by Donald Jeffries, ”I Protest”:
Donald Trump has finally done it. Earned the respect of The New York Times and other powerful organs of our state controlled media. CNN unquestioningly parrots the line that “the U.S. runs Venezuela.” So, let’s get this straight- we abducted the leader of another sovereign nation, bombed them, but it wasn’t an act of war. It was justified.
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Don’t suggest that this is something new. Sure, Trumpenstein’s bombastic theatrical personality makes it seem that way. But this goes back to at least 1953, when the CIA ousted Iran’s prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. True, they didn’t literally kidnap him and his wife, but the leader of another sovereign nation was removed from power. By our leaders, none of whom were Iranian. The next year, Jacobo Arbenz was forced to flee from his position as leader of Guatemala, with a little help from the CIA. In 1960, the CIA made possible pan-Africanist Congo prime minister Patrice Lumumba’s assassination. The Dominican Republic’s Rafael Trujillo was the next assassination victim of our government, in 1961. On November 1, 1963, the CIA engineered the murder of South Vietnam leader Ngo Diem, an act which outraged and deeply disturbed President John F. Kennedy, only three weeks before he met his fate in Dallas. Chile’s Salvador Allende fell to the CIA in 1973. Now, that’s a track record.
Of course, Americans found out during the 1975 Church Committee hearings in the Senate, that the CIA had comically tried to assassinate Cuba’s Fidel Castro repeatedly during the early 1960s. Acting like Control agents from the TV show Get Smart, they were stupendously unsuccessful. Well, nobody’s perfect. In 1989, George H.W. Bush’s military invaded Panama, for the purpose of overthrowing one time U.S. asset Manuel Noriega, wanted for racketeering and drug trafficking. Any Venezuelans reading this may notice a familiar theme. The Pentagon estimated that 516 Panamanians, including over 200 civilians, were killed during the ludicrously named Operation Just Cause. This was the start of all those Orwellian names our government continues to glorify its murders and occupations with. Noriega was shockingly convicted in one of our illustrious courts of justice, and would serve thirty years in prison. It pays to not to hang out with the wrong crowd. Like the U.S. government.
A few years earlier, in 1986, Ronald Reagan had launched air strikes on Libya, in order to kill that country’s leader Muammar Gaddafi. As I have noted, Gaddafi was known as Qaddafi, or sometimes Kaddafy, at the time. For unclear reasons, these spellings of his name have been flushed down the memory hole. At any rate, the air strikes failed to hit Gaddafi/Qaddafi, although they did kill forty other Libyans, including Qaddafi’s three year old daughter. Well, she was probably a budding terrorist anyhow. I mean, what else could Qaddafi’s daughter grow up to be? In 2011, “liberal” President Barack Obama finished what Reagan started, as Qaddafi was killed by U.S. forces. The lovely former antiwar activist Hillary Clinton, then Secretary of State, memorably declared, “We came. We saw. He died,” in a celebratory outburst. By this point, U.S. leaders were not only acknowledging assassinating others, but bragging about it. Obama would joke, “I’m really good at killing people.” Give the man his due- he certainly was.
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