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To: Dan B. who wrote (13836)11/17/2004 9:08:29 PM
From: Michael Watkins  Read Replies (1) of 20773
 
The list of declassified and suspected CIA operations in other countries is so long that I'd have to write a book to thoroughly cover the entire topic. We've been propping up dictators and tough guys for years to get our objectives met. We were proping up, indeed giving the full support of the president, to Saddam Husayn in the 80's. Between overt and covert military support to juntas, oppressive governments, "terrorists" (we called them freedom fighters when they are on our side), as well as economic pressure in every corner of the globe, the US has left its imperial/neo-colonial fingerprints on a massive swath of the earth's surface.

Virtually all wars have economic underpinnings to them; not all wars have involved the firing of guns - but most have. In the last 100 years while other colonial powers were in retreat, the US has been on the advance.
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