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Rice Empties Both Barrels on Venezuela's Chavez
The Post Chronicle ^ | 2/20/06 | Jim Kouri

Posted on 02/20/2006 6:03:30 AM PST by RepublicNewbie

The Venezuelan president viewed by the Bush Administration as a communist madman got some choice words from the US Secretary of State.

Making her sharpest criticisms yet about Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, Condoleezza Rice said that Venezuela and Cuba are ''sidekicks'' of Iran and dangers to Latin American democracies. And she gave new details of a US diplomatic campaign to contain Chávez. Recently, a member of the Iranian parliament visited Cuba for meetings with his counterparts. The meetings between the Iranians and Cubans and Venezuelans bring to mind the axiom "the enemy of my enemy is my friend."

Rice told the members of the House International Relations Committee that there was a need to convince Chavez that there ''a united front against some of the things that Venezuela gets involved in." Rice also made reference to suspicions that Venezuela was linked to a recent political crisis in Nicaragua.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chavez; communism; conditalks; rice; rummystalks; venezuela
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1 posted on 02/20/2006 6:03:30 AM PST by RepublicNewbie
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To: RepublicNewbie

Speak softly and carry a big stick.


2 posted on 02/20/2006 6:07:19 AM PST by joesnuffy (A camel once bit our sister..but we knew just what to do...we gathered rocks and squashed her!)
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To: RepublicNewbie

When I read the title, I was hoping it was meant literally. As in she took him quail hunting and blasted the SOB.


3 posted on 02/20/2006 6:12:03 AM PST by lesser_satan
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To: joesnuffy

The Damolrats would sweet talk him and kiss his fanny rather than tell him what he is.


4 posted on 02/20/2006 6:12:34 AM PST by Piquaboy (22 year veteran of the Army, Air Force and Navy, Pray for all our military .)
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To: joesnuffy
Speak softly and carry a big stick.

And use it when you have to.

5 posted on 02/20/2006 6:12:34 AM PST by stboz
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To: joesnuffy

Oh, come on......where's the pic of Condi in those boots? She can really kick some butt in those.


6 posted on 02/20/2006 6:17:05 AM PST by tioga (Speaking out from the god-foresaken frozen tundra of the land of the hildebeast.)
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To: RepublicNewbie

Sticks and stones, etc., etc., etc.,....but words are totally worthless. He's going to sell his oil somewhere else?? I didn't realize Venezuela had a blockade running navy!! Words, words, words. Ho, Hum.


7 posted on 02/20/2006 6:18:43 AM PST by GoldenPup
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To: RepublicNewbie
"I have to say that I've begun taking steps on the matter, but I won't tell you what they are," he (Chavez) said. Sounds like one of Senator John Kerry's secret plans he kept talking about in 2004.

Monkey see, monkey do.

8 posted on 02/20/2006 6:24:59 AM PST by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: RepublicNewbie

Where are the civil rights warriors demanding an apology from Chavez for using a demeaning slang term for a woman of color?


9 posted on 02/20/2006 6:41:53 AM PST by Casekirchen (Still waiting for the mythical moderate moslem --- for the last 1396 years)
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To: GoldenPup

The time to take out Chavez was three years ago. It's a day late and a dollar short from Condi.


10 posted on 02/20/2006 6:43:39 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: joesnuffy
Speak softly and carry a big stick armored tank division.
11 posted on 02/20/2006 6:48:26 AM PST by Pookee
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To: tioga

12 posted on 02/20/2006 6:54:16 AM PST by Balding_Eagle (God has blessed Republicans with political enemies who have dementia.)
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To: lesser_satan

And from a lot closer than twenty yards.


13 posted on 02/20/2006 7:13:59 AM PST by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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To: tioga

Is Condi going to confront the countries that are helping out Chavez? She needs to go to Russia and China and slap their leaders for helping out Chavez and the Ayatollahs.


14 posted on 02/20/2006 7:19:07 AM PST by Thunder90
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To: BenLurkin

And with 00 buckshot, or slugs.


15 posted on 02/20/2006 7:21:58 AM PST by lesser_satan
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To: Pookee

An unarmored tank division wouldn't work?


16 posted on 02/20/2006 7:23:24 AM PST by ASA Vet (Those who know don't talk, those who talk don't know.)
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To: Balding_Eagle

Oh she's a babe in those boots. I bet Tony Blair has sweaty hands everytime she walks into a room. I can just see a British comedy....using Mr. Bean as Blair...and having a Condi look-alike walk in. It'd make a great movie.


17 posted on 02/20/2006 7:25:07 AM PST by pepsionice
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