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To: altair19 who wrote (79727)	9/20/2006 9:45:16 PM
From: ThirdEye	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 362799

What Clinton said on LArry King tonight was that Chavez should have talked about poverty in his country and poverty in the US. (If he'd done that, he could have scored some major points and made Bush look like the devil without calling him one.)

To: altair19 who wrote (79727)	9/21/2006 2:59:51 AM
From: abuelita	Respond to of 362799

altie- i agree. there's nothing funny about this. he wasn't trying to be funny. this in particular resonates ... It's that the world is waking up. It's waking up all over. And people are standing up." i believe they are. Highlights from speech by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez The Associated Press THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2006 Highlights from Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's speech Wednesday at the U.N. General Assembly: Referring to Tuesday's speech by U.S. President George W. Bush: "Yesterday, the devil came here. Right here. Right here. And it smells of sulfur still today, this table that I am now standing in front of. Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, from this rostrum, the president of the United States, the gentleman to whom I refer as the devil, came here, talking as if he owned the world. Truly. As the owner of the world. I think we could call a psychiatrist to analyze yesterday's statement made by the president of the United States. As the spokesman of imperialism, he came to share his nostrums, to try to preserve the current pattern of domination, exploitation and pillage of the peoples of the world. An Alfred Hitchcock movie could use it as a scenario. I would even propose a title: The Devil's Recipe." On U.S. efforts to promote democracy: "They say they want to impose a democratic model. But that's their democratic model. It's the false democracy of elites, and, I would say, a very original democracy that's imposed by weapons and bombs and firing weapons." On fight against terrorism: "The president of the United States, yesterday, said to us, right here, in this room, and I'm quoting, 'Anywhere you look, you hear extremists telling you can escape from poverty and recover your dignity through violence, terror and martyrdom.' Wherever he looks, he sees extremists. And you, my brother -- he looks at your color, and he says, oh, there's an extremist. Evo Morales, the worthy president of Bolivia, looks like an extremist to him. The imperialists see extremists everywhere. It's not that we are extremists. It's that the world is waking up. It's waking up all over. And people are standing up." "The government of the United States doesn't want peace. It wants to exploit its system of exploitation, of pillage, of hegemony through war." "And you can wonder, just as the president of the United States addresses those peoples of the world, what would those peoples of the world tell him if they were given the floor? What would they have to say? And I think I have some inkling of what the peoples of the south, the oppressed people think. They would say, Yankee imperialist, go home. I think that is what those people would say if they were given the microphone and if they could speak with one voice to the American imperialists."