the note Chavez threw on the floor of the UN

[donsu]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050916/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/un_chavez_1

Chavez Takes Bush to Task Over Iraq War

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez took
President Bush to task in front of a global summit for waging war in
Iraq without U.N. consent and won rousing applause for his critique.

-snip-

World leaders at the summit had been asked to speak for five minutes but Chavez ran long and when the presiding diplomat passed him a note saying his time was up, he threw it on the floor. He said if Bush could speak for 20 minutes, so could he.

When he finally stopped, he got what observers said was the loudest applause of the summit.
-snip-
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"the loudest applause of the summit"

thank you Chavez

[Child_Of_Isis]

1. Was shrub-0 there?

I would have loved to have seen the look on his face.

[MADem]

2. He might have been taking his bathroom break!!!! nt

[Said1]

4. No

the article stated Bush wasn't present when Chavez was speaking.

[Child_Of_Isis]

7. Well duh! What was I thinking?

We all know that he can't handle criticism. Condi probably got him out of there before someone said something that would damage his ego.

[Said1]

8. It's possible

but unlikely. :D

[area51]

15. Welcome.

Welcome to DU, Said1.

[TerdlowSmedley]

5. No, I think he was in the bathroom.

[greenbriar]

12. no, they all (US delegates) got up and walked out

like babies when the IRan prez got up to speak

[Child_Of_Isis]

14. Thank you.

;)

[mojavekid]

3. Well done!

Chavez, whose country is the world's fifth-largest oil exporter, also warned the world is facing an unprecedented energy crisis.

He told reporters later the crisis will keep growing, "not because we the producers want it but because we are running out of oil."

- snip ------------------------------------

I like the way this President talks!

[Bellamia]

6. Chavez Rocks!

[acmavm]

9. I truly admire the man for his intellect, his guts, and his common sense:

<snip>
Chavez singled out the United States as the most wasteful country, saying he was shocked when a quarter of all the cars he counted Thursday morning on New York streets had one person in them.

"That's crazy, one person with a huge car ... that is using up gas and polluting the atmosphere," he said at a news conference. "The world cannot tolerate this model of development called the American way of life."

<snip>

[snappyturtle]

10. I like this...

and what Chavez said to Koppel on "Nightline". He said he was going to give Ted the evidence that the U.S. planned (plans) to invade Venezuela! Got it off the news articles listed on Yahoo's front page and printed it out (4 pages) with lots of links but when I checked the list again, an hour or so later, for other news stories, I saw that the transcript of the interview was no longer there?? Why could that be? :sarcasm:

[ZinZen]

11. I read the transcript in time then

raise Hell Chavez!!!

[TankLV]

13. God bless Hugo Chavez and keep him safe.

[OneGrassRoot]

16. "The world cannot tolerate this model of development..........

called the American way of life."

Bravo

[genius]

17. kick