SOCIALIST PRESIDENT OF SPAIN VOWS TO FIND WAY TO ARM SOCIALIST PRESIDENT OF VENEZUELA

NYTIMES:

The United States will not allow Spain to sell military aircraft with American technology to Venezuela, saying the sale would aid the increasingly "antidemocratic" government of President Hugo Chávez and would destabilize the region, the American Embassy announced Friday. The Spanish government, led by Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, said it regretted the decision, but vowed to move forward with the deal after acquiring the necessary technology elsewhere.

In rejecting Spain's request, American officials said the sale amounted to support for an oppressive government that threatened to spread instability. "Despite being democratically elected, the government of President Hugo Chávez has systematically undermined democratic institutions, pressured and harassed independent media and the political opposition, and grown progressively more autocratic and antidemocratic," the embassy said in a statement.

Spain (unlike the USA, according to the Left), is led by a typical European: a more "enlightened," "progressive"; "humanist"; "better-educated"; "more realistic"; "more sophisticated" and "less hegmonistic" socialist Zapatero. Just like Russia, which is led by Putin. Together, these socialist appeasers are arming Hugo Chavez, the ranting and raving tyrannical and demagogic anti-Semite anti-globalist tyrant of Venezuela. Hugo's hero is Fidel - the tyrant who has systematically ruined Cuba by depriving Cubans of freedom and the prosperity that only freedom creates.

Now explain to me again why the US Left thinks that Old Europe is more advanced than us, and why we should emulate them?! Please, tell me why should we emulate Chirac and Schroeder and Zapatero!? Sheesh. Following this crew would be like following "Thelma and Louise" drive off the cliff.

UPDATE: POWERLINE points out that Chavez is also ALIGNED WITH IRAN (whose biggest trade allies are Germany and Russia - and Russia has been helping them build their "nuclear energy" infrastructure), and that this axis now also includes the openly pro-cocaine industry Left-wing demagogue president of Bolivia. Powerline links to an article by Mary Anastasia O'Grady in the WSJ which says, in part:

With Iranian nuclear aspirations gaining notice this week, it's worth directing attention to the growing relationship between Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez. The Reagan administration repulsed Soviet efforts to set up camp in Central America. Iranian designs on Venezuela perhaps deserve similar U.S. attention.

I AGREE: Bush must get tougher on the new axis of evil in our own hemisphere.