Chavez: Bush Worse than Hitler
Already strained relations between the US and Venezuela have deteriorated further with Hugo Chavez saying George Bush is worse than Hitler. Chavez told thousands of supporters on Saturday that he thought "Hitler would be like a suckling baby next to George Bush".He was responding to comments made on Thursday by Donald Rumsfeld, the US Defence Secretary, comparing Chavez to the Nazi leader.Chavez was speaking at a rally in Caracas to commemorate a failed 1992 coup that he led as a lieutenant-colonel. He said: "The imperialist, genocidal, fascist attitude of the US president has no limits."He said that Washington was considering invading Venezuela and that the country therefore needed more weapons to defend itself."We still need a higher number of rifles," he said. "The Russian rifles are not enough. Venezuela needs to have one million well-equipped and well-armed men and women. Chavez was referring to Venezuela's purchase of military equipment, including 100,000 Russian-made machine guns.Full Story
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