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Originally posted by SLAYER69
Venezuela's ongoing arms acquisitions--coupled with weapons purchases among other South American nations--have raised concerns over an arms race in the region.
Originally posted by TheAgentNineteen
Lol, all of you people who somehow support Chavez or Communism, have never experienced the evils which both of them perpetrate. If you even partially enjoy the freedoms & liberties which you possess within the United States, or any number of other "Western Nations", then you would be in for an extremely rude awakening when experiencing Chavez and Communism.
It is extremely hilarious as well that Chavez should talk about "Democracy", when he shuts down TV Stations, Radio Networks, and anyone who even looks at him cross-eyed.
Get a life people, and great job in supporting one of the most oppressive systems of governance ever known to mankind.
Originally posted by donhuangenaro
in fact, I have lived in communism most of my young ages, and things were much better then... now in democracy everything is falling apart, more and more people are living on streets searching food in garbage, factories that made handsome profits are 'privatized' and destroyed, etc, etc... those things never happened even in worst times in communism...
Originally posted by marg6043
But what is going in our nation is can not be denied, capitalism in America is only benefiting the few.
Originally posted by SLAYER69
Great...
Another one who romanticizes communism. No, that never happened. You only had Stalin killing millions of his own people or the Chinese communist killing millions of their own people in the cultural revolution. as bad as prisons are here in the west they can't compete with the gulags or reeducation camps.
Sure there were no people searching through the garbage for food. They would only stand in line for 10 hours for bread and then if there was none left they had to come back on the next odd or even days.
Let me ask you a question?
If communism was such a paradise why did those people suffering [Excuse me] I mean living under it chose to overthrow the yoke of that oppression?
Hell, even the Chinese are capitalist now. I don't see too many of them running around with their little Mao's red books anymore. More like checkbooks.
[edit on 19-12-2009 by SLAYER69]
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Originally posted by Bunker or Bust
China and Russia will be like America in a very short period of time. That is not a good thing... Just some new faces to join the elite dinner club
Originally posted by donhuangenaro
yes, in communism people died, but in the same time your democracy killed twice as more...
On September 18, we released a report in Caracas that shows how President Hugo Chávez has undermined human rights guarantees in Venezuela. That night, we returned to our hotel and found around twenty Venezuelan security agents, some armed and in military uniform, awaiting us outside our rooms. They were accompanied by a man who announced—with no apparent sense of irony—that he was a government "human rights" official and that we were being expelled from the country.
Originally posted by SLAYER69
Originally posted by truthquest
reply to post by Misoir
I don't know where Chavez has seen any capitalism. I have not seen much of it anywhere in the world. I see people agreeing with Chavez. Okay, point out the capitalism then.
Well the Russians love Chavez's form of capitalism something to the tune of 6.2+ Billion and counting in recent arms sales.
Originally posted by SLAYER69
Originally posted by donhuangenaro
Don't tell me you believe all that garbage about how the US is responsible for 90 or 100 millions death worldwide since the end of WWII? Because if you actually look at those figures you will note that the Communist were accountable for half those numbers.
Absolutely true, if someone were lobbing explosives in your direction would you try to fight back?
Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Korea, Afghanistan, Iraq etc. etc. all the ones in between and always an excuse about how "they" treat "their" citizens of their "sovereign" country. So you drop death from the air and call the citizens "collateral damage".
Not forgetting all the other things you leave behind, from Agent Orange to Depleted Uranium.
[edit on 19-12-2009 by prof-rabbit]