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To: antiRepublicrat
Don't go there unless you also check out Bush Sr.'s pardons, including a large-scale drug dealer and a known terrorist who bombed an airliner.

Nah, let's do go there. Who were these people? Tell us something about them. Even if it's all true, I was never a big fan of Bush the Elder to begin with.

51 posted on 03/04/2005 3:33:56 PM PST by Zhangliqun (What are intellectuals for but to complexify the obvious?)
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To: Zhangliqun; cyncooper; Imaverygooddriver

The terrorist was Orlando Bosch, then in jail for entering the US illegally. He wasn't allowed in because he was a known terrorist and advocate of violence, suspected of bombing a Cuban airliner in 1976, killing 76 people. Since Bosch was staunchly anti-Castro, the Florida anti-Castro community had been lobbying for his release for a while, trying to portray him as a freedom fighter. They finally succeeded when a business associate of theirs, one Jeb Bush, lobbied on their behalf.

Bush also freed Aslam Adam, a Pakistani serving a 55 year sentence for importing $1.5 million of heroin into the United States.


60 posted on 03/04/2005 8:42:25 PM PST by antiRepublicrat
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