My Rant

CNN.com - Chavez: Imprison 'genocidal' Bush - May 15, 2006

Chavez continues to scare me. The fact that anyone listens to him with any seriousness whatsoever is surprising to me. This man calls the President of the United States an international criminal and genocidal. Hold on, exactly how is Bush genocidal? What people in the US have been killed as part of this genocide? Exactly what group of people have US troops been wiping out in Iraq or Afghanistan? How can anyone listen to this tripe? I can't believe the mayor of London sat down with this man! He doesn't use logic! Everything he says in sensational, designed for one purpose: to catch the media's attention. He doen't care about people. He offers low-priced oil to people in the US and Europe. To what purpose? To help people? There are thousands in his own country who are poverty-stricken! If he cared about anyone, he would help his own people first, not the far more wealthy Americans and Europeans.

Chavez, if he weren't such a danger, would be a joke. He claims he and the Iranians want peace. Right. So the Iranians, who have said Israel should be wiped off the map, want peace? The Iranians, who have sent men over to help the Iraq terrorists, want peace? Venezuela hasn't done anything to further any war, as far as I know, but I don't see anything that Chavez is doing to help any peace effort.

If anything, he's trying to incite war. He doesn't want any part in the goals of America. We want peace. We want freedom for others. But he claims not to see this. He claims that capitalism doesn't work and we are imperialistic. But where does the evidence lie? Capitalism vs. populism, socialism, communism, call it what you like. US vs. Russia. Who's left standing? US vs. China. Which country adopted the economic modeol of the other? US vs. Cuba. Which one are people fleeing out of? US vs. North Korea. Which one are people starving in? Now, tell me again that capitalism doesn't work.

And if we are imperialistic, we are the worst impirialists of all time. Conquering countries and then setting up parliaments and letting them choose their own leaders? Letting them train, no, training their troops. Hold on, what empire in all of history has ever done this? Name one.

Chavez...I can't use the words for what Chavez is, but he is wrong. Use a little bit of logic and all his arguments fall apart. He is after one thing: power. And he will do anything to get it.