Chavez: Bush Should Resign As President

[NVMojo]

And another Chavez outburst! This one in Venezuela!

Only I'd rather see Bush impeached ...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez launched yet another verbal assault against President Bush upon returning from a highly charged U.S. visit Friday, calling on the American leader to resign.

Chavez also suggested that New York city police were behind a electrical disruption during his speech Thursday in Harlem, but police denied the allegation.

"He should renounce the presidency if he has any dignity. The president of the United States has failed completely," Chavez said at the inauguration of a natural gas project in northwestern Venezuela.

It was Chavez's first appearance since returning from the United States, where he called Bush "the devil" at the United Nations' General Assembly and later criticized him in a speech to supporters at a church in Harlem.

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http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-sa/2006/sep/22/092205083.html

[llmart]

1. Here, here!

Chavez speaks for me.

[katinmn]

2. Chavez...

O8)

[bemildred]

3. Nah, impeach him.

And Cheney.

[Stardust]

18. Impeachment is only the first step...It doesn't guarantee getting

rid of the bastids.

[noahmijo]

4. If Bush were a Don he'd be "In Witness Protection" by now

[Truthiness Inspector]

5. Hmmm

At what point will Hugo Chavez be seen as the instigator in an escalation of tensions, and not just a Head of State voicing his opinion?

[pretzel4gore]

7. bush and the goonsquad is outta control

i wouldn't worry about President Chavez; he can take care of himself, and his people - which he's proven just by being alive.....

[Solon]

8. Bush already tried to overthrow him, I would say it was Bush who...

created this situation here.

[Kolesar]

28. April 2002. I heard it chronicled in a Greg Palast interview

[Vidar]

6. Go, Hugo, Go!

[HysteryDiagnosis]

9. A reviewer of Chomksy's latest says this about this

radical down under.

Sep 22, 2006 12:47 PM PDT

Chomsky has responded to the NYT: "Mr. Chomsky said that he would not choose to use the same harsh oratory, but added that the Venezuelan leader was simply expressing the views of many in the world. And he said Mr. Chavez's anger was understandable. "The Bush administration backed a coup to overthrow his government," he said. "Suppose Venezuela supported a military coup that overthrew the government of the United States? Would we think it was a joke?"

Chavez has won six closely supervised elections.

Even Chavez' opponents concede that millions of poor Venezuelans -- the majority -- now have access to health care, education, literacy programs, land titles, and credit for the first time, as a result of the government's social programs. ( U.S. MSM ignores this and the country's unprecedented economic growth that reached 17% in 2004, the highest in the world.)

Sadly, the biggest threats to Venezuela's democracy still come from Washington, which has funded and allied itself with the anti-democratic leaders of Venezuela's opposition, including supporters of the failed coup. This funding and support has been acknowledged by the U.S. State Department. The National Endowment for Democracy, which is funded by our Congress, has also funneled millions of dollars to opposition groups. And recently-released documents from the CIA show that the Bush Administration had detailed advanced knowledge of the coup but lied about what happened: the White House tried to convince the press and other countries that it was not a coup at all, but rather a legitimate seizure of power by "pro-democracy" forces."

**This is why the US media attacks him**:
Chavez is using the oil resources to help the poor, his first concern is not the profits of U.S. corporations and that is considered a crime in the U.S. All the attacks on him have to do with how he is helping the people. Some important facts slip through in the MSM: To lessen his dependence on the U.S. market, which soaks up two-thirds of Venezuela's 2.1 million barrels of average daily exports, Caracas also is investing in several major projects such as refineries and shipping terminals to cut out costlier middlemen, predominantly from the United States."

[IndianaGreen]

13. They hate Chavez because they fear the same thing could happen in US

If the American working class were not so confused about divisive faux issues such as reproductive rights, LGBT rights, racism, etc., they may realize that there is more to be gained by banding together and take power away from the elites.

[NeoConsSuck]

20. You hit the nail on the head!

I read an article in Fortune magazine. The capitalists were foaming at the mouth, because instead of them getting all the profits from Venezuelan oil, Chavez was using the money for social programs. As if that something dirty and repugnant. But to a capitalist, I guess it is.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

27. Now how are they going to afford several homes here and

there that they don't need, don't live in and don't appreciate.

[killbotfactory]

33. Yep, providing education, literacy, health care, etc is evil and horrible

Diversifying the economy to not be so dependent on the whims of the oil market? Awful, it will never work.

Venezuelans would be much better off with all the oil money going to obscenely rich oil company executives.

don't worry, I'm sure the wealth will trickle down... although it will probably be in the form of bombs or bullets if the desperately poor Venezuelans decide to get "uppity" again and try to improve things for themselves.

[Tellurian]

26. Really, and why it was a deplorable ACT for US Senators to come out

against him. And if they needed to say something after being asked by the press, they should have answered with a question..."Why would the President of Venezuela, say such a thing about President Bush?" I mean, geebus, you've got the stage at that point and an opportunity to wield a FREEBIE Zinger...

[texpatriot2004]

10. Viva Chavez! nm

[TechBear_Seattle]

11. I very, VERY strongly disagree with Chavez on this

If Cheney were actual president instead of merely acting president, things would be far worse than they are now.

[Nihil]

34. How come?

Let's face it, Bush isn't going to do ANYTHING without Cheney's
agreement so whether Cheney holds the rubber stamp in his left hand
or his right hand doesn't really make a difference ...

[IndianaGreen]

12. Can't impeach a tyrant, which is what Bush is

There is only one way to deal with that sort of scum:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/index.htm

[Zorra]

14. Hard to argue with that one. n/t

[TankLV]

15. We've been saying that since DAY ONE!

And Chavez makes more sense that most of Obama's blatherings...

[cliss]

16. Folks, there is a reason for this outburst.

Notice? Hugo Chavez is pulling out all the stops. Ahmadinejad is coming out in full force, both of these men are showing up everywhere, pretty much saying the same thing.

This is not accidental.

They are trying to rouse up the American people to vote them out. There's an election coming up.....really soon.

[and-justice-for-all]

17. And thats a bad thing?

..I am working against the occupiers of the White House and many people knew what Chavez has stated long before he began saying it.

He is just saying what all the oppposers of the Shrub Cabal have wanted to say...

[cliss]

22. You & me both....

No opposition here.

[gorbal]

19. Time for a "Hugo Chavez" Board

Or perhaps a "Bolivarian Revolution" board

[goforit]

21. Hats off to Chavez! No American in office has balls like his.

[worldnerd]

23. There is at least one other who stands up to the bullies

Check out this speech by Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky(Rock) Anderson at:

http://kutv.com/video/?id=[e-mail]

[CJCRANE]

32. Great speech !!! A must-see. n/t

[DemoTex]

24. Key words: " ..if he has any dignity." Bu$h doesn't. End-of-story.

Besides, I'm rather sure Bu$h isn't taking advice from Chavez these days. And although I would rather see Bu$h disgraced, cashiered, and convicted .. I will gladly accept his departure any way it comes. In fact, I'll be mighty glad - and somewhat surprised - if and when Bu$h leaves office in January 2009.

Hugo, meanwhile, continues to run interference for KKKarl Rove. No matter what we think of Chevez (good or bad), every time he gets ink or bandwidth with one of these Bu$h-bashing rants, another potentially damaging story (to Bu$hco) gets pushed to the back burner or all the way to File 13.

Be vigilant. Check six. Verb sap.

[shadowknows69]

25. I agree

besides he always has that career as the devil to fall back on.

[Psephos]

29. So that Cheney can take over? Better think that through a bit more. n/t

[NotGivingUp]

30. Thanks for speaking out Mr. Chavez! Keep up the good work!

[samsingh]

31. yes - or be impeached anyway