"Reject Venezuela.

Thursday, October 5, 2006

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez made degrading and insulting remarks about President Bush in his speech to the United Nations General Assembly. Chavez called Bush the devil.

Chavez is vying for Venezuelan membership in the United Nations Security Council. This is one heck of a way to go about it. He directly insulted the president of a member nation. There were some member nations that applauded the remarks made by Chavez.

I would hope the majority of member nations will take Chavez's remarks to heart and not accept Venezuela as a member of the Security Council.

DAVID M. LEVIN Vineland "

- pulled from "the courier post". despite amazing prose, i too beleive united nations should take chavez's remarks to heart- bush is the devil, or at least the closest thing to one right now (especially one with so much socially condoned power). apparently, during the same address, he lifted a book, shaking it vigorously, preaching that everyone should read this book, and prompting an imediate sellout of the book, and an emergency reprint of 25,000 more - bringing to mind the preacher lifting the bible, only, in this case, the bible was "hegemony or survival," by noam chomsky, a book that already resides on my shelf.