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From: jack@vu44.UUCP (Jack Jansen)
Newsgroups: net.flame,net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: RE: Reagan's joke
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Date: Fri, 21-Sep-84 01:11:40 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 21 01:11:40 1984
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Wayne@ucbvax:
> Do you think they enjoy the Communist terrorist groups, in El
> Salvador, and the government of Nicaragua? 

First: I would really like it if you used a more unbiased term than
'communist terrorist groups'. Why do americans always talk about
the Freedom Fighters in Afghanistan and the Communist Terrorists
in countries that are supported by the US?
This is exactly the style of propagandistic talk that you always
condemn if it comes form the USSR......

Second: If I see that the freedom fighters in El Salvador have been
firmly supported by the church, and still are, even though you don't
see it very much, since the government shot all the bishops and
priests who opposed them, I can't believe that they are 'communist
terrorists'. The reason that they accept help from communist countries
is very simple: who else should they turn to?

Third: Even though the situation in El Salvador might be very unclear,
things in Nicaragua are very clear. Until the CIA put the country
under pressure *for no reason at all*, everyone in the country
supported the government. Now that the US is supplying the rebels
with weapons etc, the Nicaraguan government has to take some
impopular measures to withstand the threat. I *do* agree that some
errors were made, but the whole situation was caused by the CIA.
 If they hadn't interfered, the Mesquitos would still be living
in there homes, and besides that, the economy and the eduction
program would be in much better state by now.

	Jack Jansen, {philabs|decvax}!mcvax!vu44!jack