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in Honduras, through his US taxpayer-funded "International Republican Institute," via the USAID? (--Eva Golinger research) Stopping road projects is fine and good, but what about stopping a Junta-rigged election in Honduras, paid for by you and me? Has that big political money been stopped? How much of it is in the Junta's hands--and/ or how much more has been stuffed into their pockets?
The State Department has said it won't recognize that election--as has the OAS, the EU and a bunch of governments in Latin America (most of them). But that doesn't mean that the Reichwing here and there won't try to shove it down the throats of the people of Honduras, and the world, and it certainly doesn't mean that Obama/Clinton won't cave to that pressure, and let the issue get all fuzzy-wuzzy, and, come January, when Zelaya's term is up, say, well, the election was sorta okay; we have to stop the "crisis," and give in?
I'm glad to see the Millennium Corporation act, at long last--since Hillary Clinton heads the committee. But there are other "pots of gold" around in our government going to these criminals running Honduras, and to the repressive Honduran military. And there are also private corporate funds, I'm sure. The Junta intends to skin the known stoppages of funds off the backs of the poor. Yet they are somehow still living well, planning an "election," seem to have plenty of money for that, and are somehow paying for Honduran armored vehicles and soldiers with assault weapons to protect their offices, and are furthermore planning to use the Honduran military to run the election. Honduran generals have already said that they will not permit the people of Honduras to boycott the election, and you gotta wonder how they're going to do that, and who will be paying them to? The Honduran military is dependent on US taxpayers.
I think this coup is a US Reichwing coup, on the drawing board when the Bushwacks left office, and part of a larger, probably Rumsfeld-designed war plan for South America (mainly aimed at overthrowing the democratic governments of Venezuela and Ecuador, and stealing the oil). The coup has a "Bay of Pigs" feel about it--something partly intended to entrap or embarrass Obama, and about which there may have been an internal struggle in the Obama government (maybe still going on). The larger plan--for Oil War II--has a distinct feel of Vietnam about it. And, as we see the elements of it--the war assets--being put in place--items like the seven new US military bases in Colombia (adjacent to both Venezuela's and Eduador's main oil regions), or being secured--such as the US military base in Honduras--we should be very alert about what is happening in Latin America, and I think we should be very worried. Is Obama strong enough to resist this war, if a "Gulf of Tonkin" incident is manufactured? Does he perceive, and will he dismantle, the war plan? Will it be triggered on his watch, or will they wait until they can Diebold him out, in 2012, and get more of warmonger in the White House? Or is he (I hate to think it) on board for this war plan? And what of Clinton?
I thought at first that the Obama/Clinton delays in reacting to the Honduran coup were ill-intended--that they were giving the coup time to consolidate their power over the country, and the Arias Accord would then legitimize an election in which the will of the people of Honduras for fundamental change was thwarted. And I still don't understand how the Honduran military could refuel the plane carrying their kidnapped president out of the country at a US military base, and nothing was done to stop it. But I'm not so sure of Obama/Clinton's complicity any more. Just not sure. The "Bay of Pigs" is on my mind--booby traps set for a progressive president.
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