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Topic: Robt. Gates Advocated Bombing Nicaragua
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jeff house
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posted 27 November 2006 10:34 AM
Nicaraguans elected Daniel Ortega in 1984 after the Sandinista revolution had swept out the dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza.Gates, now nominated to be Defence Secretary by George W. Bush wrote this about Nicaragua: quote: "It seems to me," Gates wrote, "that the only way that we can prevent disaster in Central America is to acknowledge openly what some have argued privately: that the existence of a Marxist-Leninist regime in Nicaragua closely allied with the Soviet Union and Cuba is unacceptable to the United States and that the United States will do everything in its power short of invasion to put that regime out."Gates predicted that without U.S. funding, the Nicaraguan anti-communist forces known as Contras would collapse within one or two years. But he said that providing "new funding" for the Contras was not good enough. Instead, he advocated that the United States withdraw diplomatic recognition of the Sandinista government, provide overt assistance to a government in exile, impose economic sanctions or a quarantine, and use airstrikes to destroy Nicaragua's "military buildup
So, he doesn't like the result of a democratic election, and his solution is a quarantine, and "air strikes". War criminal.bombs away [ 27 November 2006: Message edited by: jeff house ]
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