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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (176457)	10/12/2003 1:06:49 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1584762

Ted, you'll love this.... No Cheers for Columbus, Says Venezuela's Chavez Sat Oct 11, 4:21 PM ET Add World - Reuters to My Yahoo! CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez urged Latin Americans on Saturday not to celebrate Columbus Day, saying the 1492 discovery of the Americas triggered a 150-year "genocide" of native Indians by foreign conquerors who behaved "worse than Hitler." "Christopher Columbus was the spearhead of the biggest invasion and genocide ever seen in the history of humanity," the populist president told a meeting in Caracas of representatives of Indian peoples from across the continent. You'll love this one.......in the beginning of the 19th century, 2/3 of the Indians in the Pacific NW were wiped out by contact with Europeans. It turns out they hadn't developed immunities to European diseases. Isn't that funny? Our ancestors didn't even have to raise a rifle. All they had to do was breathe on the poor Indians. LOL!