Triumphant Chavez Returns to Power "I will always be with you. I will never go away."

yahoo.com ^ | Apr 15,2002 12:55 AM ET | ALEXANDRA OLSON, AP

[FastCoyote]

"What is it exactly you would have the US do about the situation there?"

A bullet from the CIA a la Chile would have solved a lot of problems.

[FastCoyote]

Usual liberal and brigadeer/brownie rant. Anything good happens, "Bush was dumb lucky" and anything bad happens, "Stupid Bush blows it again". Broken record of folks who won't learn.

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It takes far more than dumb luck to wade into the 4000 year old mideast war and believe a lightweight like Powell will solve the problem by jawboning Arafat and Sharon, that takes pure stupidity. Throwing away the whole free trade argument with steel tariffs, that was sure smart. Gutting the Republican party with CFR, now that was downright brilliant. Supporting Riordan, a liberal, must be forgotten. The list goes on.

If denouncing Bush for using Clinton's tactic of triangulation without principle makes me a liberal brigadeer/brownie, then I stand convicted. By the way, it was George Washington who warned about foreign entanglements, not me.

[hopespringseternal]

Sounds like the guys trying to pull of the coupe were a-list idiots to me.

They thought they could do anything they wanted after they took power, and were stunned that there was any opposition. Plus they tried to detain Chavez with people who were likely to be loyal to him.

The moron prattling about "being middle class now" is especially silly. In a twisted way, she is probably right. When everyone with any brains gets out, she will probably be even poorer, but in the middle of a bunch of destitute and hopeless people.

[hchutch]

I have to agree.

For a while, I wondered if there was any hope of CIA ever being able to pull off a simple coup without screwing up.

[Dialup Llama]

>Chavez said. "I will always be with you. I will never go away."

So Chavez co-opts the words of Christ. A dictator with a G*d complex. Wonderful

[Dialup Llama]

>I suspect you will see "capital flight" down there like never before.

It has already flown.

[Free the USA]

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[Redbob]

You've got it:
The dumb bunnies who opposed Chavez should have arranged a "tragic accident" for him. That's what he's going to do to them.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I suspect you will see "capital flight" down there like never before.

It's been flying out, just like the people who can. Also investors aren't knocking on Chavez's door. Confiscation isn't healthy for capitalism.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

For a while, I wondered if there was any hope of CIA ever being able to pull off a simple coup without screwing up.

Now don't go putting words into my posts that aren't there. I don't think this was CIA. I think this was Chavez using his Chavista thugs to fire into a crowd, reported to be as high as 500,000 anti-Chavez marchers. That set his senior military to ask for his resignation and because they don't command any troops, they weren't in a very long-term powerful position.

[hchutch]

My apologies.

Allow me to rephrase it, then:
When CIA takes its shot, I hope they do better than these keystone coup plotters did.

[DB]

Let the locals do it.