Posted on 02/20/2005 2:46:48 PM PST by Willie Green
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CARACAS (AFP) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez threatened to suspend oil exports to the United States if someone tries to assassinate him, adding that US President George W. Bush would be to blame.
"If they kill me, there will be a really guilty party on this planet whose name is the president of the United States, George Bush," Chavez said on his weekly radio program, "Hello, Mr. President."
"If, by the hand of the devil, those perverse plans succeed ... forget about Venezuelan oil, Mr. Bush," he said.
Chavez said he was convinced that Washington was "sketching out the assassination plans" before his Bolivarian Revolution advances in Venezuela and Latin America.
Chavez revealed a week ago that Cuban President Fidel Castro had warned him of a US assassination plot.
"Now, I am going to say it. Neither Fidel Castro nor I talk nonsense.
"If something happens to me, I blame the president of the United States," he said.
"I will not hide. I am going to be in the streets with you. I entrust myself to God, but I know that I have been condemned to die," Chavez said.
"Each second of my life I will spend in the struggle and God's will be done," he said.
Castro said on February 12: "If Chavez is assassinated, the blame will fall on Bush.
"I say that as someone who has survived hundreds of the empire's (assassination) plans," he said.
Chavez has also recently accused the United States of being involved in an April 2002 coup, which removed him from power for less than two days.
Washington has accused Chavez of being undemocratic especially when it comes to the Venezuelan opposition, and has more recently criticized arms purchases from Russia and Brazil.
Venezuela is the only Latin American member of the Organization of the Petroleum Producing Countries, and sells about 1.5 million barrels daily to the United States, nearly as much as Saudi Arabia.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recently called Chavez "a negative force" in Latin America, and the State Department backed Colombia in a recent dispute between the Caribbean neighbors over the arrest of a Colombian rebel in Caracas by Colombian officials without Venezuela's knowledge or consent.
Seems like that might actually invite some of the anti-American crackpots to try to assassinate him.
This kind of stuff is all the reasons we have to bypass the Democrats and the environmental jackass and get busy in Alaska for oil.
Slow bowel movement, Bush's fault.
Pock marked butt, Bush's fault.
Clouds in the sky, Bush's fault.
Now, get back inside and comb the hair on your toes, troll.
If they wanted him dead, he would never have survived election.
That is pure politicking.
May the fleas of a thousand camels infest his arm pits.
"Each second of my life I will spend in the struggle and God's will be done," he said.
I think I know where Osama is hiding.
I don't care if it jacks up the price of gas short term - boycott Venezuela oil until Chavez is gone.
Besides being a communist, this Chavez sounds syphillus addled.
Sure, whatever you say
How is he going to suspend it if he's dead?
Who wants to be Chavez stages a fak assassinaton attempt?
Isn't this nifty. If anything happens to Chavez, he's got it all wrapped up nice and neat in the blame department.
Just an excuse for a military buildup and a crackdown on dissenters. The big, bad US is coming to get me. Every 3rd world dictator does it: Castro, Kim Jong Il, and so on and so on.
Paging Al-Qaeda...
I read somewhere that the primary refinieries that can handle the very thick, asphalt-like crude oil native to Venezuela are in the US. At the same time, I recently traveled to Curacao (island off Venezuela) which not only had plenty of refineries, but also acts as an "econo-gas" filling station for ships. Can anyone shed some light on this apparent anomaly?
Point being, if the US is the majority refiner of Venzuelan crude, would not Chavez shutting of exports to the US seriously damage Venzuelas' oil exports? (Not looking for any logic to Chavez' position, just looking for any insight into the "thick-crude" issue)
I say unleash hell and kill him anyways....Hello Mr Chavez.
If the assassination is successful, how's he going to do anything?
Mister, if we try to have you wacked you won't be alive to enact your little threat.
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