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| Hugo Chavez Responds to Rice’s Medddling Statements |
| 2004-01-11 |
| Message to Hugo: worry now that Condi is speaking for the State Department - not a good sign. CARACAS, Venezuela -- Following a week of tense exchanges with Washington, President Hugo Chavez on Saturday said American officials should not "stick their noses" in Venezuela’s affairs. ... Unless it is that Carter guy. Jimmah is there for us evil despots when we need him most. U.S. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice said Friday that Chavez should show "that he believes in democratic processes" by allowing the recall referendum on his rule to take place. The comments followed a week of back-and-forth comments that began when U.S. officials accused Venezuela and Cuba of cooperating to undermine democratic governments in the region. On Saturday, Chavez said the United States was wrong to comment on Venezuela’s internal affairs. "It is not up to them to stick their noses here in Venezuela," Chavez said. "What occurs in Venezuela only concerns Venezuelans." Translation - your heckling is disturbing my magic show. "Venezuela is a Caracas’ ties with Washington have been strained over Chavez’s friendly relations with Castro and his opposition to a U.S.-backed hemispheric free trade zone. (Gotta like a guy who is anti-prosperity. He wants our crippling agricultural subsidies to remain in place.) Washington was also slow to condemn a 2002 coup that briefly ousted Chavez. I’m sure in retrospect that we wish that we had not condemned the coup at all. Venezuela’s National Elections Council must verify 3.4 million signatures that Chavez opponents submitted on petitions seeking the recall election. Ezequiel Zamora, vice president of the elections council, said the vote -- if approved -- would be held before August as opposition groups have planned. Opposition leaders argue Chavez, a former paratrooper elected in 1998 and re-elected in 2000, would be able to continue governing from behind the scenes if one of his confidants finishes his term. A fierce critic of alleged U.S. hegemony in world affairs, Chavez praised Latin American leaders like Argentine President Nestor Kirchner, Brazil’s Luiz Ignacio Lula Da Silva and his close Cuban ally Fidel Castro for standing up to Washington. He more quietly supports other great leaders like Sadaam, Yasser, Bin Laden and Bob Mugabe. Venezuela is a major oil supplier to the United States, but relations have been strained under Chavez. Notice that Venezuala has oil, supports the FARC and is anti-American, but hasn’t appeared on the WOT radar screen. Could it be that the US is not an imperial power bent on controlling oil sources? Could we actually be fighting against radical Islamic terrorists because they killed our citizens? |
| Posted by:Super Hose |
| #6 drag queen Jon, every murderer has a reason for murder. Ditto for you and your babbling. You NEED oil for your survival cuz without it your war machines wont work at all. |
| Posted by: Faisal 2004-1-12 11:22:54 AM |
| #5 oh jesus faisal,are you really dumb enough to think we should have not nuked japan and instead sacrificed a million odd men to defeat the japanese and at the same time destroying every single japanese village town and city and every japanese person in these citys.yeah that would've been great and added a good 5 to 10 years onto the war,don't forget the japanese were also working on thier own nuclear project with the help of thier loser nazi friends.Pick up a history book if you don't believe me and try to think rationally about this.Anyway about the oil,now if we didn't BUY the OIL off your middle eastern buddies then what the fuck would they get thier money from...fruit maybe or sand?no not very profitable is it.If we didn't buy your precious oil then your favourite countries simply would not exist in this modern world,they'd be like ethiopia.you wouldn't want that would you? Interesting though how these islamic goverments use thier oil wealth,lets see,palaces more palaces medrassis (those lovely schools were they teach anti western values), and who dosn't see any of the money for the OIL we BUY off them,yep you got it its the average person who lives like a tramp.Great eh faisal,now go read that history book. |
| Posted by: Jon Shep U.K 2004-1-11 7:24:31 PM |
| #4 OH Oh.... Jon She(E)p ... btw which country so far has used a nuclear weapon? Yankees smell oil. Wait till the oil of this planet finishes. I wonder what the yankees will search for. Yankees remember democracy in countries where there is lotsa oil. Read Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Venezuala. Isnt it time they dug Alaska? |
| Posted by: Faisal 2004-1-11 5:47:47 PM |
| #3 Hugo: "If it wasn't for that meddling Condi kid, I would have gotten away with my plans." Scooby-doobie-doo |
| Posted by: ed 2004-1-11 3:22:53 PM |
| #2 Don't be mean JS... a nuclear weapon could destroy the lake of asphalt. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-1-11 3:08:19 PM |
| #1 simple soultion to this, its called the thermo nuclear weapon. |
| Posted by: Jon Shep U.K 2004-1-11 1:29:24 PM |