more here on how the venezuelan crackhead nutcase got the shortest end of the stick in last week’s awesome hostage-rescue by the colombian army:

The biggest loser of last week’s Hollywood-styled Colombian army rescue of 15 hostages in the hands of the FARC guerrillas, in addition to the rebels themselves, was Venezuela’s narcissist-Leninist President Hugo Chávez.

Judging from Chávez’s own public statements and the contents of thousands of e-mails found in FARC laptop computers seized March 1 when Colombia’s military raided a guerrilla camp inside Ecuador, Chávez was hoping to use the hostage crisis to become the ultimate power broker in the Colombian armed conflict and become South America’s most powerful political leader.

… But a series of events undermined the Chávez-FARC plan. The Colombian raid into the FARC camp in Ecuador, which resulted in Reyes’ death, the subsequent death of the FARC’s top leader Manuel ”Sure Shot” Marulanda, and last week’s Colombian army release of the best known FARC hostages — former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and three U.S. military contractors — crippled the Chávez-FARC strategy.

that’s… just… YUMMY!

in related news: my new friend roland over at “but, i am a liberal!” takes on the loony left (aka: the activist wing of the democratic party, as seen at huffpo and DU) over their pathetic attempts to prove that the whole rescue operation was some kind of propaganda operation staged to benefit mccain:

You are right comrade: since McCain is part of the evil “Zionist” conspiracy, there is no moment in time where he isn’t involved in fooling the populace in the hope that he can create endless war and eat succulent babies.

Welcome to the activist wing of the Democratic Party!

read the whole thing!