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Venezuela's Chavez blames U.S. for Tibet unrest
reuters.com ^
| Mar 24, 2008
Posted on 03/23/2008 10:42:48 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's socialist President Hugo Chavez blamed the United States for violent protests in Tibet during the last two weeks that he said were aimed at trying to destabilize China.
In comments reported by his press office on Sunday, Chavez said the protests were an example of the U.S. "empire" "going against China" and trying to divide the Asian powerhouse.
Communist China has occupied Tibet, a Buddhist region previously ruled by monks, since a military invasion in 1950.
At least 19 people were killed after protests and rioting against the occupation broke out on March 10.
China has been widely criticized for a crackdown against the demonstrators ahead of August's Olympic games to be held in Beijing.
Some leftists in Latin America see the Tibetan independence movement led by the Dalai Lama as a pro-Washington group of conservative monks.
Chavez is a relentless Washington critic who says he favors a multipolar world to balance U.S. dominance.
He also refuses to recognize Kosovo as an independent republic, saying the new European state is a U.S. imposition.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: 2008olympics; boycottchina; boycottolympics; china; fathead; hugochavez; multipolar; olympics; tibet
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Bush's fault!
To: Tailgunner Joe
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posted on
03/23/2008 10:45:06 PM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: Tailgunner Joe
I am sure the world is breathlessly waiting for Hugo's opinion on the situation in Tibet. After all, he may have shared some classes with the Chicoms on ethnic cleansing.
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posted on
03/23/2008 10:50:30 PM PDT
by
microgood
To: Tailgunner Joe
This “champion of the oppressed” shows what a fraud he is.
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posted on
03/23/2008 10:53:57 PM PDT
by
denydenydeny
(Expel the priest and you don't inaugurate the age of reason, you get the witch doctor--Paul Johnson)
To: Tailgunner Joe
Thank you Pres. Chavez, but I won’t have an opinion on Tibet until I hear from the zombie Pol Pot.
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posted on
03/23/2008 11:00:12 PM PDT
by
kb2614
(Hell hath no fury than a bureaucrat scorned)
To: Tailgunner Joe
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posted on
03/23/2008 11:02:45 PM PDT
by
kingattax
(99 % of liberals give the rest a bad name)
To: Tailgunner Joe
Well that’s not going to sit well with the lefties in the rest of the world...
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posted on
03/23/2008 11:10:44 PM PDT
by
DB
To: Tailgunner Joe
Chavez is a relentless Washington critic who says he favors a multipolar world to balance U.S. dominance.
Chavez is a noisy fool.
To: Tailgunner Joe
[Chavez. . . says he favors a multipolar world to balance U.S. dominance.]
But first thing in the morning Chavez favors something called a “bazooka”—coca paste packed into a metal or ceramic tube, ignited and smoked. The smoker becomes psychotic.
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posted on
03/23/2008 11:25:18 PM PDT
by
Brad from Tennessee
("A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.")
To: microgood
Meh, can Huey point to Tibet on the map?
To: Tailgunner Joe
Apparently Hugo didn't learn the first time...
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posted on
03/24/2008 12:01:51 AM PDT
by
rabscuttle385
(I have great faith in the American people. I have no faith in the American government, however.)
To: Tailgunner Joe
He probably blames the U.S. for the zits on his bum.
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posted on
03/24/2008 12:03:47 AM PDT
by
uglybiker
(I do not suffer from mental illness. I quite enjoy it, actually.)
To: uglybiker
How is it that you know that Hugo Chavez has ‘zits on his bum’ ?
To: perfect stranger
Uhh...er, uhh...well, uhh.....
Oh, all right! He had an allergic reaction to the electronic implants, okay?!!
We were gonna put 'em in his head but we haven't found anything hard enough to drill through that thick skull!
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posted on
03/24/2008 12:38:34 AM PDT
by
uglybiker
(I do not suffer from mental illness. I quite enjoy it, actually.)
To: uglybiker
Sorry. I had no idea about skull thickness factor. Operations says to try again, said you can use the 40 pound wedge.
To: Tailgunner Joe
He also refuses to recognize Kosovo as an independent republic, saying the new European state is a U.S. imposition.Apparently he didn't check with his Muzzie buddies on that one.
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posted on
03/24/2008 12:56:47 AM PDT
by
TigersEye
(This is the age of the death of reason.)
To: Tailgunner Joe
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posted on
03/24/2008 1:18:26 AM PDT
by
OeOeO
To: Tailgunner Joe
Amazing.
Hugo gives blooming idiots a bad name.
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posted on
03/24/2008 1:34:02 AM PDT
by
Ronin
(Bushed out!!! Another tragic victim of BDS.)
To: Tailgunner Joe
Venezuela's socialist President Hugo Chavez blamed the United States
I hope this idiot volunteers to be Hugo's food taster. I'm sure she's down for the struggle. You never can tell when you might get a cup of that Vladimir Putin latte Senor or a piece of that Valerie Plame chorizo.
PS: Vladimir Putin - Valerie Plame. Same initials. Coincidence???
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posted on
03/24/2008 3:30:43 AM PDT
by
RoadKingSE
(How do you know that the light at the end of the tunnel isn't a muzzle flash?)
To: Brad from Tennessee
Bazooka is a coke paste? Dont’ they called crack in our country?
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posted on
03/24/2008 3:47:40 AM PDT
by
catfish1957
(Hey McLame, you can fool some of the people some of the time, but you a'int fooling any FReepers)
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