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<p>The Fletcher Memorial Home (by Roger Waters, other wise known as Pink Floyd, from the album, "The Final Cut") </p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFzVpZLpvuU">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFzVpZLpvuU</a><br><br>Take all your overgrown infants away somewhere <br>And build them a home, a little place of their own. <br>The Fletcher Memorial <br>
Home for Incurable Tyrants and Kings. <br><br>And they can appear to themselves every day <br>On closed circuit T.V. <br>To make sure they're still real. <br>It's the only connection they feel. <br>"Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome, Reagan and Haig, <br>
Mr. Begin and friend, Mrs. Thatcher, and Paisly, <br>"Hello Maggie!" <br>Mr. Brezhnev and party. <br>"Scusi dov'è il bar?"<br>The ghost of McCarthy, <br>The memories of Nixon. <br>"Who's the bald chap?" <br>
"Good-bye!" <br>And now, adding colour, a group of anonymous latin- <br>American meat packing glitterati. <br><br>Did they expect us to treat them with any respect? <br>They can polish their medals and sharpen their <br>
Smiles, and amuse themselves playing games for awhile. <br>Boom boom, bang bang, lie down you're dead. <br><br>Safe in the permanent gaze of a cold glass eye <br>With their favorite toys <br>They'll be good girls and boys <br>
In the Fletcher Memorial Home for colonial <br>Wasters of life and limb. <br><br>Is everyone in? <br>Are you having a nice time? <br>Now the final solution can be applied.</p></div>
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<div>And former President Reagan is held in such high regard by many for championing the "conservative" movement, as they eventually took Republican control of the US Congress. The US under Reagan allied itself with numerous evils to fight "the evil empire" of the Soviet Union, death squad Central American governments another example ("Latin American meat packing glitterati," to quote Roger Waters from the album "The Final Cut." <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFzVpZLpvuU">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFzVpZLpvuU</a> video of "The Fletcher Memorial Home for incurable tyrants...").</div>
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<div>This picture of Reagan with the Taliban shouts "blowback" at 150 decibels.</div>
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<div>From The Nation web site:</div>
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<div><a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20011015/johnson">http://www.thenation.com/doc/20011015/johnson</a></div>
<h1 class="main title">Blowback </h1>
<h2 class="by"><b>By</b> <cite><a href="http://www.thenation.com/directory/bios/chalmers_johnson">Chalmers Johnson</a></cite></h2>
<p class="context"><a href="http://www.thenation.com/doc/20011015">This article appeared in the October 15, 2001 edition of <cite>The Nation</cite>.<br></a>
<h3 class="when">September 27, 2001</h3>
<p>"Blowback is a CIA term first used in March 1954 in a recently declassified report on the 1953 operation to overthrow the government of Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran. It is a metaphor for the unintended consequences of the US government's international activities that have been kept secret from the American people. The CIA's fears that there might ultimately be some blowback from its egregious interference in the affairs of Iran were well founded. Installing the Shah in power brought twenty-five years of tyranny and repression to the Iranian people and elicited the Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution. The staff of the American embassy in Teheran was held hostage for more than a year. This misguided "covert operation" of the US government helped convince many capable people throughout the Islamic world that the United States was an implacable enemy. </p>
<p>The pattern has become all too familiar. Osama bin Laden, the leading suspect as mastermind behind the carnage of September 11, is no more (or less) "evil" than his fellow creations of our CIA: Manuel Noriega, former commander of the Panama Defense Forces until George Bush <i>père</i> in late 1989 invaded his country and kidnapped him, or Iraq's Saddam Hussein, whom we armed and backed so long as he was at war with Khomeini's Iran and whose people we have bombed and starved for a decade in an incompetent effort to get rid of him. These men were once listed as "assets" of our clandestine services organization. </p>
<p>Osama bin Laden joined our call for resistance to the Soviet Union's 1979 invasion of Afghanistan and accepted our military training and equipment along with countless other mujahedeen "freedom fighters." It was only after the Russians bombed Afghanistan back into the stone age and suffered a Vietnam-like defeat, and we turned our backs on the death and destruction we had helped cause, that he turned against us. The last straw as far as bin Laden was concerned was that, after the Gulf War, we based "infidel" American troops in Saudi Arabia to prop up its decadent, fiercely authoritarian regime. Ever since, bin Laden has been attempting to bring the things the CIA taught him home to the teachers. On September 11, he appears to have returned to his deadly project with a vengeance. </p>
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