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2006-04-20 Caribbean-Latin America

Chavez sez US warships threaten Cuba, Venezuela

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Posted by Dan Darling 2006-04-20 01:55|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 A freeking legend in his own mind old Hugo is. It's just his usual frothing.

Hey Hugo, your coast is on our Lake so "bite me." At least your hero Castro has a grasp of that fact of life.

Posted by SPoD 2006-04-20 02:09|| http://sockpuppetofdoom.blogspot.com/]">[http://sockpuppetofdoom.blogspot.com/] 2006-04-20 02:09|| Front Page Top

#2 I wish.

Posted by Omumble Threack1633 2006-04-20 05:35|| 2006-04-20 05:35|| Front Page Top

#3 very emotional, these latinos... the make great poets

Posted by bk 2006-04-20 10:17|| 2006-04-20 10:17|| Front Page Top

#4 theY make great poets

Posted by bk 2006-04-20 10:17|| 2006-04-20 10:17|| Front Page Top

#5 At least one warship has come as close to Venezuela as the Dutch island of Aruba, about 15 miles (24 km) off its coast.

Wait till they dock in Trinidad.

It is just 9 miles from Venezuela. When they sail into Port of Spain harbor, the battle group will be a few miles from Venezuelan waters, within sight of the coast.

Hugo can stand on the shore with a pair of binoculars and take a real good look at the F-18s on the flight deck.

Posted by john 2006-04-20 11:00|| 2006-04-20 11:00|| Front Page Top

#6 Look up the latin phrase "mare nostrum", bitch.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2006-04-20 11:33|| 2006-04-20 11:33|| Front Page Top

#7 What will it be in the tub tonight Hugo, battleships or ducks?

Posted by Besoeker 2006-04-20 13:16|| 2006-04-20 13:16|| Front Page Top

#8 So now, when nothing happens, Hugo can screech about how he scared the big, bad gringos away.
I'd run the air wing in for a flyby over Caracas. Just to show him how easy it would really be if we wanted it to happen...

Posted by tu3031 2006-04-20 13:21|| 2006-04-20 13:21|| Front Page Top

#9 I really like tu3031. I really do.

Posted by banned from rantburg 2006-04-20 13:30|| 2006-04-20 13:30|| Front Page Top

#10 If only this were true. We used to have the balls to actually threaten little 3rd world saber-rattlers like this guy.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-04-20 14:17|| 2006-04-20 14:17|| Front Page Top

#11 The mind games he is playing with his people will lead to horror. Either his making, or well, all his, when they awake.

Posted by Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-04-20 21:06|| 2006-04-20 21:06|| Front Page Top

#12 A little trivia bit I was told by a swab who had been aboard the Enterprise, was that no matter where in the world they went, some dumbass would always shoot at them. Granted, they might be 20 miles offshore and they would be lobbing mortar rounds at them, but it's the principle of the thing.

If there was any tangible threat, however, he noted that our ship Captains tend to be a testy lot, and not ones to turn the other cheek.

This would sometimes result in things like an idiot with a hunting rifle experiencing the awe and mystery of having a large tree near him suddenly disintigrate under .50 cal fire, which teaches a valuable lesson, as it were.

We can only hope that Hugo will decide to show us how macho he really is. Maybe if we start broadcasting loud messages from ship implying that he is a "girly man".

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-04-20 22:46|| 2006-04-20 22:46|| Front Page Top

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