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2004-03-08 Caribbean-Latin America
Venezuela Leader Vows War if U.S. Invades
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Posted by Steve White 2004-03-08 00:18|| || Front Page|| [11136 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!
Posted by tu3031 2004-3-8 12:23:33 AM||   2004-3-8 12:23:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Steve, he figured it out... trust me if we invade this bozo is gonna be the first to disappear... he'll fight his 100 year war all the way from cuba ;) All he's trying to do is stoke the flames of nationalism in the hopes it will unite his people against america and allow him to ride the wave. Point is we're not going to because we won't need to because his own people want this chump outta there.
Posted by Damn_Proud_American  2004-3-8 12:37:20 AM|| [http://brighterfuture.blogspot.com]  2004-3-8 12:37:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 
Nice opposition! Chicks don't dig Hugo.
Posted by tu3031 2004-3-8 1:12:33 AM||   2004-3-8 1:12:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Same old story. A Marxist uses the democratic process to win office on the strength of the demagogued PEASANT vote. Marxist then works to dismantle the democratic process creating a Marxoid dictatorship. The educated and once prosperous segments of the indigenous population -- in this case both the blue collar and white collar workers -- rise up and with the help of the military work to kick the bastard out of office. America is blamed.
Posted by Garrison  2004-3-8 2:23:15 AM||   2004-3-8 2:23:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Chavez may be right (about the oil). Based upon their incompetant management production trends, we'll need to find a replacement fairly soon.
Posted by Craig Hagan  2004-3-8 3:14:06 AM||   2004-3-8 3:14:06 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 ..I'm warning you, Hugo - remember that Falklands thing. The Ghost of Galtieri comes hither...

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2004-3-8 8:12:21 AM||   2004-3-8 8:12:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Right now Hugo can make rude noises because the US Army is like a "blown" race horse. Give it six months or so and that might be a different question.

It's not like I'm hankering for another front, but even a Kerry administration is not going to take too much guff when oil is at stake.
Posted by Hiryu 2004-3-8 9:42:37 AM||   2004-3-8 9:42:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Leaders like this make the most 'noise' when they're the most frightened. Justa few weeks ago Hugo's buddy Castro was saying the exact same thing.
Posted by Yosemite Sam 2004-3-8 10:37:30 AM||   2004-3-8 10:37:30 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Chicks don't dig Hugo.

That rump looks, well, nice.
Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-3-8 10:37:45 AM||   2004-3-8 10:37:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 little must be feeling the heat....needs his boogey man - but messing with oil will only bring his demise....
Posted by Dan 2004-3-8 10:37:50 AM||   2004-3-8 10:37:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 Don't push your luck, Hugo. We took away Panama, we can take more - and nobody would care.
Posted by mojo  2004-3-8 11:56:06 AM||   2004-3-8 11:56:06 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 The Arab oil embargo of the 70s proved you can't just shut off oil to a specific country. Oil is a commodity, its fungable. The Europeans will buy Venezuelan oil and sell it to the US. So oil prices tick up a bit, but its hardly a serious threat.

And if Venezuela tries to cut off all oil exports it just criples their own economy and will turn everyone against this pin-head.
Posted by ruprecht 2004-3-8 12:59:33 PM||   2004-3-8 12:59:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Hyryu

No problem about the US Army. Send the Marines.
Posted by JFM  2004-3-8 5:49:41 PM||   2004-3-8 5:49:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 This guy just keeps on giving. I'd say he gets more laughs per chin thrust than ANY socialist paranoid in the world (and that's saying something)!

But why should we send marines (God bless ‘em, and wouldn’tcha just love to see ‘em do it, but…) to do the markets' work? Let's see:

Venezuela stops selling oil to the USA.
USA needs oil.
Venezuela needs to sell oil.
Venezuela low-sells on the open market.
Country C, stops buying oil from Country D, buys oil from Venezuela.
Country D needs to sell oil.
USA needs to buy oil. Country D oil on the market, possibly at a lower price than original Venezuelan oil.

Chavez can take his oil and shove it right up his ass.
Posted by Hyper 2004-3-8 10:54:25 PM||   2004-3-8 10:54:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Hugo has lost it. I read a blog called Venezuela News and Views from time to time. Evidently, Hugo collected all the ambassadors during the demonstration so that they couldn't see the popularity of the opposition. He then flew his media around with helicopters to take pictures of the slight crowds milling about.... an hour before the demonstration was to begin. Another Venezuelan writer Gustavo Cornel has pointed out that it is common practice in elections in that country to provide a poll worker to assist filling out the ballot for the voter, in part because literacy is not universal in that country. Finally, one voter that the election commision cited as an example of a fraudulent signature has turned up, is an actual farmer and is expressing his disgust publically with being told that he doesn't exist. Also the rolls that were handed back were incomplete - the election commission is hemming and hawing about where they might have misplaced the other sheets.
Posted by Super Hose  2004-3-9 12:12:19 AM||   2004-3-9 12:12:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#16 You should watch "Chavez Inside the Coup" but i think its been banned in the great u s of a.
Posted by Anonymous4616 2004-04-27 11:43:42 AM||   2004-04-27 11:43:42 AM|| Front Page Top

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