05/18/05

[E]very time I look at the death toll, it keeps going up. Yesterday it was 500. Today it's 750 -- or maybe in the thousands. At any rate, even Karimov's chief enabler and financier, the U.S. government, is getting a little antsy about all the bloodletting .... They are going to regret propping up and feeding this regime that boiled its opponents alive and murdered hundreds at Andijan, but isn't it a little late to extend their regrets to the relatives of the dead? After all, they not only tolerated but subsidized a government that systematized torture, intimidation, and, yes, outright murder. They personally and visibly buddied up to the homicidal maniac who calls himself the 'president' of Uzbekistan. They met with him, coddled him, and gave him political legitimacy in the eyes of those poor deluded souls who see the U.S. government -- as opposed to America, the country -- as a beacon and guarantor of liberty worldwide...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=5988

from AntiWar.Com, by Justin Raimondo


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp