my connection with the tea party

[Jester]

It's not really invention, other than in construction. It is actually snippets of many statements made by Che, over time, then sewn together much like a Micheal Moore film.

I think it's much more than that. They change tone drastically, and create new, and false, meanings by putting (falsified, exaggerated) sentences together which were never meant to be attached to one another.

By putting the statements together, they make it out that Che is advocating exterminating his enemies through nuclear war - which is a complete fiction. He said the fight must continue. He said that hate is a part of what makes soldiers determined, and they need that determination. And he said that they will fight, even if it comes to nuclear war (which, last I checked, is the position of all nuclear-armed powers...)

At no point did he argue for a war of extermination using nuclear weapons, which is exactly what that quote, in its "construction," has him saying. That's far beyond what even Che, a radical's radical and unflinching about the use of violence, ever said. (I'll check the library copy of the Anderson biography for the full quote, mine's back in Canada - I don't think Che said the part about using the missiles at the same time as the victory of socialism being worth the millions of deaths. I think those are separate quotes, from separate occasions - one about what Cuba would have done if attacked by the US, and the other about whether it would be worth the consequences.)

On that point: " Cuba is part of a world that is experiencing intense anguish because we do not know if one of the parts — the weakest, but the most aggressive — will commit the stupid mistake of unleashing a conflict that would necessarily be a nuclear one. Cuba is on the alert, distinguished delegates, because she knows that imperialism would perish enveloped in flames, but that Cuba would also suffer in its own flesh the price of imperialism's defeat, and she hopes that it can be accomplished by other means. Cuba hopes that her children will see a better future, and that victory will not have to be won at the cost of millions of human lives destroyed by the atomic bomb." -Che, On Growth and Imperialism, Punta del Este, 1961

-Jester

P.S.: Even in the retraction, you can't help but take the shot at Michael Moore?