66 - Part 3 Of Critically Important But Largely Unreported Aspects Of The Iraq War: The U.S. Connection To Iraqi Death Squads / Updates & Comments

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🗓️ 2 November 2006

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Torture and mass murder by the death squads of Iraq is being covered by the media, true. But what is largely unreported, is that these death squads bear a US pedigree.What we're seeing in current-day Iraq is a replay of one of the most heinous aspects of United State's foreign policy in 1980's Central America.Plus: an update on the Florida exit poll ban, a listener call-in comment on right-wing

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0:00.0	Greetings, this is podcast number 66 of Blast the Right.
0:24.4	I'm Jack Clark from TheRationalRadical.com, www.TheRationalRadical.com.
0:31.4	Today we're going to discuss the U.S. connection to the death squads in Iraq.
0:36.4	Also, we'll update last week's report on the Florida exit pole band as well as
0:40.9	hear a listener comment on my segment detailing right wing electronic voting machine fraud.
0:46.4	I will also suggest five ways for you to protect your vote.
0:50.4	Let's get right into it.
0:52.4	A recent news story outraged me.
0:55.4	Oliver North went to Nicaragua and warned the people there against voting for
1:00.4	Sandinista candidate Daniel Ortega in that country's November 5th presidential elections.
1:06.4	Ortega currently leads the polls in a five-man race.
1:10.4	Oliver North, for those of you who don't know, was instrumental in setting up
1:15.4	farming and illegally funding the Nicaraguan Contras in the 1980s as part of Reagan's strategy
1:22.4	to destroy the Sandinista revolution.
1:25.4	The Contras were essentially a U.S-supported terrorist army which primarily targeted civilians.
1:31.4	The Contras tortured and killed thousands of camposinos in the Nicaraguan countryside.
1:38.4	How obscene is it for the man behind so much suffering in death in Nicaragua to go there
1:44.4	still a free man and then even have the nerve to lecture the people of that country about their electoral choices?
1:52.4	This story compelled me to present part three of my series, critically important but largely
1:59.4	unreported aspects of the Iraq war.
2:01.4	Since this part three involves a replay in current day Iraq of one of the most disgusting
2:08.4	aspects of the United States's 1980s Central America policy.
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