Dead Wrong, Then and Now (Bolivia)

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As the Bush administration, at its highest levels (Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and others), ramps up its campaign to convince the world that Bolivia’s social upheavals are the handiwork of Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez, it is worth taking a moment to remember that these are the same people who took the US to War in Iraq on bogus claims of “weapons of mass destruction”.

CNN will air a special on Sunday night entitled, Dead Wrong: Inside an Intelligence Meltdown, which documents the administration’s failure starkly. You can watch two excellent excerpts here.

Today more than 1,800 US servicemen and more than 25,000 Iraqis are dead because the nation’s leaders were foolish enough to accept Bush administration propaganda at face value. Can anyone really fathom the full weight of human suffering launched on the basis of the administration’s fabrication and lies?

I can tell you all – living here, not in the US second guessing at things from afar – that the political uprisings of the past five years in Bolivia are the product of genuine Bolivian movements about taking back control of the nation’s future. Agree or disagree with those movements, as you like. But anyone who falls for the wave of fabrication coming from the Bush administration today that these uprisings are manipulations from abroad – you are falling for the same lethal tales once again.

http://www.democracyctr.org/blog/index.htm

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1. All over the America to the South, THE WONDERFUL PEOPLE

who are our neighbors and our friends, are finding their voices, and they'll be stronger for it, in the long run, than we are: their neighbors to the North.

I am SOOO proud of people in South America! And Venezuela has been leading the pack...giving THE PEOPLE their voices back!

All it takes is one great leader, who cares about THE PEOPLE; and it all starts to come unravelled for the bad guys.

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2. Bushler & Cheney's attempts to discredit genuine democracy are despicable

Bolivia has the right to self-determination, and that right includes the choice of their own government. Bushler and Cheney do not have the right to criticize Bolivia's popular movements nor its government. They may do no more than negotiate with its elected government as the equal, sovereign state that Bolivia is.

If they dare to threaten Bolivia, or Venezuela, or Ecuadaor, the US public's duty is to remove Bushler and Cheney from office the same as it is their duty to remove them from office as justice for their crimes against the sovereignty and people of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Zero tolerance, no quarter, never forgetting, and never forgiving are not merely our rights and our self-interest. They are our duty to our country, our constitution, the founders of this country, and the entire world. And this duty is not fulfilled until Bushler and Cheney and all their accomplices in the Republican Party and the US mainstream media are delivered to the Hague to stand trial for the war crimes and crimes against humanity they've committed.