Didn’t know that Citgo was owned by the government of Venezuela, but if the loony president of that country wants to step on our soil (protected, no doubt, by our Secret Service) and call my president the “devil”, then Citgo can keep their gas.
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6 Responses to “Guess I’ve Bought my Last Gas from Citgo”
Mr Chavez is also doing a deal with Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London, to provide cheap fuel for London buses, with Red Ken gushing about how this will help him provide cheap transport for low-income Londoners.
It always seems odd that dodgy leaders have their supporters who see them as having brought Heaven to Earth. It’s always, “yes but”, the two little words that are used to make excuses for any dictator, any tyrant. Yes, Mussolini was a dictator, but he made the trains run on time.
It’s not just the left who do the “yes but” routine. When Pinochet was facing trial, there were plenty of Conservatives willing to pop up and when answering about the human rights abuses in Pinochet’s Chile it was always “yes but he did support us when Argentina tried to occupy the Falklands”. People always seem to refer to one little thing which outweighs all the bad..
Graham ~ Sep 22, 2006 at 6:12 pm
Good observation, Graham.
Byron ~ Sep 22, 2006 at 10:33 pm
Is it that Citgo is cheaper?? ummm maybe. Bush is getting insulted by Chavz and he isn’t doing anything (I’m not saying that bush should respond with WAR, Oh GOD not another war), but there’s legal issues that can be taken. Is it that the USA need Venezuelan oil that much so Bush stays cool?. Bush should stop leeching other countries oil and start investing in alternative power, after all oil+wars+warsoutofoil are polluting our fragile world.
Peace Corp ~ Sep 26, 2006 at 11:32 am
I understand the backlash on Chavez for what he said and the attention being put into how to respond in turn with Citgo, but what I found most interesting about all of this is the reception that Chavez recieved from the other UN delegates. While he certainly was over the top maybe we should be less concerned about what to do with Venezuela and more concerned over the reality that most of the world seems to agree/support their perspective.
gurufrisbee ~ Sep 26, 2006 at 2:17 pm
Most of the 140 nations that applauded Chavez are communist/dictatorships with incredibly raunchy histories of genocide and abuse/neglect of their own people in relatively recent history.
Once again, the UN rears its ugly head as a force that tries to validate communism, while ignoring some of the most grievous human-rights violations that this world has seen.
Yes, to these commies, Bush is the devil……
So is America and Israel.
It would be downright laughable if it weren’t so grievous.
Mark Merritt ~ Sep 27, 2006 at 4:46 pm
Hey, the truth hurts.
Realist ~ Oct 31, 2006 at 12:46 am