Daniel Ortega strikes back! Says that Republicans should support ex-contras.

[ck4829]

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said the United States should pay $300 million to support former "Contra" rebels who Washington funded in the 1980s to fight the leftist's first Sandinista government.

Ortega, a Cold War foe of the United States who now heads his second government after winning last year's election, said U.S. President George W. Bush's administration should assume some responsibility for the welfare of the ex-Contras.

The former rebels are demanding housing, land and farm credits promised to them at the end of Nicaragua's civil war that pitted the U.S.-financed fighters against the Sandinista revolutionary government.

"I would like the U.S. government, President Bush ... to take into account the United States' responsibility in this war during the government of President Reagan," Ortega said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070315/pl_nm/usa_nicaragua_dc

[PDJane]

1. They should..........

They're not going to unless absolutely forced to.

[RaleighNCDUer]

2. Now that's funny.

As if we even take care of our own veterans, much less our mercenary proxie fighters.