"Citgo" Chavez Speaks Out

In an illustration of Mark Twain's aphorism, "If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?", Hugo Chavez claimed today that it is President Bush, not Saddam Hussein, who should face execution as a "genocidal dictator."

Shhh Hugo, your tin horns are showing. The fact that most intelligent people laugh at this buffoonery and grandstanding is reassuring. But Chavez's absent-mindedness concerning his ideological predecessors' predilection for systematic ethnic cleansing is, sadly, all too predictable.