Monday, January 30, 2006

Cindy Sheehan: Traitor

"President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela joined Cindy Sheehan, the American antiwar activist, on Sunday to attack President Bush and promised to support her protest against the Iraq war.
Mr. Chávez has become a voice for many opponents of the Bush administration's policies who are drawn to his self-styled socialist revolution and his close alliance with the Cuban leader,
Fidel Castro.
"Enough of imperialist aggression; we must tell the world: down with the U.S. empire," Mr. Chávez said as he hugged Ms. Sheehan, whose son died in the Iraq war, and the widow of the Puerto Rican independence advocate Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, who was killed in a gunfight with the police last year.
"We have to bury imperialism this century," Mr. Chávez told her on his Sunday television broadcast. "Cindy, we are with you in your fight."
Ms. Sheehan was the latest American activist to appear on Mr. Chávez's Sunday program, where he discusses topics ranging from baseball and his life in the army to Venezuelan history and oil prices. Ms. Sheehan said she agreed with Harry Belafonte, the singer and activist, who recently called Mr. Bush "the greatest terrorist in the world" on Mr. Chávez's show.
"The war in Iraq will end, our troops will come home, Bush will be impeached and he will be brought to justice," said Ms. Sheehan, who held a vigil outside Mr. Bush's Texas ranch after her son was killed."