Reply #5: How come you're not arguing for the US 4th Fleet to stand down, which Brazil's president,

[Peace Patriot]

Lula da Silva considers a threat to Brazil's oil reserves (as well as Venezuela's), or argue for the end of U.S. military violations of Venezuela's air space near Venezuela's biggest oil fields off its Caribbean coast, or argue against the U.S. embargo on aircraft parts to Venezuela for aircraft that Venezuela purchased in the U.S. (a little lesson there for Brazil--beware of what you buy from the U.S.)? Or why don't you argue against the U.S. funding and organizing of white separatist rioters and murderers right out of the U.S. embassy in Bolivia, this last September, or conspiring with Colombia to drop ten U.S. "smart bombs" on Ecuadoran territory, killing 25 people in their sleep, at a temporary FARC hostage release camp, or argue against the U.S. larding Colombia with $6 BILLION in military aid, while Colombians suffer some of the worst poverty in South America, with the Colombian military and its rightwing paramilitary death squads slaughtering thousands of union leaders, small peasant farmers, human rights workers, journalists and others, trying to destroy dissent against the narco-fascist government?

Why aren't you arguing against that monstrous U.S./Colombia expenditure on arms and fascist militarim?

But you've got a beef against Brazil buying helicopters from Russia? It is the U.S. and Colombia who are the militaristic aggressors in South America, and who have wasted TRILLIONS and TRILLIONS of dollars on armaments--money that could have been used to help the poor, here and there. Why don't you criticize them, rather than a leftist government whose leaders are trying to be prepared should the country that slaughtered 100,000 innocent Iraqis to steal their oil, come gunning for South America's oil? Without the leftist sweep of elections in South America, the profits from the oil would be pouring into the pockets of monsters like Exxon Mobil, who not only pig out on us with gas gouging, but hijack our government and our military for corporate resource wars--instead of being used for education, medical care and other bootstrapping of the vast poor majority, and for regional development. I'd say that it would be a very derelict government, indeed, that was not looking to protect its oil reserves, after the Iraq slaughter, and in view of our global corporate predators' frustration at acquiring Iran's oil as well.

But go ahead and snipe at Brazil, which has a government that is actually trying to do something for the poor. You reveal your true values in this snipery.