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YouTakeTheSkyway Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-21-09 06:32 PM
Response to Reply #52
54. Quite frankly, Carlos was scatter-brained, as his record shows
and any argument that this can all be boiled down to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is a bit ridiculous, as it overlooks his attacks on OPEC, his attacks on Radio Free Europe, his attacks on Romanian dissidents, etc.
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  -Chavez praises Carlos the Jackal Zorro  Nov-21-09 12:58 AM   #0 
  - dude meet mr shark n/t  vadawg   Nov-21-09 12:59 AM   #1 
  - Chavez is really sinking low and stinking up the place on this one. Ugh.  JDPriestly   Nov-21-09 02:29 AM   #2 
  - It won't matter to the DU Chavistas.  Codeine   Nov-21-09 03:06 AM   #3 
  - +1 n/t  UTUSN   Nov-21-09 08:30 AM   #12 
  - agree- they are too blinded by chavez worship to see what he's become.  BREMPRO   Nov-21-09 12:51 PM   #30 
  - OMG he's also praising Mugabe, Ahmadinejad and IDI AMIN!! He's lost it.  BREMPRO   Nov-21-09 12:56 PM   #31 
     - Oh, I think Idi Amin was truly as brutal as he was reputed to be  GCP   Nov-21-09 07:02 PM   #61 
  - That's putting it mildly n/t  taurus145   Nov-21-09 04:32 AM   #4 
  - to say the least  HughMoran   Nov-22-09 03:58 PM   #97 
  - what is he trying to accomplish with this nonsense?  cali   Nov-21-09 05:22 AM   #5 
  - Chavez defines "ABSURD"!  SkyDaddy7   Nov-21-09 05:51 AM   #6 
  - Chavez is making a parody of US heroes and freedom fighters  AlphaCentauri   Nov-21-09 09:05 AM   #15 
     - Luis Posada Carriles  StClone   Nov-21-09 09:33 AM   #17 
     - I myself would be terribly embarrassed if my president praised terrorists  EFerrari   Nov-21-09 12:50 PM   #28 
     - I am embarassed by his comments about Uribe  cali   Nov-21-09 02:18 PM   #40 
        - Your blinkers are showing, cali.  EFerrari   Nov-21-09 02:23 PM   #42 
           - Well, the number of people Amin killed varies wildly (100,000 - 500,000) however...  YouTakeTheSkyway   Nov-21-09 05:33 PM   #47 
              - Maybe because that isn't my idea?  EFerrari   Nov-22-09 12:27 AM   #74 
                 - Then what is your purpose in directing the discussion away from Amin's crimes and onto Reagan's?  YouTakeTheSkyway   Nov-22-09 02:33 AM   #75 
                    - I didn't direct the discussion away from Amin and onto Reagan.  EFerrari   Nov-22-09 01:16 PM   #84 
                       - Yes, you did, though consider this.  YouTakeTheSkyway   Nov-22-09 02:12 PM   #87 
                          - Do you never read anything not generated by Faux News?  EFerrari   Nov-22-09 02:28 PM   #90 
                             - Which somehow makes praising him a wise, just, intelligent move?  YouTakeTheSkyway   Nov-22-09 02:34 PM   #91 
                                - Notice how you again put words in my mouth?  EFerrari   Nov-22-09 02:37 PM   #92 
                                   - When in doubt, play the victim.  YouTakeTheSkyway   Nov-22-09 02:57 PM   #93 
     - twist? you have to be truly a blind adulator to defend Chavez on this one  cali   Nov-21-09 01:26 PM   #36 
     - Good post  malaise   Nov-21-09 02:26 PM   #44 
     - Really? Because, if you read the article a bit further, it seems like more than that.  YouTakeTheSkyway   Nov-21-09 05:29 PM   #46 
     - # 41  ChangoLoa   Nov-21-09 05:36 PM   #50 
     - Goofs. Nailed it. nt  Truth2Tell   Nov-22-09 12:25 AM   #73 
     - bwahahahahahahahahahahaha.  cali   Nov-21-09 12:13 PM   #26 
     - We suppose not to think just follow the waves but lets sanctify hypocrisy  AlphaCentauri   Nov-21-09 06:48 PM   #58 
     - Were this the first time Chavez said this, perhaps the parody line would work.  Igel   Nov-21-09 02:47 PM   #45 
  - More press for Chavez.  boppers   Nov-21-09 06:03 AM   #7 
  - Well, Chavez is right.  David__77   Nov-21-09 06:04 AM   #8 
  - right about what?  cali   Nov-21-09 06:39 AM   #9 
  - Tactics Define The Man  DrCory   Nov-21-09 08:20 AM   #10 
  - Really? Cause Carlos generally seemed more interested in fame  YouTakeTheSkyway   Nov-21-09 05:35 PM   #48 
  - "But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao  Gman   Nov-21-09 08:25 AM   #11 
  - Funny how Mao's China is now the center of the world.  Warren Stupidity   Nov-21-09 01:20 PM   #34 
     - No, it isn't. Deng Xiaoping's China is center of the world.  anigbrowl   Nov-21-09 02:25 PM   #43 
        - Good jokes are always spoiled by literalist deconstruction.  Warren Stupidity   Nov-22-09 12:25 PM   #83 
  - I wonder how much money guys like carlos would charge  Pavulon   Nov-21-09 08:48 AM   #13 
  - He also defends Robert Mugabe..  Imajika   Nov-21-09 08:52 AM   #14 
  - Sad, isn't it?  YouTakeTheSkyway   Nov-21-09 05:36 PM   #49 
  - One mans terrorist is another mans "freedom fighter."  Renew Deal   Nov-21-09 09:10 AM   #16 
  - Where are those here who usually leap on any thread critical of Chavez?  cali   Nov-21-09 09:37 AM   #18 
  - You mean Lynn and Peace Patriot?  YouTakeTheSkyway   Nov-21-09 05:37 PM   #51 
  - Zorro is actually the ex-King of Venezuela  itsrobert   Nov-21-09 09:39 AM   #19 
  - Hail to the King, baby  Zorro   Nov-21-09 11:35 AM   #25 
  - It's just his opinion as reported by unfriendly media, not actions.  ronnie624   Nov-21-09 09:55 AM   #20 
  - words count and praising Mugabe and the Jackal is an indication  cali   Nov-21-09 09:59 AM   #21 
  - Where are the Chavez-bots now?  Odin2005   Nov-21-09 10:01 AM   #22 
  - Why insult them by calling them "bots"?  cali   Nov-21-09 10:07 AM   #23 
  - Sorry, I'm a little grumpy this morning!  Odin2005   Nov-21-09 10:21 AM   #24 
  - Stripping their gears trying to figure out how best to praise Carlos. (nt)  Posteritatis   Nov-21-09 12:51 PM   #29 
     - nah. the jackal was not a good person  Warren Stupidity   Nov-21-09 01:28 PM   #38 
        - If only it was true that he's built more "hospitals, roads, housing" than the ones before him  ChangoLoa   Nov-21-09 02:10 PM   #39 
  - Revolutionary Fighter? Terrorist? I thought he was just a hitman...  Taverner   Nov-21-09 12:29 PM   #27 
  - me too, but read up on him here  Liberation Angel   Nov-21-09 06:09 PM   #53 
     - Sounds like he was a hired gun who cut his teeth on the cold war...  Taverner   Nov-21-09 07:07 PM   #62 
     - He was up to his eyeballs in the Palestinian cause. So was his sister.  EFerrari   Nov-21-09 09:39 PM   #67 
     - wow, interesting. so his dad, the leninist lawyer, sent him to cuban training camp while  Hannah Bell   Nov-22-09 03:18 PM   #94 
        - I read somewhere he got the boot from Lumumba U for his notorious capitalist road trip  NoPasaran   Nov-22-09 04:15 PM   #98 
  - The last two paragraphs are funny.  Prometheus Bound   Nov-21-09 12:58 PM   #32 
  - ## PLEASE DONATE TO DEMOCRATIC UNDERGROUND! ##  DU GrovelBot   Nov-21-09 12:58 PM   #33 
  - Hey now, are you on the payroll or do you just do this for free? nt.  Warren Stupidity   Nov-21-09 01:21 PM   #35 
  - Wow....  Dorian Gray   Nov-21-09 01:28 PM   #37 
  - This nonsense started 10 years ago  ChangoLoa   Nov-21-09 02:19 PM   #41 
  - What is this really about? Anti-Chavez propaganda?  Liberation Angel   Nov-21-09 06:07 PM   #52 
  - Quite frankly, Carlos was scatter-brained, as his record shows  YouTakeTheSkyway   Nov-21-09 06:32 PM   #54 
  - Yeah, but he is most closely associated with the Palestinian militant movement  Liberation Angel   Nov-21-09 06:34 PM   #55 
     - While I'm apt to agree with that, is it fair to portray him as some freedom fighter?  YouTakeTheSkyway   Nov-21-09 06:42 PM   #56 
        - Well, he was named for Lenin by a communist father...  Liberation Angel   Nov-21-09 06:54 PM   #59 
           - Some agreement.  YouTakeTheSkyway   Nov-21-09 07:15 PM   #63 
              - I don't admire killers, and I assume he is probably a killer, BUT...  Liberation Angel   Nov-21-09 07:41 PM   #65 
  - As for Mugabe - again the mainstream media is unreliable  Liberation Angel   Nov-21-09 06:47 PM   #57 
  - Your comment is well balance  AlphaCentauri   Nov-21-09 06:56 PM   #60 
     - Not quite sure I have your perspective right but--- is Chavez that bad?  Liberation Angel   Nov-21-09 07:33 PM   #64 
        - I'm left wondering where exactly you draw the line and deem those in Latin America, or Africa,  YouTakeTheSkyway   Nov-21-09 08:02 PM   #66 
           - You might read up on why that is and how the so called First World  EFerrari   Nov-21-09 09:44 PM   #68 
              - And again, I'll ask the question: at what point do you start to hold Africans, Latin Americans, etc.  YouTakeTheSkyway   Nov-21-09 11:21 PM   #70 
                 - When Latin America attains the age of majority  AlphaCentauri   Nov-22-09 12:16 AM   #71 
                 - Independent adults  YouTakeTheSkyway   Nov-22-09 02:43 AM   #76 
                    - The only way the US and Europe consider any country inside their adult hood  AlphaCentauri   Nov-22-09 10:08 AM   #79 
                       - Military might is only part of the equation  YouTakeTheSkyway   Nov-22-09 12:02 PM   #81 
                 - You don't blame me for not answering?  EFerrari   Nov-22-09 12:21 AM   #72 
                    - It's as if you didn't read my last post at all  YouTakeTheSkyway   Nov-22-09 02:53 AM   #77 
                       - Faultless Angels? No One said that and moreover...Fascism is the cause...  Liberation Angel   Nov-22-09 09:22 AM   #78 
                          - Some agreement  YouTakeTheSkyway   Nov-22-09 12:15 PM   #82 
                             - Now you're attributing to Chavez what he hasn't said, thought or done.  EFerrari   Nov-22-09 01:18 PM   #85 
                             - Look, I realize you like the guy an awful lot, but  YouTakeTheSkyway   Nov-22-09 02:25 PM   #89 
                             - More or less...  Liberation Angel   Nov-22-09 01:40 PM   #86 
                                - Nicely put  YouTakeTheSkyway   Nov-22-09 02:22 PM   #88 
  - To claim this is disturbing would be an understatement  Flanker   Nov-21-09 11:10 PM   #69 
  - This is a media fluff piece imho  Liberation Angel   Nov-22-09 10:12 AM   #80 
     - I agree on many things you say here  ChangoLoa   Nov-22-09 03:22 PM   #95 
        - got links?  Liberation Angel   Nov-22-09 03:41 PM   #96 
  - Anyone have a link to the full speech?  varelse   Nov-22-09 04:27 PM   #99 
     - sorry no habla  Liberation Angel   Nov-22-09 11:13 PM   #100 
 

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