The US government needs to learn to get out of the business of treating every country on the planet as a puppet state.

 

A case in point is Venezuela. First, the CIA attempts to overthrow President Hugo Chavez and when they fail to remove him by coup, the US government engages in a four-year long war of words about how Chavez is a threat to the region and a danger to his neighbors.

The main reason Bush (former president of Arbusto Energy,) Condoleeza Rice (former employee of Chevron) and Cheney (former president of Halliburton) want Chavez dead is because he wants to do energy transactions in currencies other than the dollar. They are just doing the bidding of their Wall Street masters.

The reason why Chavez is showing so much guts and addressing the US Secretary of State as "girl" is because he knows that the brave people of Iraq are fighting hard in the defense of their homeland and way of life, keeping huge chunks of the US military pinned down in the Middle East. He also knows that the US will always put the Middle-east first because of the Israeli lobby and its craven running dogs, the Judeo-Evangelicals (I don't call them Judeo-Christians because there is little or nothing that's "Christian" about them.)

If the Bush Administration had anyone with a half a brain in it, it would approach Chavez using the arts of diplomacy and compromise. In the end he might get some or most of what he wants without violence. The main problem here is Wall Street and the CEO's. The heads of giant multi-national corporations are by their very nature arrogant, corrupt and violent. That's why America needs a Distributivist economic system. Owners of small family farms, small businesses or folks involved in artisan's associations and guilds would tend not to be megalomaniacs.

Bush thinks he is some kind of Roman emperor, but in reality he is the spoiled son of a corrupt big business family that gave him the presidency as a kind of kiddie Christmas present. Whatever faults Chavez might have, he is a real man, a retired military officer that appears to care about his people. To the extent that he can think at all, Bush only cares for the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

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