Chavez vows to blow up oil fields if U.S. attacks

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Wednesday threatened his country would blow up its own oil fields if the United States were to attack.

Chavez, speaking to other South American leaders at a meeting on plans for a regional gas pipeline, said the "true root" of Venezuela's conflict with the United States is oil and gas.

If U.S. troops attack, Chavez said, "We'll do like the Iraqis. We won't have any other alternative - blow up our own oil fields, but they aren't going to take that oil." (AP)