Re: Oil soars on halts by Iraq, Venezuela

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From: lawrence day
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 16:42

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david_l_simpson@yahoo.com (Dave Simpson) wrote in message news:<23e7f86e.0204101057.422ebc66@posting.google.com>...
> [L]awrence [D]ay wrote:
> 
> > >   Chavez may, only may, be somewhat better than Robert Mugabe.
> > 
> > That is your opinion. Do you have a single *fact* on which
> > to base it? Do you admit the possibility that your
> > American media may have been misleading you?
> 
>   So far, to my knowledge Chavez hasn't accused any of his political
> opponents of treason following elections.
> 
> 
>   Dave Simpson

Well Mr. Simpson, I doubt we will ever agree on this.
My interests are democracy, and accuracy in media;
your interests are filling your SUV as cheaply as possible.

Perhaps I over-simplify, 
but to me this seems to be
the gist of it.

For anyone following along this weird crosspost,
here is a fairly even-handed assessment 
from a Fulbright Scholar based in Caracas:

http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=169295&group=webcast

Lawrence Day

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