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...phony hunt for the WMDs was changed to a phony hunt for "WMD program related activities."
The WMDs that weren't there had to be transformed into something that could more easily be alleged to be there, on thinner kinds of evidence, like having a science department at the university, or developing antibiotics. But they even dropped that after a while. "WMD program related activities." Soon we were in Iraq to give the Iraqis "freedom" and Halliburton-program related activities (no schools built, nothing built, a billion dollars gone missing) and Blackwater-program related activities (kicking down doors, dragging people out, shooting people, and distributing our missing weapons cache to various hostile tribes, to foster mayhem and death). Ah me, those WMDs went a long way--from being non-existent, to becoming a "program related activity," to delivering "freedom," to delivering death and more death.
The FARC guerrilla camps that weren't there are now...um...not there, again. Cuz...um...Colombia sure needs those prospering Venezuelans--with their good wages, subsidized food, health care, pensions and other benefits--to buy Colombian goods. Now you see 'em, now you don't. Long term, I don't know. They can always be there again, when the time is right, on the Pentagon's Big Dartboard. And what with Libya and all, the president doesn't need us or congress any more. They may not even bother to lie to us that the FARC camps that weren't there are back. Prez and Pentagon will just start dropping bombs.
I can't say that I'm sorry that Santos has dropped this shitty lie. But I am reminded of something else. Venezuela was just designated "THE most equal country in Latin America" on income distribution, by the UN Economic Commission on Latin America and the Caribbean. Colombia meanwhile has one of the worst rich/poor ratios in Latin America. Exports will be vital to keeping the rich rich in Colombia, and also Colombia has the trade advantage of slave labor to undercut the prices of countries with governments that believe in and fight for good wages. FIVE MILLION peasant farmers brutally displaced from their lands with many driven into urban squalor in Colombia--fodder for "U.S. free trade for the rich" sweatshops and farming and mining slavery (Chiquita, Drummond Coal, et al). Thousands of trade unionists and other advocates of the poor have been slaughtered in Colombia, as well--half by the U.S. funded and trained Colombian military itself (the other half by their closely tied rightwing paramilitary death squads). So, a terrorized slave labor force makes Colombia not only corporate-style "competitive" but also a force for wreaking havoc on labor gains, and the gains of the poor, elsewhere, and for creating rancor and divisiveness among Latin American countries--a prime U.S. goal.
The loss in vile propaganda points--the vanishing FARC guerrilla camps--may be a gain for U.S. multinational corporate profit, in the end. I know that Chavez loves peace (Lula da Silva called him "the great peacemaker") and so do I. Uribe's warmongering was extremely worrisome and dangerous (and no doubt was a projection--cuz he thinks just like a Bushwhack--ergo, his accusations against Chavez meant that HE and possibly covert U.S. operatives were SETTING UP ARMED CAMPS in Venezuela). I'm as glad as I can be to see the imminent threat of war go away. But I've said it before, and I'll say it again, I DON'T TRUST Santos nor his U.S. sponsors.
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