Chavez orders troops to Colombian border (10 battalions, WAR?)

KRIS ^

[MeanGreen2008]

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez is sending 10 battalions of troops to country's border with Colombia.

He's also ordered the Venezuelan embassy in Bogota closed and say all embassy personnel will be withdrawn from Colombia.

The announcements by Venezuela's leftist leader pushed relations with its neighbor to their tensest point of his 9-year presidency.

Chavez is also warning that Colombia could spark a war in South America, calling its U.S.-allied government "a terrorist state" and labeling President Alvaro Uribe (oo-REE'-bay) "a criminal."

[keats5]

Mexico has a military? I guess they would have, I just never heard of them doing anything.

[ricks_place]

For just a moment, imagine 10 battalions of the mexican military sent to our border. How would that strike you?

Strikes me as Mexico forcefully dealing with the border narco bandidos or bandidas.

BANDIDAS

[EdArt]

The A-10’s of the Arkansas National Guard alone can reduce his 230 tanks to about 10 in a day or two at worst. He is not crossing that border unless he really is insane. Because I can guarantee you we will intervene in Colombia’s favor no matter how distracted we are elsewhere or how many other wars we have going on.

Yes under Bush or even McCain but not under “Living Leftist Obama”

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Mexico has a military? I guess they would have, I just never heard of them doing anything.

Well they do take pot-shots at our border patrol and have cross border incursions from time to time.

[GAB-1955]

Ten battalions... Ten Texas Rangers.

[varon]

It would be worth it to stabilize the region after monkey boy is ousted

Speak for yourself. I'm still p*ssed having to pay over $3.00 per gallon as a price for toppling Hussein!

Castro's Cuba has been a greater de-stabilizing factors for more years and we haven't done anything, so why should we incur loss of life and $6.00 a gallon gas for someone that just shoots his mouth off?

[cmsgop]

Way too many Rangers........

[GAB-1955]

“Mexico has a military? I guess they would have, I just never heard of them doing anything.”

To be fair, Mexico, a long time back, calculated they could never defeat the U.S. and they could kick the snot out of Guatemala, so they have a military that’s oriented for internal security. Their Navy has been effective in assisting people in the floods of Tampico; their Air Force is mostly transport and a few ground-attack craft.

[Darnright]

>I’m not talking about an action by the U.S. which will result in the price hike. I’m talking about how the U.S. oil companies will use this incident as another excuse to raise the price of crude due to the “threat” being posed here (threat being anything they can use as a reason for padding their pockets).<

I think you’re right. Everything Chavez does has to be examined in relation to what it will do to damage the US, in this instance its economy. The oil traders are going to look on this as their Mega Millions jackpot.

[Soliton]

Putin, Chavez, and Amahdinijad doe thes things to boost the price of oil. We are already in an economic war with all three.

[eleni121]

CITGO just keeps on selling to the sheep in this country.

I cannot believe that we are not energy independent...and instead we supply billions to our enemies.

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I watched a few minutes of that movie. I didn't care for it and turned the channel.

Mexico looks after mexico - the US now looks after mexico too and we citizens get the shaft.

[xjcsa]

I’m not talking about an action by the U.S. which will result in the price hike. I’m talking about how the U.S. oil companies will use this incident as another excuse to raise the price of crude due to the “threat” being posed here (threat being anything they can use as a reason for padding their pockets).

That only works when buyers are willing to pay it. If oil companies have unilateral control over the price of oil, why isn't it already $300/barrel? And why was it ever $15/barrel, with oil companies going bankrupt?

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Ten battalions... Ten Texas Rangers.

That's about it, hopefully. Did chavez ever buy those thousands of Dragunov's from russia?

[SoldierDad]

Chavez needs to lose his position, and soon.

[andyandval]

Rice just got back from Colombia end of January.

Illuminating IBD editorial here...

Whose Failure On Colombia's Pact?

[SoldierDad]

Yep, and the sheople of this country still don’t get it. STOP BUYING FROM CITGO.

[SoldierDad]

Just because at one point in time the U.S. oil companies were not doing well, does not now mean they haven’t figured out they can get away with these unjustified price hikes. People in this country are highly dependent upon transportation in these times, whereas 30 years ago people didn’t need to travel nearly as much just to make a living. Families use to live closer to each other than they do today. Neighborhood markets were much different. Trying to compare the past with the present is apples and oranges.

[gbaker]

Lets not get carried away. Moving tanks & troops to the border doesn’t mean they are ever going to cross the border. It’s probably just a lot of bluster.

just a moment, imagine 10 battalions of the mexican military sent to our border. How would that strike you?

I think wonderful! They are either cracking down on the drug trade or keeping their folks from crossing the border.

[tcrlaf]

VEnzueleans didn’t REALLY think all those guns the coke-chewing dictator bought were going to be used to defend against AMERICAN agression, did they??