Media Matters: Wall Street Journal Hides Jeb Bush's Ties To His Brother's Foreign Policy

[Miles Archer]

Wall Street Journal Hides Jeb Bush's Ties To His Brother's Foreign Policy

http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/02/11/wall-street-journal-hides-jeb-bushs-ties-to-his/202491

WSJ: Early Indications From Jeb Bush "Suggest An Approach Different From His Brother's." A February 10 Wall Street Journal article reported that presidential candidate Jeb Bushwill face a "unique dilemma" of choosing whether to follow the foreign policy path carved by his father, former President George H.W. Bush, or by his brother, former President George W. Bush. The Journal claimed that Jeb was "leaning toward his father's more pragmatic and restrained philosophy" and not the neoconservative foreign policy that was the hallmark of the George W. Bush administration. (The Wall Street Journal, 2/10/15)

Jeb Bush Argued That "People Will Respect" George W. Bush For The Iraq War. In a March 10, 2013, interview with CNN, Jeb Bush claimed, "A lot of things in history change over time. I think people will respect the resolve that my brother showed both in defending the country and the war in Iraq, but history will judge that in a more objective way than today. The war has wound down now, and it's still way too early to judge what success it had in providing some degree of stability in the region." (State of the Union, CNN, 3/10/13)

Jeb Bush Touted The Success Of The Iraq War In 2006. As Politico reported, "In April 2006, Bush joined three other governors to visit U.S. troops in Iraq, where he called progress in the country 'undeniable,' even as Iraq descended into civil war." (Politico, 1/5/15)

The Nation: Jeb Bush Was A Founding Member Of The Project For A New American Century. As The Nation noted in May, "According to the website On the Issues, Bush was a founding member of the Project for a New American Century, the neoconservative outfit formed in the 1990s that played a leading role in generating support for war in Iraq and whose members took up key positions in the administration of George W. Bush, Jeb's brother." (The Nation, 5/30/14)

[Octafish]

1. WSJ missed their connection to CIA terrorist Orlando Bosch.

The Bush dynasty and the Cuban criminals

New book reveals links of two presidents and the governor of Florida with exiled hardliners

Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles
The Guardian, Sunday 1 December 2002 20.54 EST

The brother of President George Bush, the Florida governor, Jeb Bush, has been instrumental in securing the release from prison of militant Cuban exiles convicted of terrorist offences, according to a new book. The Bush family has also accommodated the demands of Cuban exile hardliners in exchange for electoral and financial support, the book suggests.

Last year, after September 11, while the justice department announced a sweep of terrorist suspects, Cubans convicted of terrorist offences were being released from US jails with the consent of the Bush administration, according to the book, Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana, by Ann Louise Bardach, the award-winning investigative journalist who has covered Cuban and Miami politics for the New York Times and Vanity Fair.

The Bush family connections go back to 1984 when Jeb Bush began a close association with Camilo Padreda, a former intelligence officer with the Batista dictatorship overthrown by Fidel Castro.

Jeb Bush was then the chairman of the Dade county Republican party and Padreda its finance chairman. Padreda had earlier been indicted on a $500,000 (£320,000) embezzlement charge along with a fellow exile, Hernandez Cartaya, but the charges were dropped, reportedly after the CIA stated that Cartaya had worked for them.

Padreda later pleaded guilty to defrauding the housing and urban development department of millions of dollars during the 1980s.

The president's younger brother was also on the payroll in the 80s of the prominent Cuban exile Miguel Recarey, who had earlier assisted the CIA in attempts to assassinate President Castro.

SNIP...

Most controversially, at the request of Jeb, Mr Bush Sr intervened to release the convicted Cuban terrorist Orlando Bosch from prison and then granted him US residency.

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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/dec/02/usa.books

Lots more that won't get printed in the Wall Street Journal.