Meanwhile in Miami

"[W]e have been asking the United States of America for greater cooperation to deliver to justice those who have committed acts of terrorism in Venezuela ... in this respect there MUST be reciprocated. It just so happens that those who have placed explosive devices at the diplomatic offices of Algeria, Spain and Colombia in Venezuela, at public buildings, military installations and those who have killed and been processed and sentenced by the Venezuelan courts, are now living openly in the United States where they are asking for asylum"  article

Major newspapers in the US are not reporting that Venezuelan military rebels and suspected terrorists Jose Antonio Colina and German Varela may very well soon be lawful permanent US residents ... shacked up in the safe-haven of Miami ... along with fellow fugitive from justice, Carlos Fernandez, one of the leaders of a business lock-out and sabotage of Venezuela’s oil industry which caused $10 billion in losses last year ... who is also awaiting his asylum hearing. Varela and Colina are part of a group of military officers who have sought to overthrow the Venezuelan government.

The US media’s conduct comes as no surprise as The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, Newsday and the Washington Post cheered on a short-lived coup d’etat against Chavez Frias in 2002. Some of them later apologized when the pro-US dictator was forced to step down by mass mobilizations and Chavez returned to power.

But, how can President Bush claim to be fighting a war against terrorism and at the same time, welcome terror suspects and coup leaders conspiring against democratic governments with open arms?  article

Yeah, how can he do that? Oh well, that's our George Double-speak. We love him.

The article asks that you write to any number of newspapers and "let them know that they're failing the American public by ignoring this news". If you want to do that, email links are provided for about a dozen major U.S. papers.

Speaking of loving Double-dumb...there's another little note from the Suskind book I just as well throw in here, since I'm all over the board with my posts today....

The President's Economic Forum Paul O'Neill (Secretary of Treasury) was expected to attend, but not provide any substance to was scheduled for Waco, instead of the White House.

"I don't know if I can do this," he told [his staff] quietly. "It's supid to fly out there and back to be a prop. There are important things we can be talking about, like fixing Social Security, or Medicare, or really simplifying the tax code; none of those things are on the agenda. It'll just be a lot of people reading from a script that says, 'I love the President.' Where, exactly, does that fit in the grand American ideal of free and honest inquiry?"
p. 270

Maybe he'd still have a job if he'd figured that out.

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.