Re: Senator Harkin (D-Ia) defends Venezuelan President's U-N speech

[ken hanly <northsunm@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well the good democrat might just have mentioned that
George Bush reached out by sponsoring a coup that
threw Chavez out of power briefly. No doubt that
soured Chavez a bit.

Cheers, Ken Hanly

--- Leigh Meyers <leighcmeyers@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Not bad, for a Democrat.
>
> Radio Iowa:
>
http://www.radioiowa.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=020BFC5A-FA7D-42CC-9BA6A4ED9DA063B8
>
> Harkin defends Venezuelan President's U-N speech
> against Bush
>
> by Darwin Danielson
>
> Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, a democrat, today defended
> Venezuelan President
> Hugo Chavez's United Nations speech in which Chavez
> called President
> George Bush the devil. Harkin said the comments were
> "incendiary", then
> went on to say, "Let me put it this way, I can
> understand the
> frustration, ah, and the anger of certain people
> around the world
> because of George Bush's policies." Harkin continued
> what has been
> frequent criticism of the president's foreign
> policy.
>
> Harkin says Bush came to office saying he wanted a
> new humility in
> foreign policy in reaching out to other countries,
> but Harkin says
> Bush's actual policy has been heavy handed. Harkin
> says the anger
> against Bush is generated from the Iraq war, which
> Harkin says was
> "unnecessary."
>
> Harkin says, "We tend to forget that a few days
> after 9-1-1 thousands,
> thousands of Iranians marched in a candlelight
> procession in Teheran in
> support of the United States. Every Muslim country
> was basically on our
> side. Just think, in five years, President Bush has
> squandered all
> that." Harkin says the U.S. has put billions of
> dollars into the Iraq
> war, when it could be helping poor countries with
> things like clean
> water, medical aid and education.
>
>
> AUDIO: Excerpt from Harkin conference call (3 min
> MP3)
> http://editor.learfield.com/mp3/ddharkin.mp3
>
>
> Leigh
> http://leighm.net/
>