Tin Pot Dictator Update

Venezuela announced at the Non-Aligned Movement conference that it has tied up enough pledges of support to win a seat on the United Nations Security Council. Determining whether or not that is true will have to wait for the actual voting, of course. However the press continues to report the sickening conspiracy theories that Hugo Chavez has embraced.

In Caracas, Chavez — who in the past has accused the US government of trying to kill him and trying to topple his elected leftist-populist government — said "the hypothesis that is gaining strength is that it was the US imperial power itself that planned and carried out this terrible terrorist deed against its own people and against citizens of the entire world."

"What for? To justify its aggressions that promptly ensued against Afghanistan, Iraq and the threats against all of us, against Venezuela," Chavez in an address carried live on Venezuelan state television.

"The towers fell in nine seconds, so the hypothesis that the towers were blown up, that there were groups of explosives, is not so outlandish," Chavez told a group of women supporters.

The events gave "the excuse to the US empire to lash out with more wrath and fury against the world, to bomb cities to threaten the entire world," Chavez charged in remarks unlikely to ease tensions between the two countries.

I've mentioned before how very happy I am with the 9/11 "truthers" and their virulent bag of lies, distortions and half truths. Between Steven Jones and his "super thermite" and the rigorous scientific methodology the "truthers" use, they are endangering every person in this nation. When someone like Chavez embraces your theories, maybe it is time for you to wake up to the fact that you have been lying to yourselves.