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on the list of reasons that our Bushwhacks, Corpos and war profiteers hate Bolivia, and its closest allies Venezuela and Ecuador, or it could be No. 1, right up there with these countries' use of oil and gas profits to benefit the poor. Hard to say. There are a lot of reasons that the Bushites hate these countries, and slander them relentlessly. Real democracy and transparent elections are another reason to hate them (they make the Bushites look bad), as well as their strong leadership in evicting the World Bank/IMF from the region and in the formation of new, Latin American-run institutions, such as the Bank of the South, and the South American "Common Market" (UNASUR) without the U.S.
Any one of these reasons would be cause for Bushwhacks to destroy a third world country. Add them together, and you begin to see Oil War II barreling towards us.
The U.S. "war on drugs" in Bushite hands has several main purposes, none of which are keeping dangerous drugs off our streets: 1) boffo war profiteering ($6 BILLION alone to the fascist thugs and drug traffickers running Colombia; billions more to Big Pharma for pesticides, to Dyncorp to run U.S. bases, for bullets, guns, helicopters, high tech surveillance, planes, ships, etc.--it's second only to the "war on terror" as an extremely corrupt war boondoggle); 2) the nazification of Latin American societies (forcing them to become police states like the U.S.--empowering the elements who kick down doors, violate human rights, imprison and torture the poor, and strut around with nazi boots); and 3) driving small peasant farmers from the land so the big drug lords and Monsanto & brethren can move in.
A fourth reason--harder to pin down--may be Bush Cartel/CIA drug trafficking. And the overarching purpose, that entirely drives the U.S. "war on drugs," is to expand the U.S. military presence in these countries to control them--grab their land, steal their resources and enslave them in sweatshops.
The insanity of the U.S. "war on drugs" vs. the common sense policy of the Bolivarians:
The simplest example of the insanity of the U.S. "war on drugs" is its targeting of small peasant farmers who are growing a few coca leaves for local use (traditional medicine of the indigenous--a lot like coffee only more nutritious and beneficial) along with major cocaine growers and traffickers. They dump tons of toxic chemicals on small farms, killing farm animals, poisoning food crops, and damaging human DNA, and driving millions of small organic farmers from the land, into urban squalor (and victimization in sweatshops). The election of an indigenous President, Evo Morales, brought sane drug policy to the Bolivian government: a distinction between harmless (and indeed beneficial) coca leaf chewing and tea drinking, and criminal traffic in dangerous drugs (highly processed cocaine). It's much like the marijuana issue here, only there the good guys have won.
Since the Bushwhacks are entirely cynical hypocrites and liars, they hate the Bolivarians for this policy change. How can you profit from people chewing a few leaves that they've grown for themselves or their small community? By making it into a crime, and spending billions of dollars trying to "eradicate" it, while you drive the price of the processed item--cocaine--through the roof, and spend billions more on warfare, and somehow never stop the cocaine traffic and associated crime. This is a Bushwhack's dream--and ours and Latin America's nightmare. Endless war profiteering for a government-created problem that never gets solved.
Drug use and traffic is a social problem, and only becomes a "war"--involving gangs and major crime--if you make it into one. If the government's attitude is peaceful and pro-human rights and freedom, if you alleviate poverty--with education, medical care, decent jobs and housing, etc.--and with the active participation of the poor majority in politics and government (empowerment, hope)--and if you have a sane drug policy that doesn't penalize innocent herbal leaves, and that treats addiction to harder drugs as the health problem that it is, you don't need a "war," armies and billions and billions of dollars in military booty and prisons, and the destruction of democracy and decency, to deal with any drug-related problems. And you can easily eliminate the entire problem of gangs and drug lords by legalizing all drugs, thus driving the price down--although no Bolivarian country has gone that far.
They're just sane and sensible--unlike the U.S. The Bushwhacks are neither sane nor sensible in anything they do, which we have learned, to our grief, on our Bushite-slaughtered and looted economy, on FEMA, on no-bid military contracts, on WMD counter-proliferation, on airport security (3-oz bottles, indeed!), on education, on jobs, on the interrogation of suspected terrorists, you name it. Common sense is out. Insanity rules--because insanity is a profit opportunity.
In addition to having lots and lots of oil (and in Bolivia's case, gas and oil)--with Bushwhacks going nuts over the profits being 'wasted' on the poor--their highly profitable nazification scheme (the "war on drugs") is getting exposed for what it is, and is falling into disfavor, with the election of good governments in the Andes. While fascist Colombia is gobbling up U.S. billions for this "war on the poor," Bolivia is sending the money back. A large group of coca leaf farmers in one area of Bolivia just did exactly that--they said "we don't want your money" and sent the USAID "war on drugs" personnel packing. They said the Bushwhacks were wasting the money staying in "hotels with swimming pools" and were furthermore using it politically to undermine the Morales government. (Note: Evo Morales is a former poor coca leaf farmer himself, and still heads the coca leaf farmers' union.) The Bushwhacks hate these 'uppity' indians. They really do. They are like the "emperor with no clothes," and the indigenous are the "child in the crowd" calling out the truth.
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The U.S. "war on drugs" used to militarize and control--and to plot against--these countries:
Here's one good example of it: The previous rightwing government of Paraguay (adjacent to Bolivia, and in particular to the eastern provinces of Bolivia that the Bush-supported white separatists are trying to split off from the Morales government) was permitting U.S. (Bush) military maneuvers (troops on the ground) in Paraguay, in the name of the "war on drugs." Paraguay was the country with the non-extradition law (making it a haven for war criminals from other countries) and also had a law immunizing the U.S. military from prosecution under local laws.
The Bushwhacks were meanwhile funding and plotting with the white separatists next door in Bolivia, to instigate a civil war, and split off the gas/oil rich provinces, to regain global corporate predator control of the resources, and cripple or topple the Morales government.
In Dec 07, Donald Rumsfeld published an op-ed in the WaPo, in which he urged "swift action" by the U.S. in support of "friends and allies" in South America. But how could they support their white separatist "friends and allies" in Bolivia, with "swift action," in landlocked Bolivia with no U.S. bases? Answer: from Paraguay.
Trouble is Paraguay, in the meantime, elected its first leftist president (and first democratically elected president), ever--overturning 61 years of rightwing rule (including 30 years of heinous dictatorship). He wants the U.S. military out of his country, and will not tolerate the Bushwhacks using Paraguay as a staging area to topple his neighbor's democratically elected president, nor to split off the eastern provinces into fascist mini-states.
It's quite interesting, too, that the previous rightwing government was already seeing the "handwriting on the wall" of the overwhelming leftist trend in South America. They had joined the Bank of the South (one of Chavez's best ideas), and also rescinded their non-extradition law, and the immunity for the U.S. military. Then Paraguay held its election and leftist Fernando Lugo won. (He won the majority of votes in a multiple field, but has now achieved 92% approval rating!)
Bolivia is now land-locked and surrounded on all sides by leftist democracies--Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina and Chile (and not far away, Uruguay). (The exception is Peru, where corrupt "free tradists" are in charge--who will likely lose the next election; their approval rating is 20%, like Bush's).
There are many examples of Bushwhack war strategy in South America--how they are using the "war on drugs" to set up military aggression to accompany destabilization efforts. Their main target is Venezuela. I chose this one for its relevance to the current crisis in Bolivia, and also as an example of how the Bushwhacks are being foiled. They have gone ahead with the Bolivian plot, but they have no backup plan for U.S. military support of the coup that is being tried in the eastern provinces. What is the point? Brazil, Argentina and the new South American-only institution, UNASUR, are going to come down like a ton of bricks on these separatists and crush them--not militarily--but with economic clout. Brazil and Argentina are Bolivia's chief gas customers, and they won't trade with the separatists. So what do the separatists and their Bush backers hope to gain?
Disorder, disruption, distraction--probably. And we should probably expect the Bushwhacks to make their move on Venezuela (and possibly Ecuador) sooner rather than later. Their goal will likely be to split off the oil-rich Venezuelan province of Zulia, on the Caribbean. They've got the U.S. 4th Fleet roaming the coast, and Colombia right next door, with its fascist military and their death squads, Blackwater and U.S. special forces, that could cross the border in support a fascist cabal in Zulia declaring their "independence" from the Chavez government.
How is it that Blackwater and U.S. special forces are present in Colombia? How is it that Colombia is highly militarized with our tax dollars? How is it that rightwing death squads are running rampant in Colombia? How is it that the Colombian military has been the hatchery of assassination plots against Hugo Chavez? The answer to all of these: the U.S. "war on drugs," as run by Bushwhacks.
It should therefore be no surprise to us to hear from Bushwhacks the baldfaced lie that Bolivia is "failing" in the "war on drugs." It is both true--in the sense that they are "failing" to fulfill the purpose of that "war" (global corporate predator control of Bolivia's resources)--and not true--in the sense that Bolivia (and also Venezuela and Ecuador) are actually doing quite well in REAL drug crime policing (busting big caches, and major drugs/weapons syndicates). The "war on drugs" is just a Bushite police state buzz-phrase, like the "war on terror," for spreading fear, boosting war profiteer budgets and slandering anybody who opposes them--especially hard to do to democratically elected and democratically-run countries like Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia. So they have used the additional psyops campaign to demonize these democratic leaders as "dictators." It is all utter bullshit. And its purpose is the BUSHITE WAR FOR OIL.
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