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Scootaloo

(25,699 posts)
Mon Jun 18, 2012, 04:16 PM Jun 2012

We've done it before.

Johnson threw his support behind the coup against Goulart, via the CIA. Similar operations were undertaken with even heavier American involvement in Colombia, Argentina, and Chile.

The trick to a coup is that you don't have to use your own military. You use the military of the nation you're trying to overthrow.

I just hope Obama's not the kind of guy to fold to pressure from United Fruit, er I mean Monsanto.

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