"Chavez: US is a terrorist state "--Al Jazeera

[TexasLawyer]

Chavez: US is a terrorist state

Sunday 13 February 2005, 2:29 Makka Time, 23:29 GMT

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has branded the United States a "terrorist state" while rejecting Washington's criticism of Caracas for its arms purchase from Russia. Chavez, a fierce critic of US President George Bush and the US-led war in Iraq, on Saturday brushed aside US opposition to the agreement to buy 100,000 automatic rifles and about 40 military helicopters from Moscow.

"One has to ask whether there was transparency in the invasion of Iraq. The world knows President Bush lied openly about Iraq having chemical weapons," Chavez said. "They keep on bombing cities, killing children, they have become a terrorist state," he said.

Tense ties

Venezuela, the world's fifth largest oil exporter, is a key crude supplier to the US. But relations soured after Chavez came to power in 1998, vowing to fight poverty with a self-proclaimed revolution.
US officials have accused Chavez of allowing Marxist rebels from neighbouring Colombia shelter in Venezuela and criticise his increasingly close relations with Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

Chavez, however, rejects the charges and has moved to strengthen Venezuela's political and economic ties beyond Washington with states such as China, Russia and Iran.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E903D3CD-F65A-45B8-91CE-9956EE5C0169.htm

[proudbluestater]

1. Hell hath no fury like a government spurned. Nice knowing you, Hugo

Duck and cover. Check under your car before you start it and avoid small planes.

It's one things to call the US names, quite another to spend money on arms with someone else! :)

[Toots]

2. Relations didn't sour after Chavez came to power

They soured after Bush* came to power.

"Venezuela, the world's fifth largest oil exporter, is a key crude supplier to the US. But relations soured after Chavez came to power in 1998, vowing to fight poverty with a self-proclaimed revolution."

I seem to recall Clinton (The USA) got along quite well with Chavez. It was only after Bush* (Fascism) came to power that it all went to hell. They makit sound like it is Chavez's fault instead of this Cabal we have in power. More propaganda.

[IndianaGreen]

3. The US is a terrorist state and a rogue nation

Viva Chavez! Death to American imperialism!