Venezuela's Chavez Says Bush Destabilizes the World ("Lord of War" Bush)

[beetbox]

Venezuela’s Chavez Says Bush Destabilizes the World

Monday, Aug 22, 2005

Caracas, Venezuela, August 22, 2005 —Venezuela’s President Chavez called U.S. President Bush a “lord of war,” in response to U.S. accusations that he and Cuba’s President Castro are destabilizing Latin American countries. Chavez made the comments during his weekly television program Aló Presidente, which took place in Cuba this past Sunday and which Castro co-hosted for the five hours of the program.

Chavez and Castro made fun of recent comments former Bush administration official Otto Reich had made, in which he called Castro an “evil genius” and Chavez an “oil strong man,” who are destabilizing the governments of Ecuador and Bolivia. Castro joked, saying to Chavez, “I'm realizing that your friendship is hurting my image.”

Chavez said that it is the U.S. government, “who is financing things in Latin America.” Adding, “They have created an office to prepare the transition in Cuba and another for psychological warfare, which are old Pentagon strategies.” Chavez went on to say, “They are the destabilizers of the region, with their hegemonic bearing, their neo-liberal policies, their gorilla dictatorships, their invasions, their mass media and their lackeys. The great destabilizers of the region are they, Mr. War, not only of Latin America, but of the world.”

http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=1724

[journalist3072]

1. Kick ass, Chavez!!!

We've got a new name for Bush. I've called him many things: Bushie. Shrub. El Emperor Bush.

But "Lord of War" bests them all!

[pfitz59]

4. War Puppet is more apt.......

Bush* is a physical coward who does his masters' bidding!

[Bo]

9. its just daddys 2nd term..thats all

[Mr Rabble]

2. He's right. How sad is that?

This is our country.

[Pallas180]

3. Is Latin America their next war target? Can't say I

disagree with Chavez's assessment.

Destabilizer of the world is pretty accurate.

[wli]

5. about time someone said it publicly n/t

[pretzel4gore]

6. blasts the nonsense about 'clash of civilizations' outta the water

don't it?
Viva Hugo Chavez!

[Judi Lynn]

7. One only needs to start reading America's history of meddling

and intervention, covert ops, bribes, destabilization to know who the people are creating chaos in this hemisphere.

Fidel Castro has been around since the 1950's, and hasn't "destabilized" nada! We do know our own right-wing Presidents have backed 40+ years of terrorism against Cuba, Cubans, and how many attempts to assassinate Mr. Castro? One happened only a coupla years ago, utilizing former CIA creep, Luis Posada Carriles.

We do know _Bush has conducted covert funding of Venezuelan opposition groups, strikes, coup, recall, etc., etc. against Hugo Chavez.

Yet _Bush fools still have enough vulgarity and swagger left over after their wicked war on Aristide, and Iraq, etc., to point their grubby fingers and shriek their comical charge that Hugo Chavez is up to no good.



Welcome to D.U., beetbox! :hi: :hi: :hi:

[beetbox]

8. posted this earlier today in commemoration of Haitian Slave Revolt

Thanks for the warm welcome Judi Lynn :hi: :toast:

On this Date August 22, 1791- Slave Revolt Sparks Haitian Revolution

The year is 1791. The United States is in its first years as the first republic in the western hemisphers. Europe is in disarray as the French Revolution burns across the face of France. The revolutionaries in France are getting ready to draft the Declaration of the Rights of Man, which will declare rights, liberty, and equality to the basis of all legitimate government and social systems. On the French island of Haiti, far from anybody's eyes, French planters, craftsmen, soldiers, and administrators are all closely watching the events unfold across the Atlantic. It's an uncertain time; the results of the revolution are up in the air and loyalties are deeply divided. While they watch the events in France, however, the planters are unaware that a revolution is brewing beneath their very feet. For the French plantations on Haiti offers some of the most cruel conditions that African-American slaves ever had to suffer. They differ from North American plantations in one key element: the coffee and sugar plantations require vast amounts of labor. As a result, the slave population outnumbers the French by terrifying amounts; the slaves, also, by their sheer numbers are allowed to retain much of their culture and to establish more or less independent social systems. But the French, even with the example of the American and French revolutions, are blissfully unaware of the fire they're sitting on.

   On August 22, 1791, the Haitian war of independence began in flames under the leadership of a religious leader named Boukman; over one hundred thousand slaves rose up against the vastly outnumbered and infinitely hated French. Unlike the French Revolution and the American Revolution, the Haitian revolution was entirely driven by the passions of men and women who had been enslaved most if not all of their lives. They didn't simply desire liberty, they wanted vengeance. Over the next three weeks, the Haitian slaves burned every plantation throughout the fertile regions of Haiti and executed all Frenchmen they could find. The French fled to the seacoast towns and pleaded with France to help them out while the island burned.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4424968&mesg_id=4424968

[Judi Lynn]

10. Thanks a lot. Very glad to read it.

There's quite a group of DU'ers who are very concerned Haiti watchers, and there was a huge amount of concern and discussion during the approach of _Bush's filthy actions against the people of Haiti when he had Aristide violently destabilized and removed.



François Dominique Toussaint L'Ouverture

[beetbox]

11. Yes, Haiti was "more valuable" than the 13 colonies combined

primarily due to the lucrative slave trade.
It is now, due to the favorable trade winds, THE major point in the transhipment of narcotics fron South-Central America to the markets of the North-Miami.

The narcotics are flowing freely again now that Aristide is out of the way.

[sarcasmo]

12. I think "Lord of War" should replace *, Chimp, Cuckoo-Bananas and

all other words associated with our Dictator.

[jmatthan]

13. Don't glorify a ....

He could be called the "Chimp of War" but that would be denigrating Chimps.

I would use "Jester of War" or "Puppet of War" for after all he is just either best be described as a "Court Jester" or the puppet of the Rove-Chenney axis of evil.

[Peace Patriot]

14. "...which Castro co-hosted for the five hours of the program..."

Imagine having leaders who are willing to talk to the people, and explain themselves, and help their constituents understand the world, for FIVE HOURS!

Bush wouldn't last in that forum for 2 seconds.