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>From: harelb@cabot.dartmouth.edu (Harel Barzilai)
Subject: More Crocodile Tears ( Re: January National Phone-In)
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Reply-To: harelb@cabot (Harel Barzilai)
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Date: Tue, 22 Jan 1991 02:56:46 GMT

In article <1991Jan15.200647.214@mentor.com> waltw@mentor.com (Walt Wilson) writes:

>OK, lets say we don't do this now.  Since the idiot that runs Iraq
>uses every weapon he >gets his hands on...even against his own
>people....what will it take to make you want to rid the world of him?

How joyous that Bush has now commenced the liberation of Saddam's "own
people" in an act that will murder probably tens of thousands, if not
hundreds of thousands, of these same people.

The attrocities against the Kurds, as well as many others attrocities
the nooz media haven't found convenient enough to mention despite
Saddam now being an Official Enemy (TM), had all been well documented
and well-known for all those years the Reaga/Bush admin.'s sent
weapons to Saddam. That is, Saddam who was then Official Goodguy (TM)
in the Iran-Iraq war.

As far as the Official Badguy (TM), these same administrations
sent weapons, also, to the Ayatollah, thus fueling both sides of a
conflict which took the lives of over a *million* lives, albeit,
dark-skinned lives, not a major factor in the determination of U.S.
foreign policy.

But the propaganda system is well oiled. We are at a deja vu.

The flag-waving pro-Panama-invasion crowd, too, were dumbfounded at
how anyone could oppose an invasion to oust such a dicrator. Such a
drug-running dictator who was not only supported but on the CIA
payroll for many, many years, as he brutalized his countrymen, at a
time he helped the CIA subvert Nicaragua and murder civilians there in
order to "democratize" that country, so tha tit was not convenient to
consider human rights in Panama. Nor is it convenient to do so today,
as the devastation of the U.S. invasion isn't worth the money, of
course, to partially repair the lives of those left homeless, or
worse, still today, in Panama.

Nor is it convenient to look at human rights in Kuwiat, Saudi Arabia,
or other Official Allies (TM), where murder and torture of political
prisoners is epidemic, women are forbiden from driving cars (Saudi
Arabia), and other features of U.S. style "democracy" abound.

Nor is it convenient to look at El Salvador or Guatemala, or Honduras,
those beneficiaries of the Good Superpower's favours for many years,
as the population is subjected to U.S. backed or -installed military
regimes which engage in wha Amnesty International terms a "Death Squad
Strategy" against their own population, the so-called "death squads"
being run, AI says, by "regular army and police agents acting in
uniform or plain clothes, under the orders of superior officers," to
the tune of "tens of thousands," some 1% of the population, of
murders, tortures, and "disappearandes" of "members of groups
perceived to be in opposition to the government, or to represent a
nucleus around whom such opposition could coalesce, including
students, trade unionists, members of cooperatives, church workers and
peasants." [Ref's updon rqst]

Nor is Nicaragua's state of much interest, now that "democracy" has
been re-introduced there following a free election in which the
population has been informed by Washington that economic
strangulation and contra terrorism -which continued throughout the
pre-election period, murdering several at voter registration booths-
would continue unless the U.S.-approaved candidate was chosen, freely.

As I mentioned in the previous article, this devastation wrecked by
Washington amounted to some $17 billion in economic ruin or the tiny
country, this figure being the sum judgement againt the Reagan
administration by the World Court, as sum neither Congress nor the
administration has any intention of paying, although a few crumbs will
be tossed Chamorro's way if she behaves as is proper towards one's
master, and understands the true relative importance of Washington's
agenda versus any attempts to recieve due compensation for the misery
the former has subjected on her population.

One can go on, but there are many other human-sacrifice rituals which
the activist must rush to fight besides the Gulf war, so please
forgive the abrupt ending.

Harel

Yo! Felow activists, stopping the war is important. But homelessness,
the war against the poor and middle class, U.S.-sponsodred death
squads, lack of national health care, fear and hate (all the -isms and
-phobias), the decimation of planet Earth, these need our attention
too...