Does anyone find it strange that the ones who were behind atrocities are..

[ck4829]

now in power?

The Contras, the Mujahideen, Saddam Hussein, I find it very unusual that the people who helped these mass-murderers out are now the ones who have the power in America.

The Contras - Negroponte helped out the terrorists in Nicaragua, and now he has power in Iraq thanks to Bush. Also according to an article that was once on DU, George W Bush himself once flew a plane for the Contras.

The Mujahideen - The Reagan Administration and a little help from the Christian Right turned the Mujahideen into "Freedom" Fighters, these guys later became Al Qaeda and the Taliban. One decade we say they are our allies the next the Bush Administration is saying it is fighting "against" it.

Saddam Hussein - The Reagan Administration used Saddam Hussein as an ally. We should all remember the infamous photo of Donald Rumsfeld shaking the hand of this oppressive Dictator.

I don't want to think of this as a conspiracy or anything like that. These are just a few observations I have noticed.

[slojim240]

1. It's been a definite pattern throughout US history. Always on the wrong

side except for WWII. And even then, a lot of Americans had helped Hitler come to office.

[ET Awful]

2. Welcome to 1984. We are at war with Oceania, we have ALWAYS

been at war with Oceania.

WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. Add Savimbi, Mobutu, Duvalier, Pinochet, etc

And, many more.

[sweetheart]

4. certainly explains why they withdrew from the ICC

Most of the administration should be in the dock for war crimes,
so they've gone renegade.

Perhaps its related to the back and white infantile approach of
the corporate media, us and them, good and evil, seeking to whitewash
"our" side, whilst tarring the evil side as "too evil". Then when
we have to take an honest look, there is cognitive dissonance, so
that "we" must be good.

We could use a truth commission, like South Africa has used to root
out criminal warmakers from the american government, by getting them
to testify for immunity. This would clean up the world's problems
in a jiffy.