"Obama brings the same stench as President Bush." Handshake With Obama Belies Chavez's Contempt for America
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When President Obama met Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in Trinidad on
Friday, he shook hands with a man who only four years ago called the
United States the most "murderous empire that has existed in the history
of the world."
Chavez has hardly mellowed, either. Last month, in a radio address, he
called Obama a "poor ignorant person," and in January he accused the new
president of having the "same stench" as President Bush -- just the latest
lashes in a long line of his signature anti-American speeches over the
years.
Here are just some of Chavez's anti-American blasts:
-- "The U.S. has bombarded entire cities, used chemical weapons and
napalm, killed women, children and thousands of soldiers. That's
terrorism." (Sept. 25, 2005: Washington Post interview)
-- The U.S. government under Bush is the "most savage, cruel and murderous
empire that has existed in the history of the world." (Aug. 8, 2005:
Caracas youth rally)
-- "Our real enemy is called the U.S. empire, and on Sunday, Dec. 2, we're
going to give another knockout to Bush, so no one forgets that is the
battlefield." (Dec. 1, 2007: election speech in Caracas)
-- "Capitalism will lead to the destruction of humanity ... (and America)
is the devil that represents capitalism." (August 2006: speech in Vietnam)
-- American policy in the Mideast is "a policy of permanent aggression, of
war, of terrorism by the U.S. empire. That's the great guilty one, the
great Satan, as they call it here." (April 1, 2009: Tehran, Iran)
-- "The imperialist, genocidal, fascist attitude of the U.S. president has
no limits. I think Hitler would be like a suckling baby next to George W.
Bush." (Feb. 4, 2005: rally in Caracas)
-- Chavez accused the U.S. and allies of lobbing "imperialist fire!
Fascist fire! Murderous fire! ... genocidal fire against the innocent
people of Palestine and Lebanon by the Empire and Israel" during an
address he made at the U.N. in September 2006.
-- ''The axis of evil is Washington and its allies around the world, which
go about threatening, invading and murdering. We [Chavez and Bolivian
President Evo Morales] are forming the axis of good." (Jan. 3, 2005:
Caracas)
-- "The United States brought the (Sept. 11) attacks upon itself, for
their arrogant imperialist foreign policy." (Sept. 12, 2001: Venezuelan
TV)
-- "The hypothesis that is gaining strength ... is that it was the same
U.S. imperial power that planned and carried out this terrible terrorist
attack or act against its own people and against citizens of all over the
world. Why? To justify the aggressions that immediately were unleashed on
Afghanistan, on Iraq." (Sept, 12. 2006: Caracas speech)
-- "The devil came here yesterday," Chavez said at the U.N. general
assembly, referring to President Bush as he made the sign of the cross and
accused the U.S. of "domination, exploitation and pillage of peoples of
the world." (Sept. 20, 2006: New York)
-- "I hope I am wrong, but I believe Obama brings the same stench" as
President Bush. (Jan. 17, 2009: Caracas speech)
--"They are threatening any country that decides to be free." (Feb. 1,
2007: Caracas speech)
While those kinds of words would draw the dagger stares of the Secret
Service on most offenders, they earned Chavez a warm greeting and thanks
from Obama, who also received a gift from Chavez at the 34-nation Summit
of the Americas in Port of Spain, Trinidad.
On Sunday, Obama defended the handshake and said his presence at the
summit would help open up relations with other nations in the Americas.
"It's unlikely that as a consequence of me shaking hands or having a
polite conversation with Mr. Chavez that we are endangering the strategic
interests of the United States," Obama said.
But some veteran diplomats said Chavez would wield the gracious grasp as
an important symbol to help consolidate his growing power in Venezuela.
"What he's going to say is that what he has been doing in Venezuela now
has the seal of approval of the United States," said Otto Reich, who was
ambassador to Venezuela under President Reagan. "He sees it as a green
light to continue dismantling democracy in Venezuela."
Reich said Chavez is already using the handshake as propaganda and called
the summit a missed opportunity by the Obama administration.
"What the president of the United States last night and today is trying to
explain as a handshake, Chavez is already announcing as the greatest exito
-- success -- in Venezuelan political history," he said.
Basil Karlo
"Liberal Deceit" <false...@libsblow.org> wrote in message
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Maybe it wasn't Bush he smelled the first time. It could have been Obama. He
might have been sniffing around during Hugo's visit.
Curly Surmudgeon
Don't remember you pissing in your pants when Bush did worse.
That's an understatement.
Much worse.
Much, much worse.
Bush fuckups of biblical proportions.
Seems kind of hypocritical to stand on the street corner with a megaphone
on only one set of politicians.
--
Regards, Curly
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> obamas-warm-embrace-chavez/
>
> When President Obama met Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in Trinidad on
> Friday, he shook hands with a man who only four years ago called the
> United States the most "murderous empire that has existed in the history
> of the world."
So? Facts bother you? Bush executed 160 people as Gov. of Texas in one
year. Then he executed 1,500,000 Iraqis.
Yeah Right
at the helm. All would be perfect. We'd have bombed
Venezuela to oblivion by now.
Sniff!
The Starmaker
>
> http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/04/20/concerns-brewing-
> obamas-warm-embrace-chavez/
>
> When President Obama met Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in Trinidad on
> Friday, he shook hands with a man who only four years ago called the
> United States the most "murderous empire that has existed in the history
> of the world."
Sometimes you have to sleep with people you don't like.