Apparently he's on a fact-free diet.
As Peace Patriot has mentioned, and has been noted in
some of the articles, Uribe invited Chavez FIRST to assist in hostage negotiations. This crucial fact is overlooked, even ignored by the hard-riding propagandists' brigade. Chavez didn't just barge in there and start giving orders: he was asked to help them by Uribe himself.
Then, from out of nowhere, Uribe pitched a fit, and said he was rescinding his invitation as Chavez had had the nerve to contact his highest military officers concerning plans for the hostage release, and he, Uribe, strictly forbade him to talk to them. (Chave would have had every reason to want to assure himself he was not being set up, considering the more than 100 Colombian former soldiers and active death squad members who showed up outside Caracas in a plot to break into the National Guard Armory, steal enough weapons to outfit 1,500 men, overwhelm the Palace Guard at Miraflores, and assassinate Hugo Chavez, a plot for which Uribe had to apologize to Chavez at great length when Venezuela learned about it from the captured mercenaries who were hired by Venezuelan opposition members, including Cuban-Venezuelan with Miami contacts, Roberto Alonso.
Krauthammer. What a joke. He should ask the Post to refrain from posting his photo next to his columns if he wants anyone to take him seriously!
Jesus H. Christ! What the ####?
The world is going to get the last laugh on these clowns. It's just a matter of time. They are digging their own graves.
It may be they are panicking, worried that unless they can all arrange a national disaster which
Bush could use to declare martial law, and strike down the election, and stay in office, that they will not have the time they need to devastate and take control of what's left of our world.
It's great you reminded him there is a much larger story going on than their latest stunt with the laptop, and this pre-emptive hostage "rescue" they undertook in order to prevent the hostage exchange which was underway when they brought the three men together in the same place with Ingrid Bettancourt. They swooped in to keep that from happening.
God forbid any MORE hostages should have been released without Colombia taking all the credit for it! They had already been shamed enough with the first 6.
Your letter is really honed. Potent. Focused. I hope he'll take the time to review those comments.
I scanned the first several pages, trying to get an idea of what the tone is from the readers, and I was pleasantly surprised to see there aren't that many buffoons writing to support him. Each voice speaking out against these monsters is from heaven itself, the voice of someone who won't condone the evil these people are pushing.