Speaking of no weak s...

[Andrew English]

Speaking of "the assorted dictators and thieves," I seem to recall that once upon a time good old Pat was fully in favor
of dumping American taxpayers' money on all those assorted dictators and thieves just as long as they had the correct anticommunist credentials, i.e. murdering and torturing the "subversive" trade unionists in their own countries.
Remember Marcos, Somoza, Duvalier, Mobutu, Pinochet, etc.

Old Pat must really miss those good old days of the cold war.

-Andy English

    -----Original Message-----

    From: Tom Lehman <uswa12 at Lorainccc.edu>

    To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>

    Date: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 3:00 PM

    Subject: Speaking of no weak s...

    

    

    Speaking of no weak s... 

    Today, Pat Buchanan released the following statement: 

    "Demonstrators and globalists agree that highly indebted poor nations 

    should be using their scarce tax revenues for sanitation, health, and 

    education, not to pay back 

    old loans to rich nations or international banks. 

    "But it is a time for truth. 'Debt forgiveness' is a fancy phrase for 

    shifting the total burden of defaulted debts off Third World regimes and 

    onto the backs of American 

    taxpayers. These loans are not being wiped off the books; they are being 

    added to the U.S. national debt. 

    "Before one dime in 'loan forgiveness' is granted to any Third World 

    government, the American people have a right to know who lost, who looted, 

    and who stole the 

    billions of dollars we are being asked to forgive. 

    "We need responsibility; we need a full accounting of how the generosity 

    of the American people was criminally abused -- by incompetent or corrupt 

    lending officers 

    at the IMF and World Bank, and by the assorted dictators and thieves who 

    stole or squandered the billions in aid intended for the peoples they 

    misruled. We have a 

    right to know the names of those who lost or stole the money, and to an 

    accounting of any and all efforts to recover the looted billions. 

    "If anyone should be forced to 'eat' these incredible losses of foreign 

    aid loans, it is not U.S. taxpayers who bear no fault, but international 

    bankers at the IMF, World 

    Bank, and other globalist institutions who deceived us when they said the 

    loans were good. 

    "If heads roll at the IMF and World Bank, and both institutions are docked 

    for the losses for which they are responsible, this would be simple 

    justice; and there will 

    be a far greater likelihood that future lending will be more responsible." 

      

      

      

      

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