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In reply to the discussion: Bradley Manning Won't Be SF Pride Grand Marshal [View all]struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)"Salvador option." You might also want to search the DU archives from the same period for discussion of John Negroponte, who served Reagan in Honduras during the deathsquad era there, long before Bush II packed him off to Iraq
The Bush II administration had telegraphed their philosophy and intentions rather early, for example by appointing neocon Elliott Abrams as the NSC director for Near East and North African Affairs in late 2002. If you don't know who he is, you might want to learn about the Reagan era massacre at El Mozote, and you might want to note his acts associated with the 2002 Venezuelan coup attempt
People who were paying attention at the time noticed such details and interpreted then: sadly, not enough people listened. Years later, the Assangists came along and claimed to be revealing such matters for the first time