Chavez calls Blair 'pawn of imperialism'

[arcos]

Chavez calls Blair 'pawn of imperialism'

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Wednesday called British Prime Minister Tony Blair "a pawn of imperialism," accusing him of siding with George. W. Bush against Venezuela.

"Mr. Tony Blair is the main ally of Hitler," said Chavez, who has compared US President George W. Bush to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.

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http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1139395370147&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

[BillZBubb]

1. Too bad he didn't say "Poodle of Imperialism"!

That would have been classic.

[Moochy]

2. Blair moving his pawns

[IndianaGreen]

5. We should suggest that name to Chavez

Poodle of Imperialism, indeed!

Blair has turned out to be as much a liar as Bush and, he may have ordered the murder of Dr. David Kelly, the UK's foremost WMD expert.

The David Kelly Story: Turning Murder into Suicide

by Rowena Thursby

When the slant put on the reporting of a case almost guarantees a suicide "verdict", it is important to focus on the players who seed this interpretation.

On 18th July 2003 the world was stunned by the news that Dr David Kelly had been found dead on Harrowdown Hill near his home in Oxfordshire. Dr Kelly had been caught in the vortex of a political storm & forced to appear before British government committees - one of them televised - investigating alleged revelations he made to the BBC journalist, Andrew Gilligan. Gilligan claimed that Kelly had revealed to him it was Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair's chief aide, who inserted the questionable claim that WMDs could be unleashed in Iraq in 45 minutes, to induce the public to support a war with Iraq.

A public inquiry was set up to look into all the circumstances leading to Kelly's death. A key figure in this drama: pathologist, Nicholas Hunt, appears to have forged a new type of alchemy in forensic science - turning murder into suicide.

Nicholas Hunt, the forensic pathologist who testified before Lord Hutton in September, is one of only 35 Home Office-accredited pathologists in the UK. We might imagine, being appointed by the British government, Dr Hunt would be of the highest calibre, displaying impeccable professional judgement. Television news and drama, with their frequent references to "DNA evidence", bolster a view of the forensic pathologist as "never wrong".

However, this article highlights a number of recent cases where flawed assessments by Home Office pathologists have given rise to unsafe convictions, and explores how professional fallibility may have led to similarly erroneous interpretations from Dr Hunt regarding the death of Dr David Kelly. It also raises the more sinister possibility that Hunt's interpretations were weighted deliberately with the express purpose of convincing us this was suicide.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/THU311A.html

[goforit]

6. Yes, I think that is a grand idea.

Interesting hypothesis on Kelly.

[Igel]

7. "Prawn of imperialism", however, has a certain

ring to it. Up there with "crab imperial".

[rpannier]

3. Impossible

How can he be a pawn? He's an active member in global imperialism.

[Judi Lynn]

4. Oh, jeez! So the little man got Blair to take a kick at Cuba.

Well, the prostitution is complete, isn't it?

Here's an article carried by one of the big opposition papers in Venezuela:

Blair encourages Venezuela and Cuba to abide by democratic principles

British Prime Minister Tony Blair urged Wednesday Venezuela to "observe the rules of the global community" and added that he would like to see Cuba operating "as a true democracy," AFP reported.

During the weekly question and answer session, Labor Congressman Colin Burgon asked Blair about the takeover in Latin America of leftist governments.

"I am sure that you share the satisfaction of many Labor deputies for the shift leftwards recorded in Latin America, following the takeover by governments that fight for the interests of the majority instead of the interests of a few," Burgon declared.

"But you may concede that it would be terrible for all of us to let our politics with regard to those countries, particularly nations such as Venezuela, be defined by the Republican rightist agenda of the US Government," the parliamentarian queried.

"To a certain extent," the Prime Minister answered laughing.
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http://english.eluniversal.com/2006/02/08/en_pol_art_08A668803.shtml

[Cha]

8. Anyone with a brain can

see bush wants to be the Dicktator in the USA..will tony blair be blathering lip service for "true democracy" in America??

[Taxloss]

9. A pawn of imperialism?

five years of faithful service and he's still only a pawn? He must be at least a rook by now.

[Rex]

10. The English practically invented imperialism

Blair is just following a long standing tradition of English lords, make a profit for Blair and country.

[Geo55]

11. Yeah , but rub is , he's just followin' the Big Kid on the block

being reduced to a snot nosed second banna must hurt.

[Rex]

15. Yeah that must be true.

He has that starstruck look in his eyes when he sees his master.

[Taxloss]

12. Well, Blair isn't nobility.

And I think the Romans invented imperialism. And we certainly aren't making a profit out of Iraq, it's costing us tonnes and we don't get the cushy contracts out of it.

But I get your point.

[foo_bar]

13. the Romans just stole it from the Greeks and Persians

I think Chavez was referring to Lenin's "monopoly stage of capitalism", kind of a cyclical dealio where Standard Oil takes over and instigates wars through Hearst newspapers. Blair is just the imperialist lap dog, not the evil mustache-twirling tycoon himself.

"If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism. Such a definition would include what is most important, for, on the one hand, finance capital is the bank capital of a few very big monopolist banks, merged with the capital of the monopolist combines of industrialists; and, on the other hand, the division of the world is the transition from a colonial policy which has extended without hindrance to territories unseized by any capitalist power, to a colonial policy of monopolistic possession of the territory of the world which has been completely divided up." http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1916lenin-imperialism.html

[Rex]

16. That's what I was thinking too.

http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/ch09.htm

V. I. Lenin
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism
A POPULAR OUTLINE

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IX. CRITIQUE OF IMPERIALISM
By the critique of imperialism, in the broad sense of the term, we mean the attitude of the different classes of society towards imperialist policy in connection with their general ideology.

The enormous dimensions of finance capital concentrated in a few hands and creating an extraordinarily dense and widespread network of relationships and connections which subordinates not only the small and medium, but also the very small capitalists and small masters, on the one hand, and the increasingly intense struggle waged against other national state groups of financiers for the division of the world and domination over other countries, on the other hand, cause the propertied classes to go over entirely to the side of imperialism. “General” enthusiasm over the prospects of imperialism, furious defence of it and painting it in the brightest colours—such are the signs of the times. Imperialist ideology also penetrates the working class. No Chinese Wall separates it from the other classes. The leaders of the present-day, so-called, “Social-Democratic” Party of Germany are justly called “social-imperialists”, that is, socialists in words and imperialists in deeds; but as early as 1902, Hobson noted the existence in Britain of “Fabian imperialists” who belonged to the opportunist Fabian Society.

[Rex]

18. Blair will be a Carlyle CEO if he plays his cards right.

I agree with you totally. Today it seems to be the same ol' thing we always fight over, power, money, dominion. Blair and Bush will see a huge profit from our loss and misery. :(

[cliss]

14. I loved the article on Counter Punch

which describes Tony Blair as "a pathetic sycophant". The Former Empire now must kiss the butt of its former empire. While Blair is wishing to revive his country's previous glory, with the Union Jack waving on the stern of its mighty armada, there is no glory, no proud world leadership.

Instead, there is only desperation and maniacal clawing at the world's remaining resources, to bomb everybody else in order to glom onto the largest oil deposits.

There is no honor, only despicable lying, hiding the facts, sinking deeper and deeper into their own quick sand.

[Doctor_J]

17. Chavez has really been flapping his gums lately

I like it. Someone nearby to stand up to * and Blair.