THE INTERNATIONAL FORECASTER editor Bob Chapman writes: Under the US Defense Department’s 2005 Authorization Act, the US is doubling the number of troops and contractors in Colombia ... this is supposed to be a protection against the war on terror, which only exists in the putrid, depraved minds in the beltway in Washington.

The increase in military personnel is an undisguised attempt via the Southern Command to justify its south-of-the-border war on terror.

The elitists and their dummy in the White House are so disturbed with Brazil’s President Luiz Ignacio “Lula” da Silva and his populist ideas and economic success; being offended by the UN votes of Mexico and Chile against the war in Iraq; furious that protestors in Bolivia and Argentina ousted pro-Washington presidents aligned with corporate interest and the US controlled IMF; they are disturbed that economically battered Paraguay would not expend resources to hunt down phantom terrorists the Pentagon insists infest that country’s “lawless” tri-border area; they are fuming that a leftist candidate seems about to win the presidency of Uruguay and then that 60% of Uruguayans voted against privatization and an open economy...

Then, of course, the long standing feud with Fidel Castro ... and then the new devil incarnate Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez Frias, whom they have attempted to murder and or remove from office.

• Washington is not happy with foreign relations south of the border ... the present neocons’ administration in Washington D.C. is the worst bumbling idiots in the history of the country.

In our mind, what George and the neocons are doing is using client state Colombia as a staging area to undermine all of Latin America.  Secretary of State Colin Powell

President Hugo Chavez Frias

recently called for closer ties with Venezuela and Southern Command General James Hill said, Chavez did not share the new US definition of terrorism, which bunched traditional terrorists with drug-traffickers, criminal gangs and radical populists, who tap into the deep-seated frustrations of the failure of US backed democratic reforms to deliver on promises of economic and social gains.

As Mr. Chavez sought a truce with Washington elitists, the US accused him of human trafficking ... that is not diplomacy ... that is viciousness and arrogance.

Latin American leaders know the invasion of Iraq was an effort to steal that nation’s oil. Bush’s doctrine of preemption is nothing more than a license to kill anyone in his way.

• Latin Americans nations should be terrified and should be arming as Venezuela has. George W. Bush, from our point of view, is a lunatic on the Caligula model.

Once Colombia is heavily armed and manned, Bush and the elitists will spread their terror throughout the entire region. Latin American nations, George and the neocons will destroy you and your sovereignty if you do not do exactly as they demand. The US has a southern war on terror that does not exist. They are the terrorists and they want to control you. That is why respect for the US in the region, and for that matter throughout the world, has plummeted. George and the elitist neocons are predators; make no mistake about that.

All you have to do is look at Iraq, an illegal war ... America’s present mercantilist, corporatist, fascist government does as it pleases including two presidential candidates who are members of the Illuminati, a secret group formed in 1776.

• Americans have totally lost control of their country ... many Americans are disillusioned and shocked but do nothing to bring about changes.

Latin America should be on their guard because the elitists who run America only care bout their interests.

Incidentally ... for those who do not know my politics ... I am to the right of Attila the Hun, but I know a fascist when I see one.

If we may quote an expert on the subject:

“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.”
(Benito Mussolini, Encyclopedia Italiana)

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