What is your favorite historical speech?

Wow, you've got me at a disadvantage, JTT. I came prepared to post a humorous response to your response, but you stopped me cold with your post. I don't know what to say. I expected you to call me names and thumb down my post, but you didn't.

What can I say in David's defense? Well, on the one hand, he's a friendly guy; and some of his posts are funny. At least I think so.

For some reason I'm not able to come up with any compelling argument to not be rude to David except to say that he is an old man who doesn't have any power to determine government policy and neither do the rest of us who post in this beloved forum.

A2K doesn't affect government policy. So, what does it matter? We're not going to influence anyone.

I have cheered and celebrated the deaths of COMMUNISTS
and their defeat in the 3rd World War. I ratify, re-iterate & reaffirm that.

The CIA and the Gulf War
by John Stockwell

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Now, since the "Good War One," World War II, we've had the CIA's Secret Wars. We've had two serious wars: Korea and Vietnam. But we've had the CIA running its low-intensity conflicts, its secret wars around the Globe. A lot of them. I'll mention that, kind of in passing, tonight because we have so much ground to cover. We've been destabilizing target governments in every corner of the Globe. We set up a system of governing by oligarchies — proxy government working through oligarchies in these countries who are permitted to become fabulously rich. This is the case in the Persian Gulf, the oil emirates who have 0.5 percent of their population of billionaires and millionaires, and the rest of the people share less or none at all of the country's wealth.

In Latin America, Central America, this same system is working. If the people don't like it, you organize the police into death squads, as we've done in many countries, including, conspicuously, El Salvador, and you kill enough of them that they are emasculated. They can't do anything about it. They are crippled. They are repressed, suppressed and oppressed, and you can get by with this system of milking the countries to your will and to your way.

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The casualties in Nicaragua — fifty thousand people — they were not Russians. They were not Cubans. They were not even mostly Sandinistas. They were mostly rag-poor peasants, including a high percentage of women and children. Communists? They were mostly ROMAN CATHOLICS! Enemies of the United States? Nah. We had thousands of Witnesses [for Peace] who went down to live with them — to see. And they invariably came back and told us that the Nicaraguan People are the warmest people on the face of the Earth. They couldn't understand [why], but the Nicaraguans love the United States — the people from the United States; and that these people had trouble understanding why our Government would want to hire an army to send down there to brutalize them: to haul them out of their homes, and rape them, and slash off their breasts, and cut off their testicles while their children were forced to watch, which is what the Contra program did. Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of documented cases.

http://www.serendipity.li/cia/stock2.html

You admit to being an amoral piece of scum, Dave. That's the issue here.

Dave, as Americans go, you are among the worst of the worst. Your parents would be proud.