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From: Taha Baharoon
To: editor@petroleumworld.com
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 3:25 AM
Subject: "Shocked by Chavez"
Dear Editor,
The
Wass Street Journal editorial titled "Shocked
by Chavez", Review & Outlook, dated
September 22, 2006 (Petroleumworld 09/25/06) refers.
In a rather
short article the author has managed to refer to the President
of Venezuela as a 'Thug', 'Dictator and 'Supporter of Terrorism',
squarely reflecting anger of some leading Americans towards Mr.
Chavez's for his outburst against Mr. Bush and for referring to
Mr. Bush as "The devil". However, if Americans have
slightly little longer memory they would haved realize that the
Venezuelan President's recent assaults on the US policy and on
their President is a case of a chicken coming home to roost.
As everyone
recalls, on February 2, 2006, the U.S. government’s senior
hawk, Donald Rumsfeld, delivered the clumsy slur against the (repeatedly)
democratically elected president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, when
he equated him to Hitler and three years before that, in January,
2003, the same Donald Rumsfeld described France and Germany as
"Problems", in the crisis over Iraq, and branded them
as "Old Europe" – that is why some time later
it was rightly remarked, by some American Politicians, that every
time Rumsfeld opens his mouth the US loses and ally. And much
earlier than that, precisely in Jan 29, 2002, in his State of
the Union Address, President George W Bush's grouped together
Iran, Iraq and North Korea as an "axis of evil" while
more recently, in August 10, 2006, the US President managed to
polarize the few remaining Pro-American "Moderates",
throughout the Islamic World, by his latest outrageous and provocative
statement when he said the US is at war with "Islamic fascists".
Worst still, when the US and the UK were hell bent against the
popular international demand for stopping the war in Lebanon Condoleeza
Rice went on to justify the killing of innocent civilians and
the destruction of Lebanese infrastructure as "birth pangs"
of the "New Middle East", and she further argued that
the untimely cessation of hostilities might frustrate the American
long planned efforts of achieving "sustainable peace"
in the Middle East not realizing that the American total failure
in Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq and, more recently, in Lebanon
has made the US hated, not just in the Islamic World but all over
and they only succeeded in making "Democracy" a dirty
in the Middle East.
If Americans
truly regard Mr. Chavez's recent anti-American tirade before the
U.N. General Assembly amounts to a justification of terrorism
against the U.S. and that Chavez himself is one of the "world's
most outspoken defenders of terrorist state sponsors" then
they are not in line with the recent report issued by their own
'American Intelligence Agencies' which came up with a stark assessment
of terrorism. Apparently there is no mention of Mr. Chaves in
the report referred to but it has indeed found that the illegal
invasion and occupation of Iraq has helped spawn a new generation
of Islamic radicalism and that the overall terrorist threat has
grown and mushroomed all over Islamic World since the Sept. 11
attacks!
The problem
with the current American administration is that it is filled,
and fully dominated, by Neo-conservatives. These Neo-conservatives,
or Zionist-Christians, are strong believers of "armageddonist
factoids" and regard "End-time" tribulations, as
biblical imperatives, hence expect to one day kill the infidels
(Muslims) to facilitate the second coming of Christ! In other
words, they regard what is going on in Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan,
Lebanon, and, very soon perhaps, in Iran and Syria, as Biblical
predictions. They are now working to make these clumsy predictions
happen! The only real difference, that I can possibly think of,
between the Neo-conservatives and Talibans is that the former
put on neck-ties while the latter prefer to wear white turbans
and President Bush's odd claim of direct communication with the
God Almighty makes one wonder whither the US of A?
Finally, I
am not at all surprised by the contents of "A Wall Street
Journal Editorial", referred to above, which is just an example
of millions of editorials and commentaries published in the U.S.
press. Such articles are always after all those who go against
the US Policy but this time Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez
happened to be the selected victim which goes to prove there is
more of a "mediacracy" than democracy in the USA, no
wonder when President Bush, during his last visit to Russia, urged
President Vladimir Putin to reinvigorate Russia's fragile democracy
the latter hit back saying "we don’t want Iraqi democracy
in Russia". What a rebuff for the Russian guest of honor!
Regards,
Taha Abdulla
Baharoon
Abu Dhabi
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