We're from the US Government... (from Pat Oliphant)

"We should invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity." And to think she actually lost her job for saying such things. My, how things have changed.

It is something you would hear on CNN or FAUX, I just don't recall who did say it.

also known as Ann Coulter... Olive Oyle... a kneecap with hair.

http://www.nationalreview.com/coulter/coulter091301.shtml

The cartoon encapsulates part of John Perkins' claims. I think I need to write this down just to firm it up in my mind, anyway. What John Perkins describes is nothing less than the Rosetta Stone for understanding US foreign policy:

1) Convince a target country's leadership to accept humongous loans from the USA (using money provided by the World Bank and IMF). Make sure the loans are so huge that there will be no way they could pay them back, and lie your ass off about the country's economic potential.

2) If the leadership of the target country accepts the lie and then takes the loans then the money gets transferred to the leadership of the target country with the requirement that a large percentage (like 80 to 90 percent) of the incoming money be transferred exclusively to American contractors (such as Bechtel and Halliburton, and others) who will, supposedly, do the work to make the target country rich, rich, rich ! After a time, and the target country is drowning in debt, well, then hell--America can just get whatever it needs or wants from the poor saps just by using the leverage of their gigantic debt to force the target country to do whatever we want them to.

3) If the leadership of the target country says "fuck you ! You're trying to scheme us out of our stuff ! and, by the way, get the fuck out of our country !" then the CIA hit teams come in and take the target leadership out (and god rest the soul of Omar Torrijos, former President of Panama, who we murdered). Perkins says that the CIA hit team was "never far behind" the economic hit men.

4) If, somehow, the leadership of the target country escaped the CIA hit (as Saddam did when he put down the two CIA-sponsored popular uprisings) then the job will go to a bunch of fun-lovin' 18 to 25-year-old American kids, who are fed a steady steam of lies to make them think that when they die or get blinded in the war that it happened to preserve freedom and to protect our liberty.

It's a real neat trick. Oh, and Happy Veteran's Day.