. With exiles from the 1959 victorious Cuban Revolution like Ros-Lehtinen aligned with self-serving sycophants such as the Bush dynasty controlling the Cuban narrative in the United States, two generations of proselytized Americans have had neither the guts nor the intelligence to question a vile dictation of a Cuban policy that the rest of the world soundly abhors. Therefore, timid Americans are supposed to dial up yesterday's National Review article and BELIEVE EVERY WORD written by the Havana-to-Miami-to-Washington Congresswoman Ros-Lehtinen and her Miami-based mentor Jeb Bush of the Bush dynasty -- you know, the same Bush dynasty that wants "to help" CUBA!!    

       In the 1980s Jeb Bush left the luxurious Bush mansions in Massachusetts and Texas to make his mark in politics. He was well aware of the Bush family connections to the anti-Castro Cuban exiles who dominated Miami's politics in Florida. On his urgent path to become Florida's governor on his way to the Bush family's White House, which they considered a birthright, Jeb became Ileana Ros-Lehtinen's Campaign Manager. The Bush dynasty put her in the U. S. Congress in 1989 and she's been there ever since, including Jeb's two-terms as Florida's governor and George W. Bush's two terms as President. Since 1989, Ros-Lehtinen has been followed to Congress by a string of Bush-aligned Cuban hardliners, including the Diaz-Balart brothers whose father Rafael was a key Minister in the brutal, ousted Batista-Mafia dictatorship. It is interesting to note, I believe, that polls reveal that most Cuban-Americans even in Miami favor Obama's decent Cuban policy but when it comes to Cuba it seems the U. S. democracy is not strong enough to have a moderate Cuban-American elected to the hallowed United States Congress.

       This photo shows three of the current members of the U. S. Congress from Miami -- Diaz-Balart, Rubio and Ros-Lehtinen. It is interesting to note that first-term U. S. Senator Rubio was a prime and highly financed Tea Party darling in the 2016 presidential race as was Jeb Bush. But the Cuban hardliners in Miami know where their considerable bread has been buttered all these years -- by the Bush dynasty. Even though Ros-Lehtinen guided Rubio through Florida's political maze, you can bet -- when push came to shove -- she is not going to support her Cuban-American soul-mate, Rubio, against a Bush candidate.

          So, for sure, in the presidential sweepstakes, Ros-Lehtinen and other Cuban hardliners in Miami strongly supported Jeb Bush over Marco Rubio, one of their very own Cuban-American hardliners.

      This photo shows President George W. Bush kissing Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen as Florida Governor Jeb Bush looks on. While Americans are not supposed to consider the longstanding Bush-Miami-Cuban connection an unholy alliance, some very brave and highly respected U. S. journalists -- such as former top Miami Herald columnist Jim DeFede -- have had the guts to question it. Defede excoriated Ros-Lehtinen and the Diaz-Balarts for using their unchallenged political power to get Luis Posada Carriles and three other notable anti-Castro Cubans released from a Panamanian prison when, conveniently, an out-going Miami-friendly female Panamanian President pardoned them to Miami's safe havens. Similarly, this forum and many others have published proof that Jeb Bush put in writing a request to his father on behalf of Orlando Bosch, one of Ros-Lehtinen's best Cuban-born Miami friends. Caribbean and Latin American nations consider Posada and Bosch the two most notorious longtime Cuban-American terrorists.

What brave soul asked Jeb Bush about Orlando Bosch? 

         If you study some of the communications from Jeb Bush in Florida to his father President Bush on behalf of Orlando Bosch, you will note in the "Dear Jeb" reply depicted above that such audacity irked President Bush's aides. But President Bush responded very favorably and controversially regarding Bosch as concerned Americans can realize by simply Googling the appropriate 3 names -- Bush, Bush and Bosch.

Orlando Bosch & Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.

Bosch & Posada in Miami.

        Latin American governments as well as the U. S. government, as confirmed by many declassified U. S. documents, consider Orlando Bosch and Posada Carriles anti-Castro/anti-Cuban terrorists with powerful U. S. and CIA connections. Bosch & Posada for decades were openly proud of those facts. Bosch was born in Cuba on August 18, 1926 five days after Fidel Castro was born. Fidel turned 90 in Havana this month while Bosch died in Miami in 2011. Posada was born in Cuba 88 years ago and he still lives in Miami where he has been photographed in recent anti-Obama street marches. President George W. Bush famously said, Anyone who harbors terrorists is a terrorist. There are billions of people around the world who mock Mr. Bush's declaration because of Bosch and Posada. Wikipedia and countless other sources, including the FBI, tie Bosch and Posada to numerous anti-Cuba as well as famous Operation Condor terrorist acts on their behalf and even on behalf of the infamously murderous Pinochet dictatorship in Chile. Such sources without fail tie Bosch and Posada to the 1976 bombing of the Cuban civilian plane Cubana Flight 455 in which all 73 people on board were killed as well as the infamous car-bombing within sound of the White House that killed Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier and his beautiful young American aide Ronni Moffitt. Both those famed terrorists acts occurred within days of each other in 1976, the only year George H. W. Bush was CIA Director and, indeed, you can easily Google historic accounts that accuse Bush's CIA of misleading the FBI's investigation of the Letelier-Moffitt murders. And, of course, Americans are not supposed to even know about such things as Cubana Flight 455.

Posada at an anti-Obama demonstration in Miami.

        Top Republicans -- including the respected Speaker of the House Paul Ryan -- seem compelled to visit Miami and drink Cuban coffee as they capitulate to Cuban-American hardliners regarding presidential or congressional elections.

      This extremely pertinent photo shows George H. W. Bush with Jorge Mas Canosa, the all-time most powerful Cuban-born American hardliner, thanks to the Bush dynasty. The Reagan-Bush presidency in the 1980s anointed Mas Canosa the leader of the Cubans-in-exile. In her book What Everyone Needs to Know About Cuba, America's top Cuban expert Julia E. Sweig explains that Mas Canosa was advised to study AIPAC, the omnipotent Israeli lobbying arm, and then replicate it on behalf of the Miami Cubans. The brilliant Mas Canosa did precisely that with his CANF and from that day to this day pro-Cuban American and anti-Cuban laws such as Helms-Burton, The Cuban Adjustment Act, Wet Foot/Dry Foot, The Torricelli Bill, etc., have been infamously mandated -- for eternity it seems -- by Congress, enriching selected Cuban-Americans and devastating Cubans on the island. Mas Canosa was born in Santiago de Cuba in 1939. He died as a billionaire at age 58 on November 23rd,1997 in Coral Gables, Florida. 

     Beyond question, the nexus between the Bush dynasty and Cuban-American hardliners has immensely benefited -- financially and politically -- a handful of rich and powerful people. But it does not stretch credulity to say that it has greatly harmed millions of Americans and, most notably, millions of innocent Cubans on the island. And most of all, I believe two generations of quiescent and unpatriotic Americans have forsaken democracy in allowing it to happen. The unending but so-far failed quest of Jeb Bush to be the third Bush President does not change the everlasting impact the Bush nexus with the Cuban hardliners will have on Congress, the White House, democracy and the United States of America.

       In fact, George P. Bush -- Jeb's 40-year-old son -- also has extreme desires to be President of the United States. The Tea Party and the huge Bush machine easily got George P. elected to the ultra-powerful position as the Texas Land Commissioner. While George and Bush are pivotal names for George P. Bush, the P. is just as significant. The P. stands for Prescott, as in Prescott Bush, the man who started the economic and political Bush dynasty.

      A young Prescott Bush is shown here tipping the hat of a young Richard Nixon when Prescott was far richer and more powerful than Richard, who like two Bushes became a fierce anti-Castro and Batistiano-loving U.S. President. Prescott Bush was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1895. Before he died in New York City in 1972, he was a Wall Street tycoon and a U. S. Senator on his way to establishing the Bush dynasty. If you Google "Prescott Bush" you will find page-after-page-after-page about Prescott Bush's notorious financial dealings leading up to and during World War II. {BUT THESE DAYS, who cares enough about the U. S. democracy to even Google such things?}.

          This photo shows the early days of Miami's first Cuban-born member of the U. S. Congress, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.  Standing behind her on the left is anti-Castro buddy Jeb Bush -- her former Campaign Manager and the then Governor of Florida. Standing between her and Jeb Bush is the then Cuban-born Mayor of Miami Joe Carollo, who once vowed to defy U. S. Marshals regarding the Elian Gonzalez episode.

    This photo shows Cuban-born Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Florida Governor Jeb Bush behind Cuban-born Miami Mayor Joe Carollo. Before becoming an anti-Castro Mayor of Miami, Joe Carollo was born in Caibarian, Cuba, in 1955 -- the year an emerging revolutionary rebel named Fidel Castro was sentenced to 15 years in Dictator Batista's prison. The Cuban-born Carollo was preceded as Miami Mayor by Cuban-born Xavier Suarez and succeeded by Cuban-born Manny Diaz, etc., etc., etc., etc., etc, etc.

        A well known Cuban-American in Miami, Hugo Cancio, has a very brave and very politically incorrect thought: "Miami politics only elects anti-Castro zealots to office, including Congress, it appears. That leaves moderate Cuban-Americans like me on the outside looking in, searching for democracy, if I may say so." 

        Meanwhile, ABC News used this Johnny Lewis/Getty Images photo of Havana-born United States Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen in Miami yesterday -- Thursday, August 18, 2016. ABC News said Ros-Lehtinen made news yesterday by saying she would "write-in" Jeb Bush's name on the presidential ballot. She, of course, had earlier endorsed Bush as President till he was wiped out by Donald Trump. Then she endorsed Miami's U. S. Senator Marco Rubio till he quit after being soundly beaten in the Florida primary by Trump. So now it's back to her first choice, Jeb Bush, for President of the United States as a write-in.

       And that brings us back around to the article that Ros-Lehtinen and Jeb Bush co-authored in yesterday's great contribution to journalism, the National Review. The article shamefully excoriated the decent President Barack Obama for NOT HELPING what they called  "the struggling Cuban people," -- the very people Mr. Obama is trying to help as much as he possibly can despite the enormous roadblocks thrown in his face by the likes of Ros-Lehtinen and Jeb Bush. Such flagrant propaganda, in my opinion and in the opinion of the world based on yearly votes in the United Nations, would be a joke were it not so seriously a major part of the decades-old Cuban exile/Bush dynasty-led U. S. policy that has and continues to so drastically hurt "the struggling Cuban people." Americans who agree with that article penned by Jeb Bush and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen are, in my opinion, unpatriotic cowards and idiots...if I may say-so myself.

But I love America even more.

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