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Venezuela spending billions on defense
AP via Yahooooooooooooo! ^ | 05/31/06 | By FABIOLA SANCHEZ

Posted on 05/30/2006 1:27:30 PM PDT by oldleft

CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuela is buying helicopters, boats and military transport planes in defense deals worth about $2.7 billion, modernizing its military as tensions grow between leftist President Hugo Chavez and the United States.

Flush with oil profits but blocked from buying U.S. arms, Chavez is increasingly looking to countries like Russia and Spain as suppliers.

A cargo ship carrying 30,000 Russian-made Kalashnikov assault rifles is headed to Venezuela with the first shipment of an order totaling 100,000 guns to arrive by year's end. The military is looking to buy more submarines, and Chavez is planning an even bigger deal for Russian fighter jets.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: armsbuildup; chavez; hugo; latinamerica; retardedmonkey; venzuela
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1 posted on 05/30/2006 1:27:32 PM PDT by oldleft
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To: oldleft
Good targets for the US military - but most of these weapons will be used against the people of Venezuela when the true spirit of socialism kicks in...
2 posted on 05/30/2006 1:29:03 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - They want to die for Islam, and we want to kill them.)
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To: oldleft
Defense? Defense from whom, exactly?

This is a military buildup, yes, but there's no defense involved.

3 posted on 05/30/2006 1:29:57 PM PDT by TChris ("Wake up, America. This is serious." - Ben Stein)
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To: oldleft

He's going to take the Venezuelan half of Guyana.


4 posted on 05/30/2006 1:30:54 PM PDT by xrp (Fox News Channel: MISSING WHITE GIRL NETWORK)
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To: 2banana
the true spirit of socialism kicks in...

Or better: the evil spirit of socialism kicks in...

5 posted on 05/30/2006 1:31:43 PM PDT by oyez (Appeasement is insanity)
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To: oldleft
Venezuela spending billions on defense the oppression of their own people and to assert their will in Latin America.
6 posted on 05/30/2006 1:32:06 PM PDT by Sax
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To: oldleft

wasn't Chavez supposed to spread those billions to the Venezuelan poor? or was that just a ploy to get into power and keep it all to himself?


7 posted on 05/30/2006 1:33:15 PM PDT by Cinnamon
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To: TChris

Exactly, there is no way this is defensive, unless one uses the word very loosely. That is, he's planning on provoking a conflict - and then claiming that he is "defending" himself from the response.

Or it could simply be that he's planning on attacking one or more of his LatAm neighbors. Colombia comes to mind, since his attempts to manipulate their election failed.


8 posted on 05/30/2006 1:33:58 PM PDT by livius
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To: 2banana

This sounds like Africa.


9 posted on 05/30/2006 1:34:21 PM PDT by x_plus_one (Murder, Suicide, Misogyny, Slavery are the Pillars of islam)
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To: Cinnamon
wasn't Chavez supposed to spread those billions to the Venezuelan poor? or was that just a ploy to get into power and keep it all to himself?

And PeaNUT Carter help this lunatic win the election

10 posted on 05/30/2006 1:34:36 PM PDT by Mo1 (DEMOCRATS: A CULTURE OF TREASON)
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To: oldleft


yet...their citizenry has barely above a second grade education.

Geeeeee...I wonder if the Press is going to continue to laud over this obvious "humanitarian"?


11 posted on 05/30/2006 1:36:04 PM PDT by in hoc signo vinces ("Houston, TX...a waiting quagmire for jihadis. American gals are worth fighting for!")
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"Venezuela spending billions on defense"

Will do him the same good Saddam's billions on defense did him..get him a very nice rat hole.
12 posted on 05/30/2006 1:39:47 PM PDT by Jameison
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To: oldleft

Target rich environments are the best!


13 posted on 05/30/2006 1:42:23 PM PDT by b4its2late (Men are from earth. Women are from earth. Hillary's from hell. Deal with it.)
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To: Jameison

He's just compensating for a lack of [insert phare here]. Not all men were created equal. I am guessing this is not a defence buildup but a clamping down on the citizenry.. and for that you need lots of thugs, all armed with AK47s. He's going to do the usual dictator move.. cleanse ranks, jail political enemies.. parade "spies" in front of the masses, and cement his seat to the Presidential Palace.


14 posted on 05/30/2006 1:48:48 PM PDT by Cinnamon
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To: oldleft
I'm reminded of Albania's Enver Hoxha: Always preparing for an invasion that never came.


15 posted on 05/30/2006 1:49:43 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: oldleft

There is a cargo ship headed to Venezuela and it will arrive by the end of the year?

Talk about a slow boat.


16 posted on 05/30/2006 1:50:01 PM PDT by Kenny500c
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To: oldleft
Venezuela spending billions on defense offense
17 posted on 05/30/2006 1:50:01 PM PDT by inkling
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To: oldleft

Hugo "Castro" Chavez - the new menace of the western hemisphere.


18 posted on 05/30/2006 1:51:17 PM PDT by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis, Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
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To: xrp
He's going to take the Venezuelan half of Guyana.

And Aruba. Not to mention liberating Puerto Rico. Chavez is nuts.

19 posted on 05/30/2006 1:52:10 PM PDT by burzum (Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.--Adm. Rickover)
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To: oldleft
Chavez isn't after the United States.

Hugo wants the Jewel of South America and that is Colombia.

He needs Colombia before he can put the old empire back together.
20 posted on 05/30/2006 1:54:54 PM PDT by OKIEDOC (There's nothing like hearing someone say thank you for your help.)
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