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We don't want to think that little brown people could be smart enough to bring down the USA.

I don't think that it's "the little brown people" who are the problem. It's Castro and his goons that are the problem.

Venezuela presents a problem as virtually a second commuinist state near the America's borders. Hugo Chavez, the leader of that country, "does what Castro tells him to do," the former Cuban intelligence officers said. Even without the Soviet Union around, the Cuba-Venezuela connection conjures up memories of Lenin's prophecy of surrounding the U.S. with hostile communist regimes.

Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's Castro

October 12, 2001/ Houston Chronicle/ Bush nominee deserves better than old grudges[Exceprt]As America embarks on a long-term war against international terrorism, it is essential that President Bush have his foreign policy team in place. Unfortunately, one Democratic senator is still fighting the Cold War and is settling old ideological scores by blocking Senate action on a key State Department nominee.

Otto Reich was nominated on July 12 to be assistant secretary of state for Western Hemispheric Affairs. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has not even bothered to schedule Fa confirmation hearing for Reich, and has no plans to do so. The reasons have nothing to do with Reich's competence or qualifications, and everything to do with Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd's affinity for Cuba's Fidel Castro and the communist Sandanista regime in Nicaragua. [End Excerpt]