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To: epicure who wrote (4887)	5/11/2000 11:50:00 PM
From: The Barracuda™	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9127

The people were against the Contras. It should be the people of a given nation that decide how they want to live- that's my opinion anyway Like the Khmer Rouge or Nazi Germany for example.

To: epicure who wrote (4887)	5/12/2000 12:13:00 AM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9127

Yes, Tibet was a sovereign nation invaded by China ... but that didn't seem to bother Nixon much, he went ahead and did the ping-pong thing with the chinese. Really, i can't see what can be done about Tibet, China is too powerful and too strongly held by its dictatorship ... the Han chinese have been killing other cultures for their land for hundreds of years, as have the anglosaxon and the russian and the spanish and the french etc. Every few decades there is upheaval from within the chinese, perhaps next time human rights for tibetans will gain support. The nicaraguan people ended up being against the sandinistas as well, so they voted them out ... the other X says above that Ortega's government was 'removed', well that was not the case, they lost an election [two now, actually] ... it's a long and complex story, and Nicaragua is still far from perfect, but imho Ortega's role in ridding the country of those pigs was a lot more useful to that particular slice of humanity than that of Reagan or his slushfund flunkey North or any of the murderers working for them. There's so much hypocrisy out there. You can't impose freedom [even supposing we could all agree on what the word means][and supposing the spouters of the word 'freedom' really meant it] ... setting a good example would be so much more effective ... and that means not setting up puppet dictators, and not stealing people's kids.