Posted on 05/10/2007 5:54:58 PM PDT by Kitten Festival
BOGOTA, Colombia – A roadside bomb planted by leftist rebels killed 10 soldiers as they patrolled in southwestern Colombia on Thursday, the deadliest attack on security forces this year, authorities said. A similar attack killed nine police officers a day earlier. The new attack, which also injured 13 soldiers, occurred shortly after midnight Thursday morning, said the commander of the army's 3rd Division, Gen. Hernando Perez Molina, who blamed Colombia's largest rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.
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Bore? Gore?
Yeah. Just can’t stand the jerk.
Nobody can, but what did he say about Uribe?
Naaahhhhh ,,, it's not a world war ... just a bunch of freaks acting out their frustrations without the input of ideas. They thunk it up all on their own.
About a week ago, he refused to share a podium with President Uribe in Miami. He said his moral conscience would not allow him to share a stage with such an evil awful murderer and he was just too pure to do it. In other words, Bore said Uribe would give him cooties. After that, Nancy Pelosi said she wouldn’t stand in a room with him, and word got out and she then backed down but she was still nasty to him.
Is this any way to treat a faithful and courageous ally? President Uribe didn’t say so openly but Bob Novak reported that he was in shock. Uribe is a profoundly decent man and all of the charges about him being a human rights violator are pure unadulterated leftist baloney; in fact, they are more than that, they are extreme slander. But that’s how Bore and his familiars treat an ally - with a slap in the face.
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They’re dead. The filthy stinking Marxist farc wanted them dead. It’s called war and they are our enemies.
FARC and the Narcoterrorists have been using IEDs longer than Iraqi terrorists.
Saw a presentation at a conference by a Navy IED guy that’s worked with the Colombian military, says they’re usually more technically sophisticated than Iraqi ones too - they have a lot of money to spend on them.
Ok. I found this:
http://biz.yahoo.com/ibd/070502/issues01.html?.v=1
Al Gore, Ugly American
Wednesday May 2, 7:00 pm ET
“Gore justified his lack of class by making wild accusations that Uribe has ties to Colombia’s paramilitary guerrillas and is thus a human rights violator.
Gore’s hypocrisy in this was obvious enough, since he attended a conference at the 2006 Clinton Global Initiative in New York with Bolivia’s anti-American president, Evo Morales, whose violent actions and human rights violations are no secret.”
Well, basically the problem in Colombia is you have FARC and another leftist rebel group whose name escapes me, both of which have largely lost their ideology and are basically organized crime groups who are beyond vicious and supremely evil. Then you have the government. And then you have various right-wing militia groups, who are not boy scouts, and will from time to time kill innocent people, torture the leftist guerillas, and otherwise get out of control.
Problem is people trying to see black and white (and getting who is black and who is right reversed to boot, like Gore) when there’s black and medium-gray. The government does indeed have links to the right-wing militias to some degree, but the key thing is they’re not nearly as bad as FARC, and the key to things getting better there (as they have been) is annihilating FARC.
If you read Rick Kaplan’s book “Imperial Grunts” there’s a long chapter about US Army Special Forces in Colombia explaining the whole thing. Those guys considered parts of Southern Colombia more dangerous than Afghanistan or Iraq.
Wonder how long before IEDs hit American highways.
The FARC in Columbia have been using IEDs for years. It’s been under the radar because they usually kill their own and not Americans.
“If you read Rick Kaplan’s book “Imperial Grunts” there’s a long chapter about US Army Special Forces in Colombia explaining the whole thing.”
Appreciate the book recommendation. Thank you.
The other rebel group is the ELN, the National Liberation Army. The two groups really haven’t lost their ideology...they still believe in Marxism, which is why their more dangerous than ODDs. (Ordinary Descent Dopers). They’ve turned to drugs to fund their war efforts because the Soviet Union has gone bye-bye. Though FARC was involved in drug smuggling since the ‘80s.
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