State of the Union Follow Up

It would seem Mr Bush's words are already having an impact across the world. In response to Bush's "Freedom Corps" - basically volunteers who pledge their assistance to the USA in times of crisis (because normally in a time of crisis, everyone juts sits around hugging their guns - cough, New Orleans) - the Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, has announced that Venezuela needs more guns (the 100,000 Kalashnikov assault rifles already on order from Russia are, it would seem, not enough) to defend itself from invasion. Freedom Corp? Try "one million well-equipped and well-armed men and women" ready to "defend our fatherland" against the man Hugo Chavez described thus - "I think Hitler would be like a suckling baby next to George W Bush". This - and the 12 military planes Spain recently said it would still sell to the country, despite American protests - can only make getting at Chavez's much-valued oil that little bit harder.

One more reasons for the US to try and find an alternative. Nice move for the safety of the planet, President Chavez