But other world leaders, like Chavez and Iran's President President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, used the U.N. podium to challenge America's influence in the world.

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And Hugo Chavez didn't help himself by standing at the podium at the U.N. in September and calling his nemesis, President Bush, the devil.

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And why didn't the presidents and the prime ministers use the podium of the U.N. to declare before the world that the outlaw nation that threatens the entire world's stability needed to be brought to heel?

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