"Ya see, democratic nations don't support terrorism.... they aren't

[HysteryDiagnosis]

interested in weapons of mass destruction" or some such blather...

www.Soaw.org

About the SOA/ WHINSEC

The US Army School of Americas (SOA), based in Fort Benning, Georgia, trains Latin American security personnel in combat, counter-insurgency, and counter-narcotics. SOA graduates are responsible for some of the worst human rights abuses in Latin America. In 1996 the Pentagon was forced to release training manuals used at the school that advocated torture, extortion and execution. Among the SOA's nearly 60,000 graduates are notorious dictators Manuel Noriega and Omar Torrijos of Panama, Leopoldo Galtieri and Roberto Viola of Argentina, Juan Velasco Alvarado of Peru, Guillermo Rodriguez of Ecuador, and Hugo Banzer Suarez of Bolivia. Lower-level SOA graduates have participated in human rights abuses that include the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero and the El Mozote Massacre of 900 civilians. (See Grads in the News.)


http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Articles8/Lobe_US-Arms-Exports.htm

The United States retained its dominance of the Third World arms market for the eighth year in a row in 2002, according to the latest in an annual series of reports produced by the Congressional Research Service.

Washington accounted for close to one-half of all new arms transfer agreements concluded during the year, as well as actual arms deliveries. Altogether, arms sales from all sources to developing countries made up about two-thirds of arms sales worldwide during 2002, according to the report, which is based on the most comprehensive data compiled by the US government.

New arms agreements with developing nations totaled US$17.7 billion, a 10 percent increase over new deals in 2001. Of that total, US sales came to $8.6 billion, or almost 48 percent of all arms transfers to Third World countries, up from 41 percent the previous year.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

1. Heart stoppingly sick making

But "in 1996 the Pentagon was forced to release training manuals . . ." So, was the Clinton Adminstration part of this as well? I need to know. I may be re-evaluating my whole outlook on a lot of people.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. Don't forget.... we have always, and always will "wear the white

hat".... or so it is said. Don't you believe one frigging word of it.