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Originally Posted by [)arkNova
Now that we don't hate America anymore. Let me say that I love this country. The land of the free. A country that will spill blood for itself and other countries to acquire freedom. It is an idea that we all are created equal and all deserve a pursuit of happiness.Many people will disagree with the way we achieve this but we are doing the best we know how. For example,my wife was born and lived in Nicaragua. when she was young,her father was a powerful military commander in a democracy. Then the communist Sandinestas took over and put him in prison for his stand of democracy. My wife had to flee here to save her life because they were killing all relatives to any govt officials.Reagan,through his compashion and strength,helped Nicaragua become a democracy again by helping the freedom fighters win their cause. My wife and all her family love this great nation for the help we gave. Now her father is free from his prison cell and torture. God bless the USA. God bless freedom.
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What tosh - and more tosh - and then more tosh again you write.
That version of history is straight out of nothing more than a cheap piece of Fox News propaganda, that you have taken to heart and reprinted here as though it had any validity at all in reality.
I guess sometimes you read something and just aren't sure that it is true. Well, if the article at
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,144636,00.html makes you think of anything but unadulterated bullshit, you apparently haven't a clue about the combined history of Nicaragua and the US.
The intro to this particular story says:
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When Nicaraguan citizens defeated communist comandantes at the ballot box in February 1990, it was the dawn of democracy in a country that had rarely known it and the triumph of elected civilian rule in a region long plagued by dictators.
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Now, even if you didn't know much about Nicaragua and were sure the (
democratically elected in 1984) Sandinestas were totalitarian godless commies and you had never heard of a Contra and were generally just a grossly uneducated dolt, you would surely know that for over 50 years in the 20th century the dictators that plagued Nicaragua were installed and supported by the U.S. government. How would you know that? Because for the longest time the U.S. government openly
bragged about it.
You can try these for a real history lesson too:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22...hl=en&safe=off
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=%22...hl=en&safe=off
Don't just read the first few links. Try a few out for size. And then come back and tell me again how impressed you are with the US' struggle for freedom and democracy in Nicaragua - and in Central America at large. Not only did your government create a rebel army and an opposition made up of former members of the corrupt and internationally condemned Somoza regime, they deposed and worked to discredit the only democratically elected government that small oppressed nation had had in the last 43 years. Now all the gains made in health, public education, crime fighting and in stamping out corruption due to that election have been eroded - and the economy and the political system are probably just about as corrupt as they had ever been thoughout the worst years of the US/Somoza dynasty.
Is this your best example of what you mean about promoting the cause of freedom and democracy in the world? Because if it is, it's a very piss poor one.
You clearly have
much to learn about the history of your own country.
GJ