[speedy]

It's tempting to say that if Chavez hates CNN and Hollywood that much, he can't be all bad. But in fact he is all bad, and becoming increasingly dangerous. He really does need to be taken out, and soon.

[rbg81]

Good--let him sell his jets. It'll be all the easier to obliterate his a$$ when the time comes.

[gondramB]

"Chavez accused the U.S. of breaking a contract to supply parts for Venezuela's fleet of 21 F-16 fighters and pressuring other countries from helping to maintain them. Israeli media reported last month that Israel canceled a lucrative deal to upgrade the warplanes under American pressure."

1. Hopefully our deals have an escape clause in the event of the purchasing country turning into a socialist dictatorship.

2. Israel shouldn't have to be pressured - they should know better.

[WayneM]

...and the horse you rode in on, buddy.

[Gay State Conservative]

This piece of excrement is just *begging* us to send a team of Marine snipers to Caracas.

[SandRat]

hmmmm......let's see.... a turd rate dictator sends planes we built (you know they're not the top of the line stuff), with no combat experience pilots having minimum air time to another turd world country to threaten combat experienced pilots in top of the line fighters who know every nut and bolt on their opponents aircraft. Oh yeah some threat.

[Kitten Festival]

Dear Hugo: Please do it. We would like to level Castro's palaces and fish him up from his spiderhole and be done with it. We are sick of the bearded beast. Please ... just do it.

[45Auto]

"It's a system that generates misery, poverty, death."

He's talking about communism, right?

[Ramius]

Chavez is a lunatic. He's a lunatic with an inferiority complex and he keeps feeling ignored. Dunno if that makes him dangerous or not.

[JimRed]

Whenever we sell military hardware to ANYONE, it should be equipped with a hidden self destruct feature that we (our military, that is) can activate. Otherwise we are likely to end up facing equipment as good as our own!

[SnuffaBolshevik]

Venezuela originally purchased its fleet of F-16s in 1983 for US$615 million.

I wonder if that batch included the "remote destruction" option.

[FateAmenableToChange]

"CNN spends 50 percent of its time on spreading ideas about capitalism and the free market,"

If I didn't know Chavez was an insane megalomaniac before now, this delusional thinking would clue me in pretty quick.

[45Auto]

Venezuela is the U.S.'s fourth-largest oil supplier (15% of U.S. imports). So, I guess he likes our cash more than he hates our system. He sounds like a loud mouth snook.

[Fledermaus]

FANTASTIC! Target practice!

[rmlew]

The ChiComs have already seen the F-16.
Their allies in Pakistan have F-16 block-20s.
The Chinese are working on the FC-1/JF-17, which is supposed to have similar capabilities.
They are also working on a more advanced fourth generation fighter, the J-10, which, if claims are correct, is superior to all but the latest F-16s.

[lexington minuteman 1775]

How about we do like we did in Cuban missle crisis? He sends those aircraft to Cuba, we stop it as an act of war. He won't nuke us like Russia had the ability to do.
Sounds like Pat Robertson's idea may not have been as half baked as it sounded eh? LOL!

[Rushmore Rocks]

FYI

[Whitewasher]

I hope we still have the back door scuttle codes.

[wildcatf4f3]

loose nut behind the steering wheel down south

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

Methinks F-16 sales to such have a built in poison pill that will soon fry the electronics and render them inoperable.