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Peace Patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-12-09 10:52 AM
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24. Yes, the plane carrying the kidnapped president out of the country stopped at the U.S. air base
in Soto Cano, Honduras, for refueling, while the U.S. commanders there were apparently too busy playing video games to bother checking what planes were going in and out. (It is supposedly a drug interdiction base!)

That's why, at first brush, I thought there might be two coups going on--one against Obama (and his authority as president), the other against Zelaya. That possibility is reduced to about 1% in my mind, at this point--partly because Obama has since defended the Bushwhack-negotiated, BIG U.S. military buildup in Colombia. And if there has been an internal struggle (over either thing), Obama lost. But I'm much less inclined, now, to think there was even a struggle. It appears that Obama caved to the U.S. forces of evil in Latin America from the beginning, and his stated policy of "peace, respect and cooperation" in US/Latin American relations has been bullshit all along.

Jim DeMint's behavior during the Honduran crisis--his active, open sabotage of Obama policy--and how he reacted to Obama's cave-in on Honduras--crowing triumphantly--most certainly gave the impression that this first term, junior senator from SC is, in fact, the president of the U.S., or at least Sec of State (or maybe Sec of Defense?)--on U.S. Latin American policy. He OVERRULED President Obama's stated policy!

I even toyed with the idea that he was giving the orders to the Pentagon's "Southern Command" through the Bushwhack-appointed ambassador in Honduras. You may recall, he was holding up all of Obama's appointments in Latin America. Bushwhacks still in place everywhere. Looked to me like a Bushwhack plan--topple Honduras, use it, as in the 1980s, to launch destabilization/toppling assaults on the neighboring leftist governments (Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala), move the U.S. military into Colombia, and make war on Venezuela (and probably Ecuador--the main oil sources in the northern hump of the "Southern Command"). There is a lot of evidence for this war plan. But it is not--so far, in any case--a putsch against Obama. He apparently supports it!
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