Posted on 06/24/2007 8:17:59 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
Chavez Predicts Resistance War With U.S. Published: 6/24/07, 10:45 PM EDT By CHRISTOPHER TOOTHAKER CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - President Hugo Chavez urged soldiers on Sunday to prepare for a guerrilla-style war against the United States, saying that Washington is using psychological and economic warfare as part of an unconventional campaign aimed at derailing his government.
Dressing in olive green fatigues and a red beret, Chavez spoke inside Tiuna Fort - Venezuela's military nerve-center - before hundreds of uniformed soldiers standing alongside armored vehicles and tanks decorated with banners reading: "Fatherland, Socialism, or Death! We will triumph!"
"We must continue developing the resistance war, that's the anti-imperialist weapon. We must think and prepare for the resistance war everyday," said Chavez, who has repeatedly warned that American soldiers could invade Venezuela to seize control of the South American nation's immense oil reserves.
U.S. officials reject claims that Washington is considering a military attack. But the U.S. government has expressed concern over what it perceives as a significant arms built-up here.
Chavez - a close ally of Cuban leader Fidel Castro - told soldiers the Washington was trying to weaken and divide Venezuelan society, including the armed forces, without resorting to combat.
"It's not just armed warfare," said Chavez, a former army officer who is leading what he calls the "Bolivarian Revolution," a socialist movement named after 19th-century independence hero Simon Bolivar. "I'm also referring to psychological warfare, media warfare, political warfare, economic warfare."
Under Chavez, Venezuela has recently purchased some $3 billion worth of arms from Russia, including 53 military helicopters, 100,000 Kalashnikov rifles, 24 SU-30 Sukhoi fighter jets.
Last week, Chavez said he is considering arms purchases, including submarines and a missile-equipped air defense system, as he prepares for a tour of Russia, Belarus and Iran.
"We are strengthening Venezuela's military power precisely to avoid imperial aggressions and assure peace, not to attack anybody," he said Sunday.
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There's a long history of this sort of thing ~ for thousands of years South American Indians would invade/migrate up the Antilles to Florida and the Gulf, and then push North to the Tennessee River where they'd usually get stopped, then pushed back.
This guy’s chitting, right?
Chavez should put down that crack pipe. Spending too much time alone smoking crack leads to delusional paranoia. Now I don’t know what he can do about the ‘alone’ part, except work on his personality so that someone may actually befriend him (besides dingbat activists)
“President Hugo Chavez urged soldiers on Sunday to prepare for a guerrilla-style war against the United States, saying that Washington is using psychological and economic warfare as part of an unconventional campaign aimed at derailing his government.”
Ah yes, the refuge of the failing dictator.
El Jefe says, “We are failing, not because I have totally derailed the private sector, but because of the nefarious influence of outsiders. Death to outsiders.”
Are you a short-timer, Hugo?
Just how happy are the people of Venezuela
as you go all out socialist?
Do you think the Venezuelans are reall happy
that you are buddy-buddy, palsy-walsy with
Ahmadinejad of Iran?
You must be sweating by now, Hugo...looking
over your shoulder, wondering if your military
likes you, respects you....
Yep, these are troubled times.
one round ....our problems with this hombre are over.
"Under Chavez, Venezuela has recently purchased some $3 billion worth of arms from Russia, including 53 military helicopters, 100,000 Kalashnikov rifles, 24 SU-30 Sukhoi fighter jets. Last week, Chavez said he is considering arms purchases, including submarines and a missile-equipped air defense system, as he prepares for a tour of Russia, Belarus and Iran."
“All Hugo has to do is send 5 million troops to the U.S.A. and Bush, Graham, Kennedy, Reid, Lott, Kyl and McCain will give them permanent resident status with the Z-visa”
ROTFLMAO !!
Oh please.
Fidel Castro has been fighting the same imaginary battle with America for the past 50 years.
Get a life, Hugo.
I have some megaohm resistors we could use against HC.
Yeah, and I'm sure if and when the day comes, those same soldiers will lift a finger to protect you and your regime, right Hugo?
I’m doing my best to cut my use of foreing oil. With guys like Chavez and Adminawhackjob running around, I just don’t care to import any more oil than we have to.
Russia has found 3 billion dollars to feed their people and temporarily put a stop to a pending revolution again.
Said Hugo ,”Fatherland, Socialism, or Death!
Option#3 is looking mighty attractive right about now.
I don’t know how Putin’s government spends the money.
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