Originally Posted by Kandahar

What are you talking about? Where in my previous post could you have possibly gotten the impression that I supported the huge American debt and war in Iraq? What does any of that have to do with my statement that Hugo Chavez is an economic troglodyte? The fact is that Hugo Chavez has done everything in his power to make Venezuela LESS free and MORE poor. There is no country in the world that has seen a steeper decline in economic freedom over the past decade than Venezuela.