Good informative post.

For the record (since it is going to come up soon enough...LOL), the only position Obama has taken on Cuba is an easing of travel restrictions - though, of course, this may change (in either direction) with the changed situation there.

The last thing Hillary said on Cuba was that she supported the embargo (including travel restrictions), though she added that this could change if the situation changed (which, obviously, it has).

So neither candidate has (thus far) made a clear declaration of a comprehensive position on Cuba - though this is now likely to change, probably pretty quickly.

Peace.

Look, if our politicians admitted they screwed up, then we would think they do not know what they are doing.  Anyway it is nice to have a Sodom to point to, in the good government of smoke and mirrors.

It’s a family thing. George W. Bush simply can not accept any government that he and his don’t own and control. Especially Cuba! The huge, fifty year old reminder of the ONE absolute failed attempt to control.

In the corruption that defines CIA covert operations, working hand in glove with power, dynasty, greed, war and political connections ... Cuba is the one success that never happened. The one reward denied. The huge power house of wealth and holdings taken away!

Putting this in the larger context of the oligarchs march to control the world, this loss has got to smart, even now all these years later. These people never forget, and grudges, like greed drive policy in all too many cases.

You might find it interesting to follow the connections ... http://spitfirelist.com/f445.html

George H. Walker (Jr. and Sr.) Grandfather and Uncle of George Herbert Walker Bush (former president) on Mothers side. Great-Grandfather and Great Uncle of George Walker Bush (president Bush)

The Walkers were heavily invested in Cuba and the rest of the Caribbean, a hotbed of intelligence activity from the 1950’s on.

Walker had longstanding ties to Cuba and served as a director of seven related companies during the mid-and late 1920’s and early 1930’s: the Cuba Company, the Cuban Railroad, Cuban-Dominican Sugar, Barahona Sugar, Cuba Distilling, Sugar Estates of Oriente, and Atlantic Fruit and Sugar. Prominent New York investment bankers did not undertake such commitments lightly; Walker was centrally involved with the island through three major industries: sugar, (rum) distilling, and a major railroad that served these enterprises (and became a symbol of yanqui power.)”

“In the 1930’s and early 1940’s, George H.W. Bush’s favorite uncle, Herbie—George Herbert Walker, Jr.—took over directorships of several of these Cuban-Dominican sugar companies, which ultimately merged into West Indies Sugar in 1942.

“Uncle Herbie” Walker was deeply involved with the reorganization of George H.W. Bush’s Zapata Oil—itself heavily involved in the Caribbean. “His uncle would have been angry in 1959, when the new leftist Castro regime announced that it would nationalize the holdings of the U.S. sugar companies. 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 helped to finance the reorganization of Zapata by which the offshore drilling rigs—at least one operating near Cuba—became independent under Walker-Bush control. George H. Walker Jr. must have been even angrier in 1960 when Castro nationalized the West Indies Sugar Company, of which he had been a director until 1959. Infuriated by Castro’ sugar estate seizures, the U.S. government withdrew its recognition of Cuba and launched an economic embargo in January 1961. Three months later came the Bay of Pigs invasion.”
http://ftrsummary.blogspot.com/2004/03/ftr-445-bush-fa mily-intelligence.html

The CIA codename for the Bay of Pigs invasion of April 1961 was “Operation Zapata”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapata_Corporation#Bay_of_Pigs

And the rest, as they say, is history.

If Americans were truely as free as the government claims, once we leave the confines of the U.S. we should be able to go anywhere....even 90 miles off our coast.