Chavez vs.Bush at the U.N.

[fear_and_greed]

UNITED NATIONS ( AP) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez took President Bush to task in front of a global summit for waging war in Iraq without U.N. consent and won rousing applause for his critique.

The leftist leader told a U.N. summit on Thursday that fighting the war without U.N. authorization showed Washington did not respect the world body. He recommended moving U.N. headquarters to a country that has more regard for the organization.

``There were never weapons of mass destruction but Iraq was bombed, and over U.N. objections, (it was) occupied and continues being occupied,'' Chavez said. Bush alleged that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction but none have been found, shattering one of his main arguments for going to war.

``That's why we propose to this assembly that the United Nations leave this country, which is not respectful of the very resolutions of this assembly,'' Chavez said.

World leaders at the summit had been asked to speak for five minutes but Chavez ran long and when the presiding diplomat passed him a note saying his time was up, he threw it on the floor. He said if Bush could speak for 20 minutes, so could he. When he finally stopped, he got what observers said was the loudest applause of the summit.

 

I think the "axis of evil" club is about to get a new member. It'll be interesting to see how the spin doctors will make Venezuela a terrorist threat now.

[sexual_chocolate]

I think the "axis of evil" club is about to get a new member. It'll be interesting to see how the spin doctors will make Venezuela a terrorist threat now.

 

They've been trying to spin Chavez into a bad guy ever since he was democratically elected, going so far as to support the coup in the planning stages to offering support to the coup perpetrators after the short-lived Hugo ouster (how's that for the US supporting "democracy"?)

 

It's nice to see the idiocy of our foreign policies so publicly exposed, and to see the perpetrators so publicly humiliated.

 

Whether or not I support all of his actions and programs, I still must say "Bravo Hugo".

[whirlwind]

it won't be under "terrorist theat" they'll find a way to depoly under "the war on drugs" schem for sure though

[Dave_Schuldt]

The only reason we care about that nut is he has oil. I think Chavez is nuts but so is Bush.