Libya gives human rights prize to Venezuela's Chavez

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CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) -- Libya Sunday awarded its annual Moammar Gadhafi human rights prize to Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez for resisting "imperialism" and being a champion of the poor.

A citation accompanying the award, named after Libya's leader, Gadhafi, was read by a Libyan delegation attending a live television and radio show hosted by Chavez.

It praised the Venezuelan leader's "brave heart, intelligent mind, eloquent oratory and firm hand."

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Previous winners of the prize, which has been awarded each year since 1989, include Cuban President Fidel Castro and South Africa's President Nelson Mandela.

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1. This will be seized upon by the opposition

now his boyfriend is Castro and his mistress is Ghadaffi (I never know how to spell his name)

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2. Chavez has already been called anything you could think of.

And Ghadaffi has just recently been rehabilitated.
And Mandela is not bad company to be in.

One does have to wonder if Ghadaffi would submit himself to
a referendum? And if he did, what the result would be?

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3. So what you're saying is that since Ghadaffi is Bush's example of how his

policies can rehabilitate evildoers that they wouldn't use this as an example of how evil Hugo is?

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4. It would be awkward. But logic isn't the Bushites strong suit.

I just doubt that Hugo gives a crap about what the Shrubites
might have to say about him at this point. He has a long
history of tweaking their noses, so I expect he likes to do it.

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5. His nose-tweaking of my enemies is one of the things I admire about him

most.

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6. Annoying some people is a duty and an honor.

:thumbsup:

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7. You know - the reason I have my name is because Hugo is THE ONLY world

leader I've seen give speaches where he truly calls Bush out. He taks about the illegality of Iraq the tyranny and falseness of US polcy in the world vis a vis the non white, non rich peoples of the world, etc.

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8. I like him because he wins.

I dunno if he's the only one, but he does stand out from the crowd
in a number of ways. Castro has been there right under America's
nose for forty some years, and there are some others. But Hugo has
successfully resisted their attempts to overthrow, discredit, and
divert his reforms, and thus has stiffened the spines of many others.
He is much more dangerous to the Empire than fellows like Saddam and
Gaddafhi and so on. He is probably the single most impressive
political leader in the World at present (IMHO) in terms of raw
intelligence, nerve, and political skill.

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9. Well alright. Too bad Kerry has no respect for Chavez. But

I admire the heck out of him.