Venezuela's Chavez dumps on George

hugo chavez, president of venezuela and pat robertson assassination target, had some harsh words for the u.s. and george in particular yesterday at the u.n...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez took President Bush to task in front of a global summit for waging war in Iraq without U.N. consent and won rousing applause for his critique.

The leftist leader told a U.N. summit on Thursday that fighting the war without U.N. authorization showed Washington did not respect the world body. He recommended moving U.N. headquarters to a country that has more regard for the organization.

(please note the "leftist leader" editorializing... but we're used to that, aren't we...?)

Bush was not in the audience when Chavez spoke to the world representatives. But the U.S. president did address the summit's the opening session on Wednesday morning, then returned to Washington later that day.

World leaders at the summit had been asked to speak for five minutes but Chavez ran long and when the presiding diplomat passed him a note saying his time was up, he threw it on the floor. He said if Bush could speak for 20 minutes, so could he.

When he finally stopped, he got what observers said was the loudest applause of the summit.

Relations between Chavez and Washington have become increasingly strained, though the United States remains the top buyer of Venezuelan oil.

what a shame george couldn't make it... maybe he can catch the video...

don't think for one second that bushco doesn't have a plan up its sleeve for dealing with venezuela... and iran... and syria... and north korea... and you can bet none of it involves diplomacy...

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