Lemme get *this* straight

Post #225,439 by GBert 9/19/05 10:05:10 AM Reply	Lemme get this straight Venezuela shouldn't try DEA agents it caught dealing drugs and spying, but the US should demand Canada hand over a canadian citizen? Have whatever values you have. That's what America is for. You don't need George Bush for that.
Post #225,460 by JayMehaffey 9/19/05 12:56:18 PM Reply	Re: Lemme get this straight Venezuela shouldn't try DEA agents it caught dealing drugs and spying, but the US should demand Canada hand over a canadian citizen? It probably isn't worth it for Venezuela to try DEA agents caught on crimes commited in Venezuela because they are protected by a pile of treaties and would create bad press. Far better to just expel them and mark it so they can never come back. As for Canada, if I wasn't clear I think the extradition is political manuvering passing for justice. I'm not sure if he has broken any Canadian laws, but in no case should he be turned over to the US. Jay
Post #225,494 by GBert 9/19/05 3:48:37 PM Reply	OK that's fair I have no problem with the possibility that not trying the DEA agents is the pragmatic thing for Venezuela to do. I do have a problem (and to be clear, I don't at all believe you are part of this) with the US over the past 4 years painting Chavez as a communist-narcotrafficking-antiamerican-dictator to justify destablizing his country -- so we can get his huge ~~tracts o' land~~ oil reserves. Giovanni Have whatever values you have. That's what America is for. You don't need George Bush for that.
Post #225,502 by Ashton 9/19/05 4:49:34 PM Reply	Ooohh.. meddlin in Da Familia's bizness here.. Some folks HQ'd on a certain island in the Mediterranean may not like sayin bad things about one o' their Franchised Corporate Operations. Demonizing of non-cooperative idealist-types be a time-honored specialty of the Murican branch: even Italy has to acknowledge: our breeding of the purest strains of demagogues (why we've got that Cooled; Murican ones allus throw in a little God-speak; that infallibly turns off all the marks' internal BS alarms.) Best not to be a piquein or a proddin Guido's Curiosity about Where You Live; an er ADM Rep just might show up with a violin case and a special Private Social Security Account contract, (just like the Prez's $dream for us all). Pace pace O mio Dio...
Post #225,513 by tuberculosis 9/19/05 5:36:31 PM Reply	Little wonder he's pals with Castro, eh? They have so much in common. "Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein "This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
Post #225,547 by Silverlock 9/19/05 9:09:58 PM Reply	Aside from being an assasination target... How much oil does Castro control? ----------------------------------------- George W. Bush and his PNAC handlers sent the US into Iraq with lies. I find myself rethinking my opposition to the death penalty. --Donald Dean Richards Jr.
Post #225,557 by tuberculosis 9/19/05 10:41:44 PM Reply	Depends on limit of his influence on Venezuela "Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein "This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush

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