Posted on 04/02/2009 8:19:12 PM PDT by Liam2007
Obama sez: "Thank's Comrade".....
Doha, 2 April -Venezuela's leftwing president Hugo Chavez has said his country is prepared to receive suspected terrorists held in the controversial United States military prison at Guantanamo Bay Cuba, which US president Barack Obama has ordered to close.
"We would have no problems in taking human beings,”Chavez told Arabic satellite TV channel Al-Jazeera on Wednesday at a summit of South American and Arab countries in Qatar's capital, Doha.
Chavez however, added that so far, his country has not been asked to assist in efforts to close the detention centre at Guantanamo - one of Obama's first executive orders as president.
The Venezuelan leader also expressed the hope that Obama “makes himself into the empire’s last president,” but said: "I don't have much hope."
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