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BornAgainPagan said:Texas. Watch out for all of the conservatives with the 3/4 trucks (with bedliners and that they're afraid of getting dirty) clad with NRA and W stickers!
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BornAgainPagan said:"La coca Cola, las aguas negras del imperialismo"
one very smart Honduran during the Reagan regime
Well we are a very clean people. I don't mind dirt but you gotta mix some water in with it. MUD. And we don't mind if there is some Blood mixed in there too. In fact that is better. A little beer helps too. Now all we need is a football and a bunch of guys who can play Rugby.GVFlyer said:I don't think Gunfyter's afraid of very much, specially not dirt - he's a Marine.
GV
GVFlyer said:I don't think Gunfyter's afraid of very much, specially not dirt - he's a Marine.
"Coke is the black water of imperialism." What is that about? What does Honduras have that we want? All we have done there is send money by the truckload and prop up their military. Support your statement.
GV
BornAgainPagan said:Coca Cola had many agricultural holdings in Central America. What do they have that we want/ed? Cheap labor and agricultural products. The war in Central America was not about communism. That phrase was common among the locals in Honduras. Ironically, this was uttered to me by one of the locals in Porvenir while sharing a Coke.
BornAgainPagan said:We sent the money and material support to their military, illegally. It wasn't just Nicaragua and El Salvador.
El Chupacabra said:The one thing that pisses me off about unions is the support for liberal democrats.
Then stay away from the big brass belt buckle of the Bible Belt -- Dallas Texas.
GVFlyer said:Please get your Marxist rhetoric right if you're going to spout it! It was the United Fruit Company that had extensive holdings in Latin America and oppressed the people. Clay Shaw of that company also had JFK shot, too, right? Coca-Cola is supposed to be symbolic of our exportable culture which overwhelms indigenous cultures throughout the world. What do you think Coca-Cola grows there - cocaine for their Coke? Coke buys guarare for their Sobe and Rockstar brands from Brazil. Other than that all they have is bottling plants in Latin America. But wait! There's a popular leftist rant that Coke hires union busting thugs to murder those who try to organize their plant in Columbia. You could pick that for a cause. You also forgot to point out that the US Army's School of the America's is somehow responsible for all of Latin America's woes.
Wrong again. In Honduras the US has legal military bases in Soto Cano and Palmerola. Congress has to fund military bases. Honduras, by the way, is a Democratic Constitutional Republic. I think popularly elected President Ricardo Madura is doing a bang-up job in ensuring civil rights, improving the standard of living and growing the economy in one of the poorist and least developed countries in Latin America.
We, the US, did a bang-up job in humanitarian hurricane relief in Honduras in 1998.
The war in Latin America most certainly was about communism and communism was thouroughly rejected by the people. In El Salvador, Alfredo Cristiani did a great job getting his country through the civil war with the communists and in free elections following the war Francisco Flores beat FMLN guerilla candidate Facundo Guardado. The Frente Farabundo Marti para la Liberacion Nacional, by the way, is the only political party that has ever shot at me. Arena candidate Tony Saca is now heading the El Salvadoran Government.
In Nicaragua, the communists were again soundly defeated when Violetta Barrios de Chamorro trounced Sandanista candidate Daniel Ortega in Managua in 1990.
To all three nations, the US is a valued trading partner - we buy nearly 70% of what they produce.
GV
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El Chupacabra said:You can't name a place on Earth where the people aren't better off because of the involvement of the US government or businesses or private groups that outreach.
If you are a godless marxist you might not be happy about it. Then stay away from the big brass belt buckle of the Bible Belt -- Dallas Texas.
The one thing that pisses me off about unions is the support for liberal democrats.
El Chupacabra said:yes they are better off because of us. But worse off because of our enemies and their resistance.
Can you imagine how much better off Viet Nam would be if they had turned away from Communism and became a friend of the US?
Iraq is infinitely better off but a work in progress. They are free aren't they?
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Remington said:Texas is definatly the best country in the world and if you dont like it, hit the road and pick up a big ole' bag of F^&k Ya'll on the way out.
BornAgainPagan said:actually Vietnam is doing quite well and they're still quite communist. Remember, we lost that war...or did you not get the memo?
Iraq better off? Tell that to the victims of "collateral damage". We'll see.
Oh yeah, North Korea is better off too. got it.
El Chupacabra said:Viet Nam doing well.... How good would they be going if they had normal relations with the US?
Iraq.... yes better off. Its the influence of the foreign terrorists that are hurting them now.
North Korea. Great example. look at South Korea. Thats how they would be prospering if they would just see the light.
I got a question for you. If we suck so much... tell me where its better. Then move there.
BornAgainPagan said:Oh yeah, the School of the Americas was good for Central America? Ha! It was good for the wealthy ruling class and the gentlemen that assasinated the loud mouth Archbishop Romero (yes, trained at SA), and the Contra death squads (trained @ SA). Yeah right, the S.A. has a golden halo around its' head.
BornAgainPagan said:Of course the US bases in Honduras are legal. However, the direct support of their military to cross the so called borders to fight the FMLN and Sandinistas was completely illegal. That has been well documented after documents were declassified in the early 90's...or did you conveniently forget that too?
BornAgainPagan said:The war in Central America having anything to do with communism is quite the sophomoric view. It was about resources and trade hands down. Of course the right wing would like you to believe otherwise.
BornAgainPagan said:If you take a moment to put down your Kool Aid and learn something about the history of Cornelius Vanderbilt and William Walker, you might understand.
BornAgainPagan said:The FMLN shot at you? Perhaps you shouldn't have been there.![]()
BornAgainPagan said:It is quite apprent that your original question was loaded and was bait so that you can regurgitate your drivel.
BornAgainPagan said:My views are based on the study of Central American history as well as first hand interaction with the working people of Central America. Please understand if I put more stock in their word as opposed to the empty words of a brainwashed imperialist idealogue.
GVFlyer said:The mission of the School of the Americas was to provide doctrinally sound relevant military education and training to the nations of Latin America while promoting democratic values and respect for human rights, and fostering cooperation among the multinational military forces. Even if your claim that the person who terminated Archbishop Romero had attended SOA was valid, it would be like proclaiming USC is evil because O.J. went there.
I suspect that by "illegal" you mean not authorized by Congress. It is not the purview of the US Congress to dictate the actions of the Honduran military.
It is a typical tactic of the left to try to assign an economic motive to every altruistic action that they don't understand. They don't understand these actions because, in large part, they generally lead a life serving nothing larger than themselves and certainly wouldn't put themselves at risk for anything more dangerous than a caustic comment resulting from their rhetorical contribution to the cause which, they feel, is, "doing something." It's not.
The communist guerillas in Latin America are about nothing more than savagery, power, and control of the population. The people have clearly shown that they do not want to be controlled or victimized by the communists.
If Vanderbilt has a legacy in the 21st Century, it's that he created a port system that allows these states to get their goods to market. But, oh wait! He was a capitalist and therefore inherently evil.
It's okay. I shot back somewhat more effectively.
It seems that if you have the strength of the beliefs you profess here, we may have exchanged a few rounds as well when you were acting as a dupe of the Sandinista's , the FMLM, Sendero Rojas or Sendero Luminoso. Or are did you just back them with your mouth?
I just saw where one of your colleagues, Lori Berenson, is going to be released from prison in Peru in 2015.
No, your asinine tag line denigrating our nation by implication angered me not withstanding the fact that I've lost friends who died fighting communists in El Salvador, Nicaragua and Peru. These were good guys training and working with and along side the indigenous people. Your assertion that they died trying to create a market for Coke is insulting to their memory and to me personally
I'm not smart enough to be an imperialist ideologue (Maoist as well as Marxian dialectic, impressive), just barely smart enough to perform my military mission, but we were just competent enough to capture Abimael Guzman where he was hiding in a little house on the outskirts of Lima and give him to Alberto Fujimora. And my succesors are just smart enough to insure that there are free elections in every Latin American country where we have a presence.
Reference all of the soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan that openly state not knowing why they're there or feel their presence is not justified....my brother included.