Hugo Chavez doesn’t think Idi Amin was all that bad:

“We thought he was a cannibal,” the Venezuelan leader said, referring to Amin, whose regime was notorious for torturing and killing suspected opponents in the 1970s. “I have doubts. … I don’t know, maybe he was a great nationalist, a patriot.”

Most despotic rulers are!

Mary Karoro Okurut, spokeswoman for the ruling National Resistance Movement, said Amin was not worthy of such consideration.

“Anybody who says that Amin was good has something wrong with him,” she said on Sunday. “Amin was brutal. He killed many Ugandans and made many run into exile. There is something wrong with whoever praises Amin.”

He praises Castro, Obama and Amin.  Hm.

This is becoming a situation so complex only President Obama can handle it.  He’ll need to apologize to the people of Uganda for Chavez (because after all, he was trained by the US, during his Army career – just like Al Quaeda!), and then to the people of Venezuela for the patronizing act of apologizing for them and their ruler.

Perhaps if he threw in a nice deep bow to Chavez, it’d all go away.