[Paladin2]

If they are so revolutionary, why didn't they ride a camel to NYC?

[Master of Orion]

The article forgot to mention that he paid cash for his one-way ticket. Ramsey Cluck was also on the news about this and started spouting off that rights were violated, blah, blah blah.

[jimtorr]

Five minutes later, State Department officials arrived and ordered Maduro and the others to spread their arms and legs to be frisked by police, he said.

Even the State Department recognized the suspicious actions of these thugs from Venezuela. They simply directed them to comply with security.

AP does not acknowedge this until near the end of the article, and finished up with more 'words of wisdom' from Chavez.

[roaddog727]

Venezuela has now taken over the poll position in the ANit-US propaganda war.

Such crap.

Declare him PNG and deny him future access - even transit access.

A@@holes!

[Cheburashka]

Chavez saw the uproar that the Barking Moonbat from Georgia was able to create with the Capitol Police and decided to recreate it with American airport security. I'm sure that if a hand was laid upon the a**hole it was to restrain him from trying to bull his way through security.

Expect the same thing to happen to American diplomats trying to fly out of Caracas shortly, only this time the physical manhandling will be real.

[L.N. Smithee]

If this is how U.S. authorities treat a foreign minister, he said, "what won't they do to Arab people for wearing a turban?"

You haven't been paying attention, dude. Those are the ones that aren't searched.

[L.N. Smithee]

The two countries' relations — strained for several years — took a particularly confrontational turn this week, when Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, speaking at the annual U.N. General Assembly, called President Bush "the devil." U.S. officials often call Chavez a threat to democracy.

Maduro told reporters that the treatment of him and other Venezuelan officials seemed in part to be an "attempt to provoke us."

Uh, yeah, right. Unlike calling the leader of the nation you are visiting Beelzebub, which isn't provocation at all. No sirree.

Venezuela is among the top five suppliers of crude to the U.S.

You can say that again.

[river rat]

Another reason why we should toss the U.N. out of the U.S...
We already have far too many of these "Diplomats" in the country...

The U.S. is on the receiving end of all these insults from the Turd World - because we DON'T REPOND in a manner that delivers consequences for bad behavior...

Time to take off the "white hat" and kick a little stupid ass around.

Semper Fi

[hummingbird]

In the words of a very brave, patriotic American..."he can kiss my royal Irish *ss."

I thing that's how it goes...