I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America.
Bianca JaggerThe Sandinista government became consumed with fighting a war of survival. They were up against the biggest superpower in the world.
Bianca JaggerGeorge W. Bush and Tony Blair had to convince the world that Saddam Hussein represented an imminent threat. Tony Blair lied when he claimed that Iraq could launch a chemical or biological attack within 45 minutes.
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