Chavez: "The US President today is a true political cadaver."

[seafan]

From http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070310/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/bush_protests">today:


U.S. President George W. Bush listens during a joint news conference with Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva (not shown) in Sao Paulo, Brazil, March 9, 2007. REUTERS/Larry Downing (BRAZIL)



Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez raises his fist during a rally against the ongoing visit to several Latin American countries by U.S. President George W. Bush, Friday, March 9, 2007 in Buenos Aires. Chavez is in a two-day visit in Argentina. (AP Photo/Daniel Luna)

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"The U.S. president today is a true political cadaver," Chavez said, alluding to Bush's waning years in office. "What the little gentleman from the north now exudes is the smell of political death and in a very short time he will be converted into cosmic dust and disappear from the stage."
In Uruguay, a group of anti-American demonstrators scuffled with bystanders and shattered windows at an American fast-food restaurant in an incident underscoring tensions there as Bush arrived Friday night and was driven to his hotel in a bulletproof limousine.

"Exterminate the Empire!" a masked woman spray-painted on a business facade as some rocks flew in Montevideo. There was no report of any serious injuries as the visit opened with Uruguay's first leftist president, Tabare Vazquez, who has increasingly sought greater trade with Washington.
In Buenos Aires, Chavez said Bush's five-nation swing would fail to improve America's image and dismissed his pledges of U.S. aid as a cynical attempt to "confuse" Latin Americans.
"I believe the chief objective of the Bush trip is to try to scrub clean the face of the empire in Latin America. But it's too late," Chavez said on Argentine state television. "It seems he's just now discovered that poverty exists in the region."

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During his first stop in Sao Paulo, Brazil, riot police fired tear gas and clubbed some protesters after more than 6,000 people held a largely peaceful protest march Thursday. Brazil's streets were calmer Friday, though 150 protesters burned a Bush effigy with a swastika on its shirt and a Hitler mustache penciled on its face.
In Argentina, many still blame Washington for tolerating the country's brutal military regimes of 1976-1983, when thousands of dissidents were tortured and killed. The organizers of Chavez's rally included Mercedes Merono of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, a group still searching for sons and daughters who vanished after being arrested under military rule.

"This counter-rally is extremely important," she said. "Bush seeks to take advantage of Latin America while Chavez supports the region's independence."
Police put down violent protests in Colombia in advance of Bush's visit there, and in Guatemala, Mayan leaders announced that Indian priests will purify the sacred archaeological site of Iximche to eliminate "bad spirits" after Bush visits there Monday.
"That a person like (Bush), with the persecution of our migrant brothers in the United States, with the wars he has provoked, is going to walk in our sacred lands, is an offense for the Mayan people," Guatemalan activist Juan Tiney said.

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"Bush seeks to take advantage of Latin America while Chavez supports the region's independence." ---Mercedes Merono of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo


The only redemption for the United States of America is to remove from the levers of power the most despised man in the world, along with every last one of his minions.



Protesters hold posters against U.S. President George W. Bush in Sao Paulo, Thursday, March 8, 2007. Bush will visit Brazil March 8-9. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

[sellitman]

1. Truth!

Kicked and voted!

[Cha]

2. "Cosmic dust"! None too soon..

That little political cadaver has two more years to finish destroying everything he touches.

Get out the Sulphur!

[BayCityProgressive]

3. everyone in the world

is rising against him..they just aren't reporting what people in the US are doing..

[OxQQme]

4. The little gentleman from the north...lol

"What the little gentleman from the north now exudes is the smell of political death and in a very short time he will be converted into cosmic dust and disappear from the stage."

[JohnnyLib2]

5. Wow! What a phrase:political cadaver.

Whap!

[Cha]

6. I like it...better than

lame duck.

[seafan]

7. Bush "enjoys traveling to thriving democracies where freedom of speech is the law of the land."

Protests mar Bush's Brazil tour

By STAN LEHMAN
March 9, 2007



President Bush tours the Petrobras alternative fuel facility with Brazilian President Liuz Inacio Lula da Silva in Sao Paulo, March 9, 2007. (Jason Reed/Reuters)

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The Colombian demonstrators called for the scuttling of a U.S.-Colombia free trade agreement signed in November and currently stalled in U.S. Congress, and accused Washington of meddling in the South American nation's internal affairs by sending some US$700 million a year in mostly military aid.

Colombia is beefing up security in the capital for Bush's visit Sunday, the first by a sitting U.S. president since Ronald Reagan in 1982. About 21,000 security agents will patrol the capital.

Meanwhile, Colombia's police chief said authorities have foiled leftist rebel plans for terrorist acts to disrupt Bush's visit, but offered no details.

Asked about the protests, White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe said Bush "enjoys travelling to thriving democracies where freedom of speech and expression are the law of the land. He has a positive agenda here that we believe the people of Brazil and the rest of the Americas will benefit from."

Some protesters in Brazil carried stalks of sugarcane - which is used to make ethanol - and a banner reading: "For every litre of ethanol produced, four litres of fresh water are consumed, monoculture is destroying the nation's greatest asset."

"Bush and the United States go to war to control oil reserves, and now Bush and his pals are trying to control the production of ethanol in Brazil. And that has to be stopped," said Suzanne Pereira dos Santos of Brazil's Landless Workers Movement.

Activists from the environmental group Greenpeace warned that increased ethanol production could lead to further clearing of the Amazon rain forest as well as cause social unrest, since most sugarcane-ethanol operations are run by wealthy families or corporations that reap most of the benefits while the poor are left to cut the cane with machetes.

[Colobo]

8. I dislike Chavez greatly, but he's right

Bush is politically dead.

[David__77]

9. The picture was cadaver-esque. "Cosmic dust." I love it!

It's comforting. But Bush isn't the ultimate issue, just the current incarnation of it. I hope that liberals keep focused on the issues and aren't lulled by the next Bill Clinton into passivity. That will pave the way for yet another 1994 and serious setbacks.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

10. Ehhhhh. Fuck 'Em Both.

That's my general comment on these him vs him threads.

[Nutmegger]

11. I stand with Chavez.

Fora Bush!

[LibertyorDeath]

12. "The US President today is a true political cadaver."

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

He really has a way with words!