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- ukit0
Hmmm well the U.S. had no problem dealing with Putin, who routinely has journalists and dissenters gunned down in the streets or poisoned with radioactive material.
No problem with Chinese government, whose response to people who protest the government is to run over them with tanks.
Or Saudi government, which has no freedom of speech and beheads and actually amputates the hands and feet of people accused of petty crimes.
We were best buds with Pervez Musharraf, who became dictator of Pakistan in a military coup.
Or you could go back to Augusto Pinochet, who the U.S. gov actually helped launch a military coup in Chile, and went on to run death squads and torture or imprison more than 100k people.
Anyway, the point is not that Chavez is a great guy, I'm sure he's not. But some people sure are selective in terms of what you get outraged about. Just wait for the next update from the media about who the bad guy is I guess.
- Be careful, or the guy that went to the 18th century political protest re-enactment will tell you to "operate in the here and now"TheBlueOne
- now...TheBlueOne
- Chavez is an asshat and an attention whore though....TheBlueOne