Lumping Iran and Venezuela Together

Why do I smell a collection of rats in this AP article about the ties Venezuelan honcho Hugo Chavez has to Iran? I mean, the Bushies would love to eliminate both democratically elected leaders and "liberate" their people as well.

Again, I am NO proponent of Chavez and certainly not of the leader in Iran. But the more the Bushies, who no one should trust to say the sky is blue, tell us how evil they are, the more I wonder.