Obama And FARC

IBD ^ | March 7, 2008 | Editor

[yoe]

Terrorism: The March 1 death strike by the Colombian army against FARC warlord Raul Reyes broke open a trove of contacts in his computer. So why did the name of Barack Obama turn up there?

Admittedly, it pales compared with other material from the dead thug's computer — such as FARC efforts to obtain uranium or Hugo Chavez's $300 million support.

But the little Obama reference within the 15 FARC letters released by the Colombian government signals a disturbing pattern of contacts with rogue actors. It's not the first time, and Obama has yet to distance himself.

In a Feb. 28 letter, FARC chieftain Raul Reyes cheerily reported to his inner circle that he met "two gringos" who assured him "the new president of their country will be Obama and that they are interested in your compatriots. Obama will not support 'Plan Colombia' nor will he sign the TLC (Free Trade Agreement)."

Aside from some interesting possibilities about who these "gringos" are — a congressional delegation did visit Ecuador and an international leftist "congress" was held in Quito around this time — the real question is why anyone secretly consorting with FARC would be able to speak for presidential candidate Obama.

Obama hasn't said a whole lot about Colombia other than to criticize President Bush's good relations with President Uribe. With this correspondence suggesting that FARC knows what he thinks, maybe the American voters have a right to know what he thinks, too. Five questions come to mind:

1. Is it true Obama would cut off Plan Colombia military aid to our ally, which would serve the terrorist group FARC's interests?

[yoe]

The Clintons are in bed with the Dubai entrepreneurs and others around the world, law suites pending for her, both are crooks and here we have Obama with more shady characters appearing. If this country is to survive as the capitalist envy of the world, we are all going to have to vote for McCain – not doing so will bring on the two or one of the two most Marxist Senators ever to run for president…..all you need to do is look around you at the liberal wreckage of political correctness, traitors in our government, pulling for the enemy from most of the Democrats, an education system that is going down the tubes with multiculturalism etc., beloved by the ACLU, Code Pink etc., we will be an Islamic nation in four years under either Senator or both, Iran will be tossed to the wolves on her borders…….the only choice is to vote Republican in 2008.

[wgflyer]

“...all you need to do is look around you at the liberal wreckage of political correctness, traitors in our government, pulling for the enemy from most of the Democrats, an education system that is going down the tubes with multiculturalism etc., beloved by the ACLU, Code Pink etc., ...”

And you feel McCain, who has joined these people so often on the other side of the aisle against any form of conservatism, will make a difference?

Personally, McCain won’t get my vote until, in the event that he actually is elected, and after 4 years of performing like a real conservative (LOL), he has actually made this mess better, he runs again. Likely, McCain will be ineffectual at best. He’ll be as bad or worse than Bush.

[piasa]

Bumping this since Biden appears to like FARC , too.