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The U.S.-funded Contras who killed Benjamin Linder and the Chilean operatives who blew up Ronnie Moffat in Washington D.C. were "Freedom Fighters." The same for the U.S.-trained Argentinian militarists who tortured people, drugged them, then hurled them out of airplanes over the South Atlantic -- Freedom Fighters, the equivalent of our own founding fathers.
This aggression will not stand, man.
by kaleidescope on Mon May 05, 2008 at 07:14:17 PM PDT
I hope you aren't being literal about the equivalent of our founding fathers. They had their issues, but I don't recall them being on the level of Argentinian militarists.
9/11 didn't change the Constitution! Are we marching towards fascism?
by Prof Dave on Mon May 05, 2008 at 07:16:04 PM PDT
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he's saying that the American Founding Fathers were Freedom Fighters not murderers and torturers of civilians like the groups listed.
by gendjinn on Mon May 05, 2008 at 07:25:54 PM PDT
That was the Reagan Administration and its enablers in the courtier media who said that. They actually said that.
When Guillermo Suarez Mason -- military overlord of Buenos Aires during the military junta and torturer and murderer extraordinare -- split from Argentina after the junta fell, he was protected by Oliver North in the U.S. because Suarez Mason had helped to train the Nicaraguan Contras.
These were the people Reagan, Poppy Bush and Oliver North sold weapons to Iran to so they could raise funds to support the Nicaraguan Contras.
by kaleidescope on Mon May 05, 2008 at 07:30:37 PM PDT
. . . also secretly mined Nicaragua's harbors in '84, which even pissed off Goldwater who IIRC called it ". . . the stupidest fucking thing I ever heard of." The Senate resolution condemning the mining (passed 80-4, IIRC)implicitly characterized it as terrorism.
The CIA has always been a terrorist organization.
by OdinofAzgard on Mon May 05, 2008 at 07:52:20 PM PDT
...a black nurse native to Nicaraguan's Caribbean coast who, along with a doctor, were killed by a contra bombing attack on a remote clinic near Matagalpa in 1985.
I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land. -- Mark Twain
by Meteor Blades on Mon May 05, 2008 at 07:19:28 PM PDT
us of his best friend, also a priest, who saw the contras murder first the children, then the wife, then the head of the village in cold blood.
These are the people Reagan called heroes.
Until we break the corporate virtual monopoly on what we hear and see, we keep losing, don't matter what we do.
by Jim P on Mon May 05, 2008 at 07:40:30 PM PDT
airliner, killing 76 passengers? Isn't he up for a Congressional Medal of Freedom?
by entlord1 on Mon May 05, 2008 at 07:28:11 PM PDT
...this guy I wrote about last April?
Posada: "Estoy muy contento." Me? Not so much Looking fragile and tired in his off-white tropical suit, a grandfatherly Luis Posada Carriles was gently helped out of the car that delivered him to his wife’s house in Miami Thursday as the sun went down. It will be the first time in 23 months that he has not spent the night in federal detention. So it was no surprise that, when asked how he felt, he replied, "Estoy muy contento," ("I’m very happy.") To the Cuban-American community he said, "I’m very grateful." Happy and grateful and comfortably surrounded by his family, friends and fans while his victims spin in their graves. Except that many of his victims have no graves since they were killed by the bombing of Air Cubana Flight 455 in 1976 when it took off from Barbados. Not all the bodies could be recovered. Among those on board were many teenagers, members of the Cuban fencing team. Says Posada: "No one saw me make a bomb."
Posada: "Estoy muy contento." Me? Not so much
Looking fragile and tired in his off-white tropical suit, a grandfatherly Luis Posada Carriles was gently helped out of the car that delivered him to his wife’s house in Miami Thursday as the sun went down. It will be the first time in 23 months that he has not spent the night in federal detention. So it was no surprise that, when asked how he felt, he replied, "Estoy muy contento," ("I’m very happy.") To the Cuban-American community he said, "I’m very grateful."
Happy and grateful and comfortably surrounded by his family, friends and fans while his victims spin in their graves. Except that many of his victims have no graves since they were killed by the bombing of Air Cubana Flight 455 in 1976 when it took off from Barbados. Not all the bodies could be recovered. Among those on board were many teenagers, members of the Cuban fencing team. Says Posada: "No one saw me make a bomb."
by Meteor Blades on Mon May 05, 2008 at 07:50:50 PM PDT
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