Weblog: Pat Robertson Alone in Support of Liberian President

Christianity Today ^ | 10 July 2003 | Ted Olsen

[Nick5]

Uh, Pat, I don't think that Condeleeza Rice and President Bush are basing their statements and actions on "rumors"...

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[ZEEGIRL]

The trouble with Africa, in general, is that the only way to survive is to be more ruthless than the ever-present "rebels." South Africa is a great example. Now, the country is over-run by incredible tribalism and an AIDS rate that is staggering.

Whoever replaces Taylor is going to be an over-night monster. That's just the way it is.

Bush needs to remember the plight of Americans, not Africa.

[kimosabe31]

If the US State Dept and the UN are opposed to Taylor, then he must be doing something right. It would be an understatement to say I have NO confidence in USDOS. I would like to know if the rebel opposition IS muslim. If so, that explains why the UN and USDOS are supporting them...i.e., islamic terrorist expansion in west africa...same game plan as the Balkans AND Robertson is right, Taylor is the guy we should get behind. Anybody know for a fact if this is a muslim rebellion ??

[Nick5]

You make it sound like we should give up hope of bringing democracy to these countries -- like it isn't even worth trying. Did we ever think we'd see elections and a free press in Russia in our lifetimes? Unfortunately, in thinking of the plight of Americans, we have to think of everybody's plight, because the world is very small and our fates are intertwined. Any dictatorship can become a haven for the next generation of psychotic terrorists.

[Nick5]

Yes, LURD, the dominant rebel group, represents an Islamic fundamentalist position.

[Nick5]

Here's a link to an article about LURD.

http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/939538/posts

[Nick5]

What's Bush's motive in joining the State Department in supporting Islamic expansion?

[VOA]

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[Iconoclast2]

Remember Katanga!

© 1995 by David W. Neuendorf

Fifty years ago today, the life work of Alger Hiss came to fruition. Hiss, a US State Department official, served the United Nations as its acting Secretary General during its founding conference in the spring of 1945. On October 24, 1945 the United Nations Charter became effective as a majority of the countries that had signed it ratified their signatures. Several years later, Hiss went to a federal penitentiary for committing perjury when testifying that he was not a Soviet agent. His personal career was over, but his most important work, the United Nations, lived on.

Globalists everywhere are today citing the "accomplishments" of the United Nations during its 50-year life. One of the feats accredited to the UN was the reunification of the Belgian Congo by a UN "peacekeeping" force. Since most of the people I talk to have never heard of this piece of history, it seems appropriate to review it on this anniversary.

The tragedy of Katanga started on June 30, 1960 when Belgium granted independence to its former province of the Congo. Leadership of the new nation fell to Moscow-sponsored terrorist Patrice Lumumba. Lumumba was so highly regarded by Soviet dictator Khrushchev that he renamed the Moscow "Peoples Friendship University" the "Patrice Lumumba Friendship University" upon Lumumba's death. In a directive to the heads of the Congolese provinces, Lumumba wrote that they should use "terrorism, essential to subdue the population." His directive was carried out enthusiastically.

In order to avoid the nightmare that attended Communist rule in the Congo, the province of Katanga declared its independence. Its president, the Christian, pro-American Moise Tshombe, announced that "we are seceding from chaos." Tshombe asked Belgium to send military officers to recruit and train a Katangese army to restore order in Katanga. Lumumba and his successor, Cyrille Adoula, asked for and got the aid of United Nations "peacekeepers" to force Katanga back under Congolese rule. It took two years of UN warmaking to accomplish this goal.

The troops transported to Katanga using US Air Force aircraft came from Ireland, Sweden, Italy, Ethiopia, and India. According to numerous eyewitness accounts, the troops of the UN's Operation Morthor carried on one of the most brutal military campaigns of our century. In their 1962 report, 46 Angry Men, the 46 civilian doctors of Elizabethville, Katanga denounced the atrocities carried out by UN troops.

According to the doctors, the UN consistently bombed, machine-gunned, and looted civilian targets: hospitals, ambulances, churches, schools, homes, cars. "Over ninety percent of the buildings bombed and shelled by the United Nations were strictly civilian structures with no military value," said the doctors' report. After protesting the UN attacks on ambulances, Mr. Georges Olivet of the Swiss Red Cross was murdered by UN troops as he traveled in a Red Cross ambulance.

Worse yet, if possible, was the behavior of Congolese troops supplied and transported by the UN to invade Katanga from the north. Reports of cannibalism, massacre of missionaries and other civilians, and other atrocities were rife. The passage of these UN allies left in its wake complete anarchy in place of the peace and prosperity that had formerly prevailed in that region.

Before and during the two-year UN war against Katanga, the UN insisted that its troops had orders not to interfere with the internal affairs of the Congo or Katanga. Globalists in the Kennedy administration cooperated fully with this propaganda. The whole operation was sold to the American people as necessary to prevent the Congo from "going Communist."

With such a legacy, the UN-boosters in and out of government ought to lie low on this fiftieth United Nations Day. They ought to be hoping that we would forget that we have been inflicted with fifty years of the UN. Instead, they are celebrating the UN's birthday from sea to shining sea. They are openly talking about increasing the ability of the United Nations to conduct "peacekeeping" operations. There is even serious talk among them of giving the UN some powers of taxation. When will we begin to learn from history?

[Stultis]

Oh, Brother. Liberia is plurality Christian, 40%. "Indigenous beliefs" are held by another 40%, and muslims are only about 20% of the population. The rebels are mainly surrogates for neighboring powers or other would-be dicators. Taylor stirred up the strife by playing the same proxy war games with his neighbors. Continuing to allow tin pot dictators to foster such strife is the best way to strenghten the hand of muslim extremists and increase their options. A democratic Liberia will be secular or predominately Christian.

[Jacob Kell]

Taylor is on Al-Qaeda's payroll. Ask Angelus Errare for more information.

[Jacob Kell]

Taylor is awfully close to Al-Qaeda, such as helping them with conflict diamonds. ANgelus Errare knows a lot about that subject, you can maybe ask him.

[Nick5]

This is hard to figure out. Why would an fundamentalist-Islamic-dominated rebel group oppose a ruler who was in league with Al Qaeda? Why would Pat Robertson support a ruler who was in league with Al Qaeda? I'm not challenging you -- just trying to understand.

[Stultis]

Why would Pat Robertson support a ruler who was in league with Al Qaeda?

$$$

[Jacob Kell]

No doubt Robertson does not know about the Al-Qaeda/Taylor connection. Where did you hear that the anti-Taylor rebels are Islamic? Ask Angelus Errare, he probably knows much more about this matter than I.

[Nick5]

I heard about the Islamic connection from an article posted on Free Republic--for what that's worth!

[Jacob Kell]

Who knows? Only God Himself knows for certain what's going on there.

[Coleus]

He owns gold mines in that country where he has a financial interest.