A true blue American weighs in on Chavez

Oops, forgot to add that's a true blue American FASCIST, weighing in- Donald Rumsfeld in today's edition of (what else) the Washington Post. Here for your post-breakfast purging needs is a preview: (and don't forget to note the last paragraph pasted wherein ex-Secretary Fascist blames the internet bloggers.

The Smart Way to Beat Tyrants Like Chávez

By Donald Rumsfeld
Sunday, December 2, 2007; Page B03

Today the people of Venezuela face a constitutional referendum, which, if passed, could obliterate the few remaining vestiges of Venezuelan democracy. The world is saying little and doing less as President Hugo Chávez dismantles Venezuela's constitution, silences its independent media and confiscates private property. Chávez's ambitions do not stop at Venezuela's borders, either. He has repeatedly threatened its neighbors. In late November, Colombia's president, Alvaro Uribe, declared that Chávez's efforts to mediate hostage talks with Marxist terrorists from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, were not welcome. Chávez responded by freezing trade with Colombia.

With diplomatic, economic and communications institutions designed for a different era, the free world has too few tools to help prevent Venezuela's once vibrant democracy from receding into dictatorship. But such a tragedy is not preordained. In fact, we face a moment when swift decisions by the United States and like-thinking nations could dramatically help, supporting friends and allies with the courage to oppose an aspiring dictator with regional ambitions.


The best place to start is with the prompt passage and signing of the Colombian free trade agreement, which has been languishing in Congress for months. Swift U.S. ratification of the pact would send an unequivocal message to the people of Colombia, the opposition in Venezuela and the wider region that they do not stand alone against Chávez. It would also provide concrete economic opportunities to the people of Colombia, helping to offset the restrictions being imposed by Venezuela -- and it would strengthen the U.S. economy in the bargain.

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Meanwhile, a new generation of foes has mastered the tools of the information age -- chat rooms, blogs, cellphones, social-networking Web sites -- and exploits them to spread propaganda, even while the U.S. government remains poorly organized and equipped to counter with the truth in a timely manner. The nation needs a 21st-century "U.S. Agency for Global Communications" to inform, to educate and to compete in the struggle of ideas -- and to keep its enemies from capitalizing on the pervasive myths that stoke anti-Americanism.

Read the rest if you can stand it:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/30/AR2007113001800.html

get thee gone, donnie

a u.s. agency for global communications to inform, to educate and to compete in the struggle of ideas....sounds like a ministry of propaganda, donnie.

the WaPo certainly is living down to its horrendous reputation.

"struggle of ideas" = propaganda to these people.

They keep coming back trying to sell their neocon agenda crap by decorating it with ribbons. They never give up, unless they are punished.

Impeachment, prosecution and jail time are the only things these scum understand.

Just have a feeling.

Don

remains poorly organized and equipped to counter with the truth".

You can bet your bottom dollar that there is some government program somewhere who hires people to go out and read these blogs and surf these chat rooms to obfuscate and misdirect.

And to be honest about it, it goes on right here, all the time.

Am I being cynical?

I can't even understand what the fuck he's trying to say.

With diplomatic, economic and communications institutions designed for a different era, the free world has too few tools to help prevent Venezuela's once vibrant democracy from receding into dictatorship.

What the fuck does that mean?

I don't know who's listening to him, but he's getting column inch space in D.C.'s "paper of record".

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Courtesy of the Propaganda Remix Project

"The world is saying little and doing less as President Hugo Chávez dismantles Venezuela's constitution, silences its independent media and confiscates private property. Chávez's ambitions do not stop at Venezuela's borders, either. He has repeatedly threatened its neighbors."

"The world is saying little and doing less as PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH dismantles THE UNITED STATES constitution, silences its independent media and confiscates private property. BUSH'S ambitions do not stop at THE US'S borders, either. He has repeatedly threatened its neighbors."

Capitals indicate my word changes.