Argentina's Kirchner launches new attack on US

[Zorro]

Argentine President Cristina Kirchner warned the United States of "grave implications" amid claims a US official is lobbying for a group representing the so-called "vulture funds" being contested by Buenos Aires.

Kirchner said Nancy Soderberg, who heads the Public Interest Declassification Board advisory committee that promotes access to national security archives, is also the co-chair of the American Task Force Argentina (ATFA), an organization "specifically created to attack and slander the Argentine Republic and its president."

"If confirmed by you, (this) would have grave implications for relations between our two countries," Kirchner wrote in a letter to US President Barack Obama.

"As you are certainly aware, the functions of the PIDB encompass sensitive issues of national security and include giving advice to the president and to other US executive branch officials."

http://news.yahoo.com/argentinas-kirchner-launches-attack-us-060323517.html

[COLGATE4]

1. Easier to piss on the U.S. than to try and get

the populace fired up for another Falklands adventure.

[truebluegreen]

2. What does that even mean?

[Bacchus4.0]

3. Argentina gov uses the Falklands to deflect from their real problems

but with this default issue, the Falklands isn't going help them.

[COLGATE4]

5. It means that Cristina needs to keep the populace

focusing on other issues than the tanking Argentinian economy. The usual ploy by the Argentine government in that situation is to deflect attention by beating the drums for another war to 'liberate' the Falkland Islands. But it's easier (and less dangerous) to drum up anti-US sentiment instead.

[Bacchus4.0]

4. Such an obscure and low level position provokes a letter from Kirchner to Obama

they are really in deep mierda.

[hack89]

6. She reeks of desperation. nt