Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld likened Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to Adolf Hitler, reflecting continuing tension in relations between the United States and the Latin American government.
Rumsfeld, asked during a National Press Club appearance Thursday about indications of a deteriorating general relationship between Washington and parts of Latin America, said he believes such a characterization "misses the mark."
"I mean, we’ve got Chavez in Venezuela with a lot of oil money," Rumsfeld added. "He’s a person who was elected legally — just as Adolf Hitler was elected legally — and then consolidated power and now is, of course, working closely with Fidel Castro and Mr. Morales and others."
If this doesn’t cause massive Surrender Monkey seething by mid-morning, then no golf this PM for me. I would say that it is strange and wrong for the Lefties to be so enthralled with Chavez, but, he fits their bill. A socialist and America hater. Unlike Canada, where the Liberals played the hate-America card and lost, Chavez’s power is turning him into a good little dictator, like Castro. And the libs love it!
PS: notice the picture of Rummy that the story uses. Think there is a little subliminal idea in it?
