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VP Mike Pence: US not going to stand by while Venezuela 'crumbles'
ABC News ^ | August 14, 2017 | Veronica Stracqualursi

Posted on 08/14/2017 7:33:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Please. Please standby while it crumbles. Lower my taxes. Cut the size of government. Drain the swamp but for God sakes let it crumble.


21 posted on 08/14/2017 7:46:31 PM PDT by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Pence should learn to shut up at times.

His RINOism is disturbing.

22 posted on 08/14/2017 7:46:58 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Their location matters more than their resources.

China is a large investor in Venezuela.
If you don’t like N Korea nukes imagine the threat of Venezuela nukes.


23 posted on 08/14/2017 7:47:00 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

As Herb Brooks said to Mike Eruzione - “You worry about your own game, Rizzo. Plenty there to keep you busy”.


24 posted on 08/14/2017 7:48:46 PM PDT by Hat-Trick (Do you trust a government that cannot trust you with guns?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

You broke the code, bro
NO ONE one gives a rats ass about Venezuela “ crumbling” under the government THEY chose
Unless they are beholden to the American oil companies, that is


25 posted on 08/14/2017 7:52:56 PM PDT by silverleaf (We voted for change, not leftover change)
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To: mrsmith

The Monroe Doctrine.


26 posted on 08/14/2017 7:52:56 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Too late to intervene to make Venezuela like it was in the 1970s.

Just nationalize the CITGO assets in the US.


27 posted on 08/14/2017 7:54:54 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: 11th_VA

We don’t want a dictatorship in our hemisphere that is one of the largest exporters of oil. Keep in mind Hezbollah and Hamas are now in Venezuela. Ready to help I am sure.


28 posted on 08/14/2017 7:56:24 PM PDT by cornfedcowboy
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To: bgill

Prove that Ill. (The Sick State) can be fixed before going overseas.


29 posted on 08/14/2017 7:56:28 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Kind of late to be worrying about Venezuela, VP Pence...like you didn’t see it coming?

What about THIS Country!? We are falling apart at the seams and you blather about some backwater hellhole long after any of our help means diddly?


30 posted on 08/14/2017 7:56:29 PM PDT by KittenClaws ( Normalcy Bias. Do you have it?)
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To: Paladin2
The CITGO refineries are made for Venezuelan oil and really don't work for other types of oil, as I understand it.
31 posted on 08/14/2017 7:58:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“We’re simply not going to tolerate seeing Venezuela collapse into dictatorship.”
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

They have been under dictatorship for years.
Initially they voted for it.
Not our problem.


32 posted on 08/14/2017 7:59:37 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: KittenClaws

Yea, they voted for their hell. We voted the opposite!


33 posted on 08/14/2017 7:59:53 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

South and Latin America have outgrown the Monroe Doctrine.
But the principles behind it still apply.


34 posted on 08/14/2017 8:02:38 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: The Toll

Yea, they voted for their hell. We voted the opposite!


It just irks me to no end. We don’t hear a word out of this pantywaist VP for months...and then he starts squawking about Venezuela?


35 posted on 08/14/2017 8:04:51 PM PDT by KittenClaws ( Normalcy Bias. Do you have it?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The establishment has moved in to the Administration. Say what you will about General Flynn, but he didn’t want to intervene. He believed in what Trump ran on. McMaster is a neoconservative. He believes in intervening and nation building, and his philosophy is much different than Trump. The same liberals that want to purge Flynn, Bannon, Gorka, Miller, etc. and are allying with the neocons because they are Republicans that bash Trump are going to then be angry and blame Trump when we get into another war.

My hope is that Trump doesn’t do this. If we want to send them food and supplies to help the suffering, that’s fine, but we can’t get involved in another war.


36 posted on 08/14/2017 8:08:31 PM PDT by Pinkbell (http://dtforpres.blogspot.com/2017/05/tips-for-trump-beating-russia-narrative.html)
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To: proust

Good point. Let that socialist crap hole fail bigly. Let the whole world see it.


37 posted on 08/14/2017 8:10:45 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No problem, just keep the oil flowing.


38 posted on 08/14/2017 8:11:14 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yes, but they fired the knowledgeable engineers who knew how to get it into production in favor of their Commie lackies.
Development of the hard to get Vz reserves has been set back by decades.


39 posted on 08/14/2017 8:14:05 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No! We’ve thrown too much away on countries south of our southern border already. There’s no good side down there—only bad or ugly, communist or fascist, before and after actions. Individuals only conceal their hatred against us while trying to get US dollars.


40 posted on 08/14/2017 8:21:59 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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