Chavez Condemns London Attacks, Criticizes US Policies on Terrorism

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http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBOE08NZAE.html

Venezuela's Chavez Condemns London Attacks, Criticizes US Policies on Terrorism

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Sunday condemned the bombings in London while criticizing Washington's anti-terror policies.

Speaking during his weekly television and radio program, Chavez said "we firmly reject" the attacks Thursday that killed 49 people and injured 700. "Nothing can justify the abdominal acts," he said.

Chavez said world leaders must concentrate on eliminating the causes of terrorism rather than responding "with more terror, which is what the United States has done."

The U.S. government "puts more fuel on the fire" by invading countries such as Iraq and Afghanistan, said Chavez, one of Latin America's most outspoken critics of U.S. foreign policy. snip

"There is no 'good' terrorism and 'bad' terrorism, it's all bad," said Chavez, who accused the Bush administration of protecting Luis Posada Carriles, a Cuban militant wanted by Venezuela for his alleged role in the 1976 bombing of a Cuban jetliner that killed 73 people.

[justinsb]

1. Tell em Hugo!

[pinerow]

2. dang...just the kind of president we need...

nt

[lebkuchen]

10. no kidding

It's been a long time since sanity reigned in the US.

[Cha]

3. Thank you Chavez!

Estactic a world leader is speaking out against the atrocious policies of the bushites.

Watch your Back, Chavez!

Viva Chavez!

[indepat]

4. Chavez hasn't learned that terrorist acts are committed only by bad

guys against the good guys who wear the white hats, that any even wholesale destruction the good guys happen to wreak is not terrorist in nature. It's enough to make one wonder if Chavez might be in for a little attitude-adjustment.

[Mythsaje]

5. I'm sure

attitude-adjustment squads are being briefed even as we speak.

[stellanoir]

6. "Nothing can justify the abdominal acts,"

Abdominal acts" get 'em everytime. Too funny.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

9. I wonder what constitutes an abdominal act?

[stellanoir]

11. stomachs behaving badly

I guess.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

7. "abdominal" acts?

This is from AP?

[QC]

8. Chili always gives me abdominal acts.

I find it best to eat it when I'm alone.

[Zorra]

12. responding "with more terror, which is what the United States has done."

Terror is the hallmark of fascist governments like the Bu*h administration and our republican/corporate Dem Congress.

[Vladimir]

13. Yes indeed! n/t