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Chavez blasts Bush as "donkey" and "drunkard"
Swiss Info ^ | 3/19/06 | Swiss Info

Posted on 03/19/2006 4:40:13 PM PST by freedom44

CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday lobbed a litany of insults at U.S. President George W. Bush ranging from "donkey" to "drunkard" in response to a White House report branding the left-wing leader a demagogue.

Chavez is one of Bush's fiercest critics and has repeatedly accused the U.S. government of seeking to oust him from the presidency of Venezuela, the world's No. 5 oil exporter and a supplier of around 15 percent of U.S. crude imports.

"You are a donkey, Mr. Bush," said Chavez, speaking in English on his weekly Sunday broadcast.

"You're an alcoholic Mr. Danger, or rather, you're a drunkard," Chavez said, referring to Bush by a nickname he frequently uses to describe the U.S. president.

A White House report released last week on pre-emptive force in national security described Chavez as a "demagogue" who uses Venezuela's oil wealth to destabilize democracy in the region.

Washington is increasingly at odds with the former soldier over his close alliance with Cuba and Iran. U.S. officials dismiss his anti-U.S. tirades as rhetoric meant to stir nationalism before presidential elections in December.

Chavez's remarks also came after Venezuela's El Universal newspaper printed an interview with U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela William Brownfield, who reiterated his government's concern over growing ties between Venezuela and Iran.

Tensions between the Washington and Caracas rose in January after Venezuela expelled a U.S. naval attache on espionage charges and the U.S. State Department responded by removing a top Venezuelan diplomat from Washington.

Chavez was elected in 1998 on an anti-poverty platform, and has used billions of dollars in oil revenues to finance development programs for the poor as part of his self-styled socialist revolution.

He won a overwhelming victory in a recall referendum in 2004, but his critics at home and in Washington say he is centralising power in an increasingly authoritarian system and cracking down on political opponents.


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hugochavez; patrobertsonwasright
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To: freedom44

It's just a matter of time before he does a Noriega. Hopefully, our criticisms of him are designed to push him over the edge.


41 posted on 03/19/2006 6:41:41 PM PST by Moonman62 (Federal creed: If it moves tax it. If it keeps moving regulate it. If it stops moving subsidize it)
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To: freedom44

Typical lefty. No class and no brains.


42 posted on 03/19/2006 6:43:43 PM PST by grimalkin (“They have an engine called the Press whereby the people are deceived.” - C.S. Lewis)
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To: freedom44

He's confusing President Bush with Teddy the Swimmer.


43 posted on 03/19/2006 7:07:00 PM PST by Sisku Hanne (Happy 2006...The Year of the Black Conservative!)
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To: freedom44
Chavez may as well be mumbling in the corner of a dark room, restraints are optional.

TT

(Then again in his case, breathing and a core temperature above ambient should be savored by the minute)
44 posted on 03/19/2006 7:07:06 PM PST by TexasTransplant (NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSET)
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To: Enterprise

The only NADs the Dhimmocrats have are the little pink ones that Code Pinko has been handing out.


45 posted on 03/19/2006 7:10:50 PM PST by Sisku Hanne (Happy 2006...The Year of the Black Conservative!)
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To: dfwgator

Probably Jesus.


46 posted on 03/19/2006 7:27:28 PM PST by Atchafalaya (When you're there, that's the best!!)
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To: freedom44

Ya know, some people just need "dusting" for no specific reason other than they are really obnoxious. When this Commie pig finally croaks, the world is going to be one hell of a lot better place than it is with him in it.


47 posted on 03/19/2006 7:31:49 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Sacrificing unity and national identity for "diversity" and "multiculturalism" is a really dumb idea)
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To: RightOnline
Does Venezuela have any "spider holes"
48 posted on 03/20/2006 4:57:30 AM PST by RedMonqey (People who don't who stand for something, will fall for anything.)
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To: freedom44
Chavez and Belafonte are bosom communist comrades.
Both suffer nazi storm-trooper syndrome: a pathological form of bullyism.
49 posted on 03/20/2006 5:59:21 AM PST by purpleland (Elegy 9/11/01 Vigilance and Valor! Socialism is the Opiate of Academia)
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To: prairiebreeze

"First off, I defy Swiss Info, the UN or anybody else to verify exactly how much funding is going to the poor in Hugie's socialist reform. I'd wager not very darned much."

Chavez's socialist reforms are as ineffective and insincere as the pseudo-altruistic actions of the U.N.
After all these decades and millions in funds donated to Belafonte's "foundation", Harry Belafonte has not kept up with feeding all of the world's starving children nor has Belafonte found a solution for the urgent problem of children starving throughout the world.


50 posted on 03/20/2006 6:18:56 AM PST by purpleland (Elegy 9/11/01 Vigilance and Valor! Socialism is the Opiate of Academia)
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To: freedom44
"You're an alcoholic Mr. Danger, or rather, you're a drunkard," Chavez said, referring to Bush by a nickname he frequently uses to describe the U.S. president.

Silly Hugo... Danger is George's middle name!

Also - is there *really* a difference between "alcoholic" and "drunkard"? Not that either applies, of course, but you've gotta love the nonsensical ravings of Chavez' lunatic mind!

51 posted on 03/20/2006 6:57:19 AM PST by Charles Martel
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To: freedom44

Chavez deliberately and daily cements his affinity to the left (hard and the useful idiots) and the media in the U. S. and elsewhere.

They will see - are seeing - that he is one of them; and they will, correspondingly, work to defend him. When he uses English, he speaks directly to them.

All this removes focus and attention from the repression he has brought about in Venezuela.


52 posted on 03/20/2006 6:58:33 AM PST by mtntop3 ("He who must know before he believes will never come to full knowledge.")
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To: Charles Martel

Also - is there *really* a difference between "alcoholic" and "drunkard"

Yeah, 'Alcoholics' have to go to meetings :-)


53 posted on 03/20/2006 7:00:05 AM PST by RedStateRocker
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To: freedom44

A peppering of colorful metaphors right back at you my dear.


54 posted on 03/20/2006 7:08:16 AM PST by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: freedom44

It only "donkey" after translation what he actualy said was that Bush is an ASS


55 posted on 03/20/2006 7:08:38 AM PST by ccwoman
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To: freedom44

Chavez needs to eat a bullet.


56 posted on 03/20/2006 10:19:19 AM PST by Ashamed Canadian
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To: freedom44
Chavez is one of Bush's fiercest critics and has repeatedly accused the U.S. government of seeking to oust him from the presidency of Venezuela, the world's No. 5 oil exporter and a supplier of around 15 percent of U.S. crude imports.

Typical commie tactic; create some external enemy to bolster support for his regime and hide your shortcomings, a tactic long perfected by the rulers of Islamic states.

57 posted on 03/20/2006 5:07:41 PM PST by He Rides A White Horse (unite)
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To: freedom44

Hey, everybody! Look at me!

LOOK AT ME!

DON'T LOOK OVER THERE!!! LOOK A ME, BART SIMPSON!!!

58 posted on 03/20/2006 5:22:43 PM PST by bondjamesbond (RICE '08)
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To: freedom44

This, coming from someone who got into Cindy Sheehan's stank...

59 posted on 03/20/2006 5:26:03 PM PST by Fintan (Hey, you can't make this stuff up.)
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To: freedom44

Having traveled all through Venezuela and SA, they say the Venezuelan women are the most beautiful in the world,...and the men the dumbest in the world!


60 posted on 03/20/2006 5:26:47 PM PST by Doc Savage (Of all these things you can be sure, only love...will endure.......................)
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