[Peace-discuss] Honduran Military: "We Won't Take Orders from a Leftist"

[C. G. Estabrook]

Alex Cockburn writes, it seems to me correctly, that

"The US government has admitted that officials had been in touch with the
conspirators in the run-up to the coup, and also makes the preposterous claim
that it was seeking to head off any coup. This is as absurd as Henry II claiming
he tried to talk his knights out of killing Thomas Becket and that what he
really said was, 'Do not rid of me of this meddlesome priest,' and it somehow
got garbled and came out as, 'Who will rid me of this meddlesome priest?'

"We can take it as an absolute certainly that CIA and Pentagon advisors were at
the elbows of the Honduran plotters, giving the green light and barely bothering
to maintain deniability, and that Obama and Mrs Clinton had been fully briefed.
  The coup was modeled on the initial stages of the attempted ouster of Chavez in
2002, before popular resistance put Chavez back in power. Earlier versions of
the script are profuse in the archives of the School of the Americas."


Robert Naiman wrote:
> While some pundits and politicians in the United States were trying to 
> justify the military coup in Honduras, the Honduran military's top legal
> adviser was giving an interview to the Miami Herald, in which he revealed
> what the core issue was. Because of it's "training," he said - much of which
> was supplied by the United States - the Honduran military is unwilling to
> take orders from a leftist.
> 
> 
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/honduran-military-we-wont_b_226664.html
> 
> 
> http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/7/6/193138/8303
> 
> http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/node/247
> 
> 
> 
> -- Robert Naiman Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org 
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