Reply #19: No, that's not what this thread is about....what "selective reading" you managed!

[MADem]

Here's what I "agree" to: Chavez is a crazed, dictatorial despot and a whackjob, whose delusions of grandeur are driving his country further and further into the shits. He has no idea what he's doing, he's a mismanaging, authoritarian fool, and he is ruining what could be a powerhouse of a nation with his foolishness and antics.

The fact is, he reestablished relations after cutting them off in a fit of CRAZED and unjustified pique (not the first time, either) after he (or one of his stupid little subordinate thug-buddies) were caught arming insurgents, who had RPGs made in Sweden that the manufacturer had sold to VZ--with a specific, no-third-party-handoff end-user agreement.

All that IS in the article. And it's all germane to the discussion.

But DO pay no attention to the bloated, dumb, red-shirted man behind the curtain--focus on the Great And Powerful Wizard of Oz!

I can't believe how many easily swayed guppies there are in this world.

Yeah, he's a "hero" all right--Dick Cheney would be proud: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6236564