Venezuela expels US naval spy

February 3rd, 2006 at 13:49 Björn Hallberg

Of course, John Correa has already fled the country, though Washington maintains that he is on “holiday” and medical treatment.

Donald Rumsfeld was quoted as saying this about the “left-wing” trend in the region …

[Chavez] is a person who was elected legally, just as Adolf Hitler was elected legally and then consolidated power. Now [Chavez] is of course working closely with [Cuban President] Fidel Castro and [Bolivian President Evo] Morales and others. It concerns me.

Talking about the dubious claims of Hitler being democratically elected … What concerns me is another warmongering bonapartist emperor that was too “legally” elected, and re-elected, in a nation that has been working closely with about every autocrat that would do its bidding and every right-wing regime in the last century, with murderous results.

The uncompromising, and frankly unintelligent, view that Adolf Hitler came to power in a strict democratic fashion belies historic fact. I will just chalk this one up as a silent, and subconscious, omission of guilt and perverted view of democracy on Rumsfeld’s part.

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