Do you know How Hugo Chavez is? Political thread

[your mother]

elprincipe said:

your mother said:

 

Re Cuba, three words: US Economic Embargo

And just a personal opinion (especially regarding foreign policy): Chavez > Doggie Poo > Bush

Even if the embargo is responsible for Cuba's poor economic state (I disagree, but leaving that aside), it is still a totalitarian state with a horrible human rights record.

You must think Bush's foreign policy is pretty bad to be worse than Chavez's, which includes cozying up to dictators from Syria to Iran to North Korea and more...not to mention locally where he is attempting to destablize neighboring countries. I feel perhaps your opinion on this matter is, shall we say, uninformed, unless you happen to prefer being friends with brutal dictators, Holocaust deniers, mass murderers, etc.

...which of course is also your opinion, and I could just as well say that it's uninformed, unless you happen to prefer being friends with liars who attempt to deceive the world about alleged WMDs that never existed, creating a brand new category of POWs to justify Guantanamo (aka "alien unlawful enemy combatants"), or allowing torture as a means of interrogation for POWs, etc.

But again, that's my opinion which obviously differs from yours, and I'll leave it at that.

Talking politics is like talking religion or, for that matter, consoles. You convince a Sony, Nintendo or Microsoft fanboy that their company/brand/console of preference is the wrong one, and I'll concede to your opinion. Good luck.