McCain urged Reagan to meet African terrorists estimated to have killed 100,000 civilians - without pre-conditions!

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In 1987, John McCain cast several votes in an attempt to force the Reagan administration to meet with RENAMO1, a guerrilla organization in Mozambique that State Department officials at the time described as a "terrorist group," without requiring that the group meet any preconditions.

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RENAMO's tactics combined those of the most brutal terrorist groups and regimes in recent history. While ostensibly opposing the FRELIMO government, their attacks focused mostly on civilians. During the 1980s, their actions ranged from attacks on buses3, trains4 and cars5 to kidnapping American and other foreign missionaries6. They "killed bedridden hospital patients and chanted political slogans while killing children" in July of 1987 in what was later found to be a typical attack on a village; an American aid worker witnessed these attacks and they were thus widely reported.

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The U.S. Council for World Freedom funded RENAMO (and other anti-communist organizations) directly between 1984 and 1986 while John McCain was on their advisory board. Though he claims to have left the organization in 1984, news articles from October of 1985 show that he attended a U.S. Council on World Freedom event honoring Wali Khan, an Islamic militant from Afghanistan, for his efforts in opposing the Soviet occupation.9 Moreover, two former council members do not recall him having ever resigned from the group. It is unclear whether or not McCain ever donated money to RENAMO via the U.S. Council for World Freedom, though he is on record as having donated to the Contras.

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In April of 1988, the State Department released a report which "conservatively estimated that 100,000 civilians may have been murdered by RENAMO." At a United Nations event later that month, Roy A. Stacy, deputy assistant secretary of state for African affairs, described RENAMO as guilty of "one of the most brutal holocausts against ordinary human beings since World War II."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jacob-alperi...n_b_135431.html

[Peikko 1,575]

Who cares? African lives aren't worth ####, they don't own anything worth having.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

These terrorists are bad? I'm confused.

Hamas = good

Hezbollah = good

Bill Ayers = good

Tim McVeigh = bad

Abortion clinic bombers = bad

I thought they were all bad?

[Peikko 1,575]

Ah, true to form Lucky is making 3 out of 2+2

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

Ah, true to form Lucky is making 3 out of 2+2

It would be a boring world if we all agreed.

[Peikko 1,575]

No doubt about it. I get a good laugh from all the conspiracies and belief attribution that goes on.

[metta 0]

Ah, true to form Lucky is making 3 out of 2+2

And, why does Madam remind me of Madonna ?

You passion against McCain seems to swell like the Solway, ever since Sweet Sarah appeared on stage

I am reminded of this from Time article:

Women are weapons-grade haters. Hillary Clinton knows it. Palin knows it too. When women get their hate on, they don't just dislike, or find disfavor with, or sort of not really appreciate. They loathe — deeply, richly, sustainingly. I do not say this to disparage my gender; women also love in more or less the same way.

Edited October 24, 2008 by metta

[Peikko 1,575]

Good one Metta, but I don't hate McCain or Palin. I have no problem with people supporting whomsover. I don't have to 'like' them though. I guess you have now bought into the 'tollerance' bull #######, that not supporting means you don't tollerate? Perhaps you are also buying into the 'read what you want to read rather than what is written' stuff too?

Women are grade A haters. :rof:

I have no idea why I remind you of Madonna either, but hey, that's up to you.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

These terrorists are bad? I'm confused.

Hamas = good

Hezbollah = good

Bill Ayers = good

Tim McVeigh = bad

Abortion clinic bombers = bad

I thought they were all bad?

You didn't pay attention to Alaska Barbie.

Bill Ayers is bad while abortion clinic bombers are good.

Got that?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

These terrorists are bad? I'm confused.

Hamas = good

Hezbollah = good

Bill Ayers = good

Tim McVeigh = bad

Abortion clinic bombers = bad

I thought they were all bad?

You didn't pay attention to Alaska Barbie.

Bill Ayers is bad while abortion clinic bombers are good.

Got that?

And Barbie is ready with her moose gun to blast Putin when he rears his head outside her window.

[spookyturtle 9,466]

Another lame thread. Give up.

[IAMX 3,055]

These terrorists are bad? I'm confused.

Hamas = good

Hezbollah = good

Bill Ayers = good

Tim McVeigh = bad

Abortion clinic bombers = bad

I thought they were all bad?

You didn't pay attention to Alaska Barbie.

Bill Ayers is bad while abortion clinic bombers are good.

Got that?

And Barbie is ready with her moose gun to blast Putin when he rears his head outside her window.

Maybe she mistook him for a moose. Could be the moose revenge.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Another lame thread. Give up.

Its a bit late in the game to stop these now don't you think?

[spookyturtle 9,466]

Another lame thread. Give up.

Its a bit late in the game to stop these now don't you think?

No, these threads are still assine.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Another lame thread. Give up.

Its a bit late in the game to stop these now don't you think?

No, these threads are still assine.

I mean there have been threads like this since the beginning of the the year. Complaining about it now is like the boy who put his finger in the dike (no pun intended)