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Friday, May 05, 2006

Kissing ass in Kazakhstan: selling your soul for oil


Vice President Dick Cheney traveled to Kazakhstan on Friday for talks with President Nursultan Nazarbayev, seeking to maximize access to the vast oil and gas reserves in the central Asian nation with a troubled human-rights record.

condi gladhands with equatorial guinea, a nasty dictatorship with big oil reserves, deadeye dick gladhands with kazakhstan, a repressive regime with big oil reserves... but, hey, it's a presidential administration bought and paid for with oil money... would we expect anything less...?
Energy aside, one senior administration official said the vice president would prod Nazarbayev to make further democratic reforms in the country he has ruled since the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991.

"The government's human-rights record remains poor," according to a recent State Department report.

It was unclear how Cheney would attempt to balance the two concerns — American energy needs in a time of high prices alongside a desire for political reforms. His talks came one day after a speech to East European leaders in Lithuania that sharply criticized Russia for backsliding on democracy.

excuse me, dick... i apologize for disturbing your fox news program with an obviously impertinent question, but do you have any idea just how hypocritical you are making my country look to the rest of the world...? any FRIGGIN' IDEA...???

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