Castro says......

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6957971/

This is a reason why we are hated so much.

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“I say to world public opinion: if they assassinate Chavez, the responsibility will fall squarely on the president of the United States, George W. Bush,” Castro said.

Castro is scared $hitless that Chavez is headed for a hard fall. After all Chavez is about the only one outside of Cuba that still looks up to him. I think Chavez is helping Castro with Venezuela oil money as well. Since Russia disintegrated and their welfare support stopped, Cuba has had a hard time.

I have several very good friends who live in Venezuela. According to them the country is headed for open civil war soon.

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  he said in a nearly six-hour speech that lasted into the early hours of Saturday.

That's enough reason to get off that island and risk swimming w/ the sharks!

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  he said in a nearly six-hour speech that lasted into the early hours of Saturday.

That's enough reason to get off that island and risk swimming w/ the sharks!

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Lol i'd say so...i'll join ya!

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7184896/

CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez has recently accused President Bush of plotting to assassinate him, made suggestive comments about Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, visited Fidel Castro in Cuba, bashed the United States on the al-Jazeera television network and traveled to Libya to receive an award from Moammar Gaddafi.

Such bluster and anti-American showmanship are nothing new from the fiery former paratrooper. But concern in Washington has been rising as Chavez has worked feverishly in recent months to match his words with deeds.

Courting new markets, allies

Since threatening to cut off oil shipments to the United States, which buys 1.5 million barrels a day from Venezuela, Chavez has been traveling the globe looking for new markets and allies to unite against "the imperialist power." He recently signed energy deals with France, India and China, which is searching for new sources of oil to power its industrial expansion. Chavez also has made a series of arms purchases, including one for military helicopters from Russia.

 

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And on Friday, Chavez hosted President Mohammad Khatami of Iran, a nation that has a secretive nuclear program and has been labeled by Bush as part of an "axis of evil."

"Iran has every right . . . to develop atomic energy and to continue its research in that area," Chavez said at a joint appearance with Khatami. "All over the world, there is a clamor for equality . . . and profound rejection of the imperialist desires of the U.S. government. Faced with the threat of the U.S. government against our brother people in Iran, count on us for all our support."

Dealing with the 'devil'

Gerver Torres, a former Venezuelan government minister who now runs a private development agency, said such statements illustrate one of Chavez's key goals. "His main motivation now is to do everything he possibly can to negatively affect the United States, Bush in particular," Torres said. "He is trying to bring together all the enemies of the United States. He believes the United States is the devil."

While U.S. analysts said they doubt Chavez could afford to severely cut shipments to the United States, which buys 60 percent of Venezuela's oil exports, they are still paying careful attention to his statements. Sen. Richard G. Lugar (R-Ind.) has asked the Government Accountability Office to study how a sharp decrease in Venezuelan oil imports might affect the U.S. economy.

Although Chavez has suggested he would "use oil" to fight American power, other Venezuelan officials have expressed a far more businesslike view of the relationship. In an interview, Andres Izarra, Chavez's information minister, said Venezuela had no plans to stop selling oil to the United States, which he called "our natural energy market."

And it's Bush's fault that everyone hate us????????

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Faced with the threat of the U.S. government against our brother people   in Iran, count on us for all our support.

I wonder how Chavez would feel if he had to kneel down on a prayer rug 5 x's a day and pray toward Mecca ? I bet he'd not be so quick to buddy up to Iran if he had a damn clue of what he's talking about.....but then neither do his peasants, ( aka citizens of Venezuela ) All he has to do is distract them w/ fairy tales about Bush wanting to assasinate him and calling America 'imperialist'. That sells real well to the gullible population down there.

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Faced with the threat of the U.S. government against our brother people   in Iran, count on us for all our support.

I wonder how Chavez would feel if he had to kneel down on a prayer rug 5 x's a day and pray toward Mecca ? I bet he'd not be so quick to buddy up to Iran if he had a damn clue of what he's talking about.....but then neither do his peasants, ( aka citizens of Venezuela ) All he has to do is distract them w/ fairy tales about Bush wanting to assasinate him and calling America 'imperialist'. That sells real well to the gullible population down there.

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heck some find that this sells well here too

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This is a situation where we should bite the bullet and cut off all imports of oil from Venezuela immediately. We have plenty of reserves that can be brought into production and would already have been if not for the obstructionist policies of the dems and their enviro buddies.

If Venezuela were to suddenly lose the revenue from US oil imports, we would have to do nothing but wait until Chavez's own people put him out of power and likely six feet under.

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California would be selling gas at $5 bucks a gallon

It would also mean less dependency on foreign oil.

But hey, as the article says, if he's killed it's Bush's fault: if it's a tornado, a car wreck, a meteor, if he chokes on a ham sandwich, it's BUSH'S FAULT, and the New York Times would come out with accusations with out anything to back it up accept that Bush has a record deficit,gas is over 2 dollars, mislead us into Iraq, didn't have a plan to win the peace, wanted to go into Iraq for oil, he really didn't win the 2000 elections, and had Ohio as 100,000 people vote for Kerry, the black vote was suppressed by the Republiclan, scare tactics :huh:

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7227989/

HAVANA - Cuban President Fidel Castro criticized Forbes magazine on Thursday for the “infamy” of listing him among the world’s richest people, with a net worth of $550 million.

“Once again, they have committed the infamy of speaking about Castro’s fortune, placing me almost above the queen of England,” Castro said in a speech to top officials of Cuba’s ruling Communist Party, military and police.

“Do they think I am (former Zairian President) Mobutu (Sese Seko) or one of the many millionaires, those thieves and plunderers that the empire has suckled and protected?” he said in reference to his capitalist archenemy, the United States.

“What they should be doing is looking for the money of all those people,” he said.

Castro, 78 and in power since a 1959 revolution, said he was considering suing. It was the second straight year Castro was on the Forbes list. Last year, the magazine put his worth at $150 million.

Estimates 'more art than science'

Forbes on Tuesday published a story on the fortunes of rulers and heads of state, which included Castro, Britain’s Queen Elizabeth and the sultan of Brunei, saying none were "exemplars of capitalism” and did not qualify for the world billionaires list.

The weekly financial magazine said the estimates were “more art than science.”

“In the past, we have relied on a percentage of Cuba’s gross domestic product to estimate Fidel Castro’s fortune,” Forbes explained.

“This year, we have used more traditional valuation methods, comparing state-owned assets Castro is assumed to control with comparable publicly traded companies,” it said.

The magazine said Castro derived his fortune from a web of state-owned companies that included retail and pharmaceutical businesses and a convention center.

Cuba rips 'clumsy slander'

The Cuban government, in a press statement issued by its embassy in Mexico, called the story a “clumsy slander and a repugnant example of the campaign of lies” orchestrated against Cuba in the United States.

It called Forbes “an American magazine of decaying credibility.”

“The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong,” the statement said.

Cuba is the only Latin American country that fights inequality and has the fairest income distribution in the world, the statement said.

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It called Forbes “an American magazine of decaying credibility.”

I think Castro could be characterized as a communist of decaying credibility.

“The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong,” the statement said.

What they are really saying is. Yeah and if you live here and question our supreme leader Fidel, your ass will be kicked so far in the dungeons you will never see daylight again!