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jeff house
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posted 27 November 2006 10:34 AM      Profile for jeff house     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
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:

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"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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nister
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posted 27 November 2006 11:06 AM      Profile for nister     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
The political stripe of America's enemies is not what puts them in the crosshairs. The common coin of the "black hats" is defiance of the Imperium.
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Fidel
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posted 27 November 2006 11:50 AM      Profile for Fidel     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
quote:
Originally posted by nister:
The political stripe of America's enemies is not what puts them in the crosshairs. The common coin of the "black hats" is defiance of the Imperium.

That's true. An example I can think of was Mossadeq in Iran. He was a nationalist who simply saw that it was in Iranian's public interest to control and profit from the country's oil, although he did have backing from the communists in Iran. Communism of any political persuasion has been the imperialists common battle cry. Fidel Castro and Patrice Lumumba first turned to the west for recognition before seeking relations with the Soviet Union.


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nister
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posted 27 November 2006 12:04 PM      Profile for nister     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Michelle just posted that Jaggi Singh has been arrested for attending a news conference where Harper was to pontificate. It seems defiance of authority gets you fitted for a black hat here, too..and a visit to the pokey.
[sorry for the thread hijack]

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Fidel
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posted 29 November 2006 02:02 AM      Profile for Fidel     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post  Reply With Quote 
Apparently there was a small protest at a Toronto Tim Horton's on Dundas Street November 19th. The protest was an international day of mourning for victims of the infamous School of the Americas graduates throughout Latin America in the recent past. For more info and pamphlets, contact Lori Ryan [email protected] of the Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace. We are encouraged to send letters to Stephen Harper and indicating that we'd like for hime to voice our opinions on the need to close down the school of torture for right wing death squads based at Fort Benning, GA.
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