Howard Phillips Says Bush Admistration Partially to Blame for Savimbi's Assasination by Communists

Newsmax.com ^ | February 26, 2002 | Brad Phillips and Howard Phillips

[rightwing2]

This letter proves that once again Howard Phillips can almost always be trusted to do and say the right thing. Although, I continue to disagree with his efforts to get conservatives to desert and abandon the Republican Party en masse and join the third party conservatives and though I disagreed with him strongly regarding his recent unfounded criticism of conservative hero Pat Buchanan, Phillips is right on target in his criticism of the Bush Administration's continued pursuit of yet another of Clinton's pro-Communist appeasement policies. The assasination of the Christian leader of the world's last group of anti-Communist freedom fighters was a great coup for the global Communist cause which continues to advance with the newly formalized Sino-Russian alliance which while not overtly Communist in nature, is in fact dedicated to totalitarian global control.

It is time that we as a country realize that we are fighting a New Cold War against the Sino-Russian axis of countries which encompasses the Russian and ChiCom affiliated rogue states. By virtue of the fact that the Bush Administration is providing hundreds of millions of dollars of US economic aid to the murderous regimes of states like Communist Angola and North Korea and forming strategic partnerships with Russia and China at the same time we are unilaterally disarming ourselves of our vital strategic nuclear deterrent, the West is increasingly losing this war.

[rightwing2]

As soon as anyone finds an article on the outcome of Bush's meeting with Dos Santos, please post it here. Thanks.

[rightwing2]

BUMP!

[gfactor]

In Moxico, where Savimbi was murdered, the government has employed exfoliants and chemical and biological agents to destroy the food supply and "depopulate" the area, resulting in the displacement and death of some 150,000 people. Savimbi's murder was in coordination with government attempts to stop Angolans from fleeing into Zambia.

will someone tell these commies that its only ok to use exfoliants on official enemies.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Howard Phillips is to blame for Savimbi's death, if we are to use his logic. He advocates leaving the GOP for third parties. It was the third party movement and Ross Perot that gave us Clinton in 1992. These thugs gained and solidified their power during the Clinton regime.

[jgrubbs]

This Web page has Jonas Malheiro Savimbi listed as a "Dictator" http://www.giles.34sp.com/m-z.htm

[jgrubbs]

Here is what the The Associated Press says about Jonas Malheiro Savimbi. Is this media bias??

LISBON, Portugal (AP) – Jonas Malheiro Savimbi, Angola's charismatic rebel leader who was backed by the United States as a Cold War ally but later became a pariah when he refused to end his country's devastating civil war, died Friday. He was 67.

Savimbi, an astute fighter who led Angola's UNITA guerrillas, was killed in a battle with the army after having evaded government troops for more than three decades, the Angolan government said.

Savimbi devoted his life to the struggle for power in oil- and diamond-rich Angola _ first against its colonial ruler, Portugal, then against the government. His long battle crippled the southwest African nation's economy and caused an acute humanitarian crisis.

Savimbi, a university-educated guerrilla fighter who spoke three African and four European languages, walked away from three peace accords in the 1990s and was renowned for his ruthless control over UNITA.

His popularity with some sections of Angolan society and with foreign governments crumbled after he lost at the ballot box in the country's first-ever elections in 1992 and returned to war.

Savimbi founded UNITA in 1966.

He became the proxy of the United States and South Africa in the Cold War battle against the then-Marxist government. In 1986, the rebel leader was received at the White House like a head of state, meeting then-President Ronald Reagan in the Oval Office.

But after the breakup of the Soviet Union, Angola's government dropped its Marxist policies and moved closer to the United States.

Human rights groups accused his men of widespread abuses against civilians, including summary executions, rapes and beatings.

[Sawdring]

Minneapolis Star-Tribune

Gunned down by government troops on Friday, he will be remembered more for his stubborn, desperate quest for power than for his early promise. Back in the 1960s, Savimbi was a bright, charismatic young medical student who completed training in Switzerland, France and China. He studied military strategy under Mao Zedong, then returned to Angola to help free his homeland from Portugal. ...

[jgrubbs]

From what I can tell with a little online research, José Eduardo dos Santos was the Communist Leader in the country from 20 Sep 1979 - 26 Mar 1991, then they decided to have the elections, and so he ran as the candidate for the Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola Partido de Trabalho (Popular Liberation Movement of Angola/Labour Party).

Isn't the Labour Party still the Communist Party??

This is the first I have really learned about Savimbi and Santos

Where have I been?

[jgrubbs]

I found this intresting study at http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/1984/BRR.htm

After nearly 400 years of Portuguese rule, Angola finally became independent in November 1975. This independence was the culmination of nearly 14 years of civil war in which three insurgencies vied for control of Angola: the Movimento Popular de Libertacao de Angola (MPLA), the Frente Nacional de Libertacao de Angola (FNLA), and the Unizo Nacional para Independencia Total de Angola (UNITA). With the help of nearly 15,000 Cuban troops and massive aid from the Soviet Union, the Marxist MPLA defeated FNLA and UNITA in the Angolian civil war of 1975-76 and established a communist government in Angola. Despite the communist victory, fighting has not ended in Angola. Although FNLA has ceased to be a viable insurgency, UNITA has staged a remarkable recovery since the civil war. UNITA now controls at least one third of Angola and is conducting successful operations in another third of the country.

[duck soup]

Apparently, intelligence agencies allied to the United States, like those of India (a new "strategic partner" of the United States in the "War on Terrorism" and the "War to Protect Regional U.S. Oil and Natural Gas Interests"), have decided to take a cue from President Bush's "shoot to kill" order against activists and independence leaders.

On February 11, a senior separatist leader of the Tripura (northeast India) independence movement was shot and killed by Indian security forces. The assassinated leader was Benjamin Hrangkhawl, a senior leader of the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT), a Christian-dominated separatist group. Hrangkhawl had arrived in Tripura from neighboring Bangladesh.

Red Flag Flying on the Roof of the World (Maoists and China)

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I would have to challenge the author on his sidebar statements. The NLFT are a terrorist organization made up of Baptists supported by Maoists who have killed Catholic priests. I believe the assassinations are a direct result of U.S. policies that have a soft approach towards China.

Bush has tried to toughen his statements against China in public, but behind close doors I would like to believe that he has taken a tougher stance towards China. This is more about China-U.S. relations. The Maoists are responsible.

[duck soup]

He studied military strategy under Mao Zedong, then returned to Angola to help free his homeland from Portugal. ...

Follow the Maoists and you find China.

[BibChr]

Really? Did Howard Phillips do something recently to become relevant?

Dan

[Texas_Jarhead]

What a bunch of hogwash!

After the commies took over in Angola we (the military) were forbidden from using government issued credit cards to by fuel at any Chevron station as Chevron was big in Angola. Imagine that. The government secretly 'offs' anti-communist leaders so that Ammerican oil companies can make money but then denie the use of government funds to purchase fuel from a big bad oil company that deals in Angolan oil.

[CWRWinger]

RE: Post #10

Throught the '80's, Soldier of Fortune ran favorable articles on Savimbi. I don't fully understand why the West and the USA abandoned his cause. He seemed like the right guy to back.

[Paul Ross]

Uh, we don't know that. Much as I detest Perot, and always have, we can't properly lay the clintigula guilt upon him. A review of the numbers from the '92 race shows that what really happened was that Perot drew more or less equally from both parties. It was concluded that in fact, no change in outcome would have occurred had Perot not run. What had happened was that the US patriotism had evaporated by November, with purely personal, i.e., 'divisive' issues coming to the fore... and who was the MASTER of dividing and conquering? Bubba. But it was George's election to lose, and he did. x41 had conveyed a disinterest in staying in the job so much so that average joe felt it. Not to mention that the unwarranted and totally unecessary tax increase pledge violation was the end of the story for him. And he still doesn't get it.

[jgrubbs]

Yeah, the more I read about this, the more I see that Savimbi was trying to fight Communism, and now Bush is meeting with the Communist who had Savimbi killed.

[duck soup]

Azanian Peoples Organization (AZAPO)

Azanian Maoists.

There are other groups and China has the U.S. in catch 22 situation.

[CWRWinger]

Another shocking switch was SOF stopped printing articles on Savimbi and started featuring Executive Outcome South Africans fighting Savimbi and flying Angolan (Russian) helos. We live in a world of broken alliances and misplaced support.