As in nancy pelosi and her democratic socialist myrmidons who assume the position for every brutal thugacracy & terrorist group on both sides of the Atlantic. So says Betsy on the heels of last week’s brazenly successful hostage rescue from FARC (the….

“I think one has to be clever, maybe it is not the time to go home,” Ms. Betancourt said in another interview for Radio France International.”

It must be nice to be French in France. Now that she’s safely half way across the world, she can tap into her genetic predisposition towards appeasement.

I read the article in the Independent and found the comments far more interesting:

“I am quite impressed by this article: it is way more partisan than the main anti Chavez blogs in Venezuela. Partisan enough in fact that the author dispenses happily with checking some of the elemental dates, or racial composition, of Venezuelan history. I mean, suggesting that Zulia is “whiter” (false), that it is the most anti Chavez province (false) and that it holds the Venezuelan largest oil fields (false) to justify that the US is financing a separatist movement only demonstrates that either Mr. Hari is woefully uninformed, or that the US intelligence is really stupid (or both, which can never be ruled out).

I will suggest readers of this article, and Mr. Hari, to read the extraordinary debunking of this article by Caracas Chronicles blog. For the real finances and state of the oil industry they can visit The Devil’s Excrement. For historical, regional and electoral politics you can visit my own blog at Venezuela News and Views: 2008 election in blog search is a good start.

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Caracus Chronicles has a response to the Independent

Yeesh.

Video: Freed hostage calls FARC “terrorists with a capital T”

So what does this say about FARC’s supporter in Chief, “Hugo Chavez”? When a government supports terrorists (verbally, and financially, then they themselves are terrorists.

http://online.wsj.com/article/the_americas.html

Read ‘The Last Centurion’ by John Ringo if you get the chance. Prophetic.

Somehow I don’t think the “laptop stories” have anything to do with your rant dave

Yes it does. That’s why I brought it up. Half the news that comes out about either Iran or Chavez originates with these ridiculous “stolen laptops”. The stories are a joke, and those who believe them are a joke. My post has nothing to do with Pelosi or Democrats. I hate them both.

Somehow I don’t think the “laptop stories” have anything to do with your rant dave… Probably the part where Nancy Pelosi is involved once again; or is it the part where Democrats are once again caught supporting those who hate America?

I guess he just feels better in the company of his own kind.

captured from a FARC laptop

The famous laptops! The ones that contained “2,110 files with creation dates ranging between 20 April 2009 to 27 August 2009,” and “1,434 files which show as having been last modified between 5 April 2009 and 16 October 2010”? (1)
Of course! I remember those! Those are the ones that even the US is skeptical of. Isn’t it amazing how Farc laptops can survive a bombing raid in the middle of the night, but laptops connected to the Columbian warlords get “lost” for no reason? Coincidence.

Give me a break with the stupid laptop stories.

1) “2.110 archivos cuyas fechas de creación oscilan entre el 20 de abril de 2009 y el 27 de agosto de 2009:
1.434 archivos cuyas fechas de última modificación varían ent2.110 archivos cuyas fechas de creación oscilan entre el 20 de abril de 2009 y el 27 de agosto de 2009″:
interpol.int/Public/ICPO/PressReleases/PR2008/pdfPR200817/ipPublicReportNoCoverES.pdf

A ”reliable source” is not a source. How about Swiss Radio cites it’s source? Or would that be too much for the little propagandists?

Since you only believe stories that are well sourced, could you tell me who the source is for the story that Chavez is funding the FARC?

He’s right, of course. But some Americans seem remarkably oblivious to the evil that FARC, Hugo Chavez and other Latin American leftists represent. In today’s Wall Street Journal, Mary O’Grady writes about the fact that some “human rights” organizations are in fact allies of, and fronts for, terrorist groups. That’s a fair point, but I want to focus on the latter part of her column, in which she describes efforts by Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez to turn the hostages into “a public-relations coup that would give him and the FARC ‘continental and world renown.’”

O’Grady’s account is based on documents that were captured from a FARC laptop in a raid by the Colombian military that we wrote about here. Based on those documents, it appears that Chavez had a couple of schemes to set up prisoner exchanges involving the FARC hostages. This is the most interesting one:

That plan flopped, but Mr. Chavez had other cards up his sleeve. One involved Ms. Cordoba, who is currently under investigation by the Colombian attorney general for ties to the FARC. She figures prominently in the captured rebel documents, and is notoriously close to Mr. Chávez.

She met at the Venezuelan presidential palace with FARC leaders last fall. From that meeting the rebels reported that “Piedad [Cordoba] says that Chávez has Uribe going crazy. He doesn’t know what to do. That Nancy Pelosi helps and is ready to help in the swap [hostages in exchange for captured guerrillas]. That she has designated [U.S. Congressman Jim] McGovern for this.”

If the speaker of the House was working with Ms. Cordoba in this scheme, her judgment was more than a little misguided. The rebels write that on a trip to Argentina Ms. Cordoba told them, “It doesn’t matter to me the proposal that Sarkozy has made to free Ingrid. Above all, do not liberate Ingrid.”

If this report is correct, Nancy Pelosi was carrying on her own foreign policy in opposition to that of the United States, trying to work with the socialist Hugo Chavez and the Communist FARC terrorists to undermine America’s ally, Colombia. In normal times, this would be unthinkable. Given the crazed state of today’s Democratic party, I’m not so sure.

Further, the statement that Pelosi designated the outrageously left-wing Jim McGovern to head up her mission to the terrorists is also interesting. It may tie in with this document, which, as reported by the Associated Press, apparently records an attempt by Democrats to encourage FARC to hold on until Barack Obama becomes President:

In a Dec. 11 message to the secretariat, Marquez [FARC's contact with Chavez, who lives in Venezuela] writes: “If you are in agreement, I can receive Jim and Tucker to hear the proposal of the gringos.”

Writing two days before his death, Reyes [FARC's "foreign minister"] tells his comrades that “the gringos,” working through Ecuador’s government, are interested “in talking to us on various issues.”

“They say the new president of their country will be (Barack) Obama,” he writes, saying Obama rejects both the Bush administration’s free trade agreement with Colombia and the current military aid program.

Was “Jim” Jim McGovern? And, if so, was he really the emissary of Nancy Pelosi to a gang of South American terrorists, urging them to hold on until Barack Obama can sell out America’s ally and the terrorists’ nemesis, Uribe, by withdrawing from the Colombia free trade agreement and cutting off aid to Colombia’s government?

I don’t know the answers to these questions, but one would think that at least one reporter would be willing to ask Pelosi why her name pops up in the communications of South American terrorists. As their ally. (powerline)

Yep, those Hollywood tools such as Penn and Glover sucking up to Chavez while blasting America on foreign soil looks real good right about now. Idiots.

There are still others out there being held by these gangsters. I’ve always thought they’re not in it for the Marxism they are in it for the cash, like any street thug. It’d be nice to see if we can’t seriously dent their funding – that’s what will get their attention and force them to the hallowed ‘negotiating table’.

If there is, we should give them 20 million and get them back, too.

A ”reliable source” is not a source. How about Swiss Radio cites it’s source? Or would that be too much for the little propagandists?

Mission well done. Praises seem so hollow for what the hostages and those who freed them did. Words fail.

http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2008/07/07/dodds-worth-chris-dodd-in-the-news/

The complicity of our own Dem legislators with FARC is horrifying.

Please, anyone who is considering sitting out the election, look at the difference between McCain and Obama on this.

are there any other American hostages around the world that aren’t making the evening news?

If there is, we should give them 20 million and get them back, too.

Virus-X on July 7, 2008 at 9:40 PM

I believe that Mr. Penn is not a high school graduate. Therefore, he is well qualified to comment on public affairs.