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Arsenal of Hypocrisy Dept: The Liberal Boutique has some rare, albeit conditional praise for the Bush Administration. Executive branch officials belatedly acknowledged yesterday that the Nicaraguan contras are guilty of human rights abuses, including torturing and raping civilians. Bush, however, still supports his favorite terrorist group...
...example, he said that only six of 2000 Washington journalists were assigned to the Watergate story in the first six months following the burglary. A similarly small number covered covert aid to the Nicaraguan contras before the congressional Irancontra hearings began...
...peasant militias fighting alongside regular combatants. "We have established political control over the area," says "Raul," the rebel commander, "and now we are moving toward military control as well." He and other guerrilla leaders have lately obtained AK-47 assault rifles. They say the guns were bought from the Nicaraguan contras; U.S. and Salvadoran authorities insist that the Sandinistas supplied them. "The fact that we have these weapons is an indication of our development," says Raul...
...spoke of working together have dissolved their fragile partnership and reverted to form. Democrats now speak openly of responding to Bush's budget proposals with a plan of their own. For its part, the White House hinted that it may soon ask Congress for renewed nonmilitary aid to the Nicaraguan contras, a red flag to Democrats who repeatedly fought over the contras with the Reagan Administration. Meanwhile, the public is left with an image of the Senate as a cockpit of partisan squabbling, the White House as a center of questionable decision making, and the city of Washington as Sodom...
...formulating a policy for the region, President Bush would do well to keep in mind the Cuban and Nicaraguan precedents. These are not examples of the American failure to contain Communism. These are examples of the American failure to contain its own tendencies to manage and mismanage El Salvador, Central America and the rest of the hemisphere...