Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Bush The Terrorist
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"I not only think that they are misguided, but I think they know exactly what they are doing, and I think that they are men who are possessed of evil"
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See Guardian's story at this link
Belafonte accused U.S. news media of falsely painting Chavez as a dictator, when in fact, he said, there is democracy and citizens are optimistic about their future.
I think Belafonte is right on the money. Pretty much everyone knows that the US launched a failed coup attempt on Venezuela, but they're afraid to say so. Chavez did not listen to the economic hitmen, so they sent in the jackals. And the jackals botched the job.
The Washington Post condemned the coup outright.
Some other papers were half-assed about it. The LA times ran an editorial "Venezuela's Strange Days" pointing out that "it's one thing to oppose policies and another to back a coup." The paper stated that by not adequately opposing the coup, "the White House failed to stay on the side of democracy." They did not, however acknowledge that it was a CIA backed coup.
The observer certainly points it out in the story linked here.
