Diplomat: U.S. to overlook Chavez barbs

[sabra]

http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/15604281.htm

Diplomat: U.S. to overlook Chavez barbs
Associated Press

CARACAS, Venezuela - The verbal attacks Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez launched against President Bush should not affect diplomatic relations between the countries, the U.S. ambassador said Monday.

William Brownfield said officials in Washington would try to overlook the string of insults uttered last week by Chavez, who called Bush "the devil" at the U.N. General Assembly and an "alcoholic" at a church in Harlem, New York.

"My government's position is that we are going to ignore, we can ignore and we should ignore the words. It's the actions that count," Brownfield told the local Globovision television network.

"This bilateral relation is so important for the two countries that we try to ignore the polemical words, the rhetoric."

[babylonsister]

1. They weren't insults, he told the truth, unlike this 'diplomat'. nt

[tanyev]

2. No assassination, then? Well that's big of them.

[sui generis]

3. it was sardonic humor

Personally, I'd find being compared to "Thuh Devul" rather exhilarating, but you know how those southern babtist sissies get about any religious comparison.

Anyway, yes it was divisive, and yes Bolton and Bush were shocked shocked SHOCKED I tell you to discover that such a huge number of world leaders present laughed and applauded the political comedy.

[Fridays Child]

4. Translation: Venezuela is currently fourth on our list of countries...

...to invade which means that we won't be getting around to it until about 2016 and, since they have a buch of oil, we'll let it go...for now.