re: Why do you have to be SO insulting?
Yeah, the Left has a long and colorful history of coming to the defense of almost every totalitarian goon that has popped up in the past thirty years, with the only qualification being that he has to be on the opposite side of the United States.
You can thank the U.S. that Nicaragua--among many other nations--didn't end up another jewel in the Marxist crown, i.e. an economic and political cesspool.