Colombia Doesn't Want to Attack Venezuela

They want to attack the FARCians hiding out in Colombia. See, there's a difference!

Colombia rejected on Saturday accusations by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez that Bogota was planning an attack on neighboring Venezuela, saying the socialist leader was deceiving his people with such charges.

Chavez said on Friday he had deployed troops to the border to repel a possible assault after Colombia claimed last week that his country was harboring Colombian rebels in camps in Venezuela.

"Colombia has never thought of attacking its brother nation (Venezuela) as the president of that country says, in a clear political deception of his own country," Colombian President Alvaro Uribe's office said in a statement.

"Colombia has gone to the channels of international law and will continue insisting on those mechanisms so there is an instrument to make the Venezuelan government comply with its obligations not to harbor Colombian terrorists."

Just remember that one man's terrorist is Chavez's "freedom fighter" - because, y'know, the people in Venezuela are just bursting at the seams with freedoms like a free press, free public association, free assembly, and free speech.

By: Brant