Reagan's Dark Global Legacy

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...o Cambodia. "Reagan Skull Bag." This handy Khmer Rouge carrying sack holds up to 25 skulls. The Skull Bag recognizes the Reagan administration's unstinting support for Pol Pot's assaults on Cambodians from 1981 to 1989, as well as Reagan's policy of recognizing the exiled Khmer Rouge at the U.N. as the legitimate government of Cambodia.

o Costa Rica. "El Rancho Reagan." The former "front farm" of a CIA and contra collaborator, El Rancho Reagan is preserved in its mid-1980s pristine prime. Contra killers lounge in the backyard, the safe overflows with cash to bribe Costa Rican officials to ignore violations of their nation's neutrality, and kilos of coke are on hand for transhipment.

o El Salvador. "The Reagan Missionary Position." No, not a sexual position for raping American churchwomen (for that would be in poor taste), but a position as in a stand. The Reagan Missionary Position, formulated by high officials Al Haig and Jeane Kirkpatrick, is that the three nuns and one layworker were pro-Marxist "political activists" and thus hardly innocent. Besides, their deaths were accidents, not planned executions. Haig explained that the churchwomen ran or were perceived to have run a "roadblock" and may have gotten caught in a guerrilla-National Guard "exchange of fire." Were they also raped in the crossfire? The Reagan Missionary Position's lips say no, but his eyes say yes.

o Guatemala. "The Reagan 'Bum Rap' Rap." Grandmaster Ronnie first laid down this rap in 1982 to discredit reports by Amnesty International and others of the army's slaughter of thousands of Indian villagers in the first months of General Efrain Rios Montt's rule. Ronnie rapped that Rios Montt (an evangelical minister nicknamed the "born-again butcher") was getting a "bum rap." The beauty of the bum-rap rap is that it bolsters "military impunity," regarded by Reagan as a cornerstone of client-state pseudo-democracy.

o Honduras. "Reagan's Rascals." The crazy cut-ups of Battalion 316 comprised a secret unit of CIA-backed torturers and murderers. They rid Honduras of real and imagined subversives and dissidents, assisted Reagan's beloved contras and ensured the continued rule of corrupt army thugs behind a civilian facade -- another cornerstone of client-state pseudo-democracy.

http://www.counterpunch.org/hans06072004.html

Freakin' regan!

Its the GOP/CIA that loves candidates with organic brain disease or an incredibly low IQ.

During the Reagan years Casey started bombing Mosques to get one bad guy. But they kept missing. The outrage over there was not reported.