Reply #3: "The truth is almost always the opposite of what the Reagan Administration tells us."

[Peace Patriot]

Deja vu all over again, eh?

The truth about Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Argentina, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Cuba--or about any Latin American country with a decent government (especially ones with resources that Exxon Mobil, Bechtel, et al, have been barred from, because they're such shits)--and the truth about a Bush Cartel client state like Colombia, with its narco-thugs government--"is almost always the opposite of what the Reagan...ahem...Bush administration told us." So, too with the truth about Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan...anywhere they have a war profiteer, drug cartel or resource interest. Lies, lies, lies!

I'd sort of pushed what fucking liars the Reaganites were to the back of my mind, because the Bush Juntaites were even bigger liars--on a simply mindboggling, Lewis Carrol scale (literally painting every last one of the white roses red). There is simply no topping them in U.S. history. But this George Miller article--"El Salvador: Policy of Deceit"--sharpens my memory. The Reaganwhacks were the precursors of the Bushwhacks in every way. The galling foretaste of Pukism. They just outsourced torture and murder.

This paragraph of Miller's could have been written about Colombia, today...

"We must redirect all our resources to a political settlement. This must include, first, encouraging negotiations and, second, dramatically shifting our present, overwhelming emphasis on war-related assistance to aid for true economic reform. The alternative is many more years of instability, death-squad murders and war."

We're now larding the nacro-thugs running Colombia with $6 BILLION in military aid, while their military and its death squads slaughter thousands of union leaders, political leftists, human rights workers, small peasant farmers--anyone who gets in their way, or merely to dress up corpses like leftist guerrillas to up their body count, to impress U.S. senators. Just as in El Salvador, back then, the Bush Junta didn't just support the wrong side, they armed them, trained them and lied about them every time they opened their mouths.