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this story--about a possible Uribe coup, and Leon Panetta showing up and all--strikes me as the lid on a bubbling stinking cauldron. There is the "inside story" and then there is the "inside inside story" of what is being covered up, by both the CIA and Uribe. Please note that Obama has protected all of the Bush Junta criminals--fiends who slaughtered a hundred thousand innocent people in Iraq, in the first weeks of bombing alone, to steal their oil, and who tortured thousands, and who stole billions of dollars and who rigged our voting system for a second round of murder, torture and theft. And Obama's A.G. was personally involved in whitewashing Chiquita's payments to Colombian death squads, who killed thousands of union leaders and members on Chiquita farms. Now figure what the Bush Junta might have been using Colombia for--what the $7 billion to the Colombian military was all about, and what this secretly negotiated U.S./Colombia military agreement, signed by Uribe and Bushwhack appointee to Bogota, ambassador William Brownfield, is all about.
I keep thinking of the massacre of some 2,000 people in La Macarena, Colombia, an area of special interest and activity by the U.S. military (and apparently also the U.K, military). The mass grave has dates (but no names) from 2005 through 2009. Local people say that the bodies are of 'disappeared' local community, union and peasant activists.
Were these people killed by Colombia's military or its closely tied rightwing paramilitary death squads--in a political "cleansing" of La Macarena, with the Bushwhacks' 'blessing'? Or, did the U.S. and U.K. militaries participate in this horror? Some sixty of Uribe's political cohorts are under investigation, indicted or in jail, for their close ties to the death squads and to drug trafficking. So it is plausible that it was strictly a Colombian "turkey shoot." But when you read the horrifyingly bland documents that lay out the plan for La Macarena, written in Washington, you can't help but notice the similarities to U.S. military operations in Afghanistan.
I figured that Uribe would get dumped, because the U.S. war establishment so obviously wants former Defense Minister Manuel Santos--South America's 'Donald Rumsfeld'--as 'president' of Colombia. Many of the horrors that have occurred under Uribe's regime have made it to our corpo-fascist press--the New York Slimes, the Washington Psst, the Associated Pukes, Rotters, etc.--which indicated to me that Uribe was on the outs. Articles about the death squads in Colombia, and Uribe's corruption, simply wouldn't get any press if he was still Washington's favorite criminal in South America. These corpo-fascist 'news' monopoly lapdogs publish what the CIA wants them to publish.
But, interestingly, La Macarena has not been mentioned. A British parliamentary commission went to Colombia and verified the mass grave, because of possible U.K. military involvement. One of the commissioners described it as a horrifying "sea of bodies." Not one word in the corpo-fascist press. Is this because it was NOT just a typical Colombian massacre--but perhaps a "training" of U.S./U.K. soldiers for Afghanistan?
I wonder, too, about the "total diplomatic immunity" for U.S. soldiers and U.S. 'contractors' that Wm. Brownfield got Uribe to sign.
Leon Panetta was a member of Daddy Bush's "Iraq Study Group" and is, in my opinion, "old CIA," i.e., Daddy Bush CIA. (His appointment to head the CIA was initially criticized because--it was said--he is an "inexperienced civilian." But that talk was hushed up really fast and his appointment sailed through the Senate.) I think one of his missions as CIA Director is to cover up Junior's bloody trails. And that may be what he was doing in Bogota as the court ruling was coming down denying Uribe a national vote on lifting his term limit--securing Uribe's silence on a number of matters. I think this is A MESS on a par with the rendition/torture scandal and the Cheney/Rumsfeld plan to nuke Iran. I think Daddy Bush formed the ISG to head off the nuking of Iran--his intervention dating to about 2005, and resulting in Rumsfeld's resignation in 2006. With the outing of Plame and the CIA's entire WMD counter-proliferation unit, I suspect that Junior was becoming a CIA target. The plan to nuke Iran upped the stakes quite a bit more (potential Armageddon in the Middle East). The old Bush crowd--who are more into the cosmetics of running the Empire (f.i., getting UN backing for the first war on Iraq)--were shouldered out by Cheney and Rumsfeld. But Cheney and Rumsfeld got Junior into very serious trouble with the CIA, and with their plan to nuke Iran (and declare martial law here?), and in God knows what other ways. Is one of those other ways the bodies buried in Colombia?
Then there is the CIA itself, which has long been suspected of getting its "black budget" funds from drug trafficking.
I'm not sure how to put all these pieces together--to try to understand the "inside inside" story--but I do sense this very strongly: Uribe is NOT being ousted by the U.S. for his corruption or his ties to the death squads, or because of U.S. 'discomfort' with a Uribe coup. If they wanted Uribe in power, he would continue in power and they would create the corpo-fascist 'news' narrative to cover it over--just as they have done in Honduras. (And that is what occurred here in 2004: The corpo-fascist press wrote the narrative for a stolen election. Then, in my opinion, Daddy Bush had to intervene, because Cheney and Rumsfeld--heady with illegitimate power--were going too far--trying to finish their PNAC agenda to totally dominate the Middle East, at the risk of incinerating the Middle East.)
Something else is going on in Colombia. I have thought that it was preparation for their next oil war--and that may be true, but the entrails are hard to read. I think Uribe maybe signed the U.S./Colombia military agreement under duress (threats from the CIA or Brownfield on more disclosures of Uribe corruption? And maybe Uribe threatened them back, as to disclosures?). I also think Uribe may have some concerns about Colombia's sovereignty--such a hugely important issue in Latin America--or at least has concerns about how Colombia is seen by others, and maybe how he himself is seen, on the sovereignty issue. He appeared to have qualms about it. He took a special trip to visit other Latin American leaders, to explain that military agreement. Santos wouldn't have done that. He would have given them all the finger. He is totally the Pentagon's boy. So, if they are planning an oil war (main target, Venezuela), they wouldn't want anybody with qualms about Latin American sovereignty heading Colombia. They would want someone who doesn't give a crap. And that is Santos.
But ousting Uribe is a tricky business, given what I suspect is the case--that some of the bodies buried in Colombia are the Pentagon's and the CIA's and, most especially, the Bush Junta's. I don't think that the P.R. "talking point" of Chavez getting term limits lifted (by an honest national vote) and then Uribe getting a third term (by dishonest or coup means) is that important to the psyops/disinformation campaign (pre-war campaign?) against Chavez. (Hell, Uribe got his second term by bribery and that raised hardly a blip in the corpo-fascist press.) They have worked up so many other "talking points" against Chavez that it is immaterial, or I suspect that it is. The 'news' just doesn't matter, in that respect. They can manipulate the 'news.'
I think what matters is the Pentagon's war plan, and truly nefarious Bush Junta activity in Colombia--that could make Junior and others vulnerable to prosecution, if Latin America proceeds along its unity lines and creates a Latin American "common market" (which would include economic, political and legal integration). "Dirty war" criminals from the Reagan era are being prosecuted in Argentina and other countries. Countries such as Paraguay have rescinded their non-extradition and U.S. military immunity laws, as conditions for membership in trade groups like Mercosur. So the involvement of Bush Junta leaders--and ancillary people, such as U.S. military commanders and private 'contractors'-- in death squad murders, drug trafficking and other crimes in Colombia--could become subject to prosecution. It is not the 'news' that our corporate rulers and war profiteers fear; it is independent courts.
Also, I'm not sure there is unity among our corporate rulers and war profiteers. Honduras, for instance, certainly provided a picture of confusion for many months, as to U.S. policy. So there could be a lot of things going on re Colombia--for instance, Brownfield and Panetta disagreeing on strategies of cover up, and/or on war strategies. Brownfield is probably the most evil Bushwhack operative in Latin America (of the visible operatives). Panetta may be in the position of arbiter between the Bushwhacks and the Obama/Clinton people. One of his missions is probably to heal the wounds of the Bushwhack/White House/Pentagon war on the CIA--and to get more coherence and unity on U.S. policy.
Anyway, I think the picture of Uribe planning a coup and Panetta arriving and saying, "No-no! We don't support coups," is too simple. The U.S. does support coups whenever it wants to--and the corpo-fascist press goes right along with it. That isn't the issue. The war plan (pretty obvious) and the cover-ups (La Macarena the tip of the iceberg?) are more likely the matter of the "inside inside story" and that story is hard to get at.
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