Reply #8: Murderers, friends of Reagan and Bush Sr. [View All]

[Octafish]

Bush Jr. continues the tradition on a larger scale.

The Gipper, D-Day and the Stanley Cup

Reagan Lives...in Calgary

By WAYNE SAUNDERS
CounterPunch Weekend Edition
June 12 / 13, 2004

EXCERPT...

In any case, Reagan was all about war -- the wrong ones that is. He bungled his way in and out of Lebanon, and then waged a war of distraction in Grenada. He was misdirected into Lybia, and by way of delusion, he unleashed the Star Wars "missile defence" juggernaut.

But the worst of his wars, was by far, the one he waged by proxy in Central America. The media darling and "teflon president" spent billions of US taxes dollars creating, training and equipping rightwing armies and fascist elements throughout the Central American isthmus. This led to the death, torture and rape of tens of thousands of civilians. These are the teachers, farmers, doctors, students, nurses, and children of El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Guatemala that Reagan's supporters are willfully ignorant of, or choose to forget.

One wonders: how many amongst the 200,000 Americans who paid their resects to him, (because he made them "feel good"), have ever heard of El Salvador's Atlactl Battalion? This was the first Salvadoran unit to receive US training after Reagan came into office. In December, 1981, after receiving their marching orders from US advisors, they went on murderous rampage through Morazan province, slaughtering hundreds of peasants, mostly women, children and the elderly. Thanks to the efforts of freelance journalist, Ray Bonner, the story made the front page of the New York Times, directly contradicting Reagan's formal certification to Congress the following day that El Salvador was "achieiving substantial control over elements of its own armed forces." Bonner's article and subsequent others, greatly angered the Reagan administration. He was promptly replaced in August, 1982. 75 % of all US aid to El Salvador went directly to the military, with the predictable staggering results.

In the name of "strengthening democracy" atrocities throughout the region reached horrifying levels in the 1980s, rivaling Sadam Hussein's torture state at its macabre worst (Reagan's tilt towards Iraq is another chapter altogether). I recall sitting in class in 1983 and hearing my History Professor, (a man who was advising NATO on arms control issues), say that it's no wonder that certain people despised Reagan and the foreign policy of the United States. The US administration was staunchly supporting the closest thing to Hitler that Guatemala had yet experienced. General Rioss Mont, whom Reagan lauded as a great democrat was committing genocide against the indigenous people in the highlands.

Meanwhile from US bases in Honduras, CIA-backed Contra terrorists murdered upwards of 40,000 civilians in the US funded aggression against the Sandinista government. Reagan labeled these thugs as the moral equivalent to America's founding fathers. "I'm a Contra too", he exclaimed.

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Bush Jr. is a NAZI, too.