In case you hadn’t noticed, this week’s Bush Administration talking point on why you are supposed to fear Venezuela is on account of the “drugs.” It’s not that Venezuelans necessarily produce it or use it or anything, it’s more that they’ve refused to “cooperate” with the U.S. military on anti-drug initiatives like the Colombians do, which sort of helps explain why Venezuela isn’t a gun-running defoliated post-apocalyptic Mad Max on Meth kidnap factory like its next-door neighbor.
Apparently you’re supposed to come away from the CIA testimony on all this tut-tutting about how uncivilized the Venezuelans are, except haha the ding dongs brought it up in the same hearing where they admitted for the first time that our government has been waterboarding the fuck out everybody all this time, which is not only uncivilized but also sort of a war crime and now they’ll all have to go to jail and Chavez wins again!
BTW: If you’ve forgotten how bad it gets in Colombia, Oil Wars would like to remind you.
