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Edited on Tue Oct-20-09 10:10 AM by Peace Patriot
...John McCain, John Negroponte, Jim DeMint, James Baker and Bushwhack moles in the Pentagon, the State Dept. and the CIA, to hold on and delay, delay, delay restoring Zelaya to his rightful office and delay restoring CIVIL RIGHTS to the Honduran people, and then hold their rigged election, and these US corpo/fascists will take care of things on this end.
This is what has become very clear, with James Baker's op-ed in the Washington Post this week. The rigged election will be the PR front for continued Junta rule. And they are going to put the screws to Obama to 'recognize' that rigged election as the end of the 'crisis' that the Junta has created. They are already holding up all of his Latin American appointments in Congress.
This is bad in so many ways it's hard to count them. Honduras, a US client state with one of the highest poverty rates in the western hemisphere, is critically in need of fundamental reform. That was what Zelaya was championing, and why the "ten families" who rule Honduras with the Honduran military as their enforcer, ousted Zelaya and ripped up their own Constitution, and now have Honduras clamped down with martial law. For the Honduran people, THIS is the main issue that must be addressed. OUR rightwing is preventing it, because there is so much money to made off the backs of the poor, by our global corporate predators, but also because they have a war plan for South America, with the US military base in Honduras as an important component of it. Zelaya proposed converting it to a commercial airport. The US military is getting kicked out of country after country--recently, Ecuador and Paraguay--and is now establishing seven new US military bases in Colombia--a country with one of the worst human rights records on earth. This is going to cost US taxpayers billions and billions of dollars, at a time when we are flat broke, looted by the Bushwhacks. But, more than this, if their plan for an oil war in South America goes forward, we will pay with our lives and our children's lives, and the US will become even more of a pariah country than it already is. The Bushwhacks have only one idea--taking the oil, and whatever other resources they lust after, by force. We have been given ample demonstration of this in Iraq.
With the US military base in Honduras, the reconstitution of the US 4th Fleet in the Caribbean and the seven new US military bases in Colombia, the US military has Venezuela's main oil reserves and operations surrounded. And it will only take a trigger--a "Gulf of Tonkin" manufactured incident, or a fascist secessionist 'uprising' in Venezuela's northern oil states--to drag us into another oil war. Fascist politicians in northern Venezuela openly talk of secession. Further, Donald Rumsfeld, in an op-ed in the Washington Post of 12/1/07 (a year after his retirement), entitled, "The Smart Way to Defeat Tyrants Like Chavez," urged "swift action" by the US in support of "friends and allies" in Latin America. He, in my opinion, is the designer of this war plan.
The Honduran coup has not occurred in isolation. It is part of this plan.
One especially bad aspect of this situation is Obama's apparent powerlessness--and I do think it's powerlessness, not disinclination--to force the Junta in Honduras to stand down and permit reform. His stated policy of peace, respect and cooperation in Latin America is being sabotaged.
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