{"id":6613,"date":"2009-11-23T13:03:20","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T18:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=6613"},"modified":"2009-11-23T09:00:05","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T14:00:05","slug":"why-its-almost-like-hes-crazy-or-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=6613","title":{"rendered":"Why, It&#8217;s Almost Like He&#8217;s Crazy Or Something"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hugo Chavez <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/southamerica\/venezuela\/6630903\/Hugo-Chavez-doubts-brutality-of-Idi-Amin.html\">doesn&#8217;t think Idi Amin was all <em>that <\/em>bad:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We thought he was a cannibal,&#8221; the Venezuelan leader said, referring to Amin, whose regime was notorious for torturing and killing suspected opponents in the 1970s. &#8220;I have doubts. &#8230; I don&#8217;t know, maybe he was a great nationalist, a patriot.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Most despotic rulers are!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mary Karoro Okurut, spokeswoman for the ruling National Resistance Movement, said Amin was not worthy of such consideration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Anybody who says that Amin was good has something wrong with him,&#8221; she said on Sunday. &#8220;Amin was brutal. He killed many Ugandans and made many run into exile. There is something wrong with whoever praises Amin.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He praises Castro, Obama <em>and <\/em>Amin.\u00a0 Hm.<\/p>\n<p>This is becoming a situation so complex only President Obama can handle it.\u00a0 He&#8217;ll need to apologize to the people of Uganda for Chavez (because after all, he was trained by the US, during his Army career &#8211; just like Al Quaeda!), and then to the people of Venezuela for the patronizing act of apologizing for them and their ruler.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps if he threw in a nice deep bow to Chavez, it&#8217;d all go away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hugo Chavez doesn&#8217;t think Idi Amin was all that bad: &#8220;We thought he was a cannibal,&#8221; the Venezuelan leader said, referring to Amin, whose regime was notorious for torturing and killing suspected opponents in the 1970s. &#8220;I have doubts. &#8230; I don&#8217;t know, maybe he was a great nationalist, a patriot.&#8221; Most despotic rulers are! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6613"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6616,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6613\/revisions\/6616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}