[muawiyah]

Well, if we didn't we probably do now.

[BipolarBob]

If we intended to assasinate him, he would be yesterdays obituary instead of a barking chihuahua.

[varyouga]

"Chavez made the comments at a mock trial organised within the framework of a festival 'against imperialism and war'."

So the DUmmies DO get their talking points from terrorists and dictators.

[ElCapusto]

Here's a just war we should be fighting.

Citgo, as many know, is the wholly owned fuel distributor owned by the Venezuelan Communist Government.

These Communists are also our #2 exporter of oil.

[Dallas59]

He sounds like Cindy Sheehan or vice versa.

[Nathan Zachary]

What attacks? Gezzz, where do these nuts all come from in this world?
If this guy wants to accuse the US of attacking him, then we may as well make his dream come true. Is he related to that fat boy in N.Korea?

[John Valentine]

This guy is an ignorant nutbag.

Crude oil is relatively fungible across world markets. Whatever oil he sells elsewhere simply displaces other oil that becomes available to us.

The only thing he hurts is market efficiency, but as a Socialist he has no idea what that is. I guarantee that as he destroys market efficiency in Venezuela no amount of oil revenue will make up for the poverty and ruin in his wake.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

It won't matter if they do. Its a world market for oil, so if they push their bbls toward Europe or via the Canal to China, it'll just bump bbls out of the Europe or Asia market to somewhere else.
Chavez will have to take less for his oil if he follows through. Freight to the US is the cheapest he's got.

[dennisw]

This is part of the reason we tolerate Mexicans illegal aliens and bend over for Vicente Fox. We need Mexican oil

[FlatLandBeer]

He's a fool....It's our oil, we just let him pump it out of the ground and sell it to us.

Since oil is sold mostly on the spot market it really does not matter if he sells to us directly...