[Tailgunner Joe]

So it's not our job? I got the impression from your posts that the democratic wishes of foreign countries were important to you, and that we should respect them. No?

Supporting Hugo Chavez makes one an enemy of America. All communists are enemies of America by definition.

[jas3]

So it's not our job? I got the impression from your posts that the democratic wishes of foreign countries were important to you, and that we should respect them. No?

Nope. It is not the job of the US to uphold foreign democracies unless there is a mutual defense pact. It is up to each foreign country to defend itself. If it does not, that's a shame.

If you are asking if I would respect the rights of a foreign democracy to remove foreign soldiers from their soil, then the answer is YES. Of course they have that right. But I'm not going to help them with US taxpayers' dollars.

Hugo Chavez is just a typical run of the mill dictator. He's pulling a Mugabe and will soon impoverish Venezuela, esp. when oil prices revert back to about $60.

jas3