Elliot Abrams: "...the entire thrust of American policy in Venezuela is to support the Venezuelan people's efforts to restore democracy to their country. That's our policy."
Ilhan Omar: "I don't think anybody disputes that."
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Elliot Abrams: "...the entire thrust of American policy in Venezuela is to support the Venezuelan people's efforts to restore democracy to their country. That's our policy."
Ilhan Omar: "I don't think anybody disputes that."
MacCruiskeen » Thu Feb 14, 2019 8:19 pm wrote:*Who wrote that script?
Grizzly » Fri Feb 15, 2019 12:02 pm wrote:^^ THERE WILL BE NO RESPONSE TO THE ABOVE, BY LIFE LONG DEMS.
PufPuf93 » Fri Feb 15, 2019 10:34 pm wrote:Grizzly » Fri Feb 15, 2019 12:02 pm wrote:^^ THERE WILL BE NO RESPONSE TO THE ABOVE, BY LIFE LONG DEMS.
I am a life long Democrat. The only time I have ever voted for a non-democrat for John Anderson in the 1980 GOP POTUS primary in CA against Reagan. I disliked Reagan because I was a student at Cal when he was governor and resigned after 16 years with the Feds when Reagan was POTUS and screwed up the agency where I was employed (USFS).
That said in no way do I approve of the Democratic Party leadership which is stuck on the status quo of neoliberalism and global military aggression in support of neoliberalism.
If one pays attention, Venezuela has been in the sights of the USA since Chavez was elected, irrespective of GOP or Democratic POTUS starting with Plan Colombia where Venezuela was surrounded by US military bases. There was the failed 2002 coup, the oil strike, separatists in Zulia, various economic sanctions, demonization in corporate media, and so on. There has been a roll back of left leaning politicians in Latin America from Brazil to Honduras to Ecuador.
I plan on staying a Democrat because essentially there is no where else to go in the 2-party system that is the USA representative republic. This does not mean I have to be happy with or approve of t Democratic party leadership that is allergic to change from status quo neoliberalism to the detriment of most of us.
11.30.18
Pelosi Announces Co-Chairs of Steering and Policy Committee
Washington, D.C. – Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi announced today that she will recommend Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, Congressman Eric Swalwell of California and Congresswoman Barbara Lee of California to serve as the three Co-Chairs of the Steering and Policy Committee. [...]
https://lee.house.gov/news/press-releas ... -committee
Chairman Eliot L. Engel (Democrat): Remarks at Full Committee Hearing on Venezuela
February 13, 2019
https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/2019/2 ... -venezuela
JackRiddler » 08 Feb 2019 09:22 wrote:Good stuff, though he loses me a few minutes before the end when he describes the epic (capitalist) corruption in Venezuela and the extremely high rates of violent street-crime, and then endorses what he calls the Cuban but also Taiwanese, Chinese, and Singaporean ways of dealing with both political corruption and street crime - he says they just shoot the miscreants, to uphold law and order. Shoot the drug dealer, he even says! Yeah, nothing could go wrong with that idea, or has gone wrong in these very same countries. This is nothing US Republicans and in fact Donald Trump himself have ever endorsed. Wait, actually, it is. And the US has the highest rate of imprisonment globally and, within the West, hands-down the highest rate of executions (and deals with political corruption by having completely legalized it). I doubt he endorses US law and order policy. The whole point of due process is that enforcement can be and often is applied in completely wrong ways. And regarding Cuba, I think Galloway in this bit of bloodthirst is provably wrong. They don't imprison or execute at higher rates than the US or China or Iran (another famously corrupt economy), and Galloway is almost feeding (unintentionally) into the myths of Cuba as some kind of exceptional police state.
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