http://planetfear.blogspot.com/2004_11_01_planetfear_archive.html

and see my post on Rumsfeld in Nicaragua - he is preparing for a
leftist landslide in the next elections by convincing the current president
to dismantle the country’s air defenses. I posted a letter to the
Department of Defense, and of course, they did not reply. It seems we are
going to attack Nicaragua yet again.

Regime change finally came in 1979, when the government of the third Somoza fell to a popular insurrection led by the Sandinista National Liberation Front. The US government responded by organizing former National Guard members into a counter-revolutionary force, known as contras, which waged attacks for the next decade.

Nicaragua responded, in part, by taking the United States to the World Court, a United Nations agency formally known as the International Court of Justice. The Court ruled in 1986 that the United States had violated international law “by training, arming, equipping, financing and supplying the contra forces or otherwise encouraging, supporting and aiding military and paramilitary activities in and against Nicaragua.” Specific acts the Court found to be illegal included the mining of Nicaragua’s harbors, a trade embargo, attacks on ports, and publication of a training manual instructing the contras in commission of acts that violate humanitarian law, i.e. acts of terrorism. The Court ordered the United States to pay reparations. The United States refused, and maintained its political, military, and economic pressure on Nicaragua, one of the poorest nations in the western hemisphere.

So we were found to be the ones supporting terrorism in actuality. What should the appopriate consequence be? Maybe we should send the Shrub down for some manual labor in rebuilding Nicaragua? Let Tellez come and be our President?