Reply #5: FORTY-PLUS years of this civil war! How do you END it? That is the queston. [View All]

[Peace Patriot]

You end it the way the presidents of Ecuador, Venezuela, Argentina and France were trying to end it--by trying to create sufficient safety for the release of hostages, and getting peace talks started for a political settlement. FARC released six hostages to President Chavez, without conditions--in the negotiations that Chavez undertook at Uribe's invitation. When Chavez was about to get the first two hostages released, Uribe abruptly withdrew the invitation as the hostages were in transit through the jungle to a pickup point and BOMBED the hostages' location! The hostages were driven back into the jungle, on a 20-mile hike back into captivity, because of the intense, focused bombing by the Colombian military--by the hostages' own report. What kind of shit is this? What kind of dirty tricks and bad faith? What kind of utter callousness and disregard for the lives of the hostages?

Once again, it's a civil war. There are wrongs on both sides. How do you end it? By more killing?

The truth of the matter is that the Colombian military and closely tied paramilitary death squads, and Uribe and his political associates, are addicted to that $5.5 billions of our money in military aid, and are so tied by that umbilical cord to the Bush junta that they are used as the violent tool of Bush junta policy in the region, which aims to destroy the elected governments of Venezuela and Ecuador, and take over the oil fields that belong to the Venezuelan and Ecuadoran people. Uribe & co. don't want peace. War is their gravy train--along with the dope they are trafficking in.