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Chavez to Obama: Give back Nobel Prize
2009-12-19
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says his American counterpart Barack Obama should give his Nobel Peace Prize back as he is sending more soldiers to war-weary Afghanistan.

"He [Obama] got the Nobel Peace Prize almost the same day as he sent 30,000 soldiers to kill innocent people in Afghanistan," he said during a speech at a climate change conference in Denmark.

"Obama should give back the prize," Chavez added on Thursday.

The Venezuelan president also suggested that Bolivian President Evo Morales would have been a better choice for the award.

Obama collected the prize earlier this month following his decision to send 30,000 additional US forces to the war-torn country after eight years of conflict. According to an opinion poll after the event, up to 60 percent of the respondents said that it was wrong for Obama to collect the prize.

Meanwhile, Chavez accused the Netherlands and the US of plotting to attack Venezuela as Washington sent military equipment to three Dutch islands off Venezuela's Caribbean coast, Aruba, Curacao and Bonaire.

"They are three islands in Venezuela's territorial waters, but they are still under an imperial regime: the Netherlands," the president noted. "Europe should know that the North American empire is filling these islands with weapons, assassins, American intelligence units, and spy planes and war ships."
I believe Aruba actually declared independence some time ago. A country can do that when it's a successful banking haven.
Chavez is trying to be friends by telling us the Good News first.
In response, State Department spokesman Ian Kelly denied that US military personnel in the Caribbean are planning to attack Venezuela. "These allegations are crazy baseless. These are routine exercises. We seek cooperation with the region," Kelly said.
"We'd be quite pleased to include Venezuela, and not even as targets," he added. "Such experiences are so useful for military planning for all involved."
Chavez, however, described the cooperation as part of a broader plan for weakening leftist governments throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, including Ecuador, Nicaragua, Bolivia and Cuba.
There is that.
"It's a threat to all the people of Latin America and the Caribbean," he said.
Only the radical leftist caudillo types, actually. We've nothing against the people.
Posted by:Fred

#9  has anyone checked too see how much of the million that goes with the prize he used too bail some kind of company out?
Posted by: chris   2009-12-19 18:14  

#8  You can cheese up to all of the stupid people on the earth all you want, but they still will not respect you. For they know you are weak Mr President, weak in knowledge and weak in soul.

They see through you like plexiglass.

Better to kick their asses so they learn respect instead of bowing to their tyranny
Posted by: newc   2009-12-19 11:58  

#7  How disappointing. For the Big O, I mean. All that sucking up to dictators and socialists, all those lefty boiler-plate Blame America speeches, only to be sneered at by a Hero of the People like Hugo. Same as it ever was, Barry.
Posted by: SteveS   2009-12-19 11:13  

#6  As someone from the "Imperial regime" that Aruba, Curacao and Bonaire are still "under", Hugo, if you take the immigrants from these islands off our hands as well, you are fully welcome to them. That should cut our crimerate by at least a third.

Should do wonders for the rate of wellfare-fraud as well.
Posted by: Seif al Illuminati   2009-12-19 10:27  

#5  part of a broader plan for weakening leftist governments throughout Latin America and the Caribbean

Yep, Obama does that. With leftist, and consequently dirt poor, USA these regimes cannot survive.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2009-12-19 09:51  

#4  the North American empire is filling these islands with weapons, assassins, American intelligence units, and spy planes and war ships.

Cool! When I finally get down to Aruba for some scuba diving, I can indulge some James Bond-type fantasies! I just hope they don't mess with the coral. That would, like, suck.

partof a broader plan for weakening leftist governments throughout Latin America and the Caribbean

Ooogo, time to get better blow than you are getting from Evo. The cut rate crap he's been supplying has obviously affected your mind if you forgot Barry's efforts on behalf of your mutual friend, Zelaya.
Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie   2009-12-19 09:18  

#3  Obama should give back the Nobel Prize and the stupid book Chavez gave Obama last year.
Posted by: airandee   2009-12-19 09:01  

#2  More shouting and pushing under the monkey bars. Only bullies quarrelling. They'll be late for class. Move along now, nothing to see here.
Posted by: Besoeker   2009-12-19 07:59  

#1  Ok, Oogo, give back free speech in that mosquito infested oil patch country of yours, quit claiming your opposition is composed exclusively of CIA and Mossad agents, stop sucking up to Iran, stop threatening your neighbors with your rabble of an army, and stop conflating terrorist beasts with "innocent people," and we MIGHT talk about Obama.

This sinister clown and his gimcrack regime are exhibit A in the case for alternate energy. Without oil, Chavez wouldn't even rise to the level of laughingstock.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy   2009-12-19 07:55  

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