Quote for 2008-05-11

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(Sun, 11 May 2008 21:00:00 -0500 (CDT)) --- On the "free" Nicaraguan elections of 1990: * Yanqui Doodle got its way
* In Nicaragua's vote
* but take a look at all
* We've done
* Before you start to gloat.
* Yanqui Doodle kept them
* down
* Yanqui Doodle's million$
* Mined their harbors, cut off
* trade,
* And paid to kill civilians.

* Yanqui Doodle promised
* them
* If they elect Chamorro
* The contra thugs and em-
* bargo
* Would be called off tomor-
* row.
* Vote results cause much
* surprise
* At Nicaraguan's views
* But yanqui Doodle made
* an offer
* They could not refuse.

* Yanqui Doodle gets its way
* By hook or else by crook
* And when it comes to
* Covert tricks
* The U.S. wrote the book
* Yanqui Doodle breaks the
* law
* Thinks that it's just dandy
* When we're censured by
* world courts
* Our power comes in handy

[...]

-- Carolyn Greenwood, Knoxville, TN
Letter to Z magazine, page 5, March 1988 issue

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