Posted on 03/03/2008 12:00:24 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
Venezeuelan President Hugo Chavez ordered tanks and thousands of troops on Sunday to the border with Colombia, accusing it of pushing South America to the brink of war and likening it to Israel for its U.S.-backed attacks on militants.
Chavez called Colombian President Alvaro Uribe a criminal and branded his government a terrorist state, over the killing of a top rebel leader on Ecuadorean soil.
"The Colombian government has become the Israel of Latin America," an agitated Chavez said, reiterating his criticism of the Israel Defense Forces' strikes on Palestinian militants.
"We aren't going to permit Colombia to become the Israel of these lands. ... Uribe, we aren't going to permit you." ...
In protest, Ecuador withdrew its ambassador from Bogota, ordered Colombia's top diplomat expelled and ordered the mobilization of troops to the border with Colombia.
Ecuador's president, Rafael Correa, said Colombia deliberately carried out the strike beyond its borders. There is no justification, Correa said Sunday night, snubbing an earlier annoucement from Colombia that it would apologize for the incursion.
Correa said the rebels were bombed and massacred as they slept, using precision technology. He said Colombia violated Ecuador's airspace when it bombed the rebel camp, which the Colombian military said was located 1.8 kilometers from the border.
Colombian officials have long complained that Ecuador's military does not control its sparsely populated border, allowing rebels to take refuge.
In a statement, Colombia said FARC terrorists including Reyes have had the custom of killing in Colombia and taking refuge in the territory of neighboring countries. ...
Chavez, who has friendly diplomatic ties with Syria and Iran, said last year during a visit to Damascus that his goal was to "build a new world" free of U.S. domination.
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
"The Colombian government has become the Israel of Latin America," Mr. Chavez said. He called Colombia a "terrorist" state and its president, Mr. Uribe, a criminal; "Dracula's fangs are covered in blood."
During yesterday's television appearance, Mr. Chavez appeared to side with FARC's four decade effort to oust the government and establish a revolutionary state.
"Someday Colombia will be freed from the hand of the [U.S.] empire," Mr. Chavez said. "We have to liberate Colombia."
In another rhetorical flourish, he gave orders to Venezuela's military as millions watched on TV.
"Mr. Defense Minister, move 10 battalions to the border with Colombia for me, immediately — tank battalions, deploy the air force," Mr. Chavez said. "We don't want war, but we aren't going to permit the U.S. empire, which is the master ... to come divide us." - LINK
chavez is scum.
nuff said.
Coming from the Ahmadinejad of South America.
Well. At least Chavez acknowledges that the “US is the master”. Now live with it, Hugo.
Who's turning his country into the Gaza of South America.
His cokestraw must have been extra full today. What a complete idiot. vHopefully, someone will remove him from office, one way or another.
Are the Venezies taking their dreaded tennis ball machine gun with them to the Colombian border?
How about the cardboard tanks?
He says that like it's a bad thing!
That would make Venezuela the Gaza Strip of S. America. You know, the A-hole of the region.
Oh, goodie! Now he has added anti-Semitism to his bag of tricks!
I wonder how much help we would send to Columbia’s aid if Chavez DID invade Columbia?
“”Mr. Defense Minister, move 10 battalions to the border with Colombia for me, immediately — tank battalions, deploy the air force,” Mr. Chavez said. “We don’t want war, but we aren’t going to permit the U.S. empire, which is the master ... to come divide us.””
I see that the troops and tanks and planes have not yet crossed into Colombia. Apparently Chavez really is the pink panties wearing sissy some putanas say he is.
It’s too bad we don’t have the nerve to do surgically what we end up doing with the blunt force of a full military deployment.
In that case, I’m going - Israel is the only stable place in the Mid-east, so Columbia must be the only stable place in Latin America.
Hugo Chavez - ventroloquist dummy for Ahmadinejad. The fact that such a bizarre analogy (Colombia=Israel) would even occur to him indicates exactly what is going on.
Someone suggested on a related thread the other day that Iran is probably hoping to open a war on two fronts against us: they will attack us in the ME (through a proxy, such as Hamas or Hezbollah, initially, and will regard attacks on Israel as also being attacks on us), and they will attack us in Latin America, by means of attacks on Colombia. The purpose will be to destroy our allies, of course, but also to draw us into something they don’t think we could win, particularly if the Iranian nutcase screws up ME oil and Hugo shuts off the tap on this continent.
I’ve said it for years, this guy thinks he is the reincarnation of Simon Bolivar, and wants to unite South America under his wing.
Looks like the start of Phase I.
No doubt Chavez needs scapegoats and wars to divert public attention away from worsening economic conditions at home. That’s what dictators always do.
Chavez has become the Oasma Bin Laden of South America.
Y’mean the Colombians do the hora and drive a lot of Mercedes?
Colombia has about twice as many citizens as Venezuela. They would clean their clocks, IMO...
Valenzuela is now the Hamas of South America.
Chavez, who has friendly diplomatic ties with Syria and Iran, said last year during a visit to Damascus that his goal was to “build a new world” free of U.S. domination.<<<
I would think that is the game plan, poor dumb Chavez is going to be used to pick at us, keep us busy.
Interesting and plausible theory. Ahmadinejad's recent visit to see Hugo seems a bit out of place otherwise.
Chavez is all mouth and fecal matter. He will not attack a superior military. Ecuador is not a problem.
This is exactly what Obama has been saying on the stump
I’m becoming more and more convinced that using assassination as a national security tactic is a good idea.
http://miami.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel08/mm20080303.htm
FOREIGN NATIONAL PLEADS GUILTY TO CONSPIRING TO ACT AS AN ILLEGAL AGENT OF THE VENEZUELAN GOVERNMENT
WASHINGTON – Carlos Kauffman, 35, one of five foreign nationals accused of acting and conspiring to act as an agent of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (”Venezuela”) within the United States without prior notification to the Attorney General of the United States, pleaded guilty on Friday to conspiring to act as an unregistered Venezuelan agent before U.S. District Court Judge Joan Lenard in Miami.
continues.
“The purpose will be to destroy our allies, of course, but also to draw us into something they don’t think we could win, particularly if the Iranian nutcase screws up ME oil and Hugo shuts off the tap on this continent.”
It might well work. I wonder, given Bush’s craven attitudes and the prospect of a collapse of our defenses under either Obama (or Hitlery) or the madman KLA lickspittel McCain, they haven’t started things already.
Interesting how Hugo gets all the press, nary a word from Ecuador or Colombia
If they are the Israel of Latin America, then I would expect them to kick everyone’s @$$.
in many ways a south american hitler. He wants a war, and is going to start one, sooner or later.
And the HERO of Dummie Underground.
I stopped in for a laugh today and they were all lamenting the UN’s harsh treatment of Iran via sanctions.
Talk about a willing suspension of disbelief! Those idiots define it.
Chavez needs to be put down.
With China in Panama, Hugo in Venezuela, Qaeda in the triborder region, reports of plans to smuggle dirty bombs across the Mexican border, is it yet time to put security over commerce and vote pandering and close the border.
John McCain says yes, which means no.
Breaking. . .in a city near you.
Colombia has become the Israel of Latin America,
Chavez needs to be put down.<<<
If Chavez is not controlled, we will have another Castro in Cuba, who allowed Russia and China to set up ready to attack us.
China intercepts our transmissions from Cuba now, I forget the name of the listening station, but they took over Russia’s projects in Cuba.
If you put him down, do not tell anyone and let all the conspiracies form.
You just might get away with it, as we all know that no matter who took him out, President Bush will get the credit for the act.
Or read that as another “Bush did it”.
You will have to almost keep it a secret, those in our country who love anything red/communist will go into deep mourning and bring our country to a stand still.
Yes, I am being silly as I dare not accept how tempting it would be.
We need to plug the Darien Gap .......make it a 80 mile wide sh*tfilter against this terrorist.
> Chavez: Colombia has become the Israel of Latin America
Hey, tHugo, does that mean that Venezuela has become the Palestine?
If the shoe fits ...
Israel has schools that teach useful things, like science, mathematics, literature, medicine.
Palestine has schools that teach how to read and write bomb-making instructions and how to HATE Jews and infidels.
Israel has the best hospitals in the Middle East.
Nobody is seeking world-class medical care in Gaza or the West Bank. It’s NOT THERE.
Israel took a desert and turned it into a garden.
Palestine took a beautiful city and turned it into a squalid, filthy slum. Overnight.
Sounds a lot like what Castro did to Cuba and what tHugo is doing to Venezuela.
You’re right Chavez - Colombia IS Israel - they stand up to terrorist groups like Hezbollah wannabe FARC who HATES free and open democratic states.
bmflr
Israel was able to simultaneously able to beat back an attack from Egypt (annexing Sinai), Syria (annexing the Golan Heights), Palestine (annexing Gaza) and Jordan (annexing the West Bank).
Maybe Hugo needs to have his oil fields annexed.
Pat Robertson was right.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha . . . Now there's a good joke for you.
He’s just being a good commie like his friends carter et al
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