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Quote by: GHook Chavez needs to grow up a little. This disrespect, along with his other disrespecting comments, do great harm to Venezuela. |
I agree. That guy sure knows how to make a fool of himself.
Chavez owes Merkel no respect. But he should stick to the verifiable truth. It's true that most of the German right supported Hitler, at least as long as the going was good. The Christian Democrats -- especially their Bavarian brothers -- are dominated by likely goose-steppers in my view. This doesn't mean Merkel herself is a Nazi, obviously.
But she's a dingbat for advising Latin Americans to distance themselves from Chavez. He's an authentic voice, even if he represents one loudmouth extreme of the prevailing tendency in South America these days -- they're damned fed up with US imperialism. "US imperialism" isn't a slogan -- it's a historical, and present, fact.
I'm glad Chavez is benefiting from high oil prices to do a lot of good things in his country, but he should grow up, as G says, stop being quite such a firebrand, and leave diplomacy to the diplomats.
Quite frankly, he reminds me of Berlusconi.
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In the past, he has called U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld "one of the dogs of the devil" and then-President of Mexico Vicente Fox the "lap-dog of the empire."
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This was merely the truth.