FARC documents: they’re real, and they’re spectacular.
Well, there you have it: Interpol says the files found after their raid on the FARC leadership in Ecuador are for real and not Colombian forgeries as Chavez had claimed. Here’s a sample of what Colombia’s already leaked; they’re worrying about releasing all the files because they might “embarrass friendly governments”:
Many documents retrieved from the rebel computers discuss Venezuelan efforts to help the FARC obtain weapons, including rockets.
In March 2007, a rebel commander known as Timochenko wrote that “intelligence officials from our neighboring navy” say it’s very difficult to obtain “rockets,” but that “they’re disposed to help us get all the parts to build them.”
In a January 2007 note, Ivan Marquez, the rebel’s main go-between with the Chavez government, mentions “the possibility of taking advantage of Venezuela’s purchase of arms from Russia to include some containers destined for the FARC.”
Another message from Marquez, dated Aug. 20, 2006, describes a visit to an anti-aircraft missile factory in China by a Venezuelan official who is said to have returned with a catalog for the FARC.
It may embarrass some governments that aren’t so friendly to Colombia as well–namely, our own. Pelosi, Hillary, and Obama all want to hang Uribe’s government out to dry and deny them a free trade agreement. Which is ironic considering that other than Chile, Colombia’s probably our best ally in Latin America.
Obama’s name, you’ll remember, is on that FARC computer:
In a Feb. 28 letter, FARC chieftain Raul Reyes cheerily reported to his inner circle that he met “two gringos” who assured him “the new president of their country will be Obama and that they are interested in your compatriots. Obama will not support ‘Plan Colombia’ nor will he sign the TLC (Free Trade Agreement).”
Hey, on that free trade agreement: our resident lefty commenter LGM likes to remind us that Pelosi opposes free trade with Colombia because the Colombian government has, in the past, been brutal to organized labor. (That was one of several shifting justifications the Democrats came up with for opposing the plan.)
So, to get back at Uribe, Pelosi punishes…Colombian labor. Raise the tariff shields! None of the production of Colombian labor will get through on SanFranNan’s watch!
Previous FARCblogging aqui.
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Great news,Michelle, thanks for passing it along (and delivered with a Seinfeld line!)
Tho I think the Seinfeld line actually goes “and they’re spectacular“.
Oops. Fixed.
Blame me, not Michelle.
Hahaha! Mea culpa, seedub, shoulda read the byline!
This is just so much more baggage for Obama - and for “Huggo The Despotic Clown”, of course. Wonder how he’ll explain this one.
I seem to remember a former Demorcrat who left hung an ally country out to dry. Wasn’t his name Carter? And now we have Iran getting dangerously near having nucular weapons?
He’ll say it’s racist and a distraction to talk about it.
Haha doesn’t surprise me Obama would indirectly help a radical Marxist group.
I am sure Obama will claim it is all part of the vast right wing conspiracy to thwart the first black presidency.
I think it’s time for BO to try these documents on and see if they fit.
the republicans need to keep the fact that enemies of ours (and freedom) want Obama to win. he’s either in agreement, or they think he’s too stupid. it’s hard to tell which one.
too bad none of this will make the MSM evening news.
They have an election to win, not disclose things that damage their candidates. Sheeesh,
On May 16th, 2008 at 5:40 am, purplepeep said:
This is just so much more baggage for Obama - and for “Huggo The Despotic Clown”, of course. Wonder how he’ll explain this one.
Don’t worry PurplePeep, Juan McAmnesty has his back.
I wish we could find out who those “two gringos” were. The commies seem pretty sure about what their Manchurian Candidate will do, don’t they!
These documents aren’t helping Michelle Obama’s children.
Doyathink Ayers might be Obama’s go-to guy for FARC info?
That’s hilarious - wish I could think this stuff up!
It’s Friday and by the looks of things, I’ll be entertained all day reading this blog! Yipee!
OBAMA 08,
No drug lord left behind.
If the ask obama about it he will state its a racist question and claim that the questioner is trying to “swiftboat” him. Of course he will not answer the question.
# 18, good one!
One of the gringos is allegedly the Dem Congressman from Massachusetts’ 3rd Congressional District.
VIVA Obama ! Yeah Barry, you go on down there and have a chat with Coca Boy.You two will have LOTS in common. And take Plastic Woman with ya. Nothing like a good Socialist Summit in the Tropics. Nancy will love ya for it !
Coloradan, I’m guessing that alleged gringo was with the congressional delegation. Who’da thunk it! I would have put money on the gringos’ being from the Red “congress.”
Exactly, Neither Obama or Pelosi nor anyone with the (D) next to their name will have to answer for this. Ignore, ignore, ignore. If you ignore it, it makes it a lie.
B–b-b-b-but, I thought, this blog was advocating, tacit as it may be, the Obama Foreign Policy?
When you gonna’ get your story straight?
“NOT NOW SWEETIE”, but I bet he will get to it soon (NOT)… Ol’ HUGO had better watch URIBE, I don’t think he is a man to be trifled with.
Just more undeniable proof that the Democrats cannot be trusted with the reins of the country. They’ve ruined education, are busy trying to destroy the country via taxes and crackpot environmental edicts, and now want to completely destroy our relationship with our allies like Colombia, Chile and Isreal.
Way to go, dumbasses!
The last thing we need at this point in history is that little pencil-neck marxist in the White House.
Good shot Dimsdale, very good shot.
I would like to see Colombia go for full disclosure of the documents. “Embarrassment for friendly governments” or not….
We need to get rid of our current Congress at all expense. These people are well on the way to destroying this magnificent country. Hussein Obama is a communist, as is Pelosi, Reed and the rest of their ilk (and ours). Time to clean house and get back the American exceptionalism
The issue isn’t so much about “Marxism” as it is about “Isolationism”
Michelle Malkin, and her Fellow Travelers, play right into the hands of the Isolationists, by the way they treat the Immigration issue.
So two white guys went down and told him Obama will be your friend? They also told them the secret of Narnia and how to make energy which requires no energy to produce.
Columbia wants a free trade agreement. I look it at like this. Unless they control their drug problem, it would be foolish to increase shipping routes to them with the prospects of nose white increasing its distribution prospects.
That’s just me.
Oh yea, I met with two NBPP members in a secret hide out, and they told me the KKK actually likes them and to vote in racist representatives. Malarchy.
Why do I get the feeling that Ayers and Dohrn were involved with FARC?
Your comment is specious on its face: if you actually read and understand what Michelle and the rest of us have said. I will elucidate: it is not about IMMIGRATION, it is about ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION or INVASION, if you want to be precise.
We don’t want to close the borders; we want control of them. The influx of wage crushing aliens, with unknown diseases and criminal backgrounds, plus the danger of an unprotected border that the terrorists have already use and continue to use is a mortal threat to the country and our way of life.
What is so difficult to understand about that? It is the Dems and liberal/socialist/communist/anarchists that are misrepresenting the issue to one of immigration vs. illegal invasions. YOUR cronies may be ignorant of the facts, but we are not. Don’t embarrass yourself by making fallacious statements such as I quote.
Didn’t know I was part of a band.
That’s how Pelosi describes FARC?
Hmmmm … no “wisdom” from lOgJAm ..
For #10 wanting to know if Obama is too stupid or he agrees with them. He agrees with them. This is evident when he spends 20 years in his church and he said he never heard anything bad. , It is obvious to me that he agrees with the statments Wright made. He will do whatever it takes to completely ruin this country.
Well, only if voters were awake and cared.
This FARC crap is what Barry Hussein calls “change?”
1. Democrats were pulling this in the 1990s when they were doing “satellite technology for cash” with the ChiComs.
2. Democrats were doing this in the 1980s when congressional leaders were propping up the Marxist Ortega regime in Nicaragua, just to thwart the Reagan Administration’s foreign policy initiatives.
3. Democrats were doing this in the 1970s when one senator, four house representatives, one NJ state senator, members of the Philadelphia city council were all convicted, and John Murtha was named as an “unindicted co-conspirator,” in taking monetary bribes from undercover F.B.I agents dressed as Arab businessmen.
Obama’s new campaign theme should be,
“The More Democrats Change, The More They Stay The Same.”
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I think as more research and investigation plays out on the information captured from the FARC ties closer up that were thought will come out.
I just wish that the Colombian government would have held its cards a bit more a cooberate the evidence before using it as proof. Having an email saying “I talked to someone and they said this” is not admissible in a court of law and nor should it be in diplomacy.
The veil is lifting on the true intentions of some governments in the region and with a US carrier fleet on the way… hmmmm not much the Chinese made AK74s and machine gun armed “Cessnas” can do.
Timochenko,
Ivan Marquez,
the Chavez government,
Venezuela’s purchase of arms from Russia,
Pelosi, Hillary, and Obama
…am I missing something? Where’s the socialist connection?
Sarc off/
So, Uribe’s government was tough on labor???
Well, let’s see…Stalin, a socialist killed millions of his own people…
China (a Communist country) routinely kills “political” prisoners, then sells their body parts on the international market…
FARC (socialists) kidnaps and ransoms civilians, oh, yea, and the kill and bomb indiscriminately (Columbian laborers, et al?)
…and our “honorable” (I’m wretching) Demosocialist leaders dupe, lie, cheat, profit from, and obfuscate, all while promoting failed socialist ideas.
Yep! Uribe’s a bad actor all right.
Franksalterego must be a lead paint eater.
He is a fu#4ing nut.
Sounds like sniffles. Did your socialist party take a little hit, there, Frank?
Also, we’re not travelers, but we hear all the time from people like you that you’d rather be in France or Canada. Well, get going then! And send their women over here, too. We’ll show them a good time with REAL men who want families.
Immigration issue? I have issues with deporting and seperating families, but the main reason we can’t get crooks out of here is because dem supporters like you feel sorry for them and think that lack of welfare will solve everything.
Face it! Liberals and socialists are just as isolationist as everyone else. As talk show host Jason Lewis says “Ever notice who liberals who scream for socialism never live next to the people they give welfare too?” And what’s up in NJ with inner-city kids going to better schools near the burbs? Dems sure canned that idea.
So, give me a break, would ya, Francis! Most people prefer two things:
1) To be with someone of their own culture
2) to left the hell alone! Especially by big government!
Do the liberals on here understand, or do I have to get out the book with small print and big pictures?
Here come the planes, Hugo.
Wasn’t it a congressional representative from MA that met with FARC?
The free trade agreement WOULD IN ITSELF help control the drug problem. It would happen in not one, but at least two ways:
1. When people have opportunities for legitimate trade at a decent living wage, they always choose it over illicit trade. Shut Colombia out of free trade and prepare for more drug trafficking, which requires NO free trade pact.
2. When an economy expands and grows, as Colombia’s will do under free trade, an expanded tax base provides more cash for infrastructure. Roads in particular, in Colombia’s jungly territory, are the bane of dopers. Dopers practice curbside service to coca farmers, which cuts their costs. A corn farmer has to find some way to get his crop to the river where he can load it on a barge and then sell it, if anyone wants it. A coca farmer waits for the traffickers to pay him a visit, so it’s a cheaper industry. The fact that more roads will be built under free trade will give legitimate farmers more options and cut their costs. Dopers meanwhile hate roads because they bring traffic and cops which means less secrecy and more risk to their secret jungle trafficking routes. They prefer that their routes be left secret to maximize their profit and keep the cops way.
And another thing: The drug trade would be sharply diminished in Colombia if it didn’t have such putrid neighbors running Ecuador and Venezuela. Both shelter dopers and allow their countries to be used as transshipment points, a vital service to the drug trade. Ecuador isn’t as bad as Venezuela but its men can be easily bought and plenty of dopers like to launder money there too. Free trade would immediately put them at a disadvantage as Colombia prospers and grows rich while they shrivel.
Do you see how free trade would burn out the drug trade like nobody’s business? Peru got rid of its drug trade. Colombia too can get rid of its. But it needs free trade and of course a better neighbor than Hugo Chavez.
The Three Stooges Of Big Labor.