Reuters reported, "Moqtada al-Sadr for a big anti-American stated to his followers, "In order to end the occupation, you will go out and demonstrate," who blames the U.S.-led invasion for Iraq's unrelenting violence,"
During the I. Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby trial the foundation of that case was the outing of Valerie Plame as an undercover CIA agent. It was done by the powers that be who many believe to be Vice President Cheney and Karl Rove. We were angered that an agent who is charged with our well being and safety as a country in a vengeful act could be outed. It was done so as an act of revenge since her husband Joe Wilson stated that Iraq was not looking to purchase yellow cake (weapons grade uranium) from Niger. That allegation we know that allegation turned out to be false. I do believe that anyone who outs a CIA agent is guilty of treason; don’t you?
As angry as we were of that outing, the CIA does not and has never had a stellar reputation. In fact a word that I would use to describe it nefarious and that is how I will tie in both what has now happened in Iraq to another event in our history in which the CIA was responsible for a blow-back. Blow-back often refers to when an action by our government or any government has a negative result or one that they did not envision.
I want to take you back in time when the CIA took someone else out who they saw as a threat to our security as a nation. Although the man that I am about to write of was not a brutal dictator as Saddam Hussein was. He was however thought to be a revolutionary and his name was Ernesto Guevara also known as ‘Che’ in this biography, you will read, “The working class and poor farmers were routinely bullied, tortured and even murdered by regimes backed by the CIA and US. big business.” You will also read, “Che’s growing dislike for the mistreatment of the people led him to join the people’s resistance movement in Guatemala and support Arbenz. Che recounts in his own words the mercenaries’ treatment of the workers,” I believe his beliefs were the very essence of what made him a threat to us.
Unlike Saddam who we thought of as a brutal dictator and in reality was, "Che was a passionate advocate for agrarian reforms that gave land to the poor farmers that worked on the land. Che also fought for literacy campaigns and human rights." As one reads his biography his ideas of land reform and his ties to Fidel Castro did concern the United States. Che was a socialist or as some will say a Marxist that believed that factories “should serve social interests rather then being driven by profit motive.” He also believed that hospitals should be built to care for the poor and schools built to educate these children.
At times, I wonder and so should you exactly what is wrong with moral goals such as that. One does not have to be a socialist or Marxist to want what is best for those who have often been left behind not only in this country, but the world. It is called human decency and caring for one another.
I do find his biography to be fascinating, but what I have known for many years and have even written of in the past for another web site is that on Oct 9th 1967 his execution was ordered and it has been reported by several news sources to be done at the hands of the CIA. In his biography you will read, “A CIA agent requested that Bolivian doctors cut off Che’s head and hands so he could later verify Che’s identity. The Bolivians, scared of public opinion refused to cut off Che’s head but did cut off his hands at the wrists and made a mold of his face. Che’s body was then secretly thrown in a ditch and buried.” As we all know Saddam’s execution was botched when someone was allowed to record the complete execution using a cell phone and Saddam was seen being taunted before he fell through the trap doors.
In a past piece in which I did write of his hanging, I did see the complete execution of Saddam, but one has to ask; how did that affect the Iraqi people. I want to warn you, if you have not seen Saddam’s complete hanging; do so with caution. If you do so, then maybe you will have a better understanding of the Iraqi people and their outrage.
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