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" I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America. "

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" Saddam Hussein has been brutal against his people, but when he was committing those crimes, the international community did not come to the rescue of the Iraqis. "

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" The U.S. embargo imposed on Nicaragua, rather than weakening the Sandinistas, actually maintained them in power. "

" Tony Blair has turned his back on the principles he claimed he believed in before he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with George W. Bush. He was an entirely different kind of leader. "

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" The Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world. "

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" People in so many countries look up to the United States as a model of democracy, but I doubt if that can continue. It leaves me with a great sense of loss. "

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" I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation of international law, a war that was wrong and immoral. "