[NYTr] Colombia: Tough Guy Uribe Digs Hole, Threatens to Jump Into It Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 15:35:52 -0600 (CST) Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit VHeadline - Nov 23, 2007 http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=77040 Uribe, playing the tough guy, digging a hole, threatening to jump into it! by Arthur Shaw Alvaro Uribe, the president of the terrorist, dope-dealing and death-squad regime in Bogota, is bluffing when he demands the release of 50 or so prisoners held by FARC and the completion of an agreement for a humanitarian exchange of these 50 or so FARC prisoners for 500 or so US/Colombian-held hostages both by the preposterous date of December 31. The aim of both of these eccentric demands from Uribe is to sow discord between Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and the FARC commander-in-chief Manuel Marulanda. Uribe is understandably concerned about any meeting between Chavez and Marulanda because the encounter will impart a degree of diplomatic legitimacy and prestige to FARC as a representative force of the Colombian people, struggling for liberty and justice against the repressive Bogota regime over which Uribe presides through rigged elections and intimidation by death squads. All that Chavez and Marulanda have to do is to postpone their meeting and sit tight until the foolish December 31 deadline passes. Uribe will be seen as the party who deliberately sabotaged the talks and the possibility of a humanitarian exchange by opportunistically playing the politics of fermenting strife among the other parties to the talks. This will have consequences for Uribe with the Bush regime in Washington which wants its three spies and mercenaries back, with the US Congress that will vote on the imperialist 'free' trade deal between the US and Colombia, and with the Colombia people who have watched Uribe repeatedly procrastinate and grandstand on a prisoner swap for years. [The rapidly growing multi-billion dollar mercenary industry in the USA -- which will soon have the capability to attack, subdue, occupy, and set up quisling regimes in most countries with an army of private killers and savages -- is pressuring the Bush regime to get the three US mercenaries held in Colombia by FARC back in the USA.] These consequences of Uribe's buffoonery favor FARC more than they favor Uribe, the buffoon. Bush will see that Uribe can't deliver the three US spies. Many members of the US Congress already despise Uribe as a closet terrorist and sadist. The Colombian people will see once again that their contempt for Uribe is justified. FARC has, to some degree, encouraged -- or, more correctly, inflamed -- Uribe's conceit and arrogance by hinting that it will abandon certain Colombia hostages held by the US imperialists in order to reach an agreement for the exchange of the remaining prisoners on both sides. Once you give an inch to a sadist, dope-dealer, and terrorist like Uribe, he adamantly demands a foot, a meter, or a half mile. If Uribe really wants either a deal or a swap around Xmas, then he knows he has to be reasonable. He is everything but reasonable. So, he doesn't want a deal or a swap at this time. If FARC craters on his two eccentric demands of late, Uribe will then demand that FARC surrender their weapons by the end of January 2008 or even by mid-January. It is not constructive to inflame the stuff in Uribe by an excess of accommodation, because it is the wrong stuff in Uribe, not the right stuff. [At the moment, Uribe is in one of his manic phases and FARC must wait until it passes.] If FARC releases its 50 or so prisoners before a meeting between Chavez and Marulanda, FARC abandons all of the Colombian hostages held by the US and Bogota regimes and, then, there is no point of a meeting between Chavez and Marulanda, except for a photo-op over which the US imperialists and their Colombian quislings will have a good laugh. If FARC and the Bogota regime can sign a just deal by Xmas or thereabouts, that will be wonderful. But Uribe wants a lopsided deal in which FARC releases its prisoners to the Bogota regime and the Bogota regime releases its hostages to death squads that collude with the Bogota regime. That is not exactly a swap. The Colombian hostages held by Bogota regime are safer where they are now because as long as the hostages are in the custody of the Bogota regime, they may be only repressed. But once they fall into the custody of the pro-Uribe death squads, they will be surely murdered. Now Uribe, playing the tough guy, is digging a hole and threatening to jump into it. Let the fool jump into it. In time -- a matter of months -- Uribe will crawl out of his stupid hole. This "hole" consist of something like this: if Uribe is left alone and allowed to dig his hole -- the deeper the better -- and to jump into it, the most likely result of this bizarre exercise is a certain degree of estrangement between Uribe and his most important allies. If he doesn't jump into the hole he dug, then Uribe has decided to be somewhat reasonable and the talks can resume until his manic conceit and arrogance repossess him. Uribe timed the announcement of his two eccentric demands or his latest buffoonery about the same time of a highly and widely publicized Paris meeting between Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and the French President during which the humanitarian exchange between FARC and the Bogota/US regimes was to be discussed along with other matters. Transparently, Uribe wants to undermine the faith, if any, of the French President in the ability of Chavez to pull off the exchange of prisoners. Uribe wants to remind the French President that Uribe, not Chavez, holds the cards that will decide the outcome of the talks. Uribe feels that he, not Chavez, should be in Paris talking about the prisoner exchange in Colombia. But Uribe isn't. He's in Bogota. So, Uribe tries to pull the rug out from under Chavez as Chavez talks to the French president about Colombian affairs. It's not hard to read what this fool in Bogota is planning. He wants to throw Chavez out of the talks and substitute either Colombian Senator Piedad Cordoba or someone else who is more submissive to Uribe as mediator between Uribe and Marulanda. * ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us Our main website: http://www.blythe.org List Archives: http://blythe-systems.com/pipermail/nytr/ Subscribe: http://blythe-systems.com/mailman/listinfo/nytr =================================================================