[B5JMS] And So It Begins...

[b5jms at cs.columbia.edu]

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From: John Bayko <jbayko at sk.sympatico.ca>
Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 20:29:17 -0600
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On Sun, 30 Mar 2003 0:39:05 -0600, CaptJosh wrote
(in message <b663dh$2142v$1 at ID-107133.news.dfncis.de>):

> And the USA does not now, nor will it
> ever, negotiate with terrorists.

    Unless they're Cuban terrorists, of course, they're welcomed with open 
arms...
    Or the Taliban, but that took a bit too long...
    Manuel Noriega? On the payroll until he started disobeying orders...
    "Arms for Hostages" with Iran? Remember that?
    For that matter, the "Contras" in Nicragua?
    The Mujahadeen in Afghanistan (including those involved with that Bin 
Laden character)?
    There are dozens who are known about publically. There was even a 
proposal to become terrorists against their own country - look up Operation 
Northwood (include Cuba in the search).
    Think that's all? That there aren't any that haven't been uncovered yet?

    The U.S has negotiated with, funded, trained, and acted as terrorists.

    That's okay, most countries do that. It's simply naive to believe 
otherwise.



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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 27 May 2003 06:04:23 GMT
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>> And the USA does not now, nor will it
>> ever, negotiate with terrorists.
>
>    Unless they're Cuban terrorists, of course, they're welcomed with open 
>arms...
>    Or the Taliban, but that took a bit too long...

And look at the contradiction in saying "oh, we went in to liberate Iraq from a
despotic ruler," and we now turn around and, as per --

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=
A50216-2001Sep30&notFound=true

-- we're making sweetheart deals with Uzbekistan, *another* despotic ruler. 
Not to mention that we've made deals with groups in Afghanistan and Iraq to
come in and help us run the place that have in the past been on our own
terrorist lists.  The hypocrisy never seems to end.

 jms

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