Iranian, Venezuelan Leaders Rebuff U.S., Joke About Bomb

[Purveyor]

By Andrew Cawthorne and Brian Ellsworth

CARACAS | Mon Jan 9, 2012 6:56pm EST

(Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Venezuela's Hugo Chavez lavished each other with praise on Monday, mocked U.S. disapproval and joked about having an atomic bomb at their disposal.

"Despite those arrogant people who do not wish us to be together, we will unite forever," the Iranian president told Venezuela's socialist leader Chavez at the start of a visit to four left-leaning Latin American nations.

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Ahmadinejad was in Venezuela at the start of a tour intended to shore up support as expanded Western economic sanctions kick in over the Islamic Republic's nuclear program.

"The imperialist madness has been unleashed in a way that has not been seen for a long time," Chavez said in a ceremony to welcome Ahmadinejad at his presidential palace in Caracas.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/09/us-venezuela-iran-idUSTRE80826J20120109

[orpupilofnature57]

1. " Imperialist Madness " I wonder what they could mean by that?

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[Lionessa]

2. I sure hope you're being sarcastic. Right?

Otherwise, how could you be so uninformed as to not recognize the imperialistic methods and control we try to exert and generally succeed at? We (the 1% who control the American "we&quot assist corporations both here and abroad rape the workforce, pillage resources, and leave behind wastelands of poverty and despair. That sounds pretty darned imperialistic to me. Add to that the entirely askew amounts of money and energy used by USA for military, penal, and police forces...well, it's not the USA the founders imagined, I imagine.

[orpupilofnature57]

3. I couldn't have said it better !

yes I'm a wise ass.Thomas Jefferson warned us about this in 1814.