Hugo Chavez dies

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doodab replied

7 March 2013, 08:53
Originally posted by Troll View Post

Could you not say the same about Blair <spit>?

He only pretended to have them.
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Ignis Fatuus replied

7 March 2013, 08:53
Originally posted by Troll View Post

Could you not say the same about Blair <spit>?

Actually you could. I don't like Blair <spit indeed>, essentially for the Iraq war, the control-freakery, the disregard for liberty in our own country, and the unswerving conviction that God is on his side. But he did have principles and he did achieve some good.

For one example among many, he came in on "education, education, education" and by the end of the New Labour government English school results had surpassed the Scots for the first time. (Steps are currently under way which will fix that).

Chavez had a (similar??) tendency to bombast and authoritarianism, but he was not a dictator as far as I can see, and he did inspire and improve the lot of the Venezuelan people and much of his continent.

Anyone who can stick it to the imperialist wing of DC without being a communist on the way (and he wasn't) deserves respect.
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Troll replied

7 March 2013, 08:33
Originally posted by doodab View Post

He appeared to have principles. I respect him for that. Whether he was better or worse than what would have happened if he wasn't there is difficult to say.

Could you not say the same about Blair <spit>?
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doodab replied

7 March 2013, 08:32
He appeared to have principles. I respect him for that. Whether he was better or worse than what would have happened if he wasn't there is difficult to say.
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TykeMerc replied

6 March 2013, 17:55
Originally posted by Doggy Styles View Post

I'm feeling lizardy today then.

Isn't that a private matter between you and Zeity?
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Paddy replied

6 March 2013, 12:43
Originally posted by zeitghost

I shall be a typically unfeeling unsympathic lizard & say "Good riddance".

He nationalised the oil industry. Nobody or no country survives that
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Doggy Styles replied

6 March 2013, 12:13
Originally posted by zeitghost

I shall be a typically unfeeling unsympathic lizard & say "Good riddance".

I'm feeling lizardy today then.
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amcdonald replied

6 March 2013, 10:03
Originally posted by Zippy View Post

And the military have been deployed across the country. Is it 1980 again?

Probably to both supress any disturbances and to give the military time to decide who should be democratically elected next
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doodab replied

6 March 2013, 08:37
Originally posted by Zippy View Post

And the military have been deployed across the country. Is it 1980 again?

That would be nice, with my skills I could retire by now. Obviously I'd have to leave school first.
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Zippy replied

5 March 2013, 22:29
And the military have been deployed across the country. Is it 1980 again?
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Troll started a topic Hugo Chavez dies

5 March 2013, 22:14
Hugo Chavez dies

At 58 & naturally it was the gringos wot dun it
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