[Seeking the truth]

What stuns me is that AP and the rest have no shame.

They've been this way for a long, long time now. Reuters is even worse than AP!

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

All these newspaper people know if the reader doesn't live within proximity of the action, they can say anything they want and nobody would be the wiser.

[Contra]

Whatever happened to a U.S. backed coup? I think it was Carter who made that "illegal," at least assassinating a country's leader, but I know Bush was talking about situations under which that didn't apply. You know what a president (who is a strong leader) needs to do? He needs to do whatever the situation calls for at the time and then just do it and the hell with what the critics say. A strong leader acts and doesn't worry about the ramifications. Bush has the strong support of the American people in fighting terrorism so he should fight it and hard. South American countries have long had these communist leaders who need to be deposed for the good of the hemisphere and the good of the U.S. This guy in Venezuela is a supporter of terrorist regimes (Cuba, Iraq and others) so if the Bush doctrine of "you're with us or with the terrorists" applies, then this guy is with the terrorists. If he was deposed once he must be on shaky ground, so he can be deposed again. The oil is what makes this country important.