Thank you for your very enlightening comment. Thank you all, in fact.

Joe, I gave the Nicaragua example of US imperialism not because it was the most glaring one, there are examples galore, but because in this one the United States was, after lengthy legal deliberations, openly certified as a terrorist country by none other than the ICJ. Secondly, most of us do not have the benefit of having been in Nicaragua to personally witness the events or, as you put it, “spent time with the intelligence community in the ‘belly of this monster’” and/or “were privileged to know EXACTLY what REALLY happened there or to have spent half a lifetime to garner the knowledge and experience to speak on this matter with UNIQUE authority”.

Thus, devoid of such an insight, the following is what we the world know of the Nicaraguan episode. You would probably bear me out that this is what the rest of the world knows of the Nicaragua case…more or less.

In Nicaragua, the United States backed the Somoza government, which used the National Guard to brutally murder thousands of Nicaraguan citizens. The Sandinistas organized a very popular rebellion which overthrew and expelled the Samoza regime.

Samoza left Nicaragua $1.5 billion in debt, and, concurrently, the United States engaged in an illegal campaign to stop the Sandinistas. The Contras were not just “rebels armed and organized by the U.S.” Active and violent , they were Honduran, Salvadoran and Costa Rican mercenary groups, along with members of Samoza’s old National Guard, illegally funded by the CIA against the will of the U.S. Congress.

Furthermore, the United States also mined harbors and ports and disrupted commerce, leading to a suit filed by Nicaragua in the International Court of Justice, or ICJ, for violation of sovereignty. After the ICJ ruled in favor of Nicaragua, the United States set an international precedent by pulling out of the court.

Interestingly, while during this time, the Sandinistas were forced to spend half of the Gross Domestic Product on defense against the onslaught, they still somehow managed to make healthcare and education completely free and widely accessible, build 52 new hospitals and cut infant mortality in half. The Sandinistas were not perfect for many reasons, but they were chosen by the Nicaraguans who died to overthrow Samoza.

A war-torn and bleeding Nicaragua did not elect Ortega in 1987. From the revolution in 1979 until that election, the United States ensured that the fighting never stopped in Nicaragua. The Sandinistas were once popular and are still. The United States cannot represent the people of Nicaragua, and if Nicaragua decides Ortega can, that is their business.

According to some estimates, the disruption of the economy during the Contra period put Nicaragua centuries behind the United States. The ICJ agreed that the U.S. acted illegally and violated the sovereignty of Nicaragua or, in other words, terrorized that nation.

Now Joe, please do let us know if there is something else that you have. Regardless of whether I agree or disagree with your views, your comments are as eagerly anticipated as they will be respected. We all would be keen to learn from that, I am sure.

Bests,

Anwaar

One pitfall which I have always tried to avoid is to keep my mouth shut when speaking of matters of which I am ignorant – at least until I learn the TRUTH.

Your observant dissertation was brutally true with one glaring exception. your use of Nicaragua as a prime example of our imperialism was inapropriate, inaccurate and disinformative. You see – I was there when it all happened – and you have fallen into a trap cleverly set by the Marxists in this country.

I spent time with the intellgence community in the ‘belly of this monster’ and was priviledged to know EXACTLY what REALLY happened there. Without going into matters that have taken me half a lifetime to garner the knowledge and experience to speak on this matter with UNIQUE authority – I will say only that you are absolutely subjectively and objectively wrong on your perception the the Nicaraguan matter. I would be glad to discuss what I know through experinece with you at anytime.

If you knew my background in this matter you would understand. This is one of those few times when we were actually the ‘good guys’. The only ‘death squads’ in Nicaragua were run by Marxixts ideologues supported by Cuba Vietnam USSR and American leftists – PERIOD! Much of the information I gathered there was at personal risk of my own life. The Sandinista FSLN and neighboring FMLN were BOTH terrorist by nature.

The Democrat Party of the US was so eaten up by Marxist sentiment at the time – it was no surprise to me that they supported Ortega and his Godless Soviet subsidized ilk. We may have opportunized – businesswise – Nicaragua and other ‘bananna republics there in the past ( I was also a foreign Consul to one of these CA countries years ago) – but Communist ambitions in Nicaragua and El Salvador were VERY real and VERY terrorist! What we did to fight this REAL menace was NOT enough!

NEVER FORGET – the communist – like the Jew – is a master of lies deceit and deception.

My offer to you for the TRUTH – NOT ‘my truth’ – but the GOD’S HONEST TRUTH of these matters – are available if you desire to learn them.

Otherwise – please keep up your observations and reminders of what brutal hypocrites we have become in this once great country. I couldn’t agree more.

Sincerely – Joe Cortina

“If wishes were horses” is a really painful article for Americans to read, because it shows how incredibly misinformed they are about their own country, let alone the rest of the world.

This country seems fast headed for a full fledged police state. I think at the base of all this global nightmare, is controlling money interests. Even the Buddha said war was all about wanting what belongs to others. Likely, anything that supports war mentality is favored, including dumbing down the population and impoverishing them.

I think the world is headed for big political change. After all, throughout history, the real mass murderers, have been almost entirely politicians, not mobs of people going after one another. I think change will come from below, because there is simply no place else to go, no more land to start a “new way of life”.

Thanks,

Don

http://prisonplanet.com/articles/september2007/210907_b_brutality.htm

The Machine that is the embodiment of this policy of covert absorption is the Free-Trade Fanatics. The trade is NOT free, the host country is sucked dry of all usable “commodities” then left for dead while the Machine moves on to the next target.

This has happened througout South America, Central America, Southeast Asia, The Middle East BUT the main target now is AFRICA. The two nations that receive the most US “aid” are Israel & Egypt. What continent is Egypt on?

But the signs of a slow death are becoming clearer and clearer. The US is going bankrupt–if the nations that hold our debt decide to collect the US will collapse.

Meanwhile our military-industrial-educational-telecommunicatons complex forges on with blinding incompetence and supreme arrogance. Our citizens watch the lies churned out on our “boob tubes” by the Mainstream Media and believe we are the good guys fighting for world security with altruism and benevolence that is always misunderstood and unappreciated by that world.

Our schools are crumbling, we have an illusory health care SYSTEM, our infrastructure is antquated and dangerous, our citizens are sheeple who would much rather sit and watch commerical idiocy than read a book or be a citizen with a sense of political urgency. In effect we are no longer the leaders of the FREE WORLD, (were we ever?) and we are painfully beginning to realize it.

How can I, an ashamed & discouraged American, say this?

1. The 2000 & 2004 elections we so close they were ALLOWED to be stolen. Bush lost both of them, chortled as he announced a MANDATE. The media brayed in obeisance.

2. 40% of Americans believe that Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11. Despite the fact that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Powell and Wolfowitz have PUBLICLY admitted that he DID NOT.

3. Our grand firmament, the US Constitution, is being peeled like an onion by a sadistic wolfpack of misanthropes that look forward to the Rapture–humankind be damned.

4. The top 1% of earners control 60% of the total wealth in the US. Guess what, they are scheming for MORE.

5. This hypcritical wolfpack has sodomized mothers, students, veterans, seniors, working men and women, minorities and they can still depend on 33& of eligible voters to select their footsoldiers as the solution to their problems. Inane, pathetic and masochistic.

6. The End Times series that distorts the Revelations to bamboozle a throng of millions into gleefully walking into a psyche-numbing meatgrinder in the hopes of joining the Eternal has sold 20,000,000 copies. These soon-to-be-sacrificed accept anything that is spouted like manna no matter how preposterous. Science is the enemy, hate-filled victimhood is the way to Valhalla.

The end is near…I just hope ALL of our friends around the world can forgive us and still find some compassion.

You see…some of us are still trying to get it right…and we won’t STOP.