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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (616025)	9/1/2004 3:24:52 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

That is the excuse, isn't it?

To: Neocon who wrote (616025)	9/1/2004 4:12:27 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"Any country that would not help to defeat terrorists would be treated as an enemy." HYPOTHETICAL QUESTION: what if that country is us? ---------------------- ...Nowhere are the terrorist double standards and danger to Americans clearer than in the case of Luis Posada Carriles, a former CIA operative and one of four Cuban Americans granted amnesty last week by the government of outgoing Panamanian President Mireya Moscoso following a visit by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell that same week. In 1998, Carriles admitted in a New York Times interview that he planned a series of bombings of hotels and other buildings in Cuba. Posada Carriles and another colleague are also accused of masterminding the midair explosion of Cubana Flight 455 carrying the Cuban fencing team and other passengers. Carriles was convicted in Venezuelan courts of the bombing and served eight years in prison there before he escaped. In the same way those 9/11 families search for the truth in the U.S., families searching for truth about victims of Cubana 455 believe that Colin Powell's visit to Panama last week led Moscoso to grant prisoners amnesty during her final days in office so that Washington could avoid the embarrassment of a Carilles extradition and trial in Cuban or Venezuelan courts. A show trial featuring Carriles, who is believed to be in hiding in Miami, would detract attention from the upcoming trial of an officially designated terrorist and terrorist supporter, Saddam Hussein. In the age of anti-terrorist politics, the different fates of former U.S. friends Hussein and Carriles provide us with valuable insights into the double standards and dangers of terrorist and anti-terrorist politics. So does the case of Alvaro Rafael Saravia, a retired Salvadoran Air Force captain trained and funded with U.S. tax dollars who this week is accused in Fresno's civil courts of planning the murder of Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero. Salvadorans attending the emotional trial – many of whom are friends – of the most famous victim of El Salvador's state-sponsored terrorism have told me that they attended the trial to bear witness to the possibility of justice in the United States. They wonder why the more than 80,000 victims of El Salvador's state terrorism in the 1980's are not paid the same attention as the thousands of victims of Saddam Hussein's state terrorism also from the 1980's. How, they ask, are Saravia and thousands of other known terrorists from El Salvador, Panama, Chile, Indonesia, Bosnia and other countries roaming the streets as legal residents of the United States living in Fresno, Miami or New York? Message 20470921 >>> One man's 'terrorist' it seems, is sometimes another man's 'freedom fighter'.