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EX500rider

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14. Other people have done bad stuff...

Reply to Judi Lynn (Reply #13)

Tue Apr 6, 2021, 05:49 PM

Apr 2021

... isn't a particularly compelling argument.
Summary executions are summary executions... ie no trial but I think you're guilty so I'm going to shoot you.

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Some Standard Cynical CIA-Style Cuba Covid Reporting at The Washington Post [View all] Judi Lynn Apr 2021 OP

I'm not going to take seriously an author who's written a book blaming Obama and the Ds pnwmom Apr 2021 #1

Counterpunch is a trusted news source here? AnrothElf Apr 2021 #2

Please don't hesitate to post the link to your source for Che Guevara... whole families shot.... Judi Lynn Apr 2021 #3

Your efforts here are appreciated. Voltaire2 Apr 2021 #4

Thank you, Voltaire2! Victims of "perception management", sadly. Not by accident, either. Judi Lynn Apr 2021 #7

He was a psychopath EX500rider Apr 2021 #6

Thanks for sharing that source, very interesting! Judi Lynn Apr 2021 #9

"I don't know if you really want to rely upon..." EX500rider Apr 2021 #10

It would be appropriate if you would post the link to your incident story from La Cabana Fortress. Judi Lynn Apr 2021 #11

Woops, I misremembered the facts in that case... EX500rider Apr 2021 #12

I saw that in the Wikipedia. Does it compare with My Lai, with gunning down civilians in Iraq, Judi Lynn Apr 2021 #13

Other people have done bad stuff... EX500rider Apr 2021 #14

Oh, now I see.I should get all huffy that he shot a sadistic greedy mob-connected dictator's thug. 👍 Judi Lynn Apr 2021 #15

He executed I.e murdered multiple people EX500rider Apr 2021 #17

Oh, now I see.I should get all huffy that he shot a sadistic greedy mob-connected dictator's thug. 👍 Judi Lynn Apr 2021 #16

I read that WP piece and was disgusted by some of those comments. sinkingfeeling Apr 2021 #5

They've been on the war path against leftist leaders, particularly in the Americas a looong time. Judi Lynn Apr 2021 #8

Wikipedia review of US-supported vicious dictator Fulgencio Batista and why the revolution happened: Judi Lynn Apr 2021 #18