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Fresh off his inauguration, Hugo Chavez will be getting a visitor from the east soon. His guest’s name: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who will be touring Latin America.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is to kick off a four-day tour Saturday to Ecuador, Nicaragua and Venezuela, whose leaders share his defiance towards the United States, media said.

“Ahmadinejad will start his visit with a trip to Venezuela to hold official talks with his counterpart President Hugo Chavez,” the Kayhan newspaper quoted a presidential statement as saying. Ahmadinejad visited Venezuela last September while Chavez has made numerous trips to the Islamic republic.

After his one day visit to Caracas, Ahmadinejad is scheduled to head to Managua to hold talks with the Nicaraguan president elect and former US foe Daniel Ortega.

Remember Democrats saying that bin Laden would never have relations with secularist Saddam? Unless we find out that Chavez is a militant Muslim, I’d say that this trip is further proof that radical Islamic leaders will accept help from anyone. This is further proof that they couldn’t care less who their partners in terror are.

Ahmadinejad’s trip also highlights another John Kerry/Democrat foreign policy failure. History tells us that Democrats fought President Reagan over funding the rebels’ fight against the Ortega’s Sandinistas. If they hadn’t stopped funding the rebels, we wouldn’t now have a President Ortega.

I’d further note the error in the AP’s reporting when they say that Ortega is a “former US foe.” I’d bet that he’s still a US foe.

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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 10th, 2007 at 8:13 am and is filed under Author: Gary Gross, Corruption, Foreign Policy, Iran, Subversives, Terrorism. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.