Hakki Alacakaptan wrote:
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> Have Sharon and Dubya made a private wager as to who can appoint the largest
> number of dirty warriors to key diplomatic and human rights posts? If so,
> Dubya has the lead with ex-Contra terror chief Negroponte at the UN, Contra
> conspirator Elliott Abrams at the NSC Office for Democracy and Human Rights,
> and the top nominee for assistant secretary of state for inter-American
> affairs, Otto reich, whose career is studded with capers like setting up an
> "interrogation" unit at Grenada and sponsoring Cuban émigré terrorists in
> Venezuela.
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Hakki, here you see the true viciousness of "conspiracy theorizing" -- and the viciousness would remain _even_ if the particular conspiracy theory were true. I almost missed this interesting observation because I had stopped reading your posts. Just as I have stopped reading the posts of Jared Israel over on the marxism list. Claiming conspiracy is a really powerful way to gag oneself (or what amounts to the same thing, to shut the ears of one's potential listerners). Let me put it this way, if I were in possession of proof positive of the claims you have been making, I would suppress that evidence on the grounds that revealing it would spread confusion among leftist forces. This is overstating it just a bit, but only a bit. Conspiracy theories belong to the extreme right, no matter the politics of those who propound them and no matter the nature of the evidence for them.
Carrol