Posted on 03/04/2019 9:36:36 AM PST by John Semmens
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn) defended Venezuelan President Maduro’s order for troops to fire on humanitarian aid workers trying to delivery food to the nation’s starving inhabitants. “This food aid has not been approved by the legitimate government authorities,” Omar pointed out. “It is a totally ad hoc effort that is undermining the Maduro regime’s attempts to rally his people against the Yankee imperialism that is the root cause of the crisis in Venezuela.”
“Venezuela used to be able to count on oil revenue to finance the country’s transition to socialism,” Omar maintained. “But under Trump’s radical deregulation policy the United States has now become the world’s largest crude oil producer. The collapse of demand for petroleum imports to the United States has led to oil prices drastically declining over the past two years and devastated Maduro’s revenues and plans.”
“The argument that a free market economy would avert the starvation seeks to impose an ideology that the Venezuelan Government has steadfastly rejected as exploitative,” she argued. “Maduro doesn’t want his people to be motivated by greed. He wants them to fulfill their social obligations to the collective state. It is their shirking of these obligations that has led to the food shortages that Maduro is trying to use to chastise them into obedience. The so-called humanitarian aid is aimed at thwarting this chastisement. Using force to prevent the food from reaching Venezuela’s disobedient citizens is within Maduro’s right to rule his country as he sees fit.”
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https://azconservative.org/2019/03/02/biden-apologizes-for-calling-vp-pence-decent/
Can she not be indited for sedition?/
How can you swear to uphold the Constitution, and yet make statements as such. Am I off base here??
Congress is no place for ISIS.
Republicans need to hold a Censure vote for her undermining US interests.
“This food aid has not been approved by the legitimate government authorities.” Please tell me this is satire and this woman isn’t that big of an idiot.
Fascinating. Coffee and doughnuts, too.
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