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Well now he is a dictator. He's been busy lately between getting absolute political power in Venezuela and consoling Fidel Castro on his artificial anus. I feel pity for Venezuela because it may be decades before they can back out of the damage that Chavez is going to cause.
1 posted on 01/31/2007 10:05:08 AM PST by burzum
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I for one believe they deserve whatever they get.


2 posted on 01/31/2007 10:08:40 AM PST by Tinman93
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...new era of "maximum Marxist revolution"...

Fixed!

3 posted on 01/31/2007 10:17:35 AM PST by GoldCountryRedneck ("Idiocy - Never under estimate the power of stupid people in large numbers" - despair.com)
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...lawmakers read out passages of the law giving Chavez special powers for 18 months...

LOL! Yeah - riiiiiight.

4 posted on 01/31/2007 10:18:16 AM PST by ladtx ("It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it." -- -- General Douglas MacArthur)
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Modern day South American Hitler in our day...allying with an even larger Hitler figure in Iran, Pres. AhwannaMakeJihad, and with the largest long-term threat, the Red Chinese. Th entire geo-political situation i shaping up to be very dangerous IMHO, and we have a full court press by the party of appeasement to come into power...including far too many RINOs in the GOP.


5 posted on 01/31/2007 10:20:11 AM PST by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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This is the model Hitler used - and it will turn out about the same...
6 posted on 01/31/2007 10:20:51 AM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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"Fatherland, NATIONAL-socialism or death! We will prevail!"

There.. I fixed that quote for her.


7 posted on 01/31/2007 10:45:59 AM PST by brothers4thID (Hillary: "We are going to take from you.. to provide for the common good")
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This is actually the second time he has been granted decree powers. It hardly seems necessary, he appointed the Supreme Court himself, his cronies pack the Congress, he wrote the Constitution himself, and then had the Congress absolve him of having even to go to them, even though all they do is rubber-stamp his decision.

Of course, if the Supreme Court and Congress are just rubber stamps, why bother. So maybe this is just efficiency, bypassing what is only a formality in any case.

Corruption is flourishing, and expect it to explode. Corruption is how ordinary people carve out a bit of freedom in a top-down country. Corruption is how ordinary people obtain a bit of rationality in an irrational country. It is how you function in a disfunctional country.

We are accustomed to thinking that corruption is bad, and in a normal country it is. In a mis-ruled country, it is how you keep the whole thing from collapsing of its own weight.


9 posted on 01/31/2007 11:20:00 AM PST by marron
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