Quote Originally Posted by JAG
As for you Don, I will call you a lier when you blatantly lie about a man who is proposing real change for the poor in his country, real living standards increasing for those deprived for decades of hegemonic upper class corrupt democratic rule. You hate him because he doesn't let the US big business walk all over his country. You will not - and never - find me apologising for my remarks to you in this thread, they are fully deserved. If you do not like it - or loose any respect for me - tough, I don't give a damn.
Alright, I'm going to address this one last time. Then, you can call me any name you can dream up. I just wish that you'd have the spine to act with a little consistency, either I'm a lying fascist or not.

I said he had retroactively slapped a 50% tax on oil exports. I didn't claim that, the article did. I predicted that it wouldn't be the last time he tried that trick.

I then said in 10 years, after he would have stolen all of the cash reserves, don't come bitching to us to bail them out. That's a prediction, not an assertion. I thought you were intelligent enough to note the difference. This article here shows that the man has a proven track record of putting his hand in the cookie jar: Venezuela has at least 2billion discrepancy in oil revenues English Tranlation

From that, somehow you feel free to degrade my character and accuse me of being a liar, that I willingly make false statements against somebody. For the record, I don't hate Hugo Chavez, but I do think he's a blight on his people and I think when his work is done, it will be us capitalists whom you appear to despise so much that will be left to pay the bills.

Why do I think that about Hugo Chavez? Well, beyond the 2 billion he's alredy made off with, he has no respect for property rights. He has eliminated the democratic tradition in his country. He has made bedfellows of Castro & Saddam Hussein. And after 7 years at the helm, his beloved people are no better off. Don't take my word for that, your beloved BBC documenting his abuses: Hugo Chavez in the BBC's eyes

So again, call me any name you want to. I'm sorry you can't stand to see your sacred cows called to task, but honestly, were I you, I'd find better Marxist heroes then this Castro wannabe.