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June 28, 2006

No Guantanamo For You, Comrade

Brace yourself for the ringing condemnations about to erupt from the Red Cross, Amnesty International and leading Democrats;

President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday ordered Russia's special services to hunt down and "destroy" the killers of four Russian diplomats in Iraq, the Kremlin said.

Nikolai Patrushev, the head of the Federal Security Service _ the main successor to the Soviet KGB _ later said that everything would be done to ensure that the killers "do not escape from responsibility," the Interfax news agency reported.

"The president has ordered the special forces to take all necessary measures to find and destroy the criminals who killed Russian diplomats in Iraq," the Kremlin press service said in a brief statement.


Or not.

Posted by Kate at June 28, 2006 4:58 PM
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Why would the "leading Democrats" speak up? Its not their country. You're kind of comparing apples and oranges here. Im sure AI will react.

Grasping at straws as usual Kate.

Posted by: KC at June 28, 2006 5:14 PM

So does this mean that Putin is joining the Americans in the War On terror?
Maybe France, Spain, Germany and Italy will realize they really are in a war as well.
Better late than never, eh?

Posted by: Joe Molnar at June 28, 2006 5:32 PM

"Why would the "leading Democrats" speak up?"

When don't they?

Posted by: Kate at June 28, 2006 5:34 PM

As the former head of the KGB, Putin has just put out a 'hit' on the assassins of Russian diplomats.

The Iraqi terror elements have just served notice that they don't care who they kill; as long as the armaments continue to flow.

The war on terror, from the Russian perspective, just got a little wider than the pitched battle in Chechnya.

Posted by: Hans Rupprecht at June 28, 2006 5:37 PM

Everyone should speak up about all human rights abuses. But to suggest (as you do) that Democrats are hypocrites if they criticize the Republican Administration for human rights abuses, while not being vocal about criticizing Russia ignores the fact that THE DEMOCRATS ARE AN AMERICAN (not russian) POLITICAL PARTY! Of course they are going to be more concerned when their own government.

But Hey! Welcome to Conservative la la land where everything is a commie plot to destroy the family right?

Posted by: KC at June 28, 2006 5:50 PM

What? He's not sending in his army? What a wutz.
Imagine only going after the murderers! What a concept! Obviously, there is no cowboy in him. Yer supposed ta ride in ta dodge with all guns ablazing!

Posted by: steve d. at June 28, 2006 5:51 PM

And with a HUGE TONGUE-IN-CHEEK , Kate !!

MSM, Liberals, NGOs, UN, U-professors, ect are unbelievablly BIASED against ANYTHING associated with success, like; free democracies, business, prosecution of criminals, ect. In fact, they seem to HATE the feedom to succeed, period. Why do they prefer "government-controled-failures ? Adscam, Oil For Food, USSR, East Block, medicare wait times, Caledonia, young offender's act,...

Maybe it is just simply, to hate the big-guy-on-the-hill sort of thing. No matter even if "he" is a real good guy ?

Is it also just a case of wanting, making troubles in the country so the gov't/politicians can swoop in and save the day ? With a lot of idiolgical baggage, of course.

The media seems to focus on troubles also. After all what would they lead with if it didn't "bleed" ?

Posted by: B. Hoax Aware at June 28, 2006 5:54 PM

Vlad is going to open up a can of Russian Whoop Ass, and all the lefty cying in the world won't make a bit of difference.
Those head choppers better pray they don't get taken alive.

Posted by: Stan at June 28, 2006 5:54 PM

KC stands for Kook Clown. All you ever spew is left wing idiocy. Typical tactic of the left--spew venom, nonsense, rhetoric, and plain b.s., and hope no one notices the illogic.

Posted by: Richard at June 28, 2006 6:04 PM

Vlad had better clear it with Centcom first... otherwise he may just get his ass blown off by the IA and the GI's... mistaken identity and all that... go ask the Italians how it feels by not keeping the Rough Men informed...

Posted by: RobC at June 28, 2006 6:10 PM

Ivan's friends?

The Poles? The Hungarians? The Ukrainians? The Czechs? The Germans? Who whom?

Wait. La France has always been a friend of Russia. France will help, oui. ...-

He [Putin] said Russia hoped its friends would help to identify the killers.

... On Monday, the Russian foreign ministry urged the Iraqi authorities and the US-led coalition forces to find and punish the perpetrators. via belmont club

Posted by: maz2 at June 28, 2006 6:16 PM

"So does this mean that Putin is joining the Americans in the War On terror?"

Heck, no, Joe. It just means that once the killers have been tracked down and done away with, there'll be one more thing for everyone to blame Bush for...

Posted by: new kid on the block at June 28, 2006 6:18 PM

Richard,

I had a good laugh to myself when you said:

"KC stands for Kook Clown. All you ever spew is left wing idiocy"

...and then said...

"Typical tactic of the left--spew venom"

My point was pretty valid--the fact that Democrats are more vocal when their own country commits human rights abuses is both expected and understandable. Kate is really grasping at straws here (as usual).

Posted by: KC at June 28, 2006 6:22 PM

"Putin also said Russia "will be grateful to all its friends for any information on the criminals," the Kremlin said."

Sorry Vlad, I think Saddam is kind of busy with his own problems right now.

Posted by: Cal at June 28, 2006 6:32 PM

Welcome back Kate. Enjoyed the guest bloggers, but am happy you're back.

Posted by: rebarbarian at June 28, 2006 6:38 PM

KC you are a troll, you are also the enemy

Posted by: Rico at June 28, 2006 6:57 PM

"KC you are a troll, you are also the enemy"

I dont think calling Kate on her blatant logical fallacies makes one a troll.

Judging by the majority of the comments made on this blog (as well as the actual blogs themselves) I am more than happy to be the enemy.

Posted by: KC at June 28, 2006 7:03 PM

I think a majority of posters on this thread just don't get the point.

The point? President Bush, specifically, and Americans, generally, are the only ones on the entire planet (well, Israel also) perpetrating "human rights abuses".

Real abusers and real tyrants always get a free pass.

A terrorist gets photographed with a panty on his head and the world erupts in mass demonstrations. Some third world tyrant executes thousands and they get a seat on the UN Human Rights Council.

Posted by: Michael at June 28, 2006 7:41 PM

Would you be so kind, KC, as to elucidate the syllogistic error or equivalent that you are presuming has been obviated by a dialectic fallacy, so that at least we may consider whether or not you are conflating dialectics and rhetoric? Thanks.

Posted by: Vitruvius at June 28, 2006 7:45 PM

KC . . you wouldn't know a "blatant logical fallacy" if one whupped you up side the head.

But stick around, even ones as pathetically transparent as you can learn something about how the world really works.

Or in your case, maybe not.

Posted by: Fred at June 28, 2006 7:45 PM

Michael - You obviously arent listening. Human rights abuses are condemned all the time.

Vitruvius - The fallacy is to imply hypocrisy on the part of Democrats for being more vocal in their criticism of the President for his own human rights abuses than for those of a foreign leader. It ignores context.

Fred - Obviously a blatant logical fallacy did just whup me in the head in the form of your ad hominem attack.

Posted by: KC at June 28, 2006 7:51 PM

I suspect some of the TROLL FEEDERS are just more masqueraiding trolls, trying to take over Kate's good Werk. They are scared stiff that blogs such as SDA are exposing their beloved Liberal Media junk.

Just IGNORE them both and discuss the topic; " PUTIN SAID HUNT DOWN AND DESTROY " No mention of a Russian Guantanimo or any kind of "bring to justice". Not even Siberia, or Gulag Archipilago !!

Posted by: B. Hoax Aware at June 28, 2006 7:59 PM

This aughtta be good. The KGB are pretty efficient at making people pay for their indiscretions. Or they might contract out to the Russian Mafia who will no doubt have a 10 for 1 sale. Kill one of ours you lose 10...

Posted by: texas canuck at June 28, 2006 8:03 PM

With Russia's proclivity for meting out justice using car bombs on foreign soil, is it too much to hope that the "insurgents" head north to hide out in the Eiffel Tower?


Posted by: Kate at June 28, 2006 8:08 PM

Weirdski? No. Russian; a glimpse into the Russian soul?

What's more Russian than a coup? Another coup.

"This is my fourth coup d'etat," confided the ninety-two- years-old writer I went to Peredelkino to visit." Quote: Tamara Ivanova (1991)...-


Putin kisses boy on the stomach
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On News/Activism 06/28/2006 9:23:21 AM PDT · 103 replies · 2,531+ views

Reuters ^ | 06/28/06
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday stopped on a walk through the Kremlin to speak to a young boy before lifting up the boy's shirt and kissing the astonished youth on his stomach. Putin was shown by state television chatting to graduates of military academies before he took a walk through one of the Kremlin's courtyards, often full of tourists. He stopped and spoke to a young boy who appeared to be aged four or five and turned away shyly when asked his name. "What is your name?" Putin asked, kneeling down in front of the fair-haired boy and holding...
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Posted by: maz2 at June 28, 2006 8:29 PM

Thanks, KC. In light of your explanation, you are, in my opinion, conflating dialectics and rhetoric. Pursuant to the Small Dead Animals commenting policy, I'll leave it at that.

Posted by: Vitruvius at June 28, 2006 8:31 PM

The Russians will stop at nothing to kill the "insurgents" who murdered their diplomats. I almost feel pity for the insurgents. When the Lebs kidnapped some Russians Septmember of 1985, the Russians just kidnapped a Muslim cleric and murdered him. They soon got three out of four diplomats. Look at the theatre takeover a few years ago, the school in Beslan, the Russians don't pussy foot around, they just start killing.

Posted by: ScottInCgy at June 28, 2006 9:09 PM

HAHAHAHAHAHA........................this is hilarious on so many levels.

Posted by: OMMAG at June 28, 2006 9:14 PM

They probably won’t mention this either;

So far this year, Iran has purchased over $7 billion for arms from Russia, including anti-air, nuclear-capable Tor-M1 cruise missiles, considered by experts the most advanced of its kind in the world. Iran has purchased these missiles to secure the Bushehr atomic reactor and other nuclear sites.

Posted by: Bernie at June 28, 2006 9:25 PM

KC,

At the risk of feeding a troll; when Kate i stalking Democrats I don't believe she is talking politicians but registered Democats who have an opinion on everything (READ:Hollywood, Baldwin, Penn, Robbins, Sarandon et al)

If you want to crticize GW43 for domestic issues or foreign policy determined by him that is fine. But there always seems to be an eery silence when a "left-wing" ideologue(sp.) issues decrees, that if GW has issued he would have been taken to task for.

Look, I am not entirely comfortable with all that goes on in Gitmo, but I would rather have Jack Nicholson (ie GW) on that wall than Jimmy Carter.

I have always said the far right are FANATICS and the left are HYPOCRITES; in the current times we can't fight the FANATICS (ie Terrorists) with HYPOCRISY.

Posted by: KeninCGY at June 28, 2006 9:49 PM

time to ban KC Kate, He's getting personal and everyone knows that when he can't win he'll resort to personal attacks.

Posted by: Pete at June 28, 2006 9:51 PM

Kenin - Thats just total crap. Lefties have admonished dictators and tyrants for years. There is no "eery silence".

Pete - Show me where I have "gotten personal"

Posted by: KC at June 28, 2006 9:56 PM

After reading how not feed trolls, this will be my final post to KC.

Get Real. Penn visits Saddam, maybe it was Khaddafi, and you have the cajones to say Leftists admonish dictators and tyrants. That's rich.

Posted by: KeninCGY at June 28, 2006 10:05 PM

KeninCGY
Apparently, we can't fight the terrorists with fanatics either, they get stronger the more we fight them.

Posted by: steve d. at June 28, 2006 10:19 PM

Kenin,

You cant point to one lefty and say he represents them all. Right wingers often meet with such nefarious folk--only to disavow them when they cut off the oil. Lefties have been far bigger promoters of human rights since the expression entered the public conscious.

As for being a troll, you must have a different definition of that than I--can I presume that by "troll" you mean anyone that disagrees with your right wing ideology?

Posted by: KC at June 28, 2006 10:37 PM

KC,

Would you settle on argumentitive rather than Troll? Or, do you need to insist that all who contribute here are either right wing or fascists?

To state that you haven't been personal is a little selective. You've sneered at this here forum. Your remarks may not be in the clear ad hominem about Kate but they are still condescending. The Democrats are hardly unified in practicing politics and have engagied in rhetoric that is just extreme and/or relativist deconstruction of bad behaviour, even within their own party. I could reference Dem blogs where the discussion is much more pointed than what Kate suggests. I think you are of your league when it comes to reasoned discussion.

Posted by: jrb at June 28, 2006 10:51 PM

It occurs to me that what KC may be failing to understand is that after his entirely rude opening gambit in this discussion, namely "Grasping at straws as usual Kate," he has faced a major deficit in the public relations department, a hole which he has not yet begun to dig himself out of, especially considering his potty mouth since then.

Remember basic ju-jitsu, folks. Don't argue with your opponent, use their weight against them.

Posted by: Vitruvius at June 28, 2006 10:55 PM

"Search and destroy" missions are commonplace military operations and even more desirable in situatons such as the one we are discussing.

I have mixed feelings about the Russians, as anyone will understand if they know anything about my background.

However, in the present case I think the Russians are implementing a justifiable and sound policy.

As a matter of fact, the United States had an opportunity to vote on affirmation of such a policy, and we turned it down.

As you know, John Kerry and the Democratic Party wanted to meet terrorism by doublng special forces (in all of their different operational capacities) and then go after tangoes with an eye to leaving them wherever we could get the bodies to drop.

Targets would have consisted of the terrorists themselves, their handlers, money sources which would include bankers and financiers, host countries, training camps, on and on. As you can imagine, we would have had quite a long list of people to kill if Democrats had been succssful in achieving office.

It would have been a littel like Nicky Santoro's statement in Casion when he suggsteh you had to know where the hole in the desert had been dug before you arrived with the package in the trunk, because otherwise, "You'd have to be diggin' holes all fuckin' night!"

I might have been ok with a general search and destroy mission on targets of opportunity, but the American people, with an eye to the humanity of the situation, chose wisely I think. A limited war aimed at strategic host countries that produce terrorist support and ideological sympathy. An attempt to deal with the big picture.

So I guess the Russian solution, practical though it may be, is simply a little too bloodthirsty for the US.

Posted by: Greg (outside Dallas) at June 28, 2006 11:22 PM

Greg,
Prepare for self-loathing traitorous troll vomit in 3...2...

Posted by: Doug at June 28, 2006 11:42 PM

IDF is confirming that the Israeli soldier has been executed.

Hope the IDF opens up a can of whoop ass.

Posted by: Michael at June 29, 2006 12:04 AM

KC is quite right to say that 'leading Democrats' should be expected to speak out more forcefully about their own government's actions than about those of other governmnents: depending on the circumstances, it can be quite cheap to speak out against what some other country is doing.

We in Canada should be speaking out much more forcefully than we have been about our own government's record, rather than pointing the finger at other countries, including the USA.

So, for example, I'd like to see a lot more attention focused on what Canada's been up to in Haiti over the last couple of years, to pick just one example.

Furthermore, I don't know what the point was of mentioning AI and the Red Cross in Kate's initial post: are they supposed to issue press releases on the occasion of every media report of a politician's comments, Russian or otherwise?

Expectations that they should can come only from unfamiliarity with their methods and history: the ICRC, for instance, to maintain its neutrality and access to detainees, typically reports confidentially to the government in question.

Meanwhile, claims that AI (or other human rights organizations) have been silent about the human rights record (or the arms trade record, or the anti-terrorism record) of Russia will have trouble overcoming a number of pieces of evidence, like--to pick just one--this AI notice about Russia which, among other things, draws attention to the fact that

There are growing concerns about the practices committed under what Russia terms its "counter-terrorism" operation in the North Caucasus, with regular reports of "disappearances", torture and arbitrary detentions. Impunity seems to reign as very few perpetrators are ever identified or brought to justice.

Maybe that March press release didn't make the front pages here in Canada, but that's hardly AI's fault.

Posted by: Stephen at June 29, 2006 12:51 AM

For at least a thousand years, seriously pissing off the Russians has proven to be a bad idea.

Posted by: mojo at June 29, 2006 1:16 AM

The Ruskies were long time saddamites. Do they still have some kind of Iraq infrastructure or is it an idle threat? Is anyone in the know on such things? I haven't heard of anyone being afraid of anything Russian lately except their gangsters.

Posted by: Jackcass at June 29, 2006 7:46 AM

The Real Face of The U.S. Occupation Of Iraq

Ain't it great video camaras everywhere.

The Real Face of The U.S. Occupation Of Iraq

Watch this short video from the front, thx too the US Marines
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8055.htm

Posted by: neutralsam at June 29, 2006 8:31 AM

Nope, KC, you is irreversibly out to lunch! Kate is NOT grasping at straws.

Any claim to that effect is obfuscation at best, delusional at worst. The Democrats may well indeed be a political party outside of Russia.

Yes, it is an American party. But the doomed to constant defeat leftie leaning DimDems have had no qualms about sending Stick-man Billy C, and his internet-creating wizard of words, Inconvenient Al, to meddle in Canadian politics. In one instance at least, the libs went as far as banning media from the event. So, who REALLY has the hidden agenda?

Our fiblibs and the party biggies just about popped a gut flying their sorry butts back and forth across the frozen tundra of a Canadian General Election throughout Dec/Jan. just for dead-man-walking PMPM to get to a photo op or two with the big guy, before an international crowd busy sucking back 40 million dollars worth of Canadian hospitality thereby having their attention misdirected away from the Liberal party's horrific failures in their highly-touted, sacrosanct Kyoto Accords. ( 36% OVER!! target? Now that's one hell of aan effective environmental minister with a global conscience. NOT !! )

Canada's neo-commie lenin left leanin Liberals and NDP think that there is so much US Republican intervention in Canada, that they actually ran their last election campaign AGAINST Geo. Dubyah! ( I don't believe that the College of Cardinals, nor the US Electoral College gave anybody a red beanie, nor one red seat in our House of Commons. )

Evidently Kate is not really comparing apples and oranges. Looks like she's wisely anticipating extreme leftist BS and hypocrisy on this issue.

By the way, the internationale lefty consortium is starting auditions this week-end. Hollywood's latter-day Hanoi dimbulb of days gone by is a little too wrinkled to have any draw appeal today, so there are new positions available for Kabul Kathy and Kenny Kandahar.

Perhaps you ought to consider taking a run here, at either position.

Butt Hay KC : surprisingly, for a leftie leaner wiener, you are correct, but only partially so, when you state "...But Hey! Welcome to Conservative la la land where everything is a commie plot to destroy the family right?..."

It is patently evident that, as well as destroying the family unit, you and your comrades are equally committed to the destruction of the individuals' sense of self worth, personal drive and ambition, a good and solid hard-work ethic, fiscal responsibility, ownership of one's choices and actions and the fruits thereof,entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship, private ownership of almost anything, civic responsibility, general civility, public safety - law and order for everybody, not just for your pals in their fortified and walled dacha communities, and last but not least - capitalism.

Anything I might have omitted? That's not a problem -- I'm sure those other issues will surface the moment you, or Jack! or Bill Graham or Billy C start spewing.

Conservative la la land may not be the world's prime breeding ground for absolutely the best brand of politics and government, but it certainly is a lot closer to the ideals of democracy than anything else on the planet, and unlike the left, we don't often find ourselves spending too much time trying to turn ourselves inside out to, yet again, attempt to defend the indefensible.

To repeat the question:

How long before the lefts speak out against the barbaric "hit" put out by Putin?


L. H. & K.

ciao!

TangoJuliette

Posted by: TangoJuliette at June 29, 2006 9:26 AM

New Facts come to light in the release of transcripts of interrogations

Most of what we know about the role of prison doctors and medical staffers comes from tens of thousands of pages of government documents released pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act suit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union. These papers include criminal investigations, FBI notes on debriefings of prisoners, interviews with witnesses, sworn recollections of conversations, e-mails from soldiers and intelligence personnel, autopsy reports, military base policies, and prisoners' medical records. Here are some of the incidents they reveal.

Abed Hamed Mowhoush voluntarily surrendered to American military authorities in Qaim, Iraq, in November 2003. He died of torture 16 days later. According to testimony at the trial of the intelligence officers responsible for the abuse, Mowhoush was repeatedly beaten with fists, hose, sticks, and a rifle butt under the supervision of Army, Special Forces, and CIA personnel. Six of his ribs were broken. Then he was stuffed head first into a sleeping bag and wrapped in 20 feet of electrical wire. A soldier briefly crouched over Mowhoush's chest. A few minutes later, he was found to be dead. Dr. Ann Rossignol, an Air Force physician, joined the resuscitation. She was told that Mowhoush was being interrogated, lost control of his urine, and collapsed. The trial transcript shows that she did not ask for more details. A Pentagon press release stated: "Mowhoush said he didn't feel well and subsequently lost consciousness. The soldier questioning him found no pulse, then conducted CPR and called for medical authorities. According to the on-site surgeon [Rossignol], it appeared Mowhoush died of natural causes."

You think this'll help convince anyone fighting the occupation to give up?

Somehow Dr. Rossignol missed seeing that Mowhoush's body was bruised on the arms, legs, head, neck, pelvis, and front and back of the torso. These injuries were apparent to the criminal investigators and the pathologists who conducted an autopsy. She kept silent as the inaccurate report circulated that he had died by natural causes. The military has not granted interviews in relation to Mowhoush's death. The official explanation is that the death was an unintentional homicide.

100's of deaths have occuried this way, who would you want to go to the Americans who'll lock you up or the Taliban that'll give you respect?

www.slate.com/id/2144590/

Posted by: neutralsam at June 30, 2006 4:54 AM

Haven't most tyrants in human history been on the left of the political spectrum?

Stalin, Brezhnev, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Mao Zedong, Xiaoping, Castro etc....... (very long list)

Human Rights under these individuals was just wonderful wasn't it? I mean, the left would never participate in the slaughter of their own people would they?

Posted by: Right Mind at June 30, 2006 6:50 AM

Dont forget the National Socialist German Workers Party (1933), the left seems to always want to call them right wing but they have all the usual trappings of the left , including confiscation of property, ministry of propoganda, nationalizing industries,huge increases in public spending and large rallies.

Posted by: cal2 at June 30, 2006 9:00 AM

Friends of the US

COLONEL HUGO BANZER, President of Bolivia
FULGENCIO BATISTA, President of Cuba
SIR HASSANAL BOLKIAH, the Sultan of Brunei
P. W. BOTHA, President of South Africa
GENERAL HUMBERTO BRANCO, President of Brazil
VINICIO CEREZO, President of Guatemala
CHIANG KAI-SHEK, President of Taiwan
ROBERTO SUAZO CORDOVA, President of Honduras
ALFREDO CRISTIANI, President of El Salvador
NGO DINH DIEM, President of South Viet Nam
GENERAL SAMUEL DOE, President of Liberia
FRANÇOIS & JEAN CLAUDE DUVALIER, Presidents-for-Life of Haiti
GENERAL FRANCISCO FRANCO, President of Spain
ADOLF HITLER, Chancellor of Germany
HUSSAN II, King of Morocco
FERDINAND MARCOS, President of the Philippines
MAXIMILIANO HERNANDEZ MARTINEZ, General of El Salvador
MOBUTU SESE SEKO, President of Zaire
GENERAL MANUEL NORIEGA, Chief of Defense forces, Panama
TURGUT OZAL, Prime Minister of Turkey
MOHAMMAD REZA PAHLEVI, Shah of Iran, King of Kings
GEORGE PAPADOPOULOS, Prime Minister of Greece
PARK CHUNG HEE, President of South Korea
GENERAL AUGUSTO PINOCHET, President of Chile
GENERAL SITIVENI RABUKA, Commander, Armed Forces of Fiji
GENERAL EFRAIN RIOS MONT, President of Guatemala
ANTONIO DE OLIVEIRA SALAZAR, Prime Minister of Portugal
HALIE SELASSIE, Emperor of Ethiopia
IAN SMITH, Prime Minister of Rhodesia
ANASTASIO SOMOZA, SR. AND JR., Presidents of Nicaragua
ALFREDO STROESSNER, President-for-Life of Paraguay
GENERAL SUHARTO, President of Indonesia
RAFAEL LEONIDAS TRUJILLO, President of the Dominican Republic
GENERAL JORGE RAFAEL VIDELA, President of Argentina
MOHAMMED ZIA UL-HAQ, President of Pakistan

How much humanity did they spread acroos the world?

Posted by: neutralsam at June 30, 2006 10:20 AM

Friends of the US

COLONEL HUGO BANZER, President of Bolivia
FULGENCIO BATISTA, President of Cuba
SIR HASSANAL BOLKIAH, the Sultan of Brunei
P. W. BOTHA, President of South Africa
GENERAL HUMBERTO BRANCO, President of Brazil
VINICIO CEREZO, President of Guatemala
CHIANG KAI-SHEK, President of Taiwan
ROBERTO SUAZO CORDOVA, President of Honduras
ALFREDO CRISTIANI, President of El Salvador
NGO DINH DIEM, President of South Viet Nam
GENERAL SAMUEL DOE, President of Liberia
FRANÇOIS & JEAN CLAUDE DUVALIER, Presidents-for-Life of Haiti
GENERAL FRANCISCO FRANCO, President of Spain
ADOLF HITLER, Chancellor of Germany
HUSSAN II, King of Morocco
FERDINAND MARCOS, President of the Philippines
MAXIMILIANO HERNANDEZ MARTINEZ, General of El Salvador
MOBUTU SESE SEKO, President of Zaire
GENERAL MANUEL NORIEGA, Chief of Defense forces, Panama
TURGUT OZAL, Prime Minister of Turkey
MOHAMMAD REZA PAHLEVI, Shah of Iran, King of Kings
GEORGE PAPADOPOULOS, Prime Minister of Greece
PARK CHUNG HEE, President of South Korea
GENERAL AUGUSTO PINOCHET, President of Chile
GENERAL SITIVENI RABUKA, Commander, Armed Forces of Fiji
GENERAL EFRAIN RIOS MONT, President of Guatemala
ANTONIO DE OLIVEIRA SALAZAR, Prime Minister of Portugal
HALIE SELASSIE, Emperor of Ethiopia
IAN SMITH, Prime Minister of Rhodesia
ANASTASIO SOMOZA, SR. AND JR., Presidents of Nicaragua
ALFREDO STROESSNER, President-for-Life of Paraguay
GENERAL SUHARTO, President of Indonesia
RAFAEL LEONIDAS TRUJILLO, President of the Dominican Republic
GENERAL JORGE RAFAEL VIDELA, President of Argentina
MOHAMMED ZIA UL-HAQ, President of Pakistan

How much comfort did these people spread around the world? How many are they responsible for killing?

Posted by: neutralsam at June 30, 2006 10:24 AM

neutralsam: where'e your head? Friend of the US? Adolf Hitler? You must be sharing things with Mikey Iggg.

Don't the concepts of World War II and the Neuremberg Trials mean anything to you?

you gotta change yore name, boy! To something like neuteredsam, or braindeadsam, u.s.samfoe, or samdafool! Ya shore don't come across as none too neutral to me, sammy kid!!

Posted by: TangoJuliette at June 30, 2006 2:47 PM

Neutralsam likes to stretch the truth and is getting mad that the conservative mind does not have a need to. You keep on lying to yourself about how the left and right have shown themselves in the past.

You go commrade! Which way to the toilet paper line? We have some left wing shit to clean up.

Posted by: Right Mind at June 30, 2006 4:09 PM

Neutralsam likes to stretch the truth and is getting mad that the conservative mind does not have a need to tell untruths. You keep on lying to yourself about how the left and right have shown themselves in the past.

You go commrade! Which way to the toilet paper line? We have some left wing shit to clean up.

Posted by: Right Mind at June 30, 2006 4:10 PM

Yes there was a large movement to support Hitler before the US entered the second world war. US supplied most of the steel for the Germean War machine. Thats why they took them back, and for breaking the trading with the enemy act.

Why did it take an attack on peril harbour to get the US into the War because they had support for Hitler in high places. Same as in England don't they teach anything about history in schools anymore?

Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg once stated that "The Dulles brothers were traitors." Some historians believe that Allen Dulles became head of the newly formed CIA in large part to cover up his treasonous behavior and that of his clients. Not confined to a few isolated companies, some of America's most prominent families and their financial empires worked with the Nazis well after the first bombs were dropped on Pearl Harbor.

On March 4th, 1998, a woman from Belgium brought a suit against the Ford Motor Company and it's German affiliate seeking compensation for the work she performed as a slave laborer for the company. Born in Russian, Elsa Iwanovwa claimed that she was abducted and forced to work at Ford's plant at Cologne. As many as 10,000 men, women and children may have labored there, many of them from the Buchenwald concentration camp.

The Ford plant in Germany played a major role in the Nazi war effort. While their American factories produced weapons for the allies, their German subsidiary manufactured troop transports, tracked vehicles, Panzer tanks, anti-tank guns and other crucial equipment for the Nazis. Providing weapons for both contestants in a world war was extraordinarily lucrative.
General Motors which was owned by the du Pont family during the 1930's manufactured thousands of bombers for the Luftwaffe and troop transports for the Wermacht at the same time that it's American plants were producing engines for the U.S. Air Force.

And the list goes on.

Posted by: neutralsam at June 30, 2006 11:14 PM

Which one didn't the US support or help into power, we'll leave off Hitler cause thats to hard for you to sollow right now, we'll start with the baby food and work up to the solids.

Posted by: neutralsam at June 30, 2006 11:19 PM

swallow
what the, who changed my post bad enough they take all day to get up

Posted by: neutralsam at June 30, 2006 11:49 PM

I think you should re-read those history book neutralsam. The U.S. was looking for a way to get into the war dispite their citizens not wanting any part of it. Pearl Harbor granted them their wish.

Lets give you all the above mentioned leaders as being right wing. Compare the dead from all of those you have listed to those that I have listed. Get my point?

Posted by: RIght Wing at July 2, 2006 10:37 AM

What would be the results of the Taliban firebombing New York, if they burnt lets say 51% of the city one night, what would be your thoughts on the people that did this act? Terrorists or people fighting for freedom? Lets say they did it to 100 cities with an average destuction of 50% of said cities? Freedom Fighters or Terrorists?

It's the people that win that say whats a War Crime and whats not. They get to hold the moral high ground even if history doesn't.

Posted by: neutralsam at July 2, 2006 2:02 PM

As I thought, your argument does not hold water so you go off on one of your little left wing tantrums. Learn to argue logically please.

Posted by: Right Mind at July 3, 2006 12:52 AM
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