>>"GAS WAR proves that the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan was solely motivated by the Bush Administration's desire to control Caspian Sea oil and gas reserves--specifically, to establish a U.S. puppet regime that would permit the construction of a gas pipeline from Turkmenistan to Pakistan via Afghanistan."
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>>This is just nothing but garbage.
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>Ok, this sentence is proof enough.

Do you really think our sole purpose there is for a gas pipeline?

>My point was that though Chavez was democratically elected, "We were sending informal, subtle signals that we don't like this guy.", and the mainstream media followed suit depicting him as just another dictator.

I never saw him as just another dictator. However, with his secret police arresting one of the leaders of the strike, it makes me wonder.

>I obviously hadn't planned for a dispute of this kind, or I would have triple-checked everything I read in the last ten years and would have kept bookmarks on everything (at least from credible sources).

My problem with the debates in some of these threads are the accusations and innuendos that somehow are presented as fact.

>Tough luck - you and I are paying to publish here, and he gets paid.

But that doesn't make either one of us an expert on the subject, nor does it make him one.

>>That does explain quite a bit about your posts :-).
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>I knew it. Hook, line and rod. Could you at least once do me a favor and surprise me?

Just a little joke there. Notice the :-)?