[rightwing2]

This is a truly sad ending to a heroic 27 year long fight against the Communists of Angola led by recently assasinated leader of the UNITA anti-Communist freedom fighter, Dr. Jonas Savimbi. UNITA was the last anti-Communist freedom fighter resistance group left in existance. Most of the rest like Mozambique and Namibia were wiped out by the Communists long ago. The Communist Angolan Army assasinated Dr. Savimbi in an ambush, brutally mutilating his body with 15 shots to his body only days prior to President Bush's scheduled meeting with the butcher of Luanda himself, Angolan President Dos Santos. Rather, then do the principled thing and refuse to meet with President Dos Santos while the blood on his hands from Savimbi's killing was still fresh, Bush went ahead and met with the Communist President of Angola as well as the Communist President of Mozambique, himself guilty of atrocities against his own people.

The Communist's assasination of Savimbi, a longtime ally of the United States in the war against Soviet Communism who had been deprived of the Presidency of Angola only by rampant electoral fraud in the UN-sponsored 1992 election was a slap in the face to Bush who had previously called for a peaceful resolution to the conflict. Nevertheless, during the meeting Bush and his aides did not even mention the assasination of Ronald Reagan's freedom fighter, much less protest it! Sadly, this is just one more example of Bush's policy of appeasement of Communists worldwide. Bush's continuation and in some cases acceleration of Bill Clinton's policy of rank appeasement of Communist China is an even more glaring example.

[rightwing2]

Freedom Fighter Memorial BUMP! This should add even more impetus to the planned establishment of a Memorial for the Victims of Communism which has strong bipartisan support.

[weikel]

Its foolish to surrender to communist they will give you no quarter better dead then red.

[constitutiongirl]

Savimbi Bump.

There are those of us in the West that will remember your fight against the Communist insurgents and appreciate that you paid the ultimate price for your struggle.

[Tacis]

My bet is that there will be some aging Cuban soldiers/spies/butchers going back to Angola to get revenge on some of the freedom fighters who made the Cubans look bad by holding them off for so many years. Fidelito has mellowed but, like a trapped rat, only gotten sneakier and nastier as his entire vision has proven to be garbage and, even worse, begala. Here's a chance for the Cuban animals to get even a little and I'm betting some try.

[DoughtyOne]

I can't think of a single issue where the UN has been on the right side.

[Shermy]

O - I - L

[eleni121]

Savimbi - a hero in a world with so few. This is horrible news and weakens my respect for Bush.

[happygrl]

Thank you for posting this. I'm afraid that, once again, the most ruthless have prevailed. If the totalitarians in Africa align themselves with the newest totalitarian movement, Islam, which is making big overtures to sub-Sahara Africa, the U.S. will come to regret having failed the pro-Western leaders such as Savimbi.

[Scholastic]

Thank you president Bush for your continued cooperation with terrorism and communism (oops did I say the "C" word?). You must make your father proud.