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Return Falklands to Argentina - Chavez
The Scotsman ^ | 2/11/06 | JEREMY MCDERMOTT

Posted on 02/10/2006 9:00:31 PM PST by Thunder90

VENEZUELA'S president has called on Tony Blair to return the Falkland Islands to Argentina, accusing the Prime Minister of being a "pawn" of Washington.

"We have to remember the Malvinas [the Argentine name for the islands]; how they were taken away from the Argentines. Mr Blair, return the Malvinas to Argentina," said president Hugo Chavez.

The socialist leader has long been the most vocal critic of US president George Bush, but Mr Blair was added to his list of "imperialists" after the Prime Minister said in parliament on Wednesday that if Mr Chavez wanted to be respected, he "should abide by the rules of the international community".

He responded: "Mr Tony Blair, you have no moral right to tell anyone to respect international laws, as you have shown no respect for them, aligning yourself with 'Mr Danger' [president Bush] and trampling on the people of Iraq. Do you think we still live in the times of the British Empire or colonialism?"

The Argentine president, Nestor Kirchner, has vowed that the islands will one day be part of Argentina, but has not aggressively pursued the issue since taking power in 2003.

A statement released by the Venezuelan presidential palace was more formal but equally critical of Britain, which it now lumped together with the US.

"Venezuela respects the rules of the international community: that is why it does not invade countries, it does not blockade countries, it does not sponsor torture, it does not protect international terrorists and it repudiates the existence of clandestine CIA jails in various European countries. Venezuela is not a genocidal country," it said.


TOPICS: Extended News; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: argentina; blair; britian; brokenclock2aday; chavez; colonialism; communism; falklands; fckthebrits; hugocastro; hugochavez; liberal; malvinas; socialism; tonyblair; unitedkingdom; uptheempire; venezuela
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To: Thunder90

Who owns the Falklands was settled by a war. If Argentina wants them back, then maybe they should try their luck again.


21 posted on 02/10/2006 9:21:08 PM PST by SALChamps03
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To: Thunder90

22 posted on 02/10/2006 9:21:32 PM PST by seastay
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To: Thunder90

Return Chavez to the hole he crawled out of.


23 posted on 02/10/2006 9:21:41 PM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway~~John Wayne)
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To: seastay

Chavez has also been spotted with the Russian President (Soviet Premier Putin), Chinese Premier Wen Jibao, Saddam hussein, and other not so nice characters.


24 posted on 02/10/2006 9:23:02 PM PST by Thunder90
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To: bybybill

"Very soon, this clown is going to have a really bad day"

I am thinking "coup". Usually when some a$$clown in South America becomes puffed with a sense of self importance, one of his underlings caps his arse...


25 posted on 02/10/2006 9:23:34 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Thunder90
"The Argentine president, Nestor Kirchner, has vowed that the islands will one day be part of Argentina"


Hmmm, an Argentine president with a German surname; I wonder if his family appeared in Argentina circa WWII...
26 posted on 02/10/2006 9:27:58 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Thunder90

Hey Fatso - go down to the Falklands and return them yourself.


27 posted on 02/10/2006 9:28:45 PM PST by Enterprise (The MSM - Propaganda wing and news censorship division of the Democrat Party.)
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To: Thunder90
He responded: "Mr Tony Blair, you have no moral right to tell anyone to respect international laws, as you have shown no respect for them, aligning yourself with 'Mr Danger' [president Bush]...."

Silly Hugo... do not you know that Danger Danger is a band?


28 posted on 02/10/2006 9:29:34 PM PST by Trajan88 (www.bullittclub.com)
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To: af_vet_rr
"He's an attention whore, what do you expect." ,

The media whore must have got him all wound up again.

29 posted on 02/10/2006 9:31:09 PM PST by Nathan Zachary
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To: Churchillspirit

times have changed, blair is getting ripped over Iraq. No way in hell he would send troops today. Just my opinion


30 posted on 02/10/2006 9:31:10 PM PST by stuck_in_new_orleans
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To: stuck_in_new_orleans

That is like China attacking Taiwan...


31 posted on 02/10/2006 9:31:50 PM PST by Thunder90
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To: Army Air Corps

The coup failed a year or so ago.


32 posted on 02/10/2006 9:32:19 PM PST by stuck_in_new_orleans
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To: Thunder90; Cacique
I hate Chavez, but even a broken clock is right twice a day.

LAS MALVINAS SON ARGENTINAS! Jeanne Kirkpatrick was right on this issue, and encouraged Reagan to stay out of the conflict. Unfotunatly, Anglophiles in the state department decided to kiss limey a-s.

Remember that the UK was about to give the islands back to Argentina, until shale deposits were discovered off the coast of the Malvinas/Falklands. Then the Tory backbenchers went Falklands-crazy, pushing Margaret Thatcher away from returning the islands to Argentina.

Let me remind you folks that, at the time, Argentina was the ONLY nation that truly was doing something successful about the communist guerrillas in their country.

33 posted on 02/10/2006 9:32:28 PM PST by Clemenza (I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked...)
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To: Thunder90

Return Citgo to the American Public.


34 posted on 02/10/2006 9:35:56 PM PST by Paladin2 (If the political indictment's from Fitz, the jury always acquits.)
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To: Army Air Corps

At first you think: Why do they want this? National pride? Like Canada wanting that football-field-sized piece of ice in the North Atlantic? Or is it because the Faulklands have a British culture and work ethic?


35 posted on 02/10/2006 9:36:45 PM PST by AmishDude
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To: Thunder90
I'd like to see somebody in congress introduce a "sense of the congress" resolution (or some such thing) that the president, in his responsibility for foreign policy, should take any action whatsoever that he deemed appropriate to terminate the threat to peace and American interest from Mr. Chavez and stating that no other act of congress should be construed to restrain him in this matter in any way whatsoever.

...just dreaming....

36 posted on 02/10/2006 9:37:37 PM PST by LK44-40
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To: Thunder90
""Venezuela respects the rules of the international community: that is why it does not invade countries, it does not blockade countries, it does not sponsor torture, it does not protect international terrorists and it repudiates the existence of clandestine CIA jails in various European countries. Venezuela is not a genocidal country," it said."

Liars. I guess their prisons are models of human decency, Amnesty complaints are over trivial things, like 2 ply toilet paper rather than the brutal single ply stuff. Child labor, human rights have always be the model for the whole world, and those weren't "humans" they massacure from time to time, just animals that look like humans that tend to overpoplat and must be culled by nateral resource officers concerned for the enviroment and health of the herd.

All those Al qiada people in the tri border region aren't terrorists, they are church going saints....

Unbelievable. Commie shiite never stinks I guess.

37 posted on 02/10/2006 9:40:07 PM PST by Nathan Zachary
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To: Thunder90

The Axes of Weasels grows larger...

and stupider.


38 posted on 02/10/2006 9:40:42 PM PST by ChefKeith (Flies,fleas,ants,ticks,cockroaches,bad cops,lawyers,judges & politicians All the same. Useless!!!)
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To: Thunder90

Did he and the crouds start jumping up and down doing the "pogo" during the speech?


39 posted on 02/10/2006 9:41:18 PM PST by Red6
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To: Clemenza

Were you part of the junta that took over Argentina and in a few short months invaded the Falklands?


40 posted on 02/10/2006 9:43:07 PM PST by AmishDude
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