Comically deranged Colombian President Alvaro Uribe just released his government's brand new official stats on how many leftist guerilla fighters his military has "neutralized" in recent years, and the numbers have prompted a couple of...questions. According to the BBC:
"About 114,000 members of the warring factions were said to have been dealt with by the army in the last six years. However, other estimates say there are only 30,000 in the warring factions."
Oopsies! So wait, are they just making up ridiculously exaggerated kill numbers, maybe, to please their U.S. overlords? You sort of want the answer to be yes, but it's Colombia, so of course it's more complicated and way freakier than that:
"Also there is mounting evidence that members of the security forces have killed hundreds of unarmed civilians and presented them as members of the illegal armies shot in combat."
Oh right, "also" that. The civilized world's favorite ally basically shoots anything that moves and calls it a terrorist, which may explain the additional 84,000 deaths. "Also," the president is a serial killer.
Comments (3)
Excellent artwork! Perhaps the military was also running its own pyramid scheme with the records.
Posted by El Otro Miguel
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December 16, 2008 10:19 AM
Posted on December 16, 2008 10:19
The BBC called it "phenomenal popularity" (Uribe's), in an article last week. They just don't get it--that the tens of thousands who are dead cannot answer Gallup polls and cannot vote, and their relatives and friends had best keep their heads down, or they, too, will lose the ability to express their opinion to a pollster and the right to vote, by being dead.
It's kind of like how the Bushites organized "democracy" in Iraq. First, you kill a million people...
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"Phenomenal popularity."
It really stuck in my craw.
Posted by PeacePatriot
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December 16, 2008 5:19 AM
Posted on December 16, 2008 05:19
Incredible. Do you know of anyone else whose popularity is propped up by a pool of blood?
Posted by QueenBina
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December 15, 2008 11:34 PM
Posted on December 15, 2008 23:34