Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez appeared in front of a crowd of supporters Saturday and once again attacked President Bush, saying that "the imperialist, genocidal, fascist attitude of the U.S. president has no limits. I think Hitler would be like a suckling baby next to George W. Bush."
Chavez, addressing the crowd from a stage adorned with a large red image of himself as a young soldier, vowed to expand on his massive armament purchases from Russia as a means to protect his regime from the paranoid fear of US-backed overthrow that has taken hold of him in recent years. He also threatened to completely cut off the sale of oil to the US if America cuts ties with Venezuela, to which the State Department replied that they have no such desire, instead dismissing Chavez's increasingly inflammatory rhetoric as being "aimed at stirring up nationalist sentiment among his poor supporters."
Hugo Chavez has been in the news in a negative way a great deal of late, from hosting Cindy Sheehan (whom he is supporting in her bid for Dianne Feinstein's Senate seat, and who called President Bush "ten times the terrorist that Osama bin Laden is") to appearing with singer, radical communist, and AARP "Man of the Year" Harry Belafonte on a January 8th installment of Chavez's weekly radio address. In this appearance, Belafonte said "no matter what the greatest tyrant in the world, the greatest terrorist in the world, George W. Bush says, we’re here to tell you: Not hundreds, not thousands, but millions of the American people ... support your revolution." He also accused the media of falsely painting the radical Venezuelan dictator as a "dictator," saying that the level of "openness and democracy" in Venezuela far outstrips that of the US.
The January delegation to Venezuela included radical communists and fascist-apologists such as actor Danny Glover and the Princeton University's Cornel West, whose sympathy for iron-fisted Cuban dictator Fidel Castro is well-documented. One can only wonder why, with these two socialist utopias so close and accessible to them, these wise Americans do not choose to leave this bastion of oppression and move to one of them permanently.
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