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2008-01-26 Caribbean-Latin America

Chavez accuses Colombia of plotting military attack against Venezuela

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Posted by Fred 2008-01-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Someone should warn Hugo about the Gremlins the US sent to destroy him. They can take over people and control them you know, so remember Hugo, trust no one and they are ALL out to get you.

Man, what a freaking loon.

Posted by Silentbrick">Silentbrick 2008-01-26 00:39|| 2008-01-26 00:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Somebody should tell Hugo the story of the Boy Who Cried Wolf.

Posted by mom">mom 2008-01-26 00:47|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com]">[http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com] 2008-01-26 00:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Actually, it's not crying wolf. It's a preemptive projection. He'd like to meddle in Colombia affairs up to and including military involvemenmt, so he accuses the other side from the same. The oldest ruse there is.

Posted by Spike Uniter 2008-01-26 01:23|| 2008-01-26 01:23|| Front Page Top

#4 Good point. Thugs like Hugo need to have an enemy and need to have the people agree with him on who the enemy is. But at some point you have to have an enemy you can beat. He can't beat the US, so he's looking for someone more his size. While his pals in FARC would no doubt help him, he might just be surprised by the Columbians: they have a reasonably good military, and I'll bet a lot of Columbians would rally around Uribe.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2008-01-26 02:43|| 2008-01-26 02:43|| Front Page Top

#5 I bet Hugo would find Colombia has some help from some unexpected friends.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2008-01-26 08:24|| 2008-01-26 08:24|| Front Page Top

#6 Just the friends in S.A. would sink Hugo.
Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Columbia could squash that little turd. But not a peep out of any of them before this last stunt.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-01-26 12:30|| 2008-01-26 12:30|| Front Page Top

#7 Hugo must really be counting on those Cuban and Chinese "advisors" to bail him out once he starts a 2-front war with Colombia and Guyana.

Whoever is advising this lunatic is telling him only the things he wants to hear. He obviously has not learned anything from history or has forgotten little things like Kuwait, Panama, and Grenada (or he's buying into the tale that the US military is "overstretched" and helpless to do anything other than take care of Iraq and Afghanistan).

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2008-01-26 13:06|| 2008-01-26 13:06|| Front Page Top

#8 Whoever is advising this lunatic is telling him only the things he wants to hear.

His closet advisor is the coca paste he takes regularly, by his own account.

Posted by lotp 2008-01-26 13:33|| 2008-01-26 13:33|| Front Page Top

#9 The U.S. is destroying Venezuela by leaving Chavez alone.

Posted by DoDo 2008-01-26 14:42|| 2008-01-26 14:42|| Front Page Top

#10 The U.S. is destroying Venezuela by leaving Chavez alone.

Sounds good to me, let him dig his own grave, no "help" needed.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2008-01-26 15:37|| 2008-01-26 15:37|| Front Page Top

#11 he thinks alot of his sludge don't he. Does he really think the world is gonna stop if he stops exporting his oil.

Posted by sinse 2008-01-26 17:05|| 2008-01-26 17:05|| Front Page Top

#12 Cut off oil exports? And lose more than 50% of the federal budget revenues (CIA World Factbook). I doubt there is a government anywhere, socialist or otherwise, that could cope with having its allowance chopped in half.

Posted by SteveS 2008-01-26 22:36|| 2008-01-26 22:36|| Front Page Top

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