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2008-03-05 Caribbean-Latin America

Colombia to take Venezuelan president to int'l courts

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Posted by Fred 2008-03-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Uribe doesn't have to do anything to destabilize the government of Ooogo Chavez: Chavez is doing an excellent job of that himself. Frankly, I don't see much either Columbia or the United States can do against Chavez except cut off all diplomatic, economic, and cultural ties until the Venezuelan people decide to hang Chavez with piano wire.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-03-05 15:20|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2008-03-05 15:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Come now, OP - no need to be crude.

Rope will do nicely. ;-p

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-03-05 15:59|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-03-05 15:59|| Front Page Top

#3 Waiting for the locals doesn't work very well. What do we have Ceausescu? Then there's Noriega and Saddam who required outside work. And Fidel, Kim, el who hang on for misery sake. When you finally do talk one of these birds to step down with an immunity like Pinochet, some assholes still try to stick them, so everyone else realizes that they might as well go down fighting taking many others with them or depart in one's sleep. Hope is not a plan. Taking advantage of someone's stupidity - priceless.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-03-05 16:13|| 2008-03-05 16:13|| Front Page Top

#4 Couldn't agree more, the sheeple in ZimBoBwe have the highest threshold for bullshit I've ever seen in my life, and odds are they will re-elect bob by a landslide. Dont wait for the locals to get surly, make something cool happen.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-03-05 20:07|| 2008-03-05 20:07|| Front Page Top

#5 the sheeple in ZimBoBwe have the highest threshold for bullshit I've ever seen in my life

Never undervalue a good secret police and lots of ruthless, thuggish men with guns. In chaos theory, they call it an attractor basin. It can be a hard state to get out of. Saddam was a great example.

As for the lawsuit, I wasn't aware you could sue anyone besides Bushitler and other American government personnel in international courts.

Posted by SteveS 2008-03-05 21:26|| 2008-03-05 21:26|| Front Page Top

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