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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 05:27 PM Original message |
New nominee for U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela barred from that country after musing about coups |
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Dennis Donovan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 05:31 PM Response to Original message |
1. Recommended for your postscript |
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Electric Monk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 05:44 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose |
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HelenWheels (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 05:33 PM Response to Original message |
2. I don't think so |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 06:29 PM Response to Reply #2 |
8. Our policy seems to be to bait Venezuela so it's hard to tell. |
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pleah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 05:45 PM Response to Original message |
4. Good! n/t |
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DCKit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 06:10 PM Response to Original message |
5. I knew there was a real story behind the poutrage. |
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Monk06 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 06:23 PM Response to Original message |
6. Palmer sounds a lot like that prick Paul Cellucci that Bush foisted on us. The US |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 06:25 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. What I find amazing is the lacck of pretense about |
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Monk06 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 06:30 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. The only reason the US has foreign embassies is to give CIA personnell diplomatic immunity. |
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Billy Burnett (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 07:53 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. And what is the CIA doing? |
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Monk06 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 08:22 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. Well they don't call the CIA "the Company" for nothing. A term first popularized by James Grady's |
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wial (362 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 07:55 PM Response to Original message |
11. yeah but |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-31-10 07:57 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Didn't that song also have a line that started with the words |
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lunasun (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-01-11 03:02 AM Response to Original message |
14. some in the US are drooling over that Venezuelan oil! |
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Violet_Crumble (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-01-11 03:16 AM Response to Original message |
15. It's the new 'diplomacy', same as the old 'diplomacy' |
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ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-01-11 03:35 AM Response to Original message |
16. Not sure this really matters at this point |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-01-11 03:42 AM Response to Reply #16 |
17. The Venezuelan ambassador wasn't talking about trying to overthow OUR government, though |
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ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-01-11 03:52 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. It seems like someone at State did not do their homework |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-01-11 03:55 AM Response to Reply #18 |
19. "In Valenzuela's court"? |
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ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-01-11 04:11 AM Response to Reply #19 |
22. Its late and I trusted the spell checker.... |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-01-11 04:13 AM Response to Reply #22 |
23. No offence intended. |
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Violet_Crumble (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-01-11 03:58 AM Response to Reply #18 |
20. That doesn't explain the appalling behaviour of the US later, though... |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-01-11 04:08 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. Indeed, Violet, our leaders don't ever seem to have grasped the concept |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-01-11 05:07 AM Response to Reply #16 |
24. The Venezuelan ambassador will not be replaced. |
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robinlynne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-01-11 01:09 PM Response to Original message |
25. disgusting. |
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