[Peace-discuss] Bush allies with Communists

[Ricky Baldwin]

Excellent point, and I'm sorry I missed the talks.

I also seem to recall an earlier "anti-Communist"
administration allying itself with the Communist party
in Nicaragua to defeat the Sandinistas, yes?

Ricky
--- "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at alexia.lis.uiuc.edu>
wrote:
> [In some recent talks at Channing-Murray I pointed
> out that the 50-year US
> crusade against Communism arose not from the the
> ideological reasons
> offered to generations of Americans but because
> self-styled Communist
> states might refuse "to complement the industrial
> economies of the West,"
> in the words of a Eisenhower-era government
> analysis. That threat being
> over, the US finds it expedient to promote Communist
> parties in pursuit of
> its goals, which haven't changed since Eisenhower's
> time, since they
> represent continuing interests. The following is
> from yesterday's NY
> Times.  --CGE]
> 
> 	May 9, 2004
> 	THE TRANSITION
> 	U.S. Presses U.N. on Role in Iraq for Politicians
> 	By STEVEN R. WEISMAN
> 
> ASHINGTON, May 8 -- The Bush administration is
> pressing the United
> Nations envoy to change his proposal for a
> transitional Iraqi government
> once self-rule is returned on June 30, Iraqi and
> administration officials
> say.
> 
> Instead of a government that is nonpolitical, the
> administration is
> pushing for one that gives prominent roles to people
> with ties to
> political parties, the officials say.
> 
> ...[12 paragraphs later]
> 
> Iraqi officials who have been in close contact with
> Washington say the
> parties that will have to be represented in the
> caretaker government
> include the Supreme Council for the Islamic
> Revolution in Iraq, which has
> close ties to Iran, and Dawa, another influential
> Shiite group. The
> Communist Party is also likely to be represented,
> they said.
> 
> ...
> 
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