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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Or maybe you recall differently because you were reading propaganda that was sympathetic to the contras.
Since you didn't respond to the remainder of my post, I didn't read the rest of yours.
And now I'm going to bed. A demain, as the French say.
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I didn't quote the rest of your post “And there's a point when reckless indifference to civilian casualties becomes functionally indistinguishable from your kind of direct targeting." but I think I responded to it.
I thought I was showing that the Contras, contrary to the propaganda, were not "acting with such reckless indifference to civilian casualties to become functionally indistinguishable from Terrorists".
And yes I may have been reading propaganda that was sympathetic to the Contras that is why I pointed to the results of the election. I think the calling of the elections and the results of the election lend credence to the information I received and cast doubt on the information you received.
Maybe I am wrong? How do the results of the first multiparty elections held by the Sandinistas support your information you received about the activities of the Contras?
As I like to say, people vote with their feet. You can say all you want about how much people like an administration or its policies but the emigration and immigration, in my opinion, always tell the true story. If the Soviet Union was so great why the Iron Curtain? If the US sucks so badly, why do we have to build a wall to keep people out? If Cuba is so great why is everyone trying to get off the island? If the mass of the people in South Vietnam really supported the Vietcong, why did they all try and escape after the Vietcong took over and why did the Vietnamese government have to create their own iron curtain after the war. Why was their massive emigration from Nicaragua during the Sandinista era, and massive immigration into Nicaragua after the loss power. If Iraq is so awful today ( and was better under Saddam Hussein) why did the country lose twenty five percent of its people during his reign and why have Iraqis continually been moving back to Iraq in large numbers ever since our occupation (and still continue to move back)?
