Chavez to suspend oil exports to US in case of assassination attempt

Turkish Press ^ | 02-20-2005 | Agence France Presse

[Brilliant]

Seems like that might actually invite some of the anti-American crackpots to try to assassinate him.

[Logical me]

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.

[JesseJane]

Yes, yes we know the drill, Ted Kennedy uses it all the time Chacho..

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.

[A CA Guy]

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.

[Cornpone]

"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.

I think I know where Osama is hiding.

[peyton randolph]

I don't care if it jacks up the price of gas short term - boycott Venezuela oil until Chavez is gone.

[onedoug]

Besides being a communist, this Chavez sounds syphillus addled.

[SmithL]

Neither Fidel Castro nor I talk nonsense

Sure, whatever you say

[livius]

How is he going to suspend it if he's dead?

[Paleo Conservative]

Who wants to be Chavez stages a fak assassinaton attempt?

[KJC1]

Isn't this nifty. If anything happens to Chavez, he's got it all wrapped up nice and neat in the blame department.

[forester]

Chavez' plan to sell CITGO and the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies

[AmishDude]

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.

[JimRed]

Paging Al-Qaeda...

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

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)

[Bommer]

I say unleash hell and kill him anyways....Hello Mr Chavez.

[FrankR]

In the "what I would do if I was Bush" department, I would immediately suspend all exports to Venezuela and all other countries associated with Chavez, claiming that a Chavez comrad was plotting to assinate the President of the U.S.

Two can play the game.

[furball4paws]

If the assassination is successful, how's he going to do anything?

[NEBUCHADNEZZAR1961]

Mister, if we try to have you wacked you won't be alive to enact your little threat.