Here they are after a recent Village People benefit fundraiser
Posted on 12/16/2009 10:19:11 PM PST by george76
Firebrand leaders Hugo Chavez, Evo Morales and Robert Mugabe turned up the heat at the UN climate talks, dumping the blame for global warming squarely at the feet of capitalism.
Mr Chavez, the President of Venezuela, was one of the first world leaders to take the podium at the venue of the Copenhagen talks.
He seized the occasion to characterise newly-minted Nobel Peace laureate US President Barack Obama as a warmonger.
"I don't think Obama is here yet," said Mr Chavez.
"He got the Nobel Peace Prize almost the same day as he sent 30,000 soldiers to kill innocent people in Afghanistan."
Mr Obama, who picked up his Nobel last Thursday, is expected to arrive in Copenhagen on Friday for the climax of the 12-day world conference on climate change, according to the US delegation.
Mr Chavez, paraphrasing Karl Marx, said "a ghost is stalking the streets of Copenhagen... it's capitalism, capitalism is that ghost."
The anti-capitalist theme was picked up on by Mr Mugabe, Zimbabwe's veteran President, who is the target of Western sanctions over alleged human rights abuses.
"When these capitalist gods of carbon burp and belch their dangerous emissions, it's we, the lesser mortals of the developing sphere who gasp and sink and eventually die."
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Chavez wants to start a war with neighboring Colombia and Mugabe is killing off his own people (Zim life expectancy nearly halved since 1960). What a pair of hypocritical Communist buffoons.
Do you suppose when Obama arrives, he’ll join their chorus?
Here they are after a recent Village People benefit fundraiser
It’s not a circus without the clowns. :)
That they are allowed to speak at all at a UN sponsored event says all that needs to be said about the ‘mission’ of the UN.
To allow hate a platform to those who have disdain for free elections, fair and open trade, and rule as despots is more than a wee bit suspect as to the value of an organization that enables it.
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