Friday, February 27, 2004

Me and Peter Vallone, Jr.: We Once Were Allies

By Mickey Z.

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  1. You may find interest in this NYT report about the roll of John Kerry in empowering U.S. involvement in the ill-fated program that resulted in shooting down American missionaries over the Andes in 2001.

    Officials Long Debated Risks Of Anti-Drug Patrol In Peru
    http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n920/a04.html?3255

    “As early as the mid-1980’s, C.I.A.  officials considered—and rejected—proposals to aid Peru and Colombia in shooting down the planes, former agency officials said.  “I remember someone saying that there are a lot of missionaries flying around there, and you might shoot down the wrong plane,” said one former high-ranking official. “

    (snip)

    “Yet there were also clear warnings that aerial attacks carried huge risks.  For example, a separate State Department memo, also written in May 1994, said the downing of an Iran Air commercial aircraft over the Persian Gulf by a United States Navy warship in 1988 had demonstrated that “even the best trained and equipped personnel can make mistakes.”
    “So that June, Senator John Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat, sponsored legislation that would exempt American officials from any liability stemming from the destruction of suspected drug-trafficking planes.  With that protection in place, Mr.  Clinton ordered American airmen and technicians in December to join the Andean anti-drug operations.”

    Who do we hold responsible if not the legislative leaders who write enabling legislation?


    John Kerry...Drug Warrior http:mysite.verizon.net/aahpat/kerr.htm

    Posted by Pat Rogers from  on  02/28  at  01:38 PM
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