Reply #26: Thank you! And thank you for the very handy map!

[Peace Patriot]

I was thinking of posting an OP entitled, "Can we please have a quiet little thread about Bush/U.S. military support of Colombian invasion of Ecuador?" - but it's too long for a title, and anyway would get lost in the CAPITALIZED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF NOTHING--no word yet on how OH, TX and others voted. Except, VT went for Obama, big--but then VTers also want to secede from Bush/U.S.A., so I dunno if that's good or bad for Obama--although a couple of times in the last two days I, too, have felt like "seceding" from Bush/U.S.A.

In one fell swoop, Bush/U.S.A. killed all hopes for more hostage releases in Colombia, and all hope for a peaceful settlement of Colombia's 40+ year civil war. Colombia sent bombs and soldiers into Ecuador, directed by U.S. surveillance, probably from the U.S./Bush spy base in Manta, Ecuador (and, with whatever other U.S. support we don't know - aside from the billions and billions of our taxpayer dollars for military aid to the fascist Colombian regime). They murdered the leftist guerrilla (FARC) hostage negotiator, Raul Reyes, who was about to release 12 more hostages, including the French-Colombian former presidential candidate, Ingrid Betancourt, to Ecuador's president, Rafael Correa.

Correa is VERY UPSET, both at the blatant violation of Ecuador's sovereignty, and at the end of hopes for peace in Colombia. He is also upset that Colombia's president lied to him--told him they were in hot pursuit, when, in truth, Raul Reyes and his group of 16 or so rebels, were ASLEEP, in a camp in the jungle on Ecuador's side of the border. Only one Colombian soldier was killed, and Reyes and all who were with him were killed, which means it was a massacre. Furthermore, they knew who they were killing--the hostage negotiator, the guy whom Correa, and also Chavez of Venezuela, and the President of France, were in contact with, for Betancourt's and others' release. The U.S. intercepted a phone call from Reyes, and pointed Colombia at the target.

The consequences of this U.S./Bush military cooperation with Colombia, on invading Ecuador and killing the hostage negotiator (who has been involved in FARC's release of six hostages this year--mostly Chavez's doing), in overwhelmingly leftist South America (leftist governments now in Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Chile and Nicaragua--with strong alliances among them, on goals of social justice and regional self-determination) could be dire. It could even mean expulsion of the U.S. from the OAS (something that Nicaragua proposed to the meeting of Latin American countries, Spain and Portugal, only a few months ago).

The U.S. reputation in South America is totally in the mud. And the reason will not surprise you: This sabotage of a peace settlement in Colombia is part of a Donald Rumsfeld war plan to regain control of the Andes oil fields for his global corporate predator pals--Exxon Mobil, Occidental Petroleum and others. The key to his plan is the Bush/U.S.-militarized Colombia. He lays it out here...

"The Smart Way to Beat Tyrants Like Chávez," by Donald Rumsfeld, 12/1/07
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/30/AR2007113001800.html

He urges a "free trade" deal for Colombia (free fire zone for killing union leaders) and economic warfare against Venezuela (with Exxon Mobil soon afterward taking legal action to freeze $12 billion in Venezuela's assets*) and other "tyrants" (Correa? Both Chavez and Correa are democratically elected leaders, and both are hugely popular as well.) He further urges that the U.S. take "swift action" in support of "friends and allies" in South America. The Bush Junta has almost no "friends and allies" in South America, except the fascists running Colombia, and fascist cells within Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and Argentina, planning coups against these democratic governments, with Bush/U.S. funding.

These are the countries with the oil. Venezuela and Ecuador are members of OPEC, and have lots and lots of oil. Bolivia has some oil, and lots and lots of gas. There was a big oil find in Argentina recently, and they are strong allies with the other three.

The Bush Junta has been working on this war plan for some time, and, now that they've been denied Iran's oil fields, the plan is in motion. Oil War II. It's trickier than Iraq, because all of the governments they intend to topple are democracies--and not just democracies, but good democracies, with transparent elections (unlike our own) and social justice goals (unlike our own). A lot of covert work has been done. They've armed Colombia--a Bush Cartel client state--to the hilt. They have all along been trying to sabotage the hostage releases, and peace talks, but have failed. Now they mean to create a "hot" war, to destabilize the region. Pure Rumsfeld. Create "chaos and opportunity" with bloodshed.

And we, the people of the U.S., stand helplessly by--most of us deliberately kept ignorant of all of this by complicit corporate news monopolies, and our hapless, hopeless, or complicit Democratic Party leaders. In essence, we just invaded Ecuador--and started Oil War II--and hardly anybody knows it, in this country.

I've been watching and researching this situation for several years, and I thought they were going to strike first in Bolivia (further to the south). That may still happen. There is a Bush/U.S.-funded rightwing separatist movement in Bolivia, that could cause serious destabilization and armed conflict. Basically, the rich rural landowners want to split off their gas/oil rich provinces from the central government of Evo Morales, the first indigenous president of Bolivia--in a primarily indigenous country--to deny benefit of those resources to the poor urban majority. And the Bushites are naturally supporting the greedy elitists and their murderous militias. So this situation could also explode, as well. Morales is a strong ally of Venezuela. In fact, there is hardly a country in South America that isn't a strong ally of Venezuela. Which is why Rumsfeld will lose this war. But he is capable of creating havoc before he loses--and also of throwing this live hand grenade into the middle of the presidential election here, or into the lap of the new President.

And we thought Rumsfeld had "retired." Not so.