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Originally posted by techweenie
"But Joseph Towle was there, and like Scott Ritter, David Kay and many others, is about to be discredited by someone who wasn't there -- in five, four, three, two...
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"To stand there at attention . . . hearing the Star Spangled Banner,"
said Powell, triggered a flashback to 1987, "when I was . . . going up to Capitol Hill every three months . . . and fighting all night long with opponents of Contra aid, to keep these guys alive and going with food and ammunition." Reagan had called the Contras "the moral equivalent of our Founding Fathers and the brave men and women of the French Resistance" in World War II -- analogies that infuriated liberal Democrats.
But Reagan's comparisons were apt.
After seizing power in 1979, the Sandinistas had quickly moved to take over Nicaragua's radio and TV stations and to impose strict censorship on La Prensa, the leading newspaper. It arrested independent labor leaders. It vilified the Catholic Church, persecuted the small Jewish community, and treated evangelical Protestants with particular viciousness. It expelled thousands of Miskito Indians from their homes, forcibly relocating them to government camps. With Cuban and Soviet aid, it launched a massive military buildup."
Boston Globe (Jeff Jacoby)
Here is a picture that translates to "Ronald Reagan , the Nicaraguan Resistence Movement thanks you and will always remember you."...This display honors Reagan, as he is deemed a hero for freedom in Nicaragua.
Here is a picture memorializing Reagan from Catedral Metropolitana in Managua.
To believe the intellectual diarrhea the DemocRATs put out regarding the Sandinistas, one would have to assume that tyranny and oppression would have surely resulted from Reagan supporting the evil Contras. One would also have to assume that the ultra-left wing guerillas, of the Marxist-Leninist sect, have forsaken their historical philosophical penchant for murder and oppression, and taken up kindness and equitable mercy...Neither is true.
The fiction that the Sandinistas were some noble and righteous cause, and Reagan was supporting murderers, is just that, a fiction. An evil intentionally deceptive fiction.