By The Company They Keep

"The fundamental blame falls again on the U.S. empire. It's the empire that armed and supported the abuses of the Israeli elite, which has invaded, abused and defied the United Nations for a long time. I'll seize this opportunity to condemn categorically and fully the aggression that the Israeli elite is carrying out against innocents over there in the Middle East."

Who said this? Hezbollah leader Nazrallah? Nancy Pelosi? John Murtha? Pat Buchanan and the ``take our ball and go home`` crowd? Saddam Hussein? Ahmadinejad?

Nope, it was Venezuelan communist Hugh Chavez.

Strange, it`s hard to tell who`s who these days.

(From the Federalist)