Reply #11: Point taken... [View All]

[KansDem]

I was responding more to the fact that a decorated general of the Marine Corps would make this statement, and lamenting that Bush Family, among others, has had its tentacles in much of the day-to-day operations in this country. For example, it seems the Bush Family is a real stickler about secrecy. In addition to the scrubbing of W's Texas state records prior to his becoming governor, we have this (Poppy):

In 1953, Bush got money from Brown Brothers Harriman and, with partners Hugh and Bill Liedtke, formed Zapata Petroleum. By the late 1950s they were millionaires. Bush bought subsidiary Zapata Off-Shore from his partners and went into business on his own in 1954. By 1958, the new company was drilling on the Cay Sal Bank in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico. These islands had been leased to Nixon supporter and CIA contractor Howard Hughes the previous year and were later used as a base for CIA raids on Cuba. The CIA was using companies like Zapata to stage and supply secret missions attacking Fidel Castro’s Cuban government in advance of the Bay of Pigs invasion. The CIA’s codename for that invasion was “Operation Zapata.” In 1981, all Securities and Exchange Commission filings for Zapata Off-Shore between 1960 and 1966 were destroyed. In other words, the year Bush became vice president, important records detailing his years at his drilling company disappeared. In 1969, Zapata bought the United Fruit Company of Boston, another company with strong CIA connections.
http://www.famoustexans.com/georgebush.htm

Makes one wonder what was in these records...;)

Granted, although Zapata could not have owned United Fruit during Gen. Butler's tenure as indicated by this source, one wonders just how much influence the Bush Family has had in its operations, either directly or indirectly, particularly when viewing this statement "Zapata bought the United Fruit Company of Boston, another company with strong CIA connections" considering George HW Bush's involvement in both Zapata and the CIA...