Hugo Chavez
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  • Posted On: Oct 3 2006 3:30am
Actually, that's the acronym for the name. But thanks for playing.

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Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki

Thank you, Wikipedia.
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  • Posted On: Oct 3 2006 8:48pm
I don't thinik anything bad has actually happened under Chavez's tenure. Speaking of course only after doing research on the subject. He tried a coup in 1992 to stop riots which killed over 3000 people because of the oppression under a previous President and he rose to power after pro-Chavez demonstrators were murdered outside the presidential palace. And his economic policy is helping to bring Venezuela out of crippling poverty. All that aside, he has the right to say what he wants under American law. Well at least for now. (Who knows before that right is taken away as well).

And on the subject of Bush:

The Resume of George W. Bush
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC 20520

Education & Experience

1. Law Enforcement

- I was arrested in Kennebunkport, Maine, in 1976 for driving under the influence of alcohol. I pled guilty, paid a fine, and had my driver’s license suspended for 30 days.

- My Texas driving record has been “lost” and is not available.

2. Military

- I joined the Texas Air National Guard and then went AWOL.

- I refused to take a drug test or answer any questions about my drug use.

- By joining the Texas Air National Guard, I was able to avoid combat duty in Vietnam.

3. College

- I graduated from Yale University with a low C average.

- I was a cheerleader.

4. Past Work Experience

- I ran for U.S. Congress and lost.

- I began my career in the oil business in Midland, Texas , in 1975. I bought an oil company, but couldn’t find any oil in Texas . The company went bankrupt shortly after. I sold all my stock.

- I bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took land using taxpayer money.

- With the help of my father and our friends in the oil industry, including Enron CEO Ken Lay, I was elected governor of Texas.

Accomplishments As Governor Of Texas

- I changed Texas pollution laws to favor power and oil companies, making Texas the most polluted state in the Union.

- During my tenure, Houston replaced Los Angeles as the most smog-ridden city in America.

- I cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas treasury to the tune of billions in borrowed money.

- I set the record for the most executions by any governor in American history.

- With the help of my brother, the governor of Florida, and my father’s appointments to the Supreme Court, I became President after losing by over 500,000 votes.

Accomplishments As President Of The United States

- I am the first President in U.S. history to enter office with a criminal record.

- I invaded and occupied two countries at a continuing cost of over one billion dollars per week.

- I shattered the record for the largest annual deficit in U.S. history.

- In my first year in office, over 2 million Americans lost their jobs and that trend continues every month.

- I’m proud that the members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in U.S. history. My “poorest millionaire,”Condoleeza Rice, had a Chevron oil tanker named after her.

- I set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips by a U.S. President.

- I am the all-time U.S. and world record-holder for receiving the most corporate campaign donations.

- My largest lifetime campaign contributor, and one of my best friends, Kenneth Lay, presided over the largest corporate bankruptcy fraud in U.S. History, Enron.

- My political party used Enron private jets and corporate attorneys to assure my success with the U.S. Supreme Court during my election decision. I have protected my friends at Enron and Halliburton against investigation or prosecution.

- More time and money was spent investigating the Monica Lewinsky affair than has
been spent investigating one of the biggest corporate crimes in history.

- I presided over the biggest energy crisis in U.S. history and refused to intervene when corruption involving the oil industry was revealed.

- I presided over the highest gasoline prices in U.S. history. I changed the U.S. policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.

- I appointed more convicted criminals to administration than any President in U.S. history.

- I created the Ministry of Homeland Security, the largest bureaucracy in the history
of the United States government.

- I’ve broken more international treaties than any President in U.S. history.

- I am the first President in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the U.S. from the Human Rights Commission.

- I withdrew the U.S. from the World Court of Law.

- I refused to allow inspectors access to U.S. “prisoners of war” detainees and thereby have refused to abide by the Geneva Convention.

- I am the first President in history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 U.S. elections).

- I set the record for fewest numbers of press conferences of any President since the advent of television.

- I set the all-time record for most days on vacation in any one-year period. After taking off the entire month of August, I presided over the worst security failure in U.S. history.

- I garnered the most sympathy for the U.S. after the World TradeCenter attacks and less than a year later made the U.S. the most hated country in the world, the largest failure of diplomacy in world history.

- I have set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously protest me in public venues (15 million people), shattering the record for protests against any person in the history of mankind.

- I am the first President in U.S. history to order an unprovoked, pre-emptive attack and the military occupation of a sovereign nation.

- I did so against the will of the United Nations, the majority of U.S. citizens, and the world community.

- I have cut health care benefits for war veterans and support a cut in duty benefits for active duty troops and their families-in-wartime.

- In my State of the Union Address, I lied about our reasons for attacking Iraq and then blamed the lies on our British friends.

- I am the first President in history to have a majority of Europeans (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and security.

- I am supporting the development of a nuclear “Tactical Bunker Buster,” a WMD.

- I have so far failed to fulfill my pledge to bring Osama Bin Laden to justice.

Records & References

- All records of my tenure as governor of Texas are now in my father’s library, sealed and unavailable for public view.

- All records of SEC investigations into my insider trading and my bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.

- All records or minutes from meetings that I, or my Vice-President, attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public review.


Source

Do you really thank Chavez and Castro are worse than that?
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  • Posted On: Oct 3 2006 9:50pm
No, actually I do not
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  • Posted On: Oct 3 2006 10:23pm
Circe Davian
I set the record for the most executions by any governor in American history
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YEAH!!!!
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  • Posted On: Oct 4 2006 7:58pm
Im going to have to put that one in the only-reason-he-is-a-good-president section
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  • Posted On: Oct 5 2006 3:33am
Urgh.

I'm depressed now after reading that, and I'm not even American.
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  • Posted On: Oct 5 2006 2:48pm
- I changed Texas pollution laws to favor power and oil companies, making Texas the most polluted state in the Union.

- During my tenure, Houston replaced Los Angeles as the most smog-ridden city in America.


Well, those are two that at the least, are lies. I have relatives that have lived in Houston for years. When they first moved there, there was a smog blanketing the city day and night. But when Bush became governer, his laws that actually helped the enviorement got rid of the smog, and Houston enjoyed the sight of clouds and stars once again.

Whoever came up with this seems to be very bitter about the whole Enron afair. This report is very biased, and either stretches or breaks the truth on a lot of the listed "facts".
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  • Posted On: Oct 5 2006 4:14pm
I agree with Kraken. Bush may not be the greatest president or person, but there has to be at least several good things that he's done.
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  • Posted On: Oct 5 2006 9:29pm
Can you name them?
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  • Posted On: Oct 5 2006 9:52pm
This isn't a sliding scale. You don't get to play the "Well, I did some good" card in the Presidential capacity. The same goes for the elected representative of any nation; this is a person who should exemplify the best parts of the country in question alongside being a skilled and compotent leader?

Naw.