Was Chavez right to call Bush the devil?

Answer 1

What we are seeing lately, is once again the right wing of this country attacking a person who was simply speaking his mind. In this country, we have freedom of speech.

Yet, freedom of speech for Republicans works like this: you can speak your mind but if you say anything negative about one of our ppl, then we are going to punish you.

Chavez spoke his mind and there were ppl shaking their heads in agreement and many applauds.

Bush and my fellow Americans really need to take this as a wake-up call that our arrogance and bullying the world is going to be our own undoing. We are isolating ourselves and the world will eventually revolt against us.

He is saying what many other nations are feeling... that no one world leader has a right to dictate to the rest of the world how to run their countries.

Answer 2

Venezuela had been selling oil to the US at far less than the market price, selling out its own people. When the people DEMOCRATICALLY elected Chavez, he insisted the US pay the market price. THe US government responded by announcing to the press that it would be fine to 'take out' Mr Chavez.
Strange, aren't our boys dying in Iraq to bring democracy?
This kind of treatment of a democratic leader is evil and contemptible, and only a brain dead person would not see that George W has no respect for democracy, yet thousands of US, UK, and Iraqi sons and daughters are dying every month, so he can talk about democracy, and how good he is. The Devil has higher morals than George W.

Answer 3

You bet. Whenever Bush talks, even if it is the most serious issue, he always has a stupid half smirk lurking on his face ready to break into a sneer at any second. It is almost like is talking so far down to us that he thinks it is positively funny that all of us even listen to his garbage and even funnier that we accept it. Because he does not care what the American people are all about and because he is only pushing his own ego-centric agenda, Bush is definitely a devil. The only thing that matters to him is what he hears in his own head. The American people, and even the entire world, can just go pound salt as far as he is concerned.

Answer 4

Well, one would have to be pretty wacked-out to believe that George Bush is "the devil". I mean, how many people actually believe in "the devil"?

Right and wrong are irrelevant; the important thing is that ol' Hugo took a giant step in the right direction - towards his grave.

Answer 5

No: Even Dems disagreed with HUGO and sided with Bush that alone should be Proof enough Chavez was Wrong.

Answer 6

No, and even the Democrat leaders like Pelosi denounced it, by saying an attack on our President on our soil by a Communist leader is an attack on America itself.However, most of the Libs on this site now worship this man, further proving what pitiful Americans they really are.Like Humanist..

Answer 7

right to say it in public,, or to say it at all ,,, freedom of speech,, to promote a book, he may have an interest in,, most people have formed an opinion of Mr. Bush before,, wonder why Bush stood with Musharraf to promote his book in defiance of Chavez,,, book wielders

Answer 8

PNAC ( http://www.newamericancentury.org/... ), the Project for the New American Century is a Washington-based think tank created in 1997. They want the United States, by way of economic and military force, to bring the rest of the world under the umbrella of a new socio-economic Pax Americana. The New World order.

Vice President Dick Cheney is a founding member of PNAC, along with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Defense Policy Board chairman Richard Perle. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz is the ideological father of the group. Bruce Jackson, a PNAC director, served as a Pentagon official for Ronald Reagan before leaving government service to take a leading position with the weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin. William Kristol, famed conservative writer for the Weekly Standard, is also a co-founder of the group. The Weekly Standard is owned by Ruppert Murdoch, who also owns international media giant Fox News.

PNAC's ideology can be found in a White Paper produced in September of 2000 entitled "Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century."

According to PNAC, America must:
* Reposition PERMANANTLY based forces to Southern Europe, Southeast Asia and the Middle East;
* Modernize U.S. forces, including enhancing our fighter aircraft, submarine and surface fleet capabilities;
* Develop and deploy a global missile defense system, and develop a strategic dominance of space;
* Control the "International Commons" of cyberspace;
* Increase defense spending to a minimum of 3.8 percent of gross domestic product, up from the 3 percent currently spent (which Bush has already done)

When Bush assumed the Presidency, the men who created and nurtured the imperial dreams of PNAC became the men who run the Pentagon, the Defense Department and the White House. On September 11th, when the Towers came down, these men saw their chance to turn their White Papers into substantive policy. On September 20th 2001, Bush released the "National Security Strategy of the United States of America." It is an ideological match to PNAC's "Rebuilding America's Defenses" report issued a year earlier. In many places, it uses exactly the same language to describe America's new place in the world.

Most ominously, this PNAC document described four "Core Missions" for the American military. The two central requirements are for American forces to "fight and decisively win multiple, simultaneous major theater wars," and to "perform the 'constabulary' duties associated with shaping the security environment in critical regions." In order to bring this plan to fruition, the military must fight these wars one way or the other to establish American dominance for all to see. According to the Washington Post and The Nation, the final slide of this presentation described "Iraq as the tactical pivot, Saudi Arabia as the strategic pivot, and Egypt as the prize" in a war that would purportedly be about ridding the world of terrorism. Bush has deployed massive forces into the Mideast region, while simultaneously engaging American forces in the Philippines and playing nuclear chicken with North Korea. The American people, anxiously awaiting some sort of exit plan after America defeats Iraq, will see too late that no exit is planned.

Our government has been financing research with Monsanto and Dupont to genitically alter seeds so they produce plants who's seeds will not germinte. This will force farmers/nations to rebuy seeds each year from whoever controls them.
( http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?c... ) I believe they already have the patent, or are in the process of applying for it. Think of the implications, not only could we bomb the "f" out of you, but starve you too...until you comply.

Terrorism will INCREASE, and the coming wars will take millions of lives, but that is an acceptable sacrifice for them, as the world would be easier to control with a significantly smaller population.

Eventually, there WILL be American dissent; the citizens will attempt to rise up against the government that's been ripped from under us. That was what the "War on Terror" has really been all about: Constitutional changes that empower the Presidency, protect government from the people, and eliminate citizens rights, (Patriot Acts I & II, and last week's "torture" bill).

In preparation for what's to come, our civil rights, liberties, freedoms, guarantees of due process, and protections from unfair treatment by our own government have been severely diminished by the Patriot Acts. Last week's "torture" bill shifted some powers from Congress to the President, further empowering him. Together, both documents VAGUELY redefine "terrorist" to easily implicate ANY American citizen as a "potential terrorist" or "potential enemy combatant" simply by the words MISSING from the document, that would protect us from such. While all this had been loudly pointed out in Congress, the bill was still passed, as is. It is now highly possible that YOU might be the one being tortured, held in military custody, without access to a lawyer or our judicail system, indefinitely.

Consider also, the true role of FEMA, according to the bill that created that agency. In a (very vaguely defined) "national emergency", they take FULL CONTROL of industry, transportation, wages, employment, can relocate populations, enforce forced citizen labor, money, credit, utilities, communication, media...they BECOME our goverment, and cannot be reviewed by Congess for at least 6 months.

PNAC wants American domination and control over every nation on our world. WE will be the cannon fodder. Our nation is quickly becoming militarized, and we no longer have a say in the matter. WE are "acceptable losses" in their game of greed and power.

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
Theodore Roosevelt, 1912

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin

"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty"
Thomas Jefferson

Answer 9

I don't know if he was right, but he has the right and he exercised it. Bush is an awful example of the way America should be.

Answer 10

Well Bush didn't call him a murdering A hole.
And let me see... we can't go there and deliver speeches like that about him can we? HMMMM.... maybe let's do away with the UN and all help to foreign powers who don't like us.