We must not forget that Govenor Johnson is going to debate Asa ( what an odd name) Hutchinson.

If anyone sees an article about this event please send it to me.

His opponents are making very hawkish noises. Noises the US likes to hear. The exact same kind of noises people like Bill Bennett make. Namely, that we really haven't fought the DrugWar like a real war. Conveniently forgetting, of course, the ugly fact that unknown thousands of Colombians are dead as a result of their civil war...fueled by drug profits used to buy the weapson that killed them. Weapons wielded by both the government and it's cat's-paws the paras, and the Rebels.

Oh, it's shooting war, all right. A real war, Billy Boy. (I'd love to see his fat, nicotine-addicted *ss humping mortar rounds through through the sticks and dodging AK rounds. If he's so hot to trot, I'll happily pay his one-way airline ticket to Bogota.) And the US wants to escalate this madness? So what's Pastrana to do?

He plays brinkmanship games. Trying to spook the US into giving even more monetary support by appearing to be weakening and thus requiring more US taxpayer funded death to be delivered courtesy of Uncle's arms suppliers to prop him up. While at the same time trying to appease the very people he should be concerned about - namely, his own countrymen who are sick of all the violence. And know quite well that the fuel for that violence is the illicit drug trade. And that the only way to stop that is to legitimize the trade.

What a sham!
I cringe when I see this blatant lie from the US spin doctors,trying
to say that Plan Colombia is something that was instigated by Colombia.

Plan Colombia, Pastrana's anti-drug initiative, is financed by $1.3 billion in U.S. aid.

Say what? Pastrana's "anti-drug initiative?" Since when?

"Plan Columbia" is a creature of the American Prohibitionists, pure and simple. It would never have existed without the cheerleading of the Clinton Administration's drug hawks and their pals in Congress.