Goal No. 1: Make the World Safe For Oil Companies

Published on Wednesday, April 5, 2006 by the Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin (New York)

Goal No. 1: Make the World Safe For Oil Companies

by David Rossie


News item: "CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuela had a blunt message this week for Exxon Mobil, one of the world's most powerful oil companies: Get off my crude-rich turf."

All right, what do we have to do, wait for a pack of crazed Latinos to crash a hijacked airliner into Disneyland before we realize that Venezuela and its power-crazed presidente cum dictator Hugo Chavez have declared war on the United States?

And don't try to tell me that Venezuela's threatening an oil company and not the United States. Exxon Mobil is the United States. Just ask Dick Cheney. If you can find him.

Venezuela poses a clear and present danger to this country and has for some time. First, its people thumbed their collective noses at us when they restored Chavez to office after evicting him for a couple of days, thereby undoing all the good work our CIA had done.

Then Chavez, out for revenge, poked fun at our beloved president when they were down in Argentina and got several thousand other USA-hating Latin Americans to join in the fun. But it wasn't until last winter when Chavez demonstrated the depths to which he was willing to stoop in his Communist-inspired attempts to thwart our efforts to spread freedom and democracy throughout the world .

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