Bush Lies About Latin American Aid

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Friday :: Mar 9, 2007

Bush Lies About Latin American Aid

by Steve Soto



I think Bush will have a problem making friends and influencing people south of the border if he keeps lying about an alleged increase in foreign aid during his administration. Note that all of the good things Hadley ticked off at the end of the Post piece that are all being done supposedly for the people of Latin America are in fact being done for the good of defense contractors, the multinationals, and the ruling elites.

IT'S A KARL ROVE WORLD... NOT REALLY

When Rove first came up with the idea of drumming up some sympathy for Bush-- and maybe a surge in his dismal job approval ratings-- by sending him down to Latin America to be filmed while people riot in the streets, I wasn't kidding. Today's Washington Post is bearing the predictions out already. Bush is unquestionably the most loathed man on the planet and from what I could tell from a recent trip to many of the countries Rove chose for him to visit, he's as hated south of the border as he is everywhere else.

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Here in the U.S., Rove has the toughest job yet, shaping a positive legacy for the man who is almost universally considered to be the worst president in the history of our country, someone who makes Nixon, Coolidge, Harding, Pierce and Buchanan look... not so bad. Zbigniew Brzezinski points out one reason why Rove's exertions will probably come to naught: whomever follows Bush into the White House "will have to make serious readjustments with rationality."

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Chavez leads rally against Bush visit

By BILL CORMIER, Associated Press Writer 14 minutes ago

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez launched another verbal assault on
President Bush Friday as he led some 20,000 supporters in an anti-American rally, calling the U.S. leader a "political cadaver" and blasting his policies as "imperialist."

"Gringo go Home!" Chavez shouted to raucous applause in a crowded soccer stadium, speaking even as Bush was arriving in neighboring Uruguay as part of a Latin America tour.

Chavez said he didn't come to Buenos Aires to "sabotage" Bush's visit and called the timing a coincidence.

"The U.S. president today is a true political cadaver," Chavez said, alluding to Bush's waning years in office. "What the little gentleman from the north now exudes is the smell of political death and in a very short time he will be converted into cosmic dust and disappear from the stage."

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[bullimiami]

1. geez hugo really knows how to buy an effective protest.

[ProSense]

2. "Chavez leads rally against Bush visit"

They really don't like him.

[ProSense]

3. Kick! n/t

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4. Yesterday not a good day for Bush admin.

Friday Bush Administration Bad News: FBI abused power...time for a little Congressional oversight

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5. K&R