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From: mjk@tty3b.UUCP (Mike Kelly)
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Subject: Re: Nicaragua, CIA
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Date: Thu, 20-Sep-84 15:26:58 EDT
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 >>Until the CIA put the country [Nicaragua]
 >>under pressure *for no reason at all*,
 >
 >This is just plain wrong.  Seems to me the reason was something about Nicaragua
 >and the El Salvador rebels they were supporting.  The CIA assistance will
 >supposedly stop as soon as Nicaragua stops supporting the El Salvador rebels.
 >
 >>everyone in the country
 >>supported the government. 
 >
 >This never was the case in any country, is not now, and probably never will be.
 >Besides, if everyone supported the government, there wouldn't have been any
 >rebels for the CIA to support.
 >
 >> but the whole situation was caused by the CIA.
 >
 >The CIA does to Nicaragua what Nicaragua was already doing to El Salvador in
 >order to coerce Nicaragua into stopping and the whole situation is the CIA's
 >fault?  Two wrongs don't make a right, but your logic is twisted.

There is no evidence that Nicaragua ever supplied anything other than small
arms to the guerillas (while the U.S. is sending hundreds of millions of
dollars a year to "our" friends, the government).  There have been absolutely
no arms shipments intercepted since 1981.   Please recognize a pretext for
what it is.  Ronald Reagan wants to overthrow the Nicaraguan government.
It is no longer acceptable (thank [Gg]od) to simply do that.  So he has to
invent a pretext (e.g. medical students are in danger, or some such B.S.).
The arms shipments is the pretext for a holding action on Nicaragua until
after the election.  Who wants to bet that one of Ronnies December surprises
will be either (a) a covert action against the Nicaraguan government resulting
in a coup and prolonged civil war, or (b) an out-and-out U.S. invasion of
Central America following some trumped-up pictures of Soviet bases or some
such.  I'll put money on it.  

As to support for the Nicaraguan revolution, I'll remind you of Andrew
Jackson's famous quote on the American revolution: "There was a third
'fer, a third agin' and a third waitin' to see the outcome."  Nevertheless,
Nicaragua's revolution had very broad support and the social chaos there
now is a textbook example of what destabilization can do to a country.

All Americans should be ashamed of what is done abroad in our names.  I
make a point of distinguishing between the American people and the American
government for that reason.  Most Americans would not do what the goons in
the CIA do in our name.

Mike Kelly