Chavez says attacks on Bush not personal

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Venezuela - Hugo Chavez has called President Bush a devil, a donkey and a drunkard. But on Wednesday the Venezuelan leader said his comments were "nothing personal."

Chavez, who had stepped up his verbal assault during Bush's Latin American tour this week, suggested that the two adversaries might eventually overcome their differences and even play a game of dominos or baseball together.

"One day, if maybe George Bush and I survive all of this, we will reach old age, and it would be good to play a game of dominos, street baseball," Chavez said on his weekday radio program.

But he said his comments about the American leader were "nothing personal" and that his opposition to Bush was due to "deep ethical, political, historic and geopolitical" reasons.

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Chavez said Bush was part of a long line of elitist U.S. administrations that have become accustomed to abusing the rest of the world, acting unilaterally and violating human rights.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070315/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/venezuela_bush

[LoZoccolo]

1. First a dictator, Chavez is now a Bush* defender.

Unbelievable - two strikes against him.

[Lisa]

2. at this rate, Chavez will be the only world leader willing to hang out with him

All the others (even former allies like Blair) will be keeping their distance, I'm sure.