Reply #340: Who sees Chavez as a hero? I see these statements about [View All]

[sabrina 1]

people seeing someone they may defend from false accusations as a 'hero' all the time. It is such a childish statement.

Chavez is a duly elected president of his country, very popular with his own people. He has allowed many of those who, backed by our CIA, tried to topple his elected government, be treated far more kindly than such individuals would be treated here, or anywhere else, were they to remove the president, even Bush, from office.

It's telling that you are as pointed out, more irritated that people defend someone who is a target of rightwing propaganda in this country, mainly because he dared to nationalize Venezuela's resources and use the profits to benefit the people of Venezuela.

The reason people defend Chavez against these routine propaganda 'news' clips, such as this one, is because we have seen it before, against another oil producing country which was not cooperating with our friends in Big Oil and because Americans blindly accepted the propaganda, over one million people died, many were tortured and imprisoned wrongfully (speaking of 'dictatorships') and we lost thousands of our own troops while fighting yet another Oil Corporation War.

If you do not see why we get these ridiculous posts about Oil Producing Venezuela's democratically elected government from our very own propaganda machine known as the U.S. Media, then I can excuse your confusion.

Otoh, maybe you are one of those who believe that Arabs, Muslims and South Americans have no business sitting on OUR oil and support the propaganda that will lead the American people once again, to support yet more aggression against a sovereign state because we want their oil for our buddies and it appears lately, bosses, Big Oil. I don't know which it is, but regardless, every time you get irritated at people who fight the propaganda you are helping take the U.S. closer to another illegal assault on an oil-producing country.