i've posted about chiquita before

from the links below you can see i've talked about them (and none too favorably at that) SEVERAL times

it was quite obvious to me, a lay observer, they got a hand slap when they deserved giant fines and jail time and sanctions and more.

so our good friend larisa alexandrovna (well i don't KNOW her but i do respect her and read her) and muriel kane, have the REST of the story

The Department of Justice, Corporations, Buying the Law – Part II: Strange Bargains

By Larisa Alexandrovna and Muriel Kane
Bush US Attorney arranged lenient plea deal with company paying terrorists; Lawyer who helped secure plea deal? Obama’s future Attorney General

When the US Justice Department announced in March 2007 that Chiquita Brands had pleaded guilty to “one count of engaging in transactions with a specially-designated global terrorist” and would be paying a $25 million fine, observers were astonished at the lightness of the sentence.

Between 1997 and February of 2004, Chiquita made $1.7 million in payments to a right-wing paramilitary group, the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC), in regions where it had banana-growing operations. During that period, AUC conducted a “dirty war” against Colombia’s left-wing FARC guerrillas, marked by widespread murders of union leaders and farmers, as well as trafficking in cocaine and heroin...........

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a funny headline

as far as giving king george credit for anything - you have to give it to him for STONES. the man sure does have a set (unlike all of congress and the senate)

Bush Prods Vietnamese President On Human Rights and Openness


By Peter Baker Washington Post Staff Writer

President Bush pressed Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet yesterday to address human rights abuses and open up his communist nation's autocratic system, during the first White House visit by a head of state from Hanoi since the countries were at war.
Bush hailed the growing trade ties between the two former enemies and the signing of a new agreement that could lead to formal free-trade talks. But as flag-waving Vietnamese American protesters demonstrated outside the White House gates, Bush used the opportunity to urge Triet to permit opposition and end crackdowns on religious minorities.......

so who's going to talk to king george about all of HIS abuses???