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So, Chavez is a "dangerous lunatic"?

Well, now. That puts the considerably more dangerous lunatic, George Bush, into a category entirely his own. Canada's Steven Harper, President Obama, and the leaders of other countries such as Italy, Sudan, Libya, North Korea, China, Colombia, and a handful of African countries are pretty dangerously dictatorial nuts as well. Politics breeds them, you know.

Chavez' playground is more or less limited to Venezuela, whereas US "leaders" can wreak havoc around the world, spawning death, disease, destruction, poverty and misery with impunity. Some Venezuelans may not have been helped (yet) by the Chavez government, but being poor is better than being as dead as about 1.5 million Iraqis. Exactly what percentage of the poor has been helped in the US? About 40% of US children have no health care, and 50,000 people sleep out at night on New York City streets.

This article lacks perspective!