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where general political issues are discussed.
I am reminded of the dishonorable and treacherous behavior of the Bushwhacks and their tools in Colombia last year, regarding, first of all, Colombia's invitation to Hugo Chavez to negotiate with the FARC guerrillas for hostage releases--an activity that President Sarkozy and numerous others (such as the families of hostages) encouraged Chavez to undertake. Chavez began the negotiations, and the very week of the first hostages to be released to Chavez, the Colombian government suddenly rescinded that request, giving the lame excuse that Chavez had contacted the Colombian military in preparation for the hostages release. (My candidate for who was pulling Colombia's strings that week is Donald Rumsfeld*). Sarkozy and others urged Chavez to keep at it. The Colombian military then sent rocket fire at the location of those hostages, as they were in route to their freedom, driving them back into the jungle on a 20 mile hike. Chavez later got them out, by a different route, and got four others released, but finally gave up, so hostile and dangerous had the Colombians, under Bushwhack tutelage, become.
The hostage release scene shifted to Ecuador. The chief FARC hostage and peace negotiator, Raul Reyes--who was trying to bring to an end the 40+ year Colombian civil war--set up a temporary camp just inside Ecuador's border for Betancourt's release. (This was tesified to by her husband, by Sarkozy, by the president of Ecuador, and by the French, Swiss and Spanish envoys who were in Ecuador to receive her.) Colombia, likely using US high tech surveillance, and a US pilot, plane and bombs, dropped ten 500 lb US "smart bombs" on Reyes' camp, killing 25 sleeping people including Reyes, and then raided over the border to shoot any people in the back, as they ran for their lives in their pajamas, who had not died under the bombs.
This incident nearly started a war between the US/Colombia and Ecuador/Venezuela. It brought an end to all talk of peace. And that is not the end of the treachery and outrage. The Colombian government, evidently running its own "Office of Special Plans" for manufacturing "evidence" against war targets, then purported to have seized Reyes' laptop (later laptopS) which contained evidence that the presidents of Venezuela and Ecuador were "aiding terrorists." Remember how this started--with the Colombian government asking Chavez to undertake hostage negotiations!
Sarkozy was involved because Betancourt is a dual citizen of Colombia and France. He had a front row seat to the despicable behavior of the US government and its puppets--the narco-thugs running Colombia, fat with $6 BILLION in US tax dollars mostly for military aid.
Lula da Silva and Chavez are close friends and allies. They meet monthly to discuss various political and economic initiatives. Lulu has praised Chavez as "the great peacemaker" (for his role in heading off the war that the US was trying to instigate via Ecuador) and has said, of Chavez: "They can invent all kinds of things to criticize Chavez, but not on democracy!" It appears to me that Chavez and da Silva have dibbied up responsibilities for defense of the resources that the newly formed South American "common market," UNASUR, needs to develop the powerhouse trade block that they have the potential to become. Brazil proposed a "common defense" in the context of UNASUR. This was after the Bushwhacks reconstituted the US 4th Fleet in the Caribbean (mothballed since WW II), which da Silva has said poses a threat to Brazil's new and huge oil finds. (Everybody knows that it is a threat to Venezuela.) The Bushwhacks have driven these leaders to seek arms deals with Russia and France by their hostile activities, and the Obama administration has done absolutely nothing to allay their fears, and in fact has done just the opposite--with the recent announcement, for instance, of plans to establish seven new US military bases in Colombia--a country whose rulers are extremely hostile to all the new leftist democracies in South America (most of the continent), and further, a country with one of the worst human rights records on earth. Leaders like da Silva and Chavez have common goals of social justice, improved democracy (i.e., improved representation of the vast poor majority), and regional cooperation for a better future for all. Both countries--Brazil and Venezuela--have been extraordinarily generous in helping out poor countries like Paraguay and Bolivia. Their intent is to "raise all boats."
And what is the US intent? To sink all boats? That is our history--from Clintonite "free trade for the rich" and ruination of third world countries with World Bank/IMF policy, followed by Bushwhack viciousness, lies, psyops and war planning.
It's tragic, really. We should have been partners with South America in their great democratic and social justice strides. And it seems very unlikely that our corpo/fascist rulers will permit Obama to turn in that direction now. It is probably too late. The Bushwhacks intended to make this the "New American Century," by which they meant the US using its bully and war power to straddle the world, and grab resources and slave labor forces at will. But their vision is ugly, empty and murderous, and greedy beyond belief. They also meant just the US (and just their rich friends in the US and, oh, Saudi Arabia). America is a bigger place than that. And the century is going to belong to Latin America, not the U.S.
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