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Nothing Chavez is doing violates any "free trade" agreement. You see, "free traders" embrace communists. They embrace China, although China enslaves their people in laogai to produce goods for "free trade". They welcome Viet Nam into their waiting arms, although they use forms of slavery as well. Now if Chavez wants to starve his people so other consumers can get stuff cheaper, why thats the name of the game to "free traders".

Still angry about that Nafta thing I see. How's things down at the union hall anyway???

When a communist talks about embracing free trade, he does not mean anything at all resembling the usual meaning of the term. It’s completely Orwellian free trade.

Communists had a free trade block in Europe before the communist collapse in 1991. It was called COMECON. It was a system of production quotas and price control, just like Chavez wants. It had nothing to do with free trade except for the communist penchant to use capitalist nomenclature for their losing proposals.

In Cuba, for instance, the communist regime is very fond of democracy. As a matter of fact, Castro has been elected many times with over 95% of the popular vote, just like Saddam Hussein used to win elections. Again, the word democracy used by communists has no relation to the usual meaning in the West. For a communist, democracy means choosing the more communist between two communist candidates for the communist parliament, whose only purpose is to re-elect the communist leader and rubber stamp his edicts.

Chavez is to free trade what Clinton is to marital fidelity. Linking American-style free trade to Chavez's ideology is disingenuous.

Nothing Chavez is doing violates any "free trade" agreement. You see, "free traders" embrace communists. They embrace China, although China enslaves their people in laogai to produce goods for "free trade". They welcome Viet Nam into their waiting arms, although they use forms of slavery as well. Now if Chavez wants to starve his people so other consumers can get stuff cheaper, why thats the name of the game to "free traders".

True, although I will be willing to add that they would embrace anybody as long as they can get the lowest price or maximum profit. That said, they would go to bed with anyone be it a Communist, someone like a Hitler/Tojo, perhaps even Satan himself. Sooner or later, you will get kicked in the butt as the Japanese did when they bombed Pearl Harbor.