Reply #14: Here's my attempt to help with this subject

[MagickMuffin]

If no one here has read Kevin Phillips book "American Dynasty, Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush" I would suggest doing so. Kevin Phillips who like John Dean is a TRUE Conservtive has the history of the Bush Empire going back a few generations.

From the book Phillips spells out a lot about the Cuba connection to the Walker-Bush family. It appears that the family had quite a bit of business down there. Sugar, Rum, and Railroads.

page 203:

In the 1930s and 1940s, young Bush (Poppy) favorite uncle George Walker Jr. (Herbie) took over directorship of several of these Cuban-Dominican sugar companies, which ultimately merged into West Indies Sugar in 1942. It is not hard to imagine the young GHW Bush picking up from his grandfather and uncle alike a romantic sugar plantation, rum, and palm trees image of the heavily policed, old regime Cuba of Fulgencio Batista.

His uncle would have been angery in 1959, when the new leftist Castro regime that it would nationalize the holdings of the US sugar trade. Castro had launched his revolution several years earlier in eastern Cuba's sugar and rum centered Oriente Province, and some of the American owners of sugar mills and estates had contributed funds in the hope of moderating his movement. Oriente-based West Indies Sugar had been a particular target of rebel levies and depredations. Coincidentally, 1959 was the year when Uncle Herbie help to finance the reorganization of Zapata by which the offshore drilling rigs at least one operating near Cuba became independent under Walker-Bush control.

Uncle Herbie must have been even angier in 1960 when Castro nationalized the West Indies Sugar Company, of which be had been a director until 1959.

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Son of a Bitch, somehow everything else I had type disappeared before I was finished posting.:grr:

If anyone is interested in the rest of this important history I will try to repost it later. Should have known better and published within my Journler program. Perhaps I will do that then repost what got deleted.

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