Reply #12: I suspect that Lulu and Vasquez placed a condition on a Bush visit, that he not [View All]

[Peace Patriot]

criticize Chavez. This might explain a very odd AP article posted yesterday, which says: "Following his usual practice, Bush refused to utter Chavez' name during a news conference with the president of Uruguay — or even explain why he wouldn't."

See: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2762330

What I suspect is that the AP (war profiteering corporate news monopoly) reporter is both covering for Bush--"following his usual practice"??? --of refusing to utter the name of another national leader???!--AND, responding to his/her reporter's instinct that there is a story here. Asked Bush about it. Bush wouldn't explain.

Somebody clued Chavez into the Lulu/Vasquez restriction on Bush, and he's having a laugh about it. Does Bush have a Chavez fetish? (--won't utter his name!). Does Bush sacrifice chickens in the Oval Office? Is Bush spooked?

What is fairly clear is that Bush is a desperate man. He has to deliver for his Global Corporate Predator masters, or else. I hope that Lulu and Vasquez used their advantage well, to the benefit of their people and their region. I don't think Bush got very far in his mission of "dividing and conquering." As for the fascist thugs he's going to visit in Colombia, Guatemala and Mexico, the fascists are on the run in two of the three. Huge scandals in Colombia and Guatemala about rightwing paramilitary drug trafficking, murder of peasants and leftists, and even a plot to assassinate Chavez (Colombia). I also don't think Uribe has any love for Bush. He distanced himself from the plot against Chavez, and is desperate himself, trying to hold his government together, as it is rocked by these scandals. He may like the billions of US taxpayer dollars that Bush is delivering to the military (and paramilitaries), but he can read what's written on the wind. Democracy is succeeding in South America, at long last, and regimes like his are dinosaurs. He has to walk a thin tightrope between the larger, democratic, leftist trend, all around him, and the commands of US corporations and war profiteers and their White House puppets.