<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 http-equiv=Content-Type><!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <META content='"MSHTML 4.72.3110.7"' name=GENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Speaking of "the assorted dictators and thieves," I seem to recall that once upon a time good old Pat was fully in favor</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>of dumping American taxpayers' money on all those assorted dictators and thieves just as long as they had the correct </FONT><FONT color=#000000 size=2>anticommunist credentials, i.e. </FONT><FONT size=2>murdering and torturing the "subversive" trade unionists in their own countries.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Remember Marcos, Somoza, Duvalier, Mobutu, Pinochet, etc.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Old Pat must really miss those good old days of the cold war.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>-Andy English</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 solid 2px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><B>-----Original Message-----</B><BR><B>From: </B>Tom Lehman <<A href="mailto:uswa12@Lorainccc.edu">uswa12@Lorainccc.edu</A>><BR><B>To: </B><A href="mailto:lbo-talk@lists.panix.com">lbo-talk@lists.panix.com</A> <<A href="mailto:lbo-talk@lists.panix.com">lbo-talk@lists.panix.com</A>><BR><B>Date: </B>Tuesday, April 11, 2000 3:00 PM<BR><B>Subject: </B>Speaking of no weak s...<BR><BR></DIV></FONT><B>Speaking of no weak s...</B><B></B> <P>Today, Pat Buchanan released the following statement: <P>"Demonstrators and globalists agree that highly indebted poor nations <BR>should be using their scarce tax revenues for sanitation, health, and <BR>education, not to pay back <BR>old loans to rich nations or international banks. <P>"But it is a time for truth. 'Debt forgiveness' is a fancy phrase for <BR>shifting the total burden of defaulted debts off Third World regimes and <BR>onto the backs of American <BR>taxpayers. These loans are not being wiped off the books; they are being <BR>added to the U.S. national debt. <P>"Before one dime in 'loan forgiveness' is granted to any Third World <BR>government, the American people have a right to know who lost, who looted, <BR>and who stole the <BR>billions of dollars we are being asked to forgive. <P>"We need responsibility; we need a full accounting of how the generosity <BR>of the American people was criminally abused -- by incompetent or corrupt <BR>lending officers <BR>at the IMF and World Bank, and by the assorted dictators and thieves who <BR>stole or squandered the billions in aid intended for the peoples they <BR>misruled. We have a <BR>right to know the names of those who lost or stole the money, and to an <BR>accounting of any and all efforts to recover the looted billions. <P>"If anyone should be forced to 'eat' these incredible losses of foreign <BR>aid loans, it is not U.S. taxpayers who bear no fault, but international <BR>bankers at the IMF, World <BR>Bank, and other globalist institutions who deceived us when they said the <BR>loans were good. <P>"If heads roll at the IMF and World Bank, and both institutions are docked <BR>for the losses for which they are responsible, this would be simple <BR>justice; and there will <BR>be a far greater likelihood that future lending will be more responsible." <BR>  <BR>  <BR>  <BR>  </P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>