Venezuelan forces start training to repel US

Reuters/The Boston Globe ^ | March 6, 2006 | Patrick Markey

[One Proud Dad]

They couldn't repel my Grandma.

[MadeInAmerica]

We could send in our Salvation Army and kick their a$$.

[MARKUSPRIME]

They have no idea that we wouldnt set foot upon their homeland until after days of relentless airstrikes to destroy all their infrastucture. LOL catapults and bows. I laugh at thee Hugo.

[Red Badger]

How do you repel a Cruise Missile?.......

[peyton randolph]

Snipers and civilian reservists with knives, catapults, and handguns

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Pat Buchanan can teach them how to use pitchforks against the neocon imperialists.

[Rebelbase]

Chavez's thug army will melt like butter on a hot griddle in the face of US Marines and armed civilian Venezuelans.

[Turbo Pig]

Things must be pretty bad down there, if Hugo is pulling out this old trick. Focus the poeple on an outside aggressor, to take their minds off the fact that you have your boot across their neck.

[RichInOC]

I have no idea why. I mean, they're pretty repellent already.

[stevio]

It almost sounds like he is inadvertently arming up for a civil war.

[Rebelbase]

One more thing. I predict an "Il Duce" ending to his corrupt regimen.

[Brilliant]

Looks like Sen. Chris Dodd's favorite Latin American dictator is turning what was previously the most democratic nation in Latin America into a militaristic pariah.

[bill1952]

I find Hugo rather repelling. :^)

That being said, they have no idea of the hell that would be unleashed on them.

[Old Sarge]

They cannot HOPE to withstand the assault of the 501st Imperial Stormtrooper Battalion (Vader's Fist)!

Here, the Fist passes in review after the completion of yet
another glorious mission.

[presidio9]

Are you kidding? Over the course of six movies I saw storm troopers fire their weapons in anger hundreds of times without hitting anything. If we go to war, I'm not sure I want them on my side.

[Kenton]

I understand they're using old copies of "Red Dawn", re-dubbed into Spanish as training manuals.

[Gefreiter]

p,
Actually you know what's missing from this article? The part where the media describe the opposing force like they're 10 feet tall and breathe fire.

I mentioned that on another thread earlier today, about how media in Desert Shield portrayed Saddam as having a million-man battle hardened army of experienced desert warriors.

I'm surprised there wasn't something about Chavez' hard core elite Republican Guard or whatever, or allude that it would take thousands of American casualties to fight there. Oh, and that it would be another Vietnam and a quagmire, can't forget that.

[presidio9]

[presidio9]

I'm trying to think how many times I heard the last verse of "The Young British Soldier" by Rudyard Kipling

If your officer's dead and the sergeants look white,
Remember it's ruin to run from a fight:
So take open order, lie down, and sit tight,
And wait for supports like a soldier.
Wait, wait, wait like a soldier . . .

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.

on CNN in the weeks leading up to our invasion of Afganistan. Initial casualty predictions were in the tens of thousands.

[Always Right]

Don't bring a knife to a missle fight.