Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Sure pick on the popular guy

From DailyKos a while ago. Linked from a great post by the General
I've diaried occasionally about the psy ops and propaganda Bushco is levelling at the Chavez regime in Venezuela and at home in the American media. Venezuela - with the world's fifth largest oil reserves and a leader twice as popular as Bush - is a natural candidate for Bushco "regime change". The National Endowment for Democracy is spending millions to target the most popular democratically elected government in our hemisphere. See here and here and here.

Today the Bushco campaign escalates to a new level as former Senate staffer, White House and Pentagon official Douglas MacKinnon asserts in the Houston Chronicle that Chavez is seeking nuclear weapons from Iran and medium-range ballistic missiles to attack the United States. He says Chavez is a madman and poses a bigger threat to the United States than Osama Bin Laden. While it isn't the first time that MacKinnon has attacked Chavez outrageously, the nuke allegations are clearly designed to press the American panic button and raise the call to action.

RepubAnon diaries on the recent failure of a Bushco gambit to rig the OAS to attack Venezuela.

This is all such crap that it just appalls me. Chavez doesn't need a nuclear weapon any more than we need Bush as a President.

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