It's a hoot.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3151633Boy, do these first world financial barrcudas NOT want peace in Colombia!
My theory is that Oil War II: South America is coming down the pipe, fast. See the following, and my comment at the above. (I also have some thoughts on recent Bush/CIA dirty tricks/psyops in South America, in my DU journal.)
"The Smart Way to Beat Tyrants Like Chávez," by
Donald Rumsfeld,
12/1/07http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/30/AR2007113001800.html(And you thought he was "retired"!)
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Amnesty International's report on Colombian security forces and associated paramilitary atrocities against labor leaders in Colombia:
http://www.amnesty.org/en/alfresco_asset/26e626d7-a2c0-11dc-8d74-6f45f39984e5/amr230012007en.htmlThis is WHY there is a FARC (armed leftist guerrillas) in Colombia. Frankly, I don't know what I would do if I saw friends/family of mine who were labor leaders chainsawed and their body parts thrown into mass graves, and thousands tortured and killed (union organizers, small peasant farmers, political leftists, human rights workers, journalists). Violent rebellion may not be "justified" in such circumstances, but it surely is understandable. (Our own Founders thought violent rebellion was justified for far less).