Reply #3: Re comments #1 & 2: The U.S. military now has SEVEN military bases in Colombia, [View All]

[Peace Patriot]

free use of ALL civilian infrastructure and total diplomatic immunity for all U.S. soldiers and U.S. military 'contractors,' no matter what they do in Colombia--as the result of a secretly negotiated U.S/Colombia military agreement signed last year.

How many bases does Venezuela have in Ecuador? Does the Venezuelan military have the run of civilian infrastructure in Ecuador? Where are the Venezuelan soldiers and military 'contractors' in Ecuador? And if any were to visit Ecuador, point to the secretly negotiated agreement that gives them total diplomatic immunity, no matter what they do in Ecuador.

Who is controlling whom?

Colombia is a U.S. client state, occupied by the U.S. military, where--not incidentally--thousands of union leaders, human rights workers, teachers, community activists, peasant farmers, political leftists and others have been murdered, about half by the Colombian military, the other half by their closely tied rightwing paramilitary death squads (according to Amnesty International and UN human rights reports), and where an estimated 5 MILLION peasant farmers have been displaced from their land--many killed and many more terrorized--by U.S./Colombia military activity on behalf of Occidental Petroleum, Exxon Mobil, Monsanto, Chiquita, et al, and the big, protected drug lords.

WHO is lying about Venezuela harboring FARC guerillas? The notorious narco-thugs running Colombia and their Pentagon paymasters ($7 BILLION in U.S. tax dollars!)? Or the democratically elected leaders of Venezuela and Ecuador--the countries to which some 500,000 poor Colombians have fled for refuge from the U.S./Colombia scorched earth policy in the Colombian countryside.

This bullshit about Venezuela harboring FARC guerillas is so obviously concocted in Langley, only a fool would believe it, and only a rightwing propagandist would promote it. Ecuador is fully justified in fighting it any way they can, including pressuring Ecuadoran officials in the OAS, because Ecuador's leaders know that they are no. 2 on the Pentagon hit list. And they only have to review the previous Pentagon hit on them, in March 2008, with ten 500 lb U.S. "smart bombs," to know WHAT KIND OF "GULF OF TONKIN" INCIDENT is being designed as an excuse for Oil War II. FARC guerrillas get chased over the border into Venezuela or Ecuador. The Colombian military pursues them. The U.S. military follows. U.S. military personnel die in that incident. And the region blows up in the conflagration so long desired by Exxon Mobil & brethren to topple these neighboring democratic governments and steal their countries' vast oil supplies.

It's interesting that, when two democratic, non-belligerent Latin America countries ally with each other to prevent this, the rightwing accuses one of being controlled by the other, but when a rightwing narco-thug country, getting $7 BILLION in U.S. military aid, and ceding its territory to the Pentagon, and horrendously abusing its own people, does the Pentagon's and the CIA's bidding at the OAS, who is controlling whom IS NOT AN ISSUE. You would have to be blind not to see it. And that is a characteristic of the right: willful blindness in the service of U.S.-based multinational corporations and war profiteers.