A story in the Washington Post by Nora Boustany and Alan Sipress broke the news that an American corporation is being paid to carry out yet another assassination of yet another Third World country, Sudan. The May 25 story reported that U. S. State Department confirmed that a first dribble of funding, $3 million, has been approved to oppose the Sudanese government. It is being paid to corporate giant, DynaCorp.
The money will ultimately benefit John Garang’s Sudanese People’s Liberation Army (SPLA). Garang has been identified as little better than a terrorist, kidnapper and thug in the Canadian Government’s prestigious Harker Report, as well as in other creditable sources, including our own. According to the story, the State Department has reached an agreement to supply $3 million in “logistical support to a Sudanese opposition alliance”. The Bush administration will provide funding for confronting “Sudan’s Islamic government, led by President Omar Hassan Bashir.”
This money will benefit the SPLA, a rag tag band that has pillaged and terrorized the black people of southern Sudan for 18 years, while blaming it on the Government of Sudan (GOS). It appears to We Hold These Truths that the role of DynaCorp is to dole out the funds to the corrupt Garang gang so they do not steal it too fast.
The bill continues what might be called the fascist practice of hiring cooperative warriors to carry out foreign wars, or more correctly, assassinations of “uncooperative governments”. This practice has cost our taxpayers a billion dollars or more in Haiti for subsidies to Brown and Root Corporation and others who have received juicy contracts for everything from building posh barracks to washing underwear. Soldiers used to do these things for themselves. The result for the poor black Haitian majority has been unprecedented dictatorship, poverty, near starvation and total lawlessness for the first time in its history.
According to the Washington Post, DynaCorp has gained media attention as the leading U.S. government contractor for anti-drug work in Colombia, Bolivia and Peru. Most Americans have reason to doubt the veracity of the bloated and ineffectual “War on Drugs.” They can expect more of the same in Sudan.
The $3 million Sudan program was initially approved during the Clinton administration, which imposed sanctions on Sudan by executive order in 1997. But now it is being carried through by Clinton’s Republican successor, G. W. Bush. Senator Sam Brownback pushed a $10 million appropriation package for the Sudan Garang rebels through congress last year by hanging an amendment on the foreign operations appropriation bill. It was designated for logistical support for the SPLA and other groups in southern Sudan, but according to Brownback it has (fortunately) not yet been spent.
The Bush Administration has now opened the spigot for the first trickle of tax dollars for more war in Africa. But this is only the final act in the Israeli Patriot plot to destroy another in a long chain of independent governments that refuse to cater to the Israeli Patriots in Washington. We can recall a dozen such deliberate human disasters, not the least is which is Palestine. This one will only help to reduce this independent, though of course far from perfect, country into the ruble heap of central African poverty, AIDS and international dependency, as in Haiti.
We Hold These Truths sensed the stink of this when we came in possession of an amazing memo from Michael Horowitz
