White House: Chavez speech not worthy of a response

[sabra]

http://www.whotv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5435090&nav=2HAB

White House: Chavez speech not worthy of a response

WHITE HOUSE The White House isn't saying much about today's speech by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (OO'-goh CHAH'-vez) at the U-N, which included some heated remarks about President Bush.

Chavez called Bush "the devil," and said the president's tone in yesterday's speech to the General Assembly made him sound "as if he were the owner of the world."

But a White House spokesman says the remarks aren't worthy of a response.

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The Venezuelan leader drew tentative giggles at times from the audience, but also some applause when he called Bush the devil.

U-S Ambassador John Bolton says Chavez has the right to express his opinion, but added it was "too bad the people of Venezuela don't have free speech."

[bluedog]

1. can't agrue with the truth.....n/t

[screembloodymurder]

18. He can't deny it.

It's the one thing the Devil can't lie about.

[Radicalman]

21. Bolton Says That There s No Free Speech Under Chavez

Bolton is saying the people of Venezuela do not have free speech. If that is the point at issue here (and it seems to be) it's interesting to see what people of the "far left" and "far right" say about that:

At PA Political affairs.net Marxist Thought Online ”US Intervention in Venezuela” http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/2896/1/152/
we read that, “Another basic myth is that Chávez has limited freedom of speech and eroded civil rights. Yet whenever I go to Venezuela, I hear the private media spend enormous amounts of time criticizing the President, something I wish our media would do a little more of.

"Access to community media production – both radio and television – has vastly expanded in recent years. And no serious human rights group has alleged that civil rights have eroded under the Chávez administration, and civil rights compare favorably to past governments and to countries in the region. "

If we go to Pat Robertson’s CBN http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/news/050531a.aspx We read that
"Chavez calls this revolution 'Bolivarian,"'named after the South American liberator, Simon Bolivar. But for his opponents,this revolution has been anything but liberating.

"Maria-Corina Machado, opposition leader and mother of three, faces prison time for simply taking grant money from the National Endowment for Democracy, a program of the United States Congress.

""This is a country where anyone who dares to think and speak differently from the government,' said Machado, “'s seen as an enemy.'

"Machado's group Sumate used the money to educate citizens in democracy. But the Chavez government accused Machado of plotting with the U.S. to overthrow it. "

Well, the National Endownment for Democracy is no stranger to Venezuelan politics. According to the New York Times, the organization "funneled more than $877,000 into Venezuela opposition groups in the weeks and months before the recently aborted coup attempt." More than $150,000 went to "a Venezuelan labor union that led the opposition work stoppages and worked closely with Pedro Carmona Estanga, the businessman who led the coup."

NED, over the years, has actively destabilized governments in Central America and Eastern Europe. According to William Blum's book, Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower, the NED "played an important role in the Iran-Contra affair of the 1980s, funding key components of Oliver North's shadowy Project Democracy network, which privatized U.S. foreign policy, waged war, ran arms and drugs, and engaged in other equally charming activities." For years the NED supported the Cuban exile community in south Florida, contributing $250,000 between 1990 and 1992 to the right-wing Cuban-American National Foundation.

See http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/South_America/NED_Targets_Venezuela.html

Further research is required. Better yet, we should go to Venezula and see for ourselves!!

[pinerow]

2. The truth is the best defense for libel...

if da shoe fits...etc.

[dkofos]

3. They didn't understand what he said

[wagthedogwar]

16. a letter to John Bolton

Venezuela doesn't have free speech? Oh! maybe somebody should invade them so they can get FoxNews-iness.

-A question to you, Mr.Bolton:
'How many times in the last 100 years have American troops been sent to Latin America to secure 'the blessings of Liberty?'

If Hugo Chavez was right about nothing else, he is right in saying this 'people are waking up' the world over in part thanks to George Bush, who taught everyone to get real. The US invades to protect it's own commercial interests to the detriment of all local populations--even it's own--and at the expense of it's taxpayers.

Finally Americans are slowly realizing that Bush has always been about securing his own 'blessings', by,for and with *corporations who have no *loyalty, no *nationality, no *soul (see devil) and who don't pay taxes.

You can fight and die for Exxon or the United fruit Company or the Anglo American Oil Company for another hundred years Mr.Bolton, but they will never fight for you; and like George W.Bush, when you are no longer useful to them, they will throw you to the sharks, like the republican party plans to do to him. No, George Bush is not the Devil, he is the Devil's pawn,
the harbinger of Death...and the *Corporation likes that Just fine.

[killbotfactory]

4. "too bad the people of Venezuela don't have free speech."

Bolton is either stupid or a liar.

Or both.

[EarthNeedsHope]

10. Just a liar

I'm sure there will be a Congressional resolution condemning his remarks. The left wing of the Dem party will vote against, like always.

[LaPera]

5. What else would one expect fascist liars to say-who always get their way?

[HuffleClaw]

6. "the people of Venezuela don't have free speech." ???!!!

bwahahahahahahaaaaaaaa

yeah right, they've more free speech than the average american.

they aren't responding because they CAN'T respond. truth is indefensible.

[Bitwit1234]

7. Chavez

This I can not understand. When bush gets up in front of the country and congress and calls the leaders of other countries names, the republicans applaud. This man is the leader of his country and can say what he wants. We have no right to tell him different.

Chavez no matter how much he may or may not be what bush wanted - he was elected thru a democratic process. He won. bush can never fault a legal election when he stole two. We, as a country, do not have control what other countries say. Is bush, as Chavez says, thinking he is the ruler of the world.

[ck4829]

8. I'd respond to John Bolton, but...

I'm stuck inside a 'free speech' zone a mile away from a Bush rally where the audience is pre-approved.

[EarthNeedsHope]

9. You aren't CAPABLE of a response

Someone got up there and spoke the TRUTH. He spoke about your crimes, and spoke up FOR the underclass of oppressed and savaged people. He spoke for the suffering, and he cut through your lies like a hot knife.

Hot DAMN, Chavez!

[leQ]

11. guess a democracy isn't a real democracy unless it bows to bushite law.eom

[saskatoon]

12. VIVA CHAVEZ

Sock it to "the man who thinks he owns the world"

[dweller]

19. diablo!

stench of sulfur in still in the air!

:rofl:

VIVA CHAVEZ!
dp

[truthisfreedom]

13. not responding is NOT the same as saying something isn't worthy of a

response. these bozos can't get anything right.

[nolabels]

15. So in Layman's terms saying your going to give a nonresponse is.......

actually a response?

Is it possible to characterize part of the respondent's non-response as part of the parallels in all the other 'non(s)'? It seems it is related to the term 'non-responsible' or even not responsible. Where does the buck stop? How can anyone claim to be holding any position of title and claim such. Even worse how can so many except such and expect others to do the same. This dude * is a fraud but slinging invectives at such only gives credibility when none should be given.

[cboy4]

14. I heard the chuckling and and applause from diplomats. I just wish

the camera would have shown who was doing it so I could send them flowers. ;)

<----------BUSH

[kitty1]

17. Bush on Titanic helm; I'm owner of the world!! (cartoon idea)

[rinsd]

20. More dick waving, "not worthy of response" How about no comment?

Christ can any of our leaders not speak to each other as if they were children on the playground.

[VegasWolf]

22. Bush's response,

"Unca Dick, Unca Dick, they made me feel bad!"

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