2005-09-16 - 10:59 a.m.
INVASION OF VENEZUELA NEXT?
By Peter Fredson
September 16, 2005
The insolence of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez toward U.S. President George Bush cannot be tolerated any longer by the neoconservatives of the U.S. Bush must not allow any inferior nation or race or person to challenge the U.S. bid for world domination. Bush, the darling of his God, the love of his remolded Republican Party, the Messiah of corporations, the apocalyptic leader of American Taliban Fundamentalists, has been insulted beyond any possible bounds of taste, decency or civility.
Bush must respond with cruise missiles, bunker buster bombs, stealth bombers, battleships, destroyers, and aircraft carriers, in another show of Shock and Awe similar to that incurred by Saddam Hussein, who also dared to challenge Bush’s imperial leadership. Unless he considers that his political capital has been damaged by incompetence, Iraq quagmire and Katrina, Bush might better show some slight contrition or accommodation.
President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, gave a speech to the United Nations which Bush cannot ignore as a mere prank. On September 15, 2005, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez took President Bush to task in front of a United Nations Global Summit for invading Iraq without U.N. consent. Most of the attendees gave Chavez rousing applause for his critique of the arrogant American President.
Chavez told the U.N. summit that fighting a war without U.N. authorization showed that Washington had no respect for the world body. The Bush appointment of a bullying and threatening John Bolton showed that Bush wanted to dominate the U.N. and rebuild it with his white supremacist Christian ideology.
So Chavez 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," said Chavez.
Every American knows the immense effort Bush spent in selling Saddam’s Weapons of Mass Destruction, and the frightening spectacle Condi Rice presented of “Mushroom Clouds.” Yet none were ever found.
Bush has never explained what other “noble cause” might have motivated him to lie to the entire country for several months and to twist all intelligence to his political advantage.
Chavez explained: "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" He suggested moving the U.N. Headquarters from New York to some other international city which would be less dominating and bullying.
Chavez obviously would like the U.N. to be located in South America, but someplace where Bush and his worshipful media would not be trying to remold the U.N. in the Christian Fundamentalist image. The American Taliban are highly organized and wish to claim superiority and dominion over all.
Certainly moving the U.N. is preferable to Bolton suggestions to destroy the U.N. as a useless appendage for the U.S. If the U.N. is such an irritant to Bush, then moving it would certainly relieve some of the irritation.
Bush was not in the audience when Chavez spoke to the world representatives. But the U.S. president did address the summit on the opening session Wednesday morning, before returning to Washington. The U.N. delegates had been asked to talk for only five minutes each, but Hugo Chavez ran overtime. The presiding diplomat sent Chavez a note reminding him that his time had expired but Chavez threw the note down, saying that if Bush could talk for 20 minutes, so could he. One wonders if this insolence will bring on the immediate launching of missiles and bombers?
When Chavez came to the end of his discourse, he got the loudest applause of the entire summit, as most countries had experienced the wrath of the Bush administration in many ways. Bush does not believe in diplomacy, unless it involves threats by Condi Rice and bullying until his demands are met. His impatience and irritable actions have been felt world wide.
Chavez accused the U.S. government of backing plots against him, and alleged that Washington was preparing to invade his country. American fundamentalist Pat Robertson said that Chavez should be eliminated by assassination because he is a threat to the U.S.
Since that time, when Bush did not strongly admonish Robertson, Chavez said that Robertson had clearly "expressed the wish of the elite that govern the United States."
Chavez has accused the U.S. of sending CIA agents, and other professionals, to upset the balance of Venezuela and effect a “regime change” as Bush did to Saddam Hussein. The U.S. has done this in the past, and Bush will probably try it again because he likes to stay a course.
U.S. officials, as usual, were prepared to express many denials of Chavez’ claims, expressing snide concerns about the health of the Venezuela’s democracy under Chavez, who was first elected in 1998 pledging a social "revolution" for the poor majority.
Americans are well aware that Bush and Rice use the words “Democracy” and “Freedom” in the most brazen way possible for people who invaded a sovereign country with lies.
Bush criticized Venezuela's government, saying it "failed demonstrably" to make a concerted effort to block shipments of illicit narcotics to the United States and Europe last year.
In early August, Chavez said that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration was sending agents to Venezuela for espionage, and suspended cooperation with the agency. The Bush administration, as is their custom, denied all charges.
Venezuela is the world's fifth-largest oil exporter. Chavez warned that the world is facing an unprecedented energy crisis. "not because we the producers want it but because we are running out of oil."
Chavez demonstrated that the United States was the most wasteful country. He said he was shocked when a quarter of all the cars he saw on New York streets had only one person in them. "That's crazy, one person with a huge car ...using up gas and polluting the atmosphere," he said. "The world cannot tolerate this model of development called the American way of life."
Chavez has extended a preferential oil trade deal called PetroCaribe to 13 Caribbean countries in part of a plan to challenge U.S. economic domination of the region. Venezuela will soon sell up to 190,000 barrels of fuel a day to Latin countries Lucia, offering favorable financing while shipping fuel directly to reduce costs, saving millions of dollars.
The U.N. members agreed states agreed on a watered-down document for world leaders to adopt which takes some tentative steps to meet U.N. development goals and reform the United Nations, especially in view of ill-tempered objections of John Bolton.
Venezuela and Cuba reserved judgment on the 35-page document, which will probably be adopted today when the three-day summit ends.
Chavez said the document was "illegal" because it was given to Venezuelan delegates only five minutes before the summit started and only in English. This demonstrates the "railroading” tactics of the Bush administration, most notable in Congress where they are practiced daily.
Whatever occurs, keep watching the news, Condi Rice statements, and troop movements for peculiar “revolts”, “instability”, and “anti-democratic” pronouncements from the Bush administration. Syria and Iran are already on the list marked for extinction as separate nations by Bush, and Venezuela could be next in line.
After all, war profiteering is remarkably profitable for a few selected superior individuals, and wars seem to be so easily started that nothing should surprise us.
Remember that in April 2002 the U.S. backed a coup which kidnapped Pres. Chavez and overthrew the new democratically constructed constitution. Within three days, millions of people demonstrated and, by help of loyal soldiers, won back their country.
The white racist coup leaders still reside in Florida, Colombia, Costa Rica, and the Dominican Republic just waiting for the Bush and the CIA signal to overthrow a legitimate regime.
