Sunday, January 08, 2006

Decades of harboring torturers and terrorists

While we're on the subject of the possibility that terrorist and torturer Luis Posada Carriles will be released on probation into the United States, along comes another story to remind us that other Latin American torturers (and torture is, in fact, a form of terrorism) have been living in the U.S. since 1989 -- two Salvadoran generals who have just been found liable for $54 million (a civil case, natch, you wouldn't expect the U.S. government to prosecute them, would you?) for torturing three Salvadorans. will be released on probation into the United States, along comes

Their lawyer's "defense" was quite instructive:

"In the war against communism, they did what the United States government wanted them to do and paid them to do."

Ain't that the truth.