Chavez says Bush should resign like Rumsfeld

CARACAS, Venezuela, Nov 8 (Reuters) Anti-American Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez greeted the resignation of US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld today with a suggestion that President George W Bush should follow him.

''Heads have started to roll. The president should resign on moral grounds,'' he told a news conference after an aide passed him a note with word of the resignation. ''Rumsfeld should go to jail.'' Chavez has a running feud with Bush, whom he calls the devil. He said the Democrats' victory in mid-term elections yesterday was a vote against Bush's Iraq war policy, which he hoped meant the United States would rein in its ''imperialism.'' Senior US officials say the leftist Venezuelan president is a threat to regional stability.

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