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2006-01-14 Caribbean-Latin America
Spain to defy US on sale to Chávez
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Posted by lotp 2006-01-14 07:33|| || Front Page|| [11130 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 ...and eight patrol boats

I am so there...
Posted by John Kerry 2006-01-14 07:43||   2006-01-14 07:43|| Front Page Top

#2 I see nothing wrong with selling Chavez 2 billion worth of easy targets.
Posted by Redneck Jim 2006-01-14 08:17||   2006-01-14 08:17|| Front Page Top

#3 Another reason to say AMF to NATO and construct an alliance of bilateral agreements.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-01-14 08:56||   2006-01-14 08:56|| Front Page Top

#4 Washington’s refusal to grant re-export licences was a "technical decision” that would not affect relations between Spain’s Socialist government and the administration of President George W. Bush.

lol! That's a true statement. Can't get any worse.
Posted by 2b 2006-01-14 11:45||   2006-01-14 11:45|| Front Page Top

#5 Chavez only knows three big words and "Imperialist" is one of them.
Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-01-14 12:04||   2006-01-14 12:04|| Front Page Top

#6 Mr Chávez slammed the US decision as "imperialist" on Friday and insisted that the aircraft were transport aircraft. "What is this if not evidence of the imperialist horror that the Washington government wants to impose on the world, they don’t have respect for anything or anybody," he told the country’s legislature.


Hugo baby, "...what is this if not evidence of the imperialist horror that the Washington government wants to impose on the world?" Come on now, this is chump change when compared to what we could do to you ... and pssst ... no one would notice until it was too late.
Posted by The Angry Fliegerabwehrkanonen 2006-01-14 12:27|| http://www.calderonswirbelwind.blogspot.com]">[http://www.calderonswirbelwind.blogspot.com]  2006-01-14 12:27|| Front Page Top

#7 Mucho ado about zilocho. Vz is a 2nd rate power on a 3rd rate continent.
Posted by 6 2006-01-14 13:45||   2006-01-14 13:45|| Front Page Top

#8 Many of Chavez's problems can be blamed on poorly designed and maintained infrastructure.
Posted by 6 2006-01-14 14:02||   2006-01-14 14:02|| Front Page Top

#9 "abutment to abutment with no early exits" is my motto
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-01-14 14:03||   2006-01-14 14:03|| Front Page Top

#10 Mucho ado about zilocho. Vz is a 2nd rate power on a 3rd rate continent.

Not quite true. Some of the equipment was sold to Spain as a NATO deal and while it isn't our latest stuff, it significantly upgrades what the bastard has right now.

Not to mention that it will be in the hands of the Chicoms in days, now that they are "advising" Venezuelan "factories".

Hence the refusal of re-export license. If, however, EADS gives them replacement capability, it will be pretty damn close to a hostile act on their part towards us, given Huggy's behavior of late.
Posted by lotp 2006-01-14 14:48||   2006-01-14 14:48|| Front Page Top

#11 The Spanish foreign ministry said on Friday Washington’s refusal to grant re-export licences was a "technical decision” that would not affect relations between Spain’s Socialist government and the administration of President George W. Bush.

I don't think I'd try to bank that, senor.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-01-14 15:08||   2006-01-14 15:08|| Front Page Top

#12 Maybe you're right lotp, but do check out the viaduct picture, it's collapse was forecast 9 years ago. Gettin ready to restart emergency repairs now.
Posted by 6 2006-01-14 15:35||   2006-01-14 15:35|| Front Page Top

#13 Er meaning that even our new fail-safe, ultra-high tech Anvil would be safe with Hugo.
Posted by 6 2006-01-14 15:36||   2006-01-14 15:36|| Front Page Top

#14 Maybe, but it's his new Chinese friends that concern me the most.
Posted by lotp 2006-01-14 15:49||   2006-01-14 15:49|| Front Page Top

#15 LOPT, do you ever get up to Maine?
Posted by Phil 2006-01-14 17:20||   2006-01-14 17:20|| Front Page Top

#16 (and yes, there's a point to that question)
Posted by Phil 2006-01-14 17:22||   2006-01-14 17:22|| Front Page Top

#17 (hell, I just tried to ask the next question, and got sent to roadside america. I was trying to ask if the Penobscot Indians have... an institution for redistributing money based on fake pseudorandom algorithms, which apparently set off some sort of alarm).
Posted by Phil 2006-01-14 17:24||   2006-01-14 17:24|| Front Page Top

#18 fake pseudorandom algorithms
Firebells in the night man.
Posted by 6 2006-01-14 18:11||   2006-01-14 18:11|| Front Page Top

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