by Dreamtwister » Tue 04 Apr 2006, 10:59:33
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USA! USA! USA! 
What an ignorant twit you are. I see in Chavez the same way you Bush-haters see in Bush. At least Bush doesn't prostitute himself to any foreign leader like Chavez did frequently.
Insult me all you like, you've still brought nothing to the table to prove your assertion that "Chavez is evil". He's making deals with his neighbors, updating his military, protecting his nation's resources and feeding the poor. He's not engaging in militaristic expansionism and he's
LOVED by his people. That doesn't sound evil, that sounds...responsible.
You have also mischaracterized me. Sure, I don't like Bush. I've never denied that. But I didn't like Clinton selling secrets to the Chinese and bombing asprin factories, either. It's not about "liking" one party over the other, it's about recognizing that
BOTH parties are run by the same shadowy group of corporations and private money. Can democracy last through peak oil? It's been dead for years already. The facade is just finally becoming transparent enough for even the McMorons to see through it. Apparently it's not thin enough for all, though. Give it a few more years.
As for Bush not prostituting himself to foriegn leaders, what about the Saudis? IIRC, he was also drooling all overf the Dubai ports thing as well. Then there's the way he's been playing kissy-face with Pakistan, despite the fact that we
KNOW bin Laden has been passing over the border unfettered for
5 YEARS now. Then there's Israel...Columbia...
And to bring us back on topic, Putin may be a would-be dictator, but he's a thousand times better than Yeltsin. Yeltsin's policies destroyed the post-collapse economy (but he took pretty good care of his friends), saw billions of dollars worth of military hardware to literally walk off the shelves (much of it finding it's way into the hands of people we now call terrorists), and allowed rampant corruption of a nature so severe, that when 51 members of Yeltsin's inner circle were brought up on charges (45 convictions), Yeltsin proceeded to FIRE the chair of the anti-corruption committee. He even violated the constitution
HE WROTE less than a year after he wrote it when he fired the Supreme soviet and the Congress of People's Deputies.
Putin, on the other hand, won his second term in an election that was declared fair by international observers (although the state-owned media did a lot of one-sided campaigning and probably tainted the results). The country has gone from being bankrupt, to being a legitimate economic power. Criminals at the head of major corporations (not just Yukos) have been arrested and tried for various crimes, and perhaps most importantly, the people aren't waiting in bread lines any more. Of course, none of that forgives his actions in Chechnya, but let's be honest with ourselves. No major world power has ever existed that did not engage in war crimes.
The whole of human history is a refutation by experiment of the concept of "moral world order". - Friedrich Nietzsche