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Post #48570

Author
ricarleite
Parent topic
US troops abuse Iraqi prisoners
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Date created
6-May-2004, 11:28 AM
The Brazil one happened in 1964, not in 1962, but it's absolutly correct, even though it's not very detailed, it was far, far worse than it says. People were tortured by CIA agents for posessing books with red covers. My mother had this friend back in college in the late 60s, she once badmouthed the dictatorship and america, she was never seen before (my mother refuses to talk about it, she told me that story only once). I had a teacher that was also in college during the late 60s, her teacher criticizing america's decision to run oiver the world by showing a "captain america" cartoon and talking about it... he was arrested at that same day, tortured and killed. It was forbidden for 3 or more people to walk together on the street. The media was censored, and those who refuse to cooperated were tortured, set away from the country or killed. College students and artists were those who suffered the most. And why?? Because the CIA had considered that Joao Goulart (our president in 1964) MIGHT had some communism connections, and COULD possibly lead the country into communism (an horribly absurd idea). So screw that third-world country, let's kill their growing economy, kill their people, torture everyone who even thinks about the word "democracy", instate insane military dictators, so we can all eat Big Macs later and live the american dream. So now you understand how we feel about Iraq...