As if on cue, my boy Chavez comes through again!
From today’s Pravda:
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez harshly criticized the US administration again after the unauthorized passing of the USS George Washington along the coast of the Latin American country. Chavez promised to bury the USA in the 21st century.
When Americans appear near our shores with their navy, the George Washington aircraft carrier, one should not forget that it happens at the time when we together with Brazil are creating the Defense Council of South America, Chavez said in a speech that was broadcast by all TV and radio channels of Venezuela.
In this century we will bury the old empire of the USA and will live with the American nation like with a brotherly nation, because over 40 million of its citizens live below the poverty line, the Venezuelan leader said.
I’m beginning to get a kick out of that guy…
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– Christian
Good to see that ol’ Baghdad Bob has found work!
I’m looking forward to Chavez drawing a “Line Of Death” in the Caribbean somewheres.
Because that worked out so well for Qaddafi when he tried that.
Jimmy Carter, call your office. Another anti-american thug needs you to stop in and stroke his ego.
And don’t bother consulting with the Department of State, either. What do they know? You’re in charge around here!
Brad is right. Venezuela is no threat to the US; the US certainly is a threat to Venezuela. And Chavez is, like it or not, a democratically-elected leader.
What are we doing about Zimbabwe exactly? Any shows of force there?
Nice chavez, real nice.
A single U.S. super carrier makes him all uneasy, making speaches and such.
I read this, I laugh, I enjoy being an AMERICAN.
What is it about Hugo that gets right wingers panties in such a wad? Grow up. This guy means nothing to the US, ignore him.
I don’t understand how beating up on smaller, weaker countries give you your jollies.
Hilary Clinton had a “We will bury you” moment this week, when she stated that she would “obliterate” Iran.
If we parked a couple of CVNs off the coast of Zimbabwe, would anyone even notice?
Venezuela isn’t a threat to the US until they decide not to sell us oil. And oil (or more to the point those countries that have it) is the biggest threat to the US right now.
DC2
Rob1855,
Zimbabwe is landlocked. Parking a CVN or two on their border would definitely raise a few eyebrows…
Oh god i have to explain why chavez is a threat. I also love the comment “ignore him” casue we all know ignoring a problem is the best way to make it go away. No chavez by himself is no threat to us. But he spossors terrorism, drug trafficing, and threatins his neighbors when they dare defend themselves.
Think about nato alone say britan isnt all that threatining without its nukes. Throw in US and a few other countries and one of the most powerful entities of all time is represented.
With his oil money hes buying russian and chinese subs, ships, jets, tanks, and guns. His close ties with iran who well is doing pretty much exactly the same and you get a scary scary senario. What is iran was to arm chavez with nukes? And seriously only a retard thinks amadinijad is a peacful citizen and friend of the world.
Point is he is a threat he can become a larger threat in the future(even if socalism is bringing down the production, wealth, life expectancy and culture of what could be a true paradise.) In the capital of venezuala more ppls die a yr than in bagdad.
And markus why do liberals seem to believe that if a big country like the US smacks down a small bully like chavez were bad. You are fooling yourselves. A country cannot be free and safe today if men like him are allowed to go unchecked. If we dont who will the corupt and toothless UN. Right
Todays world is not your stupid 1800s europe.
So sit in your houses and coffee shops. Ignore the violence and evil around our world or say my my someone should stop that. The UN hmmm.…im sure it makes a boy in africa happy to know that though the peacekeepers wont help his family keep from being killed they will write a strongly worded letter to the bad ppls.
Hee, hee, yuck, yuck, yo!! Just leave ‘em alone, and they’ll leave us alone! Yuck, yuck, yo!
How stupid can you be to believe something so naive? Evil never rests until it is confronted by good. “Evil only triumphs when good people do nothing.”
I guess Chavez needs the retoric of “40 million people below the poverty line in America” to keep 4 million Venezulans mind off the fact they do not even have potable water. I guess poverty is all realative.
Yeah it would be funny if this puke didn’t hold sway over double digits of the US foreign oil export.
Dam shame we cannot tap that Gulf oil which has estimates north of the Saudi Arabia (another joke that is not funny), or maybe Alaska, or maybe Midwest, or maybe???
Funny thou I remember the Eviro’s going nuts during the proposed drilling off the FL coast (offshore enough to not be seen from beach) but I cannot recall a single protest about the Chicom drilling off the Keys, or even protest about Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, etc… oil expansion? Wonder why that is, isn’t it about the “environment” or something?
The only funny part is how funny it must be to our sworn enemies that the US leaves untapped swaths of oil resources, that even if not making the US self sufficient would at minimum drop the cost (supply and demand or some such adult idea of how free markets work). Even funnier is our government responds by not demanding drilling in all US oil resources to drop prices but instead talk of punishment of US oil companies so I guess to insure they never will be able to drill in the US?
Sad Funny
Sometimes we just have to ignore countries.
Even if they drive themselves into the ground.
Look at what wonderful things Castro did with Cuba!
Of course Chaves does not have to worry about running his economy into the ground; with control of the oil, the less economy there is, the more his people will be dependant on him for funding.
That power-play worked very well for Saddam.….thirty years of torture and war and all his people could do was complain his check was late.
Of course what else could they do in the face of Russian tanks, German bunkers and French aircraft? Purchased with oil money from our wonderful first world friends.
The left is right when they say it is all about the oil. Just not in the fashion they think.…
Why is it always right vs left with you guys.
Greenpeace wasn’t protesting drilling in the Gulf. It was those wonderful condo owners on the beach that trembled at the thought of something happening far offshore and waking up to an oil slick on their beautiful beach. I know, I live on the gulf coast of Florida.
Why didn’t we build wind farms off the cost of Cape Cod? Because the rich didn’t want to see those big turbine blades spinning off of their million dollar mansions.
I will grant you the tree huggers have fought drilling in Alaska.
But the issues of oil aren’t about capacity. It is about speculation and refining capacity. How does two row boats attacking a US chartered merchant ship in the Persian Gulf affect supply and demand? Will the price of oil now go down since the flare up is over? We haven’t built a refinery in the US since Hess constructed one in the Virgin Islands. Nobody wants a refinery in their back yard any more than they want a prison or sex offender community. That is why they aren’t being built.
The point of Venezuela is that we have given Chavez the power to control his destiny. Just as we have with the terror sponsoring countries of the world. That power is sweet, black, crude oil. It is up to our elected leaders to find ways to minimize that power, which they have not done to date (both right and left).
So stop bitching about what the other side is doing and make sure that those people elected in your area are doing something about this issue before our economy collapses.
DC2
Chavez is such a putz. He isn’t a huge threat at the moment. Although if he makes himself a threat it’ll be fun to watch us take him out. If he keeps up funding FARC then we’ll have a good reason soon enough.
Just remember kids, Hugo’s oil is high in sulfur. And as far as I know the US is the only country that has the refineries to turn it into gas. He did recently sign a deal with the chicom goons, but it will be years before they can refine the crude that comes from Venezuela.
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Brazil?! Here in Brazil (although im in California right now, beautiful place) we dont any business with Chavez. We consider his military much more of a threat than an ally.
You have to admit, this would be a fun guy to have the job of writing press releases for.
Its not him its the high oil price talking.Anyway this fool is very low priority the high priority is China and Iran.Btw we Indians can also refine his oil the US hasn’t invested in modern refineries due to enviornmental regulations.We have and the latest refineries easily allow you to refine most types of crude oil.Think of them as flex fuel engines only higer up in the oil chain.Buying oil from latin america make perfect sense you see crude oil is taken from the middle east to the US but the oil tankers return empty from the US to the middle east if they stop over at uncle chavez on their way back that way they make money for tanker companies both ways and the freight rates are very ‚low on this route.
I am not sure but didn
Hugo’s running to Brazil to get FARC, I mean Brazilian support because the real Cloumbian government is now in posession of uraium. That scares Hugo. America is the evil white devil? Whatever. The carrieres amnd destroyers are not all that lurks in those waters . What about the subs?
Hugo thats really nice of your concern of 40 million people in the US that live below the poverty line. I figure at least all estimated 26 million illegals here do. Since that is the same population of your country lets make a trade. We will send them all to you and you can shut up then…I’ve been to Venezuela on a UNITAS deployment and Hugo it looked like everyone there lived below the “poverty line” which is what there? Keep in touch pal and send plenty of transportation to seal our deal!
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