[dennisw]

I never knew Hugo Chavez was so anti Semitic. This makes him more of a menace to USA because it cements his alliance with Amadinejad. Does this make any sense? And why Chavez's anti Semiticism can affect you?

[reformedliberal]

Amadinejad likely requires this sort of rhetoric and probably actual followup if there is to be an alliance between Venezuela and Iran.

This isn't just the usual jaw-jaw from the *unaligned*. There is a real, hot WWII or WWIV brewing and Iranian missiles stationed in Venezuela could each the USA.

It is also, of course, from the Muslim POV, a religious war and whatever Jews are left in Venezuela are in danger. Chavez needs an internal enemy as well as external enemies to keep his poor masses riled.

I wonder how the Catholic majority in Venezuela has reacted to the Pope's comments and the Muslim response? Is there a Muslim conversion attempt going on in Venezuela? Is that next?