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Venezuela's Chavez says Bush to Blame for Iraq Deaths
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| Contributor | Gerald Farinas |
| Last Edited | Gerald Farinas Apr 15, 2004 01:29pm |
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| Media | News Service - Associated Press |
| News Date | Thursday, April 15, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Venezuela's Chavez says Bush to Blame for Iraq Deaths
The Honolulu Advertiser
President Bush is to blame for the death and violence that is going on in Iraq, said Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. During a speech to commemorate his return to power in the wake of short-lived 2002 coup, the leftist Chavez also accused the Bush administration of playing a key role in the failed attempt to oust him. "Whose is to blame for the violence that has been unleashed in Iraq in the last year? Is it Saddam Hussein? Is it those who they call Islamic fundamentalists? No, the blame for all those deaths has a name: George W. Bush," Chavez told a crowd of his supporters outside Miraflores Presidential Palace on Tuesday.
Army Cmdr. Raul Baduel and Defense Minister Gen. Jorge Garcia said this week the government has evidence that U.S. airplanes entered Venezuelan airspace and active-duty U.S. officers entered Fort Tiuna, the country's largest military base, during the 2002 coup. The embassy has said two U.S. military attaches went to Fort Tiuna during the coup only to get information about the situation. The United States is wary of Chavez's increasingly close ties to Cuban leader Fidel Castro, as well as Chavez's criticism of U.S.-led efforts to establish a free trade zone stretching from Alaska to Argentina. |
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