Posted on 01/05/2005 6:08:10 PM PST by Kitten Festival
January 5, 2005 | Recently Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chávez gave Aljazeera TV an interview in which he openly disclosed his plans to lead a global "offensive war" against U.S. "colonialism and imperialism." The interview was one of those prepared events in which the questions are carefully designed to invite the answers. Not journalism but impudent advertisement. The presenter, Mr. Faysal Al-Quaim, starts by telling Chávez that he is so popular in the Arab world that, if he ran in an Arab presidential election he would "win by more than 90% of the votes" and hastened to add: "I mean a genuine 90% and not falsified." This was a serious slip of the tongue, considering that the Venezuelan Presidential recall referendum in August 2004 was plagued with fraud and blatant abuses of power by the Chávez regime.
The reasons for this popularity are two, says the presenter: "Your care for the poor and downtrodden in your country and second, your defiance of the United States."
My initial comment has to do with the ignorance of the economic and social Venezuelan conditions exhibited by "brother Faysal," as Chávez refers to the presenter.
(Excerpt) Read more at vcrisis.com ...
Well, apparently the President of Venezuela has declared war on the United States. Send in the Marines.
And Chávez replies: "Of course, the Arab people and the world. I was in Madrid . . . and talked to thousands of Spanish workers . . . and students. . . .
Not mentioned is the appalling fact that the Universidad Complutense, Spain's best-known and oldest university, gave Chavez an honorary degree on that trip. The Socialist Zapatero and Spain's "intellectuals" are right up there with al Jazeera for fools and dictator-worshippers.
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