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Article: Chavez urges U.S. to leave Iraq, says Venezuela would resist any U.S. invasion
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- October 19, 2005
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CHRISTINE OLLIVIER, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
10-19-2005
Dateline: PARIS
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez urged the United States to leave Iraq alone and warned that if U.S. troops were to invade Venezuela it would spark a "100-year war" in Latin America.
Chavez made the remarks late Wednesday in a speech to supporters after separate talks with French President Jacques Chirac.
"I take this opportunity, from the heart of France, to once again demand that the U.S. government take its hands off Iraq, and that it let that nation freely decide its own destiny," Chavez said to applause at the event, shown live on Venezuelan state television.
He compared the situation of Venezuela, a key ...