Welcome to the WHISC Cabaret!

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Follow the dancing skeleton and sing along with WHISC!

WHISC you are the divil, ... you're leadin' us astray! ... Sayin' you're a kinder, gentler ... brand-new SOA! ... You say you won't teach death squads ... to torture and to maim, ... but WHISC you are the divil all the same!..........

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On January 17, 2001 the SOA was replaced by the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHISC). The result of a Department of Defense proposal included in the Defense Authorization Bill for Fiscal 2001, the name-change measure passed when the House of Representatives defeated a bi-partisan amendment to close the SOA and conduct a congressional investigation by a narrow ten vote margin. In a media interview last year, Georgia Senator and SOA supporter, the late Paul Coverdell, characterized the DOD proposal as "cosmetic" changes that would ensure that the SOA could continue its mission and operation. Critics of the SOA concur. The new military training school is the continuation of the SOA under a new name. It is a new name, but the same shame. To compare WHISC and the "old" SOA click on the picture link below: To return to the SOAW of the Southern Tier homepage, please click on the icon below.