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Canadian Socialist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 01:55 PM
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Why the U.S. has Chavez in its crosshairs
by Linda McQuaig
September 5, 2005

The future of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez started to look precarious last January. It was then that CNN announcers began referring to him as a “Latin American strongman.”

The term suggests a dictator, so it actually doesn't fit Chavez, who's twice been democratically elected in national elections.

But to millions of Americans, Chavez has been presented as a strongman, a dictator, a mini-Saddam. So they probably won't be concerned if he's assassinated, as Christian fundamentalist leader Pat Robertson publicly urged the Bush administration to do.

Only two years after it toppled Saddam Hussein in Iraq, Washington seems anxious to get rid of yet another unco-operative leader of a nation very rich in oil and largely defenceless.
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http://rabble.ca/columnists_full.shtml?x=41427

As usual, Linda nails it.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 02:00 PM
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1. My Money is on Chavez..
Chavez has intregrity, intelligence, and most of his people behind him.

bush is a floundering warped monkey.
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pretzel4gore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-05-05 02:22 PM
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2. maybe it's the US is in something's crosshairs...
president Chavez has popular support, and even the stupidest S. american can see bushinc is a fool's conception, the turd of worms. The bushit that crisp professional amers. in tight underwear under their jackboot attire have handson the controls is wearing kinda thin:

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Check out this marvelous tirade from another NYer on another blog!"
Posted by Talismom
(From another blog on 9/3/05, short paragraphs so I put most in. I love the anger!)

A note to our conservative friends:

WE TOLD YOU SO

Ever wonder why New Yorkers detest George Bush?

Because we experienced his incompetence up close and person. We knew this guy was full of shit, absolutely full of fucking shit, after they started to play games with the funding and gave Wyoming terrorism money. We knew he was an assclown then.

(snip)

But did you listen?

Fuck no. Until last week, Ann Coulter was calling New Yorkers cowards for not endorsing Bush's folly in Iraq.

We have been screaming for two years that Bush and his team sucked. That they had no clue. They sent soldiers to be wounded in Iraq without armored anything. And you idiots cheered him on from the safety of your keyboards. We told you he was fucking up Iraq. But no, we supported Saddam, we were racist, we blamed America.

You say this isn't about politics? Fuck you, this IS politics, real time, real life politics, where the insanity of all your ideas are exposed to the world for the fraud that they are. Tax cuts kill. Ask the relatives of the dead of the Gulf Coast.

Well, motherfuckers, the alligators are feasting on dead nigger and there isn't an Iraqi in sight. And Bush is trying to gladhand his way through a mess which has stunned FOX reporters. I mean, Shepard Smith is calling Fox's talking heads liars ON THE AIR.

CNN rips Bush in print and online after nearly five years of sleep.

Instead of hearing what we had to say about Bush, you called John Kerry a coward, mocked Max Cleland, blamed everything but herpes on Bill Clinton. You enabled Bush into this mess and now you're shocked?

Now, Fox can be outraged, now, Wash Times and Union Leader call Bush weak? Well, his coward ass disappeared in 2001. But you rather blame Michael Moore for that.

He can't even explain the Iraq war to a grieving mother.

So what did you do?

Write the most vile things about her and her dead son. Attacked her patriotism and her honesty.

Well, motherfuckers, and that means you, fat ass Goldberg and your master, Rich Lowry, PNAC Bitch Beinart, the racist wannabe white Malkin and the little fucktards at LGF, Bareback Andy and "Diversity" Instacracker, all you backstabbing, fag hating uncle tom ministers, you can see Dear Leader in action. America's largest port is gone, maybe forever, gas is $5+ a gallon and FEMA is coming. Whores come faster with old men than FEMA is getting to NOLA.

How did your wartime President react? Like Chiang Kai-Shek when the Yellow River flooded in 1944, with corrupt indifference.

Bush, the man your fever dreams built into the next Winston Churchill when he is really the live action Chauncey Gardiner, has failed to everyone, in plain sight, without question. Rick Perry is trying to save his ass, but it ain't working. NOLA looks like ANGOLA and that ain't flying.

Say 9/11 changed everything now, motherfuckers. Ooops, 9/11, 9/11. 9/11. Doesn't work anymore? Gee, maybe the sea of alligator MRE's once known as the citizens of New Orleans has something to do with that. Now you can shut the fuck up about 9/11. Bush just proved what would happen with another 9/11. Dead Americans as far as the nose can smell.

Drunken Chris Hitchens muttered some nonsense about blacks having it so good here. The poor man needs to stay in his bottle or go to Betty Ford before someone beats his treasonous ass stupid. Islamofascism means what, now motherfucker? Shove Islamofascism up your well travelled ass. The most dangerous thing to average Americans is not some mullah in Iraq, not even Osama Bin Laden, but George Bush. If he doesn't get you killed in Iraq, he'll fuck up saving your city so it turns into Escape from New Orleans. Armed junkies roaming the streets, looking for a fix, robbing and looting like Serb paramilitaries and about as sober.

George Bush's ineptitude has killed far more Americans than Osama could have dreamed of.

Some of you still try to see the clothes on the Dauphin, but he's as naked as Peter North around Jenna Jameson. Bush fucked up so bad, FOX turned on him like a rabid dog.

You can't hide behind racism forever. Bush fucked up, Bush is a weak, callous leader and the world knows this like it knows few other things. And all the stolen TV's in the world cannot hide that.



http://stevegilliard.blogspot.com/2005/09/we-told-you-s...



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