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Assault on an Ally

COLOMBIAN President Álvaro Uribe may be the most popular democratic leader in the world. Last week, as he visited Washington, a poll showed his approval rating at 80.4 percent -- extraordinary for a politician who has been in office nearly five years. Colombians can easily explain this: Since his...
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Another teflon leader of a banana republic gets high marks from the Post ed staff because he grinds with Bush.

By MaryLouHarper | May 5, 2007 10:50:06 PM | Request Removal

Duh!!! Democrats are always deeply troubled about everything. If they find themselves out of things to be deeply troubled about then they are outraged. It is genetic.

By Tupac_Goldstein | May 6, 2007 12:54:04 AM | Request Removal

Bush has simply brought us back to the bad old days of Nixonian Foreign Policy full of bluster and ineffectiveness and empty TalkTalk. But that is OK with you. The WaPo is all in favor of US backed Death Squads and Coups against Democratically elected governments. Isnt your mess in Iraq enough to prove just how wrong you are about everything?

By jthandbook | May 6, 2007 5:18:51 AM | Request Removal

The -drug war- seems to have failed. Heroin is still easily available in the US, and at lower prices than ever. Why again are we dumping 5b$ into the place? Wouldn-t we have better spent the money on drug research that removes the addiction craving? Then, once the drug was available, we could offer those in prison a choice, take the drug and get out or continue to serve out your sentence. Chances are, we could lower our prison population a great deal, and with American drug demand gone, we wouldn-t have to fund petty dictators in the name of freedom.

By cpage289 | May 6, 2007 5:31:14 AM | Request Removal

Welcome to Freeper Central. Silly ol human rights. Bad ol libruls. Uribe is using the failing presidency of militarist promoters of globalism at the expense of the U.S. economy to make an abusive agreement that will benefit only the abusers of tax laws. Free trade is another opposite of what it calls itself, and not in the interest either of Colombian or U.S. publics. Enough already. Sad that the WaPo has fallen so far.

By jocabel | May 6, 2007 5:33:17 AM | Request Removal

Interesting logic. We take it as a given that our only ally in South America will be Colombia? Maybe we should be considering why the others are not our allies? Also, I would like to know a bit more about why Polosi and others believe as they do. Very bad analysis it seems to me. It leaves me wondering what your objective is?

By cdierd | May 6, 2007 6:53:40 AM | Request Removal

Who writes these things, Karl Rove? I remember days when the Post was known for enlightenment and intellectual honesty even in the face of actual threats. Now it has become merely a mimeograph machine for administration lies and slander.

By FergusonFoont | May 6, 2007 7:36:26 AM | Request Removal

Have liberals Democrats ever oppoese an anti-American dictator?

By cikirkpatrick | May 6, 2007 7:48:58 AM | Request Removal

This piece of bias isnt worthy of a comment, and it appears I am not alone in that opinion.

By bkouns001 | May 6, 2007 8:18:58 AM | Request Removal

What else can the Post find to attack Ms. Pelosi and other Democratic leaders but an absurd and wrong editorial on foreign policy. The Post has become increasingly irrelevant.

By rdklingus | May 6, 2007 9:17:07 AM | Request Removal

What has gotten into the Democrats? Political Correctness getting the best of their brains? Lets be reasonable and judge everybody by the same standards. Just bgecause Uribe supports President Bush should not make him a target for the Democrats. Dont fall into the same trap as the neocons.

By schumann-bonn | May 6, 2007 9:20:08 AM | Request Removal

Oh, the `friendship` Pelosi supposedly offered to Syria, that was waaaaaay different from the friendship Condi Rice offered them, right? No wonder the WaPo is losing readers.

By hairguy01 | May 6, 2007 9:42:38 AM | Request Removal

Fred Hiatt will always come down on the side of `right-wing paramilitaty groups` and those who support them. Merely writing the phrase gives him a woody.

By nleibowitz | May 6, 2007 10:12:57 AM | Request Removal

I have to say sometimes I wonder if editorial board reads the news stories in its own paper. The reports out of Colombia have raised many questions about Uribes role in the chaos in that country. As far your kicker is concerned -- linking the Democrats with Chavez -- it is really a kind of silly, talk radio type cheap shot. As far as I am concerned, Chavez can mock Bush and get away with it mainly because of the administrations idiotic reaction to the attempted coup in Venezuala.

By khill51103 | May 6, 2007 11:02:03 AM | Request Removal

Labour activists killed in Colombia We have decided to defend ourselves undertaking a well planned military operation to once and for all locate, exterminate, disappear and finish off this trade union cell. Threat sent to the Trade Union Congress offices in Santander Department by the Bloque Central Bolívar army-backed paramilitary group. Colombia: Paramilitaries Power Threatens Democracy Congressional Testimony on Democracy, Human Rights, and US Policy towards Colombia So, if you take the time to educate yourself, youll see that in fact the Democrats are unwilling to enter into a free trade arrangement with a country that allows death squads to handle their internal labor disputes. Good thing too, we cant really compete with a country where you get murdered for asking for a raise or decent working conditions. As recently as February of this year a Columbian labor organizer was kidnapped and murdered by the government. I think this farce has gone far enough, arguments in favor of the agreement are vapid and unsurprisingly lacking in factual substantiation, much like the editorial I am responding too. I know the editorial board of the WaPo is comprised of over-compensated lard bottoms who dont have a care for the oppression, persecution or murder of other human beings, but are we really going to let these human pigs lead us to betray the people they exploit? Are we really going to join them in impoverishing ourselves as well as the Columbian people? I wont. Id ask you to join me.

By dijetlo | May 6, 2007 11:28:46 AM | Request Removal

I just discovered WaPo wont let you post a hyper-link to demonstrates their morally bankrupt sophism. How unsurprising. Take a look at Human Rights Watch or Amnesty International to get the story. Dont bother with the WaPo and its editorial board, they are just too busy quivering over the opportunity the further exploit both the US workers, as well as their Columbian counter-parts, to bother with facts or reality. Republicans want to trade with murderers, but then again, who else with even talk to them? Birds of a feather, after all.

By dijetlo | May 6, 2007 11:35:06 AM | Request Removal

Despite being a conservative, Uribe is a member of the Liberal Party.

By nfjobim | May 6, 2007 11:45:57 AM | Request Removal

dijetlo, I have used your very informed comment in posts at cabdrollery and correntewire. This editorial support for the corrupt regime in Colombia is a new low for the WaPo editorial board.

By jocabel | May 6, 2007 12:20:16 PM | Request Removal

It is a shame to hear that the relations with a key ally to the US in the already Anti-US/Pro-Chavez region, might be damaged because of domestic politics issues and rivalry of parties in the US.

By mauricio.botero | May 6, 2007 12:53:35 PM | Request Removal

What happened to the $1 billon sized by the Colombian Govt as reported May 5 Post? Why cant this money be used to finance their drug traffickers instead of money from the U.S. taxpayers?

By dsfs50 | May 6, 2007 1:06:07 PM | Request Removal

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