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thousands of people, and mass slaughtering others, their tactic was to pre-empt criticism by throwing blame elsewhere. Thus, they accused Saddam Hussein of possessing WMDs and planning to use them on others, including England (!) (--the infamous 45 minutes to London bullshit), but it was they themselves who were about the slaughter 100,000 innocent people with "shock and awe" bombing, to steal their oil.
The Bushwhacks larded the fascist narco-thugs who are running Colombia with $6 BILLION in military aid, to encourage extrajudicial murders of thousands of union leaders, human rights workers, peasant farmers and others, by Colombia's security forces and their rightwing paramilitary death squads, and both of these killing machines have spilled over the borders into Venezuela (where hundreds of unionized farmers have been killed in the border areas), and Ecuador, where the U.S./Colombia dropped ten U.S. "smart bombs" on a temporary FARC (leftist guerilla fighters) hostage release camp, just inside Ecuador's border, killing 25 people in their sleep, including several Mexican and Ecuadoran citizens, and almost starting a war with Ecuador and Venezuela. The cocaine traffic never ends in Colombia, no matter how much military aid we give, and the traffic and all of its attendant crime spill over into these adjacent countries. Colombia is the country that is "exporting terrorism," including several plots, hatched in Colombia, to assassinate Hugo Chavez.
It's interesting to follow this Bushwhack tale that Chavez "exports terrorism" back a couple of years, to Donald Rumsfeld's op-ed in the Washington Post, 12/1/07, a year after he was ousted from the Pentagon, entitled, "The Smart Way to Defeat Tyrants Like Chavez." This op-ed was published on the same weekend that Chavez had arranged for the release of some FARC hostages, at the specific request of the president of Colombia, Alvaro Uribe. Prior to that request, a plot to assassinate Chavez had been exposed in the Colombian military, and Uribe was compelled to apologize to Chavez, in a four hour meeting. I figure it was at that meeting Uribe asked Chavez to negotiate hostage releases with the FARC. It was announced publicly, and Chavez proceeded to do it. He was quite successful. The FARC were willing to talk to Chavez because he is a leftist. Then, on the relevant weekend, 12/1/07, or, rather, a couple of days before, Uribe suddenly withdrew his request of Chavez (using the lame excuse that Chavez had called someone in the Colombian military to ask how many Colombian soldiers were being held hostage by the FARC). But the first hostage release was already in motion--and people like the President of France, hostages' families, and others, begged Chavez to continue. So he went ahead. In that first hostage release, the Colombian military shelled the hostages' location, while they were in route to their freedom, driving them back into the jungle on a 20 mile hike. Chavez got them out later by a different route, and got a total of 6 hostages released, onto into February, with the Colombian military doing everything possible to sabotage further releases.
In his op-ed, on that first weekend of the hostage releases, Rumsfeld says, in the opening paragraph, that Chavez's efforts as to the hostages were "not welcome in Colombia"--though they had been days before. The long hand of Washington was reaching down to South America to disrupt the accord between Uribe and Chavez on getting hostages released, and was no doubt pulling Uribe's strings (whose strange, contradictory behavior resembled nothing so much as a puppet getting jerked this way and that).
But then comes the capper. In March, the U.S./Colombia conspired to invade Ecuador and kill the chief FARC hostage negotiator, Raul Reyes (who, by all accounts, was about to release high profile hostage Ingrid Betancourt, in Ecuador). They blew Reyes' camp away, crossed the border to shoot any survivors, and claimed to have seized Reyes' laptop computers, which Uribe soon began to use--citing emails supposedly from the laptop--making wild charges about Chavez colluding with terrorists. I won't go into the whole "miracle laptop" story, but it seems pretty clear to me that this laptop (later, laptopS) was a product of Rumsfeld's private "Office of Special Plans" (infamous for concocting false evidence of WMDs in Iraq). Yes, Chavez had contact with the FARC--at Uribe's specific and public request! They took those contacts and laced them round with lies about money and "dirty bombs" and whatnot, which were all proven false. In fact, no emails even existed in those computers.
Neither Chavez nor Castro, nor anybody else among the leftist leaders of South America, approves of FARC fighting or FARC hostage taking. They have all told them to stop. The Colombian civil war has gone on for more than 40 years. Everybody (except the Colombian fascists and militarists) wants it ended. Even the FARC wants it ended. That's why they began releasing hostages. It is pure slander to say that Chavez (or Rafael Correa, president of Ecuador, whom they also accused) wants anything but peace in South America, and they saw hostages releases as the way to peace. And, interestingly, after all this went down, Chavez invited Uribe to Venezuela, and they held a press conference, "burying the hatchet," and announcing joint economic ventures like a new railroad between their countries. It is the Colombian military and the Bushwhacks who wanted war, and were trying to set up an excuse to invade Venezuela (and Ecuador, which they did invade), for the purpose of harassing or killing/toppling Venezuela's democratic government.
The charge that Chavez is colluding with "terrorists," or "exporting terrorism," or however they put it, is entirely false. It is a Bushwhack concoction. And it was psyops for a war plan, to regain global corporate predator control of Venezuela's and Ecuador's vast oil reserves. We've seen this before, as to Iraq. We saw a similar build-up of propaganda about Iran (a war that somehow got taken "off the table"). And those of us following events in South America (and in the corpo press here) were seeing the same goddamn crap all over again, with regard to Chavez/Venezuela and other leftist countries with lots of oil.
It is utter, complete, total, unmitigated Bushwhack bullshit--and when Obama repeats it, or Hillary Clinton repeats it, they are behaving like Bushwhacks, and I hope to God that this does not mean that they are planning a war, or planning to wink at--or get drawn into--a private corporate oil war designed by Donald Rumsfeld.
Cuz that's what it looks like to me.
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