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Strategies & Market Trends : Fascist Oligarchs Attack Cute Cuddly Canadians -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bilow who wrote (223)	11/6/2001 4:02:40 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1293

Other countries do influence US elections sometimes. Jimmy Carter may well have beaten Ronald Reagan in 1980 if not for Ayatollah Khomeini and his Iranian goon squad. Ironically, Reagan's victory led directly to the funding of the Contras in Nicaragua.

To: Bilow who wrote (223)	11/6/2001 4:50:55 PM
From: marcos	Respond to of 1293

Nothing is served by 'making people feel bad', or making them 'feel good' for that matter, and such is not my intention, i think it's cool intellect applied to a base of relevant fact that will benefit our species the most .... the topic here, the Kommerzwaffe attack on my province, is an action happening in the context of the manner in which the US treats its neighbours ... since we cannot know the future, we have only current and past developments to enter into evidence as comparables and context references You may prefer the current to the past, well fine ... you might consider however that this is a personal choice, one not universal ... every nicaragüense knows the United Fruit, Somoza, Reagan-goon story as one cohesive record of US-Ni affairs, and added to it Mr Clinton's aid in clearing of landmines and hurricane relief, just as every mexicano knows that the US is occupying half his nation, and every canehjun the fact that the nice lady who makes chocolates helped us beat back the US the last time they tried to take our land in 1812 Not that long ago really - from this window i can see an old square-top fir that was already ancient when the rhetoric of your declaration of independence was written and helped inspire others onward to further human progress ... in the meantime the US has in some respects lived up to those words at times, no question, we your neighbours see that as well ... it's just not quite front and centre when a branch of its federal government is out to devastate our province. 'bipartisan fashion' - your neighbours tend to fear more the republicans than the democrats, as they have tended over time to mouth it up more with me-first verbosity in favour of US business interests, and used US military might more than the democrats ... such is the perception anyway, especially to the south of you ... however Dubya's 'junto podemos' posture has stimulated great hope that 'this time it's different' ... we shall see ... fwiw, canadians see this looking to the south at the same time the US is attacking a principal industry, and wonder WTF, are they really going to try to shaft us this go-round Bush should drop travel restrictions to Cuba, then college kids could go party it up there on holidays like they used to do at Fort Lauderdale, and poof goes Fidel ... then telling the ambassador in Managua to STFU at election time might not hurt either ... in both cases large segments of the population have ingrained fear and loathing of the US, for both real and imagined reason, and there's a 'feel bad' that gets used by politicians who might not make it any other way