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Peace Patriot

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1. Very enlightening! Thank you!
Mon Nov 19, 2012, 03:19 PM
Nov 2012

Israel's assassination of Hamas commanders reminds me of the U.S./Colombia's assassination of Raul Reyes in March 2008 (along with 24 other sleeping people--all inflicted with summary execution without trial). Reyes was the FARC guerrilla commander most interested in a peace agreement in Colombia's 70 year civil war. Neither the Bushwhacks nor their "made man" in Bogota, Alvaro Uribe, wanted peace--nor did the Colombian military which was sucking on U.S. taxpayers to the tune of $7 BILLION (at minimum). So they blew his peace negotiation camp away with 500 lb. U.S. "smart bombs" and thus ended all talk of peace. Since Reyes' camp was on the Colombia/Ecuador border, just inside Ecuador, they also nearly started a war between the U.S./Colombia and Ecuador/Venezuela, which would have suited the Bushwhacks fine, I'm sure.

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