Is the Associated Press setting American foreign policy?

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070109/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/nicaragua_ortega_s_return

"Yet he (Ortega) will be sworn in as Nicaraguan president in a ceremony attended by some of the United States' biggest enemies, including Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad."


When did Chavez become America's enemy? Did the "Decider" say so and now the AP follows the commands of our imerious leader?

"Chavez, who calls Bush "the devil," has promised Nicaragua 32 desperately needed electricity plants, low-interest loans to the poor from a branch of his state development bank and help in improving health and education."

He did that like once, didn't he? How is that "calls" instead of "called"? And Bush may be President of the United States for another 24 months, but that does not make him the United States. Americans like me oppose many of his policies at least as much as Chavez does.

This seems like hack work too.

"The inauguration is a reflection of Ortega's delicate balancing act. He has pledged to remain close to his leftist allies while assuring opponents he is no longer the radical who imposed a state-run economy, sparked runaway inflation and oversaw a bloody, decade-long civil war."

Wasn't it Reagan (and Negroponte) who oversaw and funded the civil war? And probably helped spark that runaway inflation too.

It's like that article was written by somebody from the ministry of propaganda.

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well, I thought this was outrageous. Declaring a foreign leader an 'enemy' of the US just because he has criticized Bush.