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Solomon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-22-06 09:42 PM
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Here We Go Again. We're About To Pick A Side In the Iraq Civil War.
Will we never learn? Been there done that. Ca-lasick.

enee meenee miny moe...
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orpupilofnature57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-22-06 09:49 PM
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1. Impeachment ,is the only out.
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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-22-06 09:49 PM
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2. what have I missed today?
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Solomon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-22-06 10:05 PM
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3. They're talking about the Pentagon making other plans to win the war
in case Bush doesn't like the task force recommendations. They are trotting out old generals again and talking about picking the majority side (translation the side they think can win the thing) and backing them to victory over the new "insurgents". Old fashion stark naked colonialism at it's finest.
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stillcool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-22-06 10:19 PM
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4. you'd think they'd have already...
done that. It's in their basic what to do with impediments to big business manual.
http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/CIAtimeline.html
A Timeline of CIA Atrocities
By Steve Kangas
The following timeline describes just a few of the hundreds of atrocities and crimes committed by the CIA. (1)

CIA operations follow the same recurring script. First, American business interests abroad are threatened by a popular or democratically elected leader. The people support their leader because he intends to conduct land reform, strengthen unions, redistribute wealth, nationalize foreign-owned industry, and regulate business to protect workers, consumers and the environment. So, on behalf of American business, and often with their help, the CIA mobilizes the opposition. First it identifies right-wing groups within the country (usually the military), and offers them a deal: "We'll put you in power if you maintain a favorable business climate for us." The Agency then hires, trains and works with them to overthrow the existing government (usually a democracy). It uses every trick in the book: propaganda, stuffed ballot boxes, purchased elections, extortion, blackmail, sexual intrigue, false stories about opponents in the local media, infiltration and disruption of opposing political parties, kidnapping, beating, torture, intimidation, economic sabotage, death squads and even assassination. These efforts culminate in a military coup, which installs a right-wing dictator. The CIA trains the dictator’s security apparatus to crack down on the traditional enemies of big business, using interrogation, torture and murder. The victims are said to be "communists," but almost always they are just peasants, liberals, moderates, labor union leaders, political opponents and advocates of free speech and democracy. Widespread human rights abuses follow.

This scenario has been repeated so many times that the CIA actually teaches it in a special school, the notorious "School of the Americas." (It opened in Panama but later moved to Fort Benning, Georgia.) Critics have nicknamed it the "School of the Dictators" and "School of the Assassins." Here, the CIA trains Latin American military officers how to conduct coups, including the use of interrogation, torture and murder.

The Association for Responsible Dissent estimates that by 1987, 6 million people had died as a result of CIA covert operations. (2) Former State Department official William Blum correctly calls this an "American Holocaust."

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Solomon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-22-06 10:25 PM
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5. Whew! You could peel this onion forever. The sad thing is the whole
world knows it but us. Our culture and media keeps americans in total delusion.
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Disturbed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-22-06 10:28 PM
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6. The side that will conduct business with the Multi-Nationals
gets the support. The CIA is in business to institute,support, uphold and spread Capitalism, period.
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