And now we know for sure that Hugo is just another maniacal thug who plots to kill innocents and hates democracy:
Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez has been accused of many things: squandering his country's petroleum income, suppressing opposition media, using his army to intimidate the citizenry, compromising the populace's access to food and even exporting his brand of authoritarian socialism to neighbouring countries by means of publicity and under-the-table cash. Now documents recovered by Colombian soldiers from computers belonging to FARC, Columbia's drug-funded Leninist insurgency, suggest that Chávez may be actively undermining the sovereign government of his western neighbour. If that is the case, the Western Hemisphere may be about to gain its first internationally designated state sponsor of terrorism.
I used to mock Hugo as a member of the Axis of El Vil who sometimes seems to be bucking for a promotion to the full Axis of Evil. I used to think he was an annoyance who has to be ignored since we have real threats with jihadis.
With his sponsorship of terror and his ties to Ahmadinejad, we really need to think about how to kill Hugo before he actually does some damage to us. Let the sulfur he professes to smell be the JDAM bomb that kills him.
Hugo Chavez may be a buffoon but he is a very dangerous buffoon. Seriously, people. We need to treat him as a serious threat.
And we need to rub the noses of our Left in the crap this thug has dropped around the world so our Leftists will be careful who they honor and admire.
Ah, who am I kidding? Our Left will love Hugo even more when his crimes are fully publicized.
UPDATE: Counting the ways Hugo is loved:
The authenticity of the documents is challenged by Venezuela and FARC (but you could have guessed that without reading the article). Interpol will soon render its opinion on whether they are legitimate, but one government has already conducted a raid on a FARC facility identified in the documents--further bolstering their veracity (more on that at the Wall Street Journal). If the U.S. concludes they're legitimate, there will be serious pressure to name Venezuela a state sponsor of terror and cut off all trade with one of this nation's largest oil suppliers.
Beyond that, Democrats will have to answer for coddling this dictator. Joe Kennedy runs around extolling Chavez's virtues, Jimmy Carter disregards evidence that Chavez stole his 2004 victory, liberal actors kowtow to him for money, and Speaker Pelosi delivers on his top priority: defeat of the Colombia Free Trade Agreement. And all this occurs while FARC--with Chavez's help--is expanding its terrorist operations into Switzerland, Germany, and 15 other nations.
As long as Hugo keeps hating America, the global Left will never reject him. They're loyal like that.
