by Gouda » Tue Oct 03, 2006 6:06 am
He's a smart cookie. I'd also bet that master assassination dodger Castro had just a little input into this counter-psyop strategy. The brilliant thing is that even if Chavez does not have a white house informer, you know the Bush administration / CIA / DIA etc do have this on the plate and that Bush does want it. They are left guessing: if there is someone that knows, could we pull it off without getting exposed? It would be hard to call Chavez' bluff these days, with Bush/Cheney purges creating so many enemies, leakers, leaks, etc. Chavez knows Cheney's entourage includes an ambulance. <br><br>Brilliant because, one, it generates just that much more paranoia in the white house and wider government, which greatly increases the chances of optimal fuckup, Nixon style or otherwise. Two, broadcasting it like that is a pre-emptive measure, alerting his allies to have their parapolitical tools at the ready, making it more difficult to carry out an assasination and more difficult to manage the diplomatic/PR damage if an assasination or coup did take place. He is raising awareness, building on the outing of the CIA in the 2002 attempted coup. Getting people to study US imperial history. <p></p><i></i>