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2008-03-08 16:28:43

FARC chieftain Raul Reyes cheerily reported to his inner circle that he met “two gringos” who assured him “the new president of their country will be Obama and that they are interested in your compatriots.”

My vote for unnamed gringo is Oliver Stone, Hugo Chavez #1 fan and FARC cheerleader. He was in Colombia last Christmas to document Chavez’ heroic negotiation of a hostage release of political prisoners by FARC terrorists. When Chavez PR coup collapsed amid evidence of child abuse of one of the hostages by the FARC captors,

Mr. Stone went away spitting mad, not at his FARC heroes, who had been exposed as child abusers, but at Mr. Uribe and Mr. Bush. Of the FARC he said, “Grabbing hostages is the fashion in which they can finance themselves and try to achieve their goals, which are difficult. I think they are heroic to fight for what they believe in and die for it, as was Castro in the hills of Cuba.

What a guy — gringo extraordinaire.