This is your GOP. This is your GOP on drugs.

[Holly_Hobby]

Four more American-registered drug planes have been seized from the 50-plane fleet of drug running aircraft amassed by Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel, according to documents filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Figures of interest in the transactions, the MadCowMorningNews has learned, include financial backers of two of this year's Republican candidates for President, as well as, unsurprisingly, an aviation company in St. Petersburg, FL. which can justifiably be called "one of the usual suspects."

Coincidentally or not, the American owners of the four planes (like the two busted earlier) were largely people and companies with 'special relationships' with U.S. political movers and shakers, including the CIA and the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security. Yet, despite this inconvenient fact, the FBI persists in referring to the aircraft's American owners as "legitimate aircraft brokers" and "unwitting sellers".

he Republican connection begins with the statement in court filings that the money to purchase the planes was laundered through a bank which is almost invariably described as “fast-growing” in admiring business news articles. The drug money was wired, usually from Mexico, to an account at Commerce Bank in Miami, whose Chairman, Dennis Nixon, is the South Texas Co-chair of John McCain’s campaign.

Nixon was also a Bush Pioneer and Ranger in George W. Bush’s two Presidential campaigns, raising $300,000 in one night for Bush’s re-election bid in Texas border town Laredo. High-profile Texas businessman Dennis Nixon's bank is even— in one of the sales—involved on both ends. Money was wired from Mexico, first to an account at Commerce Bank in Miami, then on to International Bank of Commerce (IBC) in Oklahoma to complete the sale. Dennis Nixon's International Bancshares of San Antonio owns both banks.

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[yardwork]

1. The Bushes connections to the global drug market go way back.

They don't call him Poppy Bush for nothing. We invaded Afghanistan the year after the Taliban shut down the opium growers there. Coincidence? Perhaps. They've had bumper crops of poppy ever since we invaded.

South America? Cocaine? Drug cartels. No coincidence that that's where the CIA and State Department have held their dirty little wars for a couple hundred years now. Cocaine became popular in England and the U.S. in the mid-19th century, right around the time....oh never mind. I'm sure it's all a coincidence.

[Ilsa]

3. I guess Poppy had to get W more blow. nt

[yardwork]

4. And several billion more dollars for the family coffers.

It's just business to the Bush crime family.

[Ilsa]

2. IBC used to be a small bank holding company. Now they have

branches all over Texas, as far as I can tell. There's one down the street from me. I was hoping Dennis N. was gone already. Doesn't surprise me that he could be tied up with questionable dealings. Man, I'd love to dig into those files!

[leftofthedial]

5. the bush family are players in an international crime syndicate

so what's new?