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To: Bald Eagle who wrote (10137)	12/19/2001 7:46:13 PM
From: Thomas M.	Respond to of 23908

Tom Brokaw doesn't talk about that stuff, does he? Indonesia committed the worst genocide (by proportion of the population) since the Holocaust, with full support from the U.S. Clinton softened our support, but he still had his Contra-gate moment of subverting Congress (i.e. subverting the will of the American populace). <<< In March 1997, the House Foreign Operations Subcommittee received Administration testimony that the US sold Indonesia military training without Congressional notification or consent throughout 1996, despite Congressional limits on assistance to non-military training in its 1996 authorization. Since the 1991 massacre, the State Department has licensed more than 250 military sales to Indonesia. >>> etan.org <<< Since 1980 the United States has sold or given Turkey--a NATO ally--$15 billion worth of weapons. In the last decade the Turkish army has leveled, burned, or forcibly evacuated more than 3,000 Kurdish villages. That is roughly three-quarters the number of Kurdish settlements destroyed in Iraq in the 1980s during Saddam Hussein's infamous "Anfal" campaign, when the West was arming Iraq and turning a blind eye to widespread human rights violations. Most of the destruction in Turkey took place between 1992 and 1995, during the Clinton administration's first term. >>> bullatomsci.org The Israel situation speaks for itself - some estimate $10 billion in annual aid, blocking all international efforts at peaceful settlement, etc. Tom