It's funny that one of the greatest apologists for Chinese trade relations...

[Barack_America]

...despite their appalling human rights abuses, is so "concerned" about Bernie Sanders' disagreement with regime change in Latin America.

Clinton: Chinese human rights can't interfere with other crises
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/21/clinton.china.asia/

Why do Latin American governments deserve to be deposed, while China gets rewarded?


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[tazkcmo]

1. Went in the Army

To protect America from Commies. Not really. I had a wife and 2 kids and had to provide. Anyway, Commies were bad. We practiced how to kill them. I got out. Moved, discovered Walmart and bought lots of Commie made stuff. My mother even bought a Yugo! Amazing what can be accomplished with out principles.

[JDPriestly]

3. Right. We are supposed to hate the Communists in Cuba, but love the Communists

in China.

We are supposed to hate the non-Communists in Russia who used to be Communists but love the Communists in China and a couple of other countries.

I don't like Communism, but it's very confusing for me to figure out which Communists I am supposed to hate and which Communists I am supposed to buy stuff from.

[tazkcmo]

4. You made me dizzy.

And I already had a buzz! Funny! Funny because you speak the truth. During my military experience coupled with the Wall coming down I just quit hating, period. What a waste of energy. We're all people and I have better stuff to do.

[JDPriestly]

2. K&R. Can't add anything. Such a good point!

[delrem]

5. US overthrew a DEMOCRACY in Chile.

Hillary's advisor Kissinger: "I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people". Hillary is very aware of that, and she AGREES with it.

US overthrew a DEMOCRACY in Iran.

The contra (mercenary) proxy war against Nicaragua's Sandinistas was against a DEMOCRACY, and simultaneously US trained (School of the Americas) and backed right-wing death squads were running rampant across Latin America, torturing, slaughtering, disappearing, and none of it had anything to do with the US "democracy and freedom" pretension. All of it was sanctioned by Hillary's friend and mentor Henry Kissinger.

Hillary said of the Egyptian dictator Mubarak: "I really consider President and Mrs. Mubarak to be friends of my family".
That's the true Hillary.

Hillary and her neocon advisors don't give a flying fuck about "democracy and freedom". They overthrow democracies and dictatorships alike in their "regime change" operations, for the sole purpose of plundering a countries resources and installing dictatorships that enable the fastest/greatest private profit for US based investment capital. That short term objective is the only thing it's about.

The idea that Hillary Rodham Clinton, the author of regime change in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Honduras, cares even the tiniest bit about the hundreds of thousands dead and the millions of dispossessed refugees caused by her neocon politics is ... it's just so counter-intuitive as to be outrageous. Hillary Clinton's "caring" is a despicable lie written in blood.

[Barack_America]

6. Great post.

Thanks for that.