In fact, America’s main export has always been terror - Meet Blowtorch Bob and other scum

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<snip>In fact, America’s main export has always been terror. America's military industrial complex is a major driving force in the numerous wars America gets involved in. Moreover, America has exported terror in other ways. Latin America is an insightful example.

Since the era of the Monroe Doctrine, which declared that North America considered Latin America her backyard, the U.S. has continually destabilized and thwarted democracy and freedom in Latin America. This won't be admitted by politicians, which, illuminates the putrid state of Washington where none of the presidential candidates has spoken of how the torture that America has exported to Latin America is relevant to the issue of immigration.

Latin American politics is moving to the left. The rise of Bolivia's Eva Morales and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, who has channeled the spirit of Cuba's Fidel Castro in standing up to American hegemony, signals that people there are tired of right-wing despots propped up by Washington.

White House and Washington politicians for years have exported torture to Latin America by training many of the most dictatorial elements at the infamous School of the Americas-now euphemistically called The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation-located at Fort Benning, Georgia. The names of Latin American politicos who "trained" there reads like a who's who of despots.

From Argentina, there was Leopolo Galtieri who presided over Batallon de Inteligencia 601, which was active in Operation Condor and the Dirty War. During the Dirty War, in Argentina from 1976-1983, this special military intelligence unit carried out state-sponsored terrorism against dissidents in Argentina, mostly, during the reign of Washington-backed dictator Jorge Videla. During the Dirty War 30,000 people "disappeared."

El Salvador's Roberto D`Aubuisson was another "graduate" of the "school." Nicknamed "Blowtorch Bob," for his penchant at using blowtorches as a terror tool, D`Aubuisson was the leader of the dreaded Salvadoran Death Squads that killed thousands, especially during the Salvadoran Civil War 1980-1992.

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1. Everyone needs to read this.

It just amazes me that the people of Latin America have put up with it for this long.

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2. But, but... why do you hate Amurka??!!

<sarcasm> That's what OxyRush told me??!! </sarcasm> How long have people been trying to get that cesspool closed down. Also, I heard Wesley Clark is a supporter of that vile facility, per the World Socialist Web Site several years ago.

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3. John Negroponte

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5. Americans "freedom loving" people

The fact that America is torturing, perhaps mostly innocent people, should spur the outrage of Americans. Ask yourself the following: Who and where are these people?

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Americans often delude themselves into the fanciful notion that they are a "freedom loving" people who have only the best intentions for others. This is dangerous; our best protection is to continue asking government the tough questions.

How can America export "democracy" and "freedom" when the U.S. still can't provide it for all its citizens? America's history of "freedom" was built on the bones of millions of massacred Native Americans, the survivors of whom are now forgotten, and America's superpower economy was enriched by the blood, sweat and tears of African-Americans.

Indeed. Who is torturing? Who are these "freedom loving Americans" who go to 'work' each day with torture in their job description?