Cheney's Paraguay Caper Is Intended To Produce 'A Splendid Little War'

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It's LaRouche, but provides useful background on what's up.

On Feb. 24, 2005, the Argentine government of Nestor Kirchner successfully negotiated a 60% writedown of $82 billion of public debt, over the violent opposition of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the world's financial oligarchy.

On March 29, 2005, the heads of government of Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, and Spain gathered in the Venezuelan city of Ciudad Guayana, to discuss the details of regional great infrastructure projects to pull their economies out of poverty, and to lay the foundations of lasting, regional peace. This surprise development was a significant setback for the international financial interests that Cheney and Rumsfeld speak for, whose regional objective is both to ensure their control over strategic raw materials, and to sink the entire region into chaos such that no unified opposition to the dying IMF system can be mustered.

In April 2005, a further political blow was dealt to Cheney and the neo-cons, with Washington's inability to impose their preferred candidate as the next Secretary General of the Organization of American States. Cheney and his Wall Street friends were not amused.

So, on May 5, 2005, the United States induced the Paraguayan government to sign an agreement authorizing joint military training activities over the 18-month period running from July 1, 2005 to Dec. 31, 2006, which accord can be extended indefinitely. The base for the maneuvers is to be the Mariscal Estigarribia military base and airfield—which was built by the U.S. to be able to handle large military transport planes, and house up to 16,000 troops—located in the middle of the largely uninhabited Chaco region of northwestern Paraguay. This is the very region which was the scene of the bloody Gran Chaco War of 1932-35 between Paraguay and Bolivia (see map).

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1. "Those psychopathic policy twins, Cheney and Rumsfeld,....." te he

There is truth in this sentence.!!!

by Dennis Small

U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld arrived in Paraguay on Aug. 16, with the principal mission of putting the final touches on Vice President Dick Cheney's scheme of establishing a U.S. military base in that country, in the heart of South America. The proper response to that development, advised U.S. statesman Lyndon LaRouche, is to issue the following urgent security advisory across South America:

Redouble the guards at the cemeteries and the morgues, and put a special watch on all university anatomy classes. Those psychopathic policy twins, Cheney and Rumsfeld, the "Burke and Hare" of Washington, D.C., are on the loose in South America.

William Burke and William Hare—made famous in such locations as Robert Louis Stevenson's tale, The Body-Snatcher—were 1820s Scottish entrepreneurs of sorts, who set themselves up as procurers of fresh corpses to satisfy the lively demand of Edinburgh's medical schools' anatomy classes. When demand outstripped the supply available from digging up the graves of the recently departed in the dead of night, the two free marketeers turned to supply-side economics, and started murdering people directly. They weren't caught until they had produced 16 victims.

In the 21st-Century Cheney-Rumsfeld re-run of Burke and Hare's antics, most of the corpses are intended to be Brazilian......