Reply #14: How is someone who was democratically

[sabrina 1]

elected, in elections more fair than ours, a tyrant? Because George Bush says so? Are you saying the Venezualan people are stupid? Because he WAS elected by more of a majority of his people than Bush was here, and if his people want him as their president, I wish those who insist on calling a duly elected president a 'tyrant' would explain how that can be. He is extremely popular in his own country. Last I looked, his approval ratings were around 60% or more. Why is it the business of this country to determine that the people of another country are getting it wrong, simply because our government hates anyone who will not easily give up their country's resources? We are hardly in a position to criticize anyone on who they choose as their leaders. He hasn't invaded several countries killing over a million of their citizens, has he? Or set up secret gulags around the globe, to which he sends people to be tortured? Really, we need to take care of our own dictators, which we haven't done very well so far.

And you do realize, do you not, that the reason for the hateful propaganda in this country against Chavez(not shared around the world, btw) is that he nationalized Venezuela's oil, making sure his own people finally get to benefit from their own resources, kicked out the greedy globalists and oil barons, who kept 80% of Venezuela's people in poverty for so long, paid off Venezuela's debt to the World Bank, establishing the country as independent of the manipulations of globalists like Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz et al? I wish we could get out from under those influences in this country.

I'm always amazed at the way people assume that if the US government calls someone names, it must be so.