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Saturday, May 20, 2006

Chavez

This article had me laughing out loud. (ht the Environmental Republican)
Hugo Chavez just can't help himself. Even though he criticizes the US every day for sticking our noses where we don't belong, he just has to put his own nose in other people's business whether they want it there or not. Even whether it's helpful or not.
"He goes around shooting from the hip and shooting his mouth off and that has caused tensions," Jorge Castaneda, a former Mexican foreign minister, said by telephone from New York, where he is teaching at New York University. "The difference now is that he's picking fights with his friends, not just his adversaries."

Chavez, for example, has taken the uncompromising stand that governments must choose either his vision of continental unity or free trade with Washington, which Chavez blames for impoverishing the region. "You either have one or the other," he said. "Either we're a united community or we're not."

Who does that sound like? LOL
Isn't that his arch enemy? "Either you're with us or you're with the terrorists".
And what about this?:

The sparring with Peru's government erupted after Toledo said it made no sense for Chavez to criticize his Andean partners for dealing with Washington when Venezuela sells most of its oil to the United States.
He was criticizing Peru for wanting trade with the US and was going to drop out of the Andean trade group to make his point.
"Egomania" is the term used by a John Hopkins scholar. (Riordan Riott)
Throw in loony and you got it!