[Cincinatus' Wife]

Hugo Chavez has been working overtime to emulate Castro

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

If he doesn't do it now, it will have to be done sometime in the future. These rebels in Latin America are not going to go away. The situation is going to get worse.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

And I don't know why they are being called "rebels." They are terrorists.

[lavaroise]

The Bush administration is too busy trying to chase suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network in Afghanistan and the Middle East to spend much time thinking about terrorist links in Latin America, many of those interviewed said.

This is a cheap excuse. He just said to bin laden et al to go through Venezuela instead of Afganistan.