“President Chavez’s recent remarks at the United Nation referring to President Bush as ‘the devil’ demonstrate how seriously deranged, misguided and dangerous the Venezuelan leader is. His comment that the United States is the ‘greatest threat looking over our planet, placing at risk the very survival of the human species’ is similarly ridiculous. “I am deeply troubled that representatives of countries attending the session at the UN greeted these misguided, irrational and outrageous remarks with applause. In addition, Chavez used the forum to plead for votes to elect Venezuela to the UN Security Council. Given his alliance with the greatest threat to security of the world today, Iran, electing Venezuela to the UN Security Council would be an insult to all peace-loving nations.”