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Bush appoints terrorist sympathizer as ambassador
#7928776 - 01/25/08 07:40 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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-The World Court ruled in their 1986 verdict in the case of Nicaragua v. United States, what the whole world already knew: that the Contras constituted an illegal terrorist movement and that the United States had violated international law by funding the Contras. The World Court ordered the United States to pay reparations to Nicaragua; reparations which the United States has refused to this day to pay.
24 January, 2008 Bush names terrorist sympathizer as new ambassador to Nicaragua Filed under: America, American Empire, American Politics, Bush, George Bush, International Politics, Media, News, Commentary & Op/Ed, Nicaragua, Propaganda, Terrorism, current events, mainstream media, news, politics — paulitics @ 4:45 pm A database search of all mainstream news outlets suggests that this announcement has gone completely unreported in both the United States media (source) and the Canadian media (source), however some publications in Europe published the story.
The story, in case you missed it because you don’t read the European press, is that U.S. president George W. Bush has just appointed Robert Callahan as the United State’s Ambassador to Nicaragua. Callahan was John Negroponte’s (the former Ambassador to Honduras) right hand man, spokesman and speachwriter while the two were co-ordinating the operations of the Contras in Nicaragua during the 1980s.
Some background information:
-The World Court ruled in their 1986 verdict in the case of Nicaragua v. United States, what the whole world already knew: that the Contras constituted an illegal terrorist movement and that the United States had violated international law by funding the Contras. The World Court ordered the United States to pay reparations to Nicaragua; reparations which the United States has refused to this day to pay.
-Callahan and Negroponte were co-ordinating terrorist activity from the embassy of Honduras, launching attacks against Nicaragua from the diplomatic immunity of a foreign embassy — itself an illegal act.
Injury: Naming an internationally-recognized terrorist sympathizer as ambassador to the country he used to help terrorize.
Adding insult to injury: When Callahan was operating against Nicaragua’s government during the 1980s, his boss’s efforts were centred around trying to overthrow and/or assissinate then-Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega. Guess who was just elected Nicaragua’s president last January after a long hiatus? Answer: Daniel Ortega.
Usually ambassadors are formally ‘received’ by the head of state of the recipient country. How awkward will that introduction be: “Hi. You don’t remember me, but I worked hard to try to illegally topple your democratically-elected government and assissinate you while I was stationed in Honduras in the 1980s. How do you do?”
What’s next? Bush to appoint Orlando Bosch and Posada Carriles as co-ambassadors to Cuba?
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SheikCorp
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Re: Bush appoints terrorist sympathizer as ambassador [Re: carbonhoots]
#7929233 - 01/25/08 10:40 AM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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ever read, confessions of an economic hit man?
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carbonhoots
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Re: Bush appoints terrorist sympathizer as ambassador [Re: SheikCorp]
#7930225 - 01/25/08 02:52 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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no
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Re: Bush appoints terrorist sympathizer as ambassador [Re: SheikCorp]
#7930652 - 01/25/08 04:17 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
SheikCorp said: ever read?
no, that was the first thing i ever read, ever...
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carbonhoots
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Re: Bush appoints terrorist sympathizer as ambassador [Re: Coaster]
#7930932 - 01/25/08 05:06 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Ha Ha
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Re: Bush appoints terrorist sympathizer as ambassador [Re: carbonhoots]
#7932658 - 01/25/08 11:01 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Bush is the best friend terrorists ever had.
And they are the best friends he ever had.
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Re: Bush appoints terrorist sympathizer as ambassador [Re: carbonhoots]
#7935191 - 01/26/08 01:44 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Edited by EntheogenicPeace (02/13/21 12:10 PM)
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Re: Bush appoints terrorist sympathizer as ambassador [Re: EntheogenicPeace]
#7935787 - 01/26/08 03:36 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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The Sandinistas took over Nicaragua in a violent coup in 1979. Elections were not held until 1984. Until those elections the Sandinistats were neither more nor less democratically elected than the Contras, some of whom were disaffected Sandinistas themselves. Subsequent to the election of 1984 the economy collapsed and Ortega was defeated By Violetta Chammoro, a former Sandinista, in 1990.
The Sandinistas were meddling in El Salvador. We meddled against them.
Negroponte was in Honduras from 1981 to 1985. Callahan was seemingly a minor functionary at the time. Negroponte was ambassador to Iraq for approximately one year commencing in 2004. He is currently Deputy Secretary of State. Every time he is nominated for something he is overwhelmingly approved and has worked under several administrations.
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Re: Bush appoints terrorist sympathizer as ambassador [Re: zappaisgod]
#7936136 - 01/26/08 04:47 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Edited by EntheogenicPeace (02/13/21 12:11 PM)
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carbonhoots
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Re: Bush appoints terrorist sympathizer as ambassador [Re: EntheogenicPeace]
#7936987 - 01/26/08 07:43 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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When you live under a dictator, violence to one degree or another is the only means to achieve power. Their revolution, however, was popularly supported.
Yeah, whatever.
The American nation would never seize power by violent revolution!
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Re: Bush appoints terrorist sympathizer as ambassador [Re: carbonhoots]
#7940300 - 01/27/08 01:18 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
carbonhoots said: When you live under a dictator, violence to one degree or another is the only means to achieve power. Their revolution, however, was popularly supported.
Yeah, whatever.
The American nation would never seize power by violent revolution!
And that's why it was called the revolutionary war when America was formed?
Maybe it won't happen now, since the population has been conditioned en mass to just obey, and watch TV, and rationalize the evil that their government is spreading around the world.
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