Bush Buys 99,000 Acres In Paraguay--4th Reich Exodus?

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George W. Bush

We Hate To Bring Up the Nazis, But They Fled To South America, Too

Our paranoid friends over at Bring It On have put together a story that hasn’t exactly made Washington Whispers. It’s real short and real simple:

• The Cuban news service reports that George W. Bush has purchased 98,840 acres in Paraguay, near the Bolivian/Brazilian border.

• Jenna Bush paid a secret diplomatic visit to Paraguayan President Nicanor Duarte and U.S. Ambassador James Cason. There were no press conferences, no public
  sightings and no official confirmation of her 10-day trip which
  apparently ended this week.

• The Paraguayan Senate voted last summer to “grant U.S. troops immunity from national and International Criminal Court (ICC) jurisdiction.”

• Immediately afterwards, 500 heavily armed U.S. troops
  arrived with various planes, choppers and land vehicles at Mariscal
  Estigarribia air base, which happens to be at the northern tip of
  Paraguay near the Bolivian/Brazilian border. More have reportedly
  arrived since then.

What the hell, after the jump. Plus a BREAKING UPDATE involving, of course, The Moonies!

Now,
Prensa Latina is a Cuban-government operation that is not exactly
friendly toward Washington, what with Washington trying to kill Castro
for 50 years and all.

But Prensa Latina didn’t invent the story. It’s all over the South American press — and not just Venezuela and Bolivia.

Here’s a version from Brazil.

Here’s one from Argentina.

And here’s one from Paraguay itself.

As far as we can understand, all the paperwork and deeds and such
are secret. But somehow the news leaked that a new “land trust” created
for Bush had purchased nearly 100,000 acres near the town of Chaco.

And Jenna’s down there having secret meetings with the president and
America’s ambassador to Paraguay, James Cason. Bush posted Cason in
Havana in 2002, but last year moved him to Paraguay.

Cason apparently gets around. A former “political adviser” to the U.S. Atlantic Command and ATO’s
Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic, Cason has been stationed in El
Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Panama … basically everywhere the U.S. has run secret and not-so-secret wars over the past 30 years.

Here’s a fun question for Tony Snow: Why might the president and his
family need a 98.840-acre ranch in Paraguay protected by a semi-secret U.S. military base manned by American troops who have been exempted from war-crimes prosecution by the Paraguyan government?

Here’s a little background on the base itself, which Rumsfeld secretly visited in late 2005:

U.S. Special Forces began arriving this past summer at Paraguay’s Mariscal
Estigarribia air base, a sprawling complex built in 1982 during the
reign of dictator Alfredo Stroessner. Argentinean journalists who got a
peek at the place say the airfield can handle B-52 bombers and Galaxy
C-5 cargo planes. It also has a huge radar system, vast hangers, and
can house up to 16,000 troops. The air base is larger than the
international airport at the capital city, Asuncion.

Some 500
special forces arrived July 1 for a three-month counterterrorism
training exercise, code named Operation Commando Force 6.

Paraguayan denials that Mariscal Estigarribia is now a U.S. base have met with considerable skepticism by Brazil and Argentina. There is a disturbing resemblance between U.S. denials
about Mariscal Estigarribia, and similar disclaimers made by the
Pentagon about Eloy Alfaro airbase in Manta , Ecuador. The United
States claimed the Manta base was a “dirt strip” used for weather
surveillance. When local journalists revealed its size, however, the
United States admitted the base harbored thousands of mercenaries and
hundreds of U.S. troops, and Washington had signed a 10-year basing agreement with Ecuador.

BREAKING, UPDATE, LITTLE SIREN GRAPHIC:

We’ve been directed to yet another parapolitical theory here at Rigorous Intuition, where it is reported that Rev. Moon bought 600,000 hectares — that’s 1,482,600 acres — in the same place: Chaco, Paraguay.

Another twist: The first story, from Paraguay, apparently refers to the senior George Bush as the owner of the 98.840 acres in Moon’s neighborhood.

Bush 41 was the first bigshot politician to go prancing around with Rev. Moon in public. Especially in South America:

“In
the early stages of the Reagan Revolution that embraced the Washington
Times and Moon’s anti-Communist movement, it was embarrassing to be
caught at a Moon event,” wrote The Gadflyer last year. “Until George H.W. Bush appeared with Moon in 1996, thanking him for a newspaper that ‘brings sanity to Washington.’” That
was while on an extended trip to South America in Moon’s company. A
Reuters’ story of Nov 25 of that year describes the former president as
“full of praise” for Moon at a banquet in Buenos Aires, toasting him as
“the man with the vision.” (And Moon helped Bush out with his own
vision thing, paying him $100,000 for the pleasure of his company.)
Bush and Moon then traveled together to Uruguay, “to help him
inaugurate a seminary in the capital, Montevideo, to train 4,200 young
Japanese women to spread the word of his Church of Unification across
Latin America.”

Isn’t that special?

Oh, and both the Moonie and Bush land is located at what Paraguay’s
drug czar called an “enormously strategic point in both the narcotics
and arms trades.” And it sits atop the one of the world’s largest fresh-water aquifers.

Bush Family-98,842 acres and a Mule [Bring It On]

Bush Paraguay Land Grab Incites Unease [Prensa Latina]