The Devil and Mr. Chavez

El Diablo Aqui!

The only thing new about Hugo Chave calling George Bush the devil was that, this time, he got to do it in front of the UN General Assembly. US ambassador to the UN John Bolton, a man likely to be dispatched from that job none too soon, refused to sully either himself or his moustache and chose not to attend Chavez's blistering criticism of Bush.

I'm just not going to comment on this because his remarks just don't warrant a response. Serious people can listen to what he had to say and if they do they will reject it.

Apparently, there were more than a few unserious people in the UN who applauded Chavez's remarks about Bush being "el diablo."

Watching these puffy clowns perform at the UN is like watch kindergarten kids during a playground spat. Yesterday, Bush wouldn't listen to Amadinejad and Bolton sat out the Chavez speech. I can almost picture Bolton with his hands over his hears, jumping up and down while Chavez spoke. What a bunch of embarrassing pricks. Of course, Chavez does a cause no good by name-calling, although admittedly, it is amusing to hear, if for no other reason than the fact that there is not another leader on the planet who will stand up and say what so many already believe.

Furthermore, almost everything Bush says now sounds like he is talking about the United States. And he doesn't seem to even know it:

The greatest obstacle to this future is that your rulers have chosen to deny you liberty and to use your nation's resources to fund terrorism and fuel extremism and pursue nuclear weapons.

Sound familiar? It is difficult to think of any aggressive nation on the planet that doesn't do exactly this.

And what does it say about western diplomacy when the most reasoned articulation at the UN General Assembly comes from a Holocaust denier?