In his speech, Chavez also sought to defend other leaders he said are wrongly labeled bad guys internationally, including Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe and Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Chavez called both of them brothers and said he now wonders whether Ugandan dictator Idi Amin was truly as brutal as he was reputed to be.
"We thought he was a cannibal," Chavez said, referring to Amin, whose regime was notorious for torturing and killing suspected opponents in the 1970s. "I have doubts. ... I don't know, maybe he was a great nationalist, a patriot."
Or hey, maybe he was an autocratic thug who ate people, just like Carlos the Jackal was a sociopath who blew up trains. Whatever.
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When I first saw this article, I half expected it to continue to read "he also suggested that history has forgotten how effectove Hitler was in cleaning up Nuremburg's terrible crime problems and he got the Polish trains to run on time too."
If ever there was doubt that Chavez was off the deep end, he's doing a good job of extinguishing that uncertainty.
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