Building the case for invading bombing Venezuela

The American ambassador to Venezuela, William Brownfield, went on Venezuelan tv to criticize the government for its lack of cooperation with the US on terrorism and drugs. The AP story reporting this does not say if Brownfield was asked when the US is going to extradite Luis Posada Carriles.

Also attacking Venezuela this weekend was Donald Rumsfeld, who penned an editorial for the Knight-Ridder chain in support of CAFTA, as necessary to keep Central America from going communist, or something. “Our neighbors do not live in a vacuum, and they are facing many pressures to turn away from a pro-American stance. Cuba and Venezuela -- no friends to the United States -- are promoting radicalism and attempting to subvert the democratic governments in the region.” Of course he offers no proof of this, but then what are his definitions of “promoting” and “radicalism” anyway? The fact that he uses the phrase “promoting radicalism” as if it were a heinous criminal act is a dead giveaway, if one were needed, that his real problem with Cuba and Venezuela is political.

  WIIIAI article

And might I add, please, that Venezuela's is a democratic government. Apparently no one wants to correct the Rumsfiend in that blatantly misleading statement. American public none the wiser, we can lump Venezuela in the commie dictator category.

This is what Rumsfiend says in the article:

Cuba and Venezuela -- no friends to the United States -- are promoting radicalism and attempting to subvert the democratic governments in the region. Indeed, Venezuela is actively lobbying local legislators in Central America to vote against CAFTA.

Indeed, CAFTA - the Central American equivalent of NAFTA, an economic pact - is equated in The Fiend's article with democracy. See how that works? All you American simpletons will think capitalism and democracy are interchangeable (if you don't already).

And the title of his article is: CAFTA is a national security issue, too.

See how that works? Any country who presents an obstacle to American economic interests is a threat to our national security: i.e., terrorists.

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