It is utterly fascinating that a Senator from Iowa could be elected that has voted to give taxpayer money to communist Cuba, Vietnam, Cambodia. In a compromise Harkin is opposed to all federal aid now. I guess if he couldn’t help communist states he couldn’t help anyone, besides securing pork for Iowa is a full time job. In the 80s Harkin met with Marxist Sandinista Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua. Daniel Ortega is the current president of Nicaragua and ally with Hugo Chavez and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
A few days after this lovely photo-op, Daniel Ortega hopped on a plane to Soviet Moscow. The idea that Marxism died with the fall of the Berlin Wall is naïve and dangerous, especially when crazy people like Hugo Chavez are embraced by the American Left. Typically the atrocities and bad policies by these Marxists are overlooked by the sympathetic lefties, because it’s the United States who is truly at fault. Conservatives just don’t understand the complexities of globalization and exploitation. See, according to Marxism, the United States’ prosperity is not due to our ingenuity or excellence, but because we’ve exploited some other country. Nicaragua is not a product of their bad socialist policies, but because the United States is mean and Dick Cheney is Vice President. It’s all quite simple.
have you ever read one book on u.s. foreign policy in latin america?
Freaking out about the threat that countries like Cuba Cambodia and Vietnam pose to the US = Not emotional
President Ahmadinejad’s views are summarized on this website: ahmadinejadquotes.blogspot.com
Hey, does that old photo of Rummy shaking Saddam’s hand make him a lover of blood thirsty dictators?
A formula:
A= Alignment (variable that is defined ONLY at that time, May be +/-)
P=Petroleum Reserves
B=Blood Thirstiness
M=Military Action Possibilities)
I=Industrial Action Possibility
J=Middle East Multiplier (Anything in the Middle East gets an automatic multiplier because it is always a hotbed of something or other)
(B -/+ A + P) x (M x I x J)= Whether or not a politician is aligned with the person whose hand they were pictured shaking in a photo.
Rummy Photo
10(wars) + 7.5(Well, he DID invade Iran)+ 9) x (8 (it was still a few years) x 10(No bid contracts) X 10)= 21200
Harkin Photo
(8(Well, he didn’t invade Iran)) – 8 (Weren’t the Nicaraguans the surly ones in Red Dawn, chuckling at the Soviets with their Cuban buddies?) + 1)x (8.5 (Something about an invasion up the I-35) x 5(We could build casinos?) x 1)= 42.5
Wow the difference is really startling. That Tom Harkin…
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