BOREV: Alvaro Uribe to be Awarded Presidential Medal of Failure

[magbana]

http://www.borev.net/2009/01/alvaro_uribe_to_be_awarded_pre.html

Alvaro Uribe To Be Awarded Presidential Medal of Failure

Under George W. Bush the nation's highest civilian "honor" is awarded each year to the worlds' most spectacular fuckups. Past honorees famously include 9/11 intelligence failure George Tenet, green zone emperor-czar Paul Bremer, and the literal loser of the entire Iraq War (not counting the Iraqis!), Gen. Tommy Franks. Tough acts to follow, right? This year, obviously, the award is going to Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, for the impressive job he's done losing the war on drugs while simultaneously massacring his own people and draining the US treasury of 16 kajillion taxpayer dollars annually, in a recession. Well played, sir.

Other "winners" this year include notable screwups Tony Blair and John Howard, two disgraced former world leaders now living in quiet, alcohol-fueled obscurity in their respective homelands due to their entanglements with the Bush Administration. Maybe this award will help! Ha ha.

[Judi Lynn]

1. Beautiful! Couldn't be better. Exquisite summary of a wildly perverse, but predictable event. n/t

[Bacchus39]

2. awarded by the Venezuelan propaganda ministry

like this means anything to Colombia or Colombians

[struggle4progress]

3. Borev didn't fabricate this story: his comments link directly to Colombia Reports:

Uribe to receive Medal of Freedom
Monday, 05 January 2009 15:35
... Uribe, Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and former Australian Prime Minister John Howard will receive the award for "their work to improve the lives of their citizens and for their efforts to promote democracy, human rights and peace abroad," Brady said during a press conference ... http://colombiareports.com/colombian-news/news/2486-uribe-to-receive-medal-of-freedom-.html

If it is your claim that Colombia Reports is associated with some "Venezuelan propaganda ministry", do feel free to provide actual evidence for the claim

About Colombia Reports
Colombia Reports is a small .. independent news organization from Medellín, Colombia. Our team is made up of journalists, photographers, locals, travelers and ex-pats from both Europe and the Americas. We train local aspiring journalists to think critically and independently ... Colombia Reports is a mostly volunteer organization ... http://colombiareports.com/about-colombia-reports.html

I don't know how Colombia Reports got the story, but it's in yesterday's Guardian

Blair to accept top US medal in Bush's last week in office
Stephen Bates
The Guardian, Tuesday 6 January 2009
... He will receive next week's award alongside John Howard, the former Australian prime minister, and Álvaro Uribe, the president of Colombia ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jan/06/tonyblair-georgebush

Most people recognize the Guardian as a legitimate news source. But perhaps you regard the Guardian an an arm of the same mysterious "Venezuelan propaganda ministry" that you think is behind Colombia Reports: if that is your view, of course, you should at least try to provide some shred of evidence

[Bacchus39]

4. the medal of failure certainly is fabricated

and Colombia Reports is another Chavez butt kissing blog with stupid "solutions" to Colombia's problems like an international occupation force should be in Colombia and their elected president should resign.

Obama will maintain strong ties with Colombia. get used to it.

[struggle4progress]

7. I can't help you if you're convinced the story's fabricated -- but here's a whitehouse.gov link:

For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
January 5, 2009
... MS. PERINO ... President Bush will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, and former Prime Ministers Tony Blair of the United Kingdom and John Howard of Australia, on Tuesday, January 13th, in an East Room ceremony ... http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2009/01/20090105-6.html

[Bacchus39]

8. "freedom" versus "failure" thanks for correcting Borev's fabrication

p.s. Colombia reports seems reasonable. Colombia Journal is the idiotic one.

[Judi Lynn]

5. As any person familiar with sobriety can recognize, it's easy to grasp people involved in BoRev

wouldn't be interested in providing bogus information, or misleading information. What would be the point?

Their wryness would lose its sting based on crap. What would be the point? Why bother? Then, they'd be no better than right-wingers.

Thanks for providing the Colombia Reports information. Never saw it until a moment ago. It makes me respect them even more than I already did. So glad to have learned this. Now I'm going to make it a point to read them more often.

[Bacchus39]

6. you mean the "person" involved in Borev (singular) who was a paid propagandist

for the Chavez regime.

[struggle4progress]

9. See my #7 above

[Bacchus39]

10. so you and Judi are happy with the medal of freedom awarded to Uribe?

ok, I would not have suspected. sounds more like a friendship gesture more than anything to me.