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Venezuela's Chavez Says U.S. Plans His Assassination : This time by making it look like suicide! |
2005-03-03 |
Venezuela's Chavez Says U.S. Plans His Assassination (Update1).![]() This asshole has something up his sleeve. The look at me, look at me cry goes beyond just trying to divert the citizenry's attention from internal problems. The cry is too loud!!! ``They're preparing the ground for a suicide, which won't work with me,'' Chavez said during a news conference today in Uruguay on Venezuela's state television station. ``If I'm killed, the U.S. can forget about getting even one drop of oil.'' Venezuela, the world's fifth-largest oil exporter, is among the four biggest suppliers to the U.S., providing 15 percent of its petroleum. Chavez's remarks, made in Uruguay's capital Montevideo where he attended the inauguration of President Tabare Vazquez yesterday, come as Venezuela seeks to lessen its dependence on the U.S. oil markets. Chavez has signed oil deals with China, Paraguay and Uruguay since last year, and will travel to India later this week to peddle the country's oil. Chavez, who says he is a friend of Cuban President Fidel Castro, first described himself as a ``socialist'' in a speech on Feb. 25. He began accusing the U.S. of planning his death in January after U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the former army lieutenant colonel was a ``negative force'' in Latin America and called some of his government's actions ``very deeply troubling.'' Chavez today said the U.S. may be trying to make him to take his own life by criticizing him. ``There are cases where they have pressured presidents into suicide,'' Chavez said. ``Or through a communication war they can incite an assassination.'' The spokesman for the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Robert Zimmerman, declined to comment. Relations between the two governments have remained tense since Chavez said the U.S. helped plan a failed two-day coup against him in 2002. |
Posted by:TMH |
#24 But, controlling his people will be much harder after that..it's hard to be macho with panties on your head, just look at how it affects the jihadis. |
Posted by: Silentbrick 2005-03-03 10:18:21 PM |
#23 Silentbrick, he might just like it. |
Posted by: RWV 2005-03-03 9:55:18 PM |
#22 Good Lord, no, Silentbrick! The US may commit some shady acts, but nothing that horrible. I agree with Schwartz. To a typical Latin American idiot, blaming the US always works to take heat off your failures. |
Posted by: jackal 2005-03-03 9:43:21 PM |
#21 How about instead of killing him, we capture him, and take pictures of him in his skivvies with panties on his head. We'll post them on the internet and then let him go in Iraq. |
Posted by: Silentbrick 2005-03-03 9:22:15 PM |
#20 For Angie, I offer this and this, heh. |
Posted by: .com 2005-03-03 6:45:48 PM |
#19 ![]() |
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2005-03-03 6:36:10 PM |
#18 Yep, now that RC's pointed it out the resemblance is uncanny. |
Posted by: Matt 2005-03-03 4:33:25 PM |
#17 RC's got it. That's a significant part of the appeal. |
Posted by: Shipman 2005-03-03 4:26:12 PM |
#16 juriseqs, Kills innocent people: check Supports terrorism: check Hates the U.S.: check Bonified Commie: check Hates Capitalism: check Election by Intimidation: check I (undersigned) Jimmy Carter, certify Hugo Chavez as the democratically elected President of Venezuela. |
Posted by: Poison Reverse 2005-03-03 2:13:38 PM |
#15 Actually, Matt, his face looks very, very native for that part of the world. He's the spitting image of any number of Mayan statues. |
Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-03-03 1:55:13 PM |
#14 RC, LOL. Anyone else think it looks like he's had collagen injections to his lips? |
Posted by: Matt 2005-03-03 1:47:06 PM |
#13 Somebody help me out here with the decoration's Hugo's wearing. I recognize the Failed Coup Sash, but is that for failing to pull one off or for surviving a failed coup? Or does the dancing pony signify the wearer has managed both? Everyone, of course, knows the Prickly Medal of Supporting Terrorists over his heart, but that thing around his neck -- is that the Kissed Castro's Ass medallion, or the Incipient President for Life amulet? |
Posted by: Robert Crawford 2005-03-03 1:36:40 PM |
#12 These comments are not intended for the US audience but for his own people, and perhaps for his neighbors. Blame someone else is an age-old political strategy and blaming Costa Rica just doesn't cut it. |
Posted by: RJ Schwarz 2005-03-03 1:36:15 PM |
#11 Quacks the same, waddles the same, same feathers starting to show... When the duck season is coming? |
Posted by: Bird Watcher 2005-03-03 1:17:57 PM |
#10 Remember Jim Jones and Jonestown. |
Posted by: 3dc 2005-03-03 1:16:47 PM |
#9 Sounds more like Kimmie every day... |
Posted by: Seafarious 2005-03-03 1:07:50 PM |
#8 Beat me to the punch, Angie. |
Posted by: Xbalanke 2005-03-03 12:55:59 PM |
#7 He's beginning to sound like Cleavon Little in Blazing Saddles: "One more step, and the Commie gets it!" |
Posted by: Angie Schultz 2005-03-03 12:50:27 PM |
#6 An intervention for his own good may be necessary to save him from himself! an intervention may be necessary by those around him to save them themselves. |
Posted by: 2b 2005-03-03 12:32:10 PM |
#5 I thought this guy was elected in a democratic election. What's the Bush beef? |
Posted by: juriseqs 2005-03-03 12:29:53 PM |
#4 The raw power of self-delusion seems to be driving most of what the poor wretch says and does. He does seem to believe himself more often than not. An intervention for his own good may be necessary to save him from himself! |
Posted by: Tkat 2005-03-03 12:03:02 PM |
#3 What a good little dictator - just like Sadaam, Hitler and all the others, his growing paranoia will soon result in a good excuse for a purge. |
Posted by: 2b 2005-03-03 11:38:51 AM |
#2 ``There are cases where they have pressured presidents into suicide,’’ Chavez said. ``Or through a communication war they can incite an assassination.’’ I hear a bullet works quite well too. We have some great snipers here that would be happy to assist... |
Posted by: mmurray821 2005-03-03 11:25:00 AM |
#1 Relations between the two governments have remained tense since Chavez said the U.S. helped plan a failed two-day coup against him in 2002. Next time, lets nab him first, get him to an isolated place OUTSIDE VENEZUELA. (Saddahm's hole near Tikrit is available) Then his cronies can squabble over who's in charge, while we take over the governmental infrastructue. |
Posted by: BigEd 2005-03-03 11:08:00 AM |