Unfortunately, the advantage of knowing about the past is that this usually tells you what is happening now.
Gates was part of the Cold War hoax portraying the USSR as an enormous threat to keep the bucks in the military-industrial pocket and hold the masses in a permanent state of war tension.
He and Bush I and Ollie North were narco-terrorists who ran death squads with the help of current Gestapo Chief John Negroponte who was ambassador to Honduras, a staging ground for training and arming terrorist Contras.
http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/walsh/chap_19.htm
(Walsh Report at Federation of American Scientists website)
In fact Congressman Kucinich has outed one of the Special Forces death squad professionals, an Army Colonel James Steele who worked their CIA war in Central America back then and is running death squads in Iraq today. Kucinich even introduced this into the Congressional Record when demanding documents from the Pentagon. Here's his expose of the 'Salvador Option' now being implemented in Iraq by Army Colonel Steele--
http://www.kucinich.us/floor_speeches/iq_rumsfeld_letter4may.php
This 'Salvador Option' is exactly the same as Operation Phoenix that soon-to-become CIA Director William Colby ran during the Vietnam War rounding up, torturing, and killing around 20,000-40,000 Vietnamese in a campaign to purge 'Communist sympathizers.'
http://www.thememoryhole.org/phoenix/internal-security.htm
http://www.counterpunch.org/valentine08112003.html
Daniel Ellsberg in his 1972 book 'Papers on the War' documented how the CIA analysis that almost ALL Vietnamese were so-called 'Communist sympathizers' was very carefully kept away from those on the ground doing the killing so the war would continue despite the futiliity of the slaughter.
Sound familiar?
That's where all those bodies in Iraq are coming from with the hands tied, a shot to the head, and peppered with electric drill holes. This is NOT the "sectarian violence" alleged to be a civil war peddled to the US public to imply 'those religious kooks are just like that' to both cover for US death squads and justify the occupation.
The number of bodies found per day in Iraq is going up, not down.
But that story will soon have to compete with the increase in bodies down in Central and South America as the US dirty wars there are renewed to get at Venezualan oil as a hedge against control of Middle East oil.
The School of the Americas torture school has just been given a mandate to restart training of Latin American 'miltaries' with an October 2, 2006 end of a ban on this terrorist tactic.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-11-09-waiver_x.htm
Here are some School of the Americas documents obtained by Freedom of Information Act requests along with analysis that shows the Nazi-like nature of what is institutionalized in other countries by the USA. Unfortunately, it also shows us how military culture see its own domestic civilians, too.
http://www.lawg.org/misc/publications-manuals.htm
I wonder if Colonel Steele will have to share custody over his death squads with a new Ollie North wanna-be? Hey, who doesn't want to be a hero? What's left of you might get a medal if you can stand what is left of your mind. And poor foreigners are used to death and suffering anyway. Just ask General Westmoreland.
