Posted on 09/02/2007 1:51:41 PM PDT by Jeff Head
In a new outburst of antiwestern sabre-rattling, President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela has threatened Britain with “revenge” for the Falklands war of 1982. The belligerent Latin American leftist warned last week that his recent build-up of sophisticated Russian and Iranian weapons would be used to destroy the British fleet if it attempted to return to the South Atlantic.
Speaking on his weekly television show Alo Presidente (Hello, Mr President), Chavez denounced what he described as Britain’s “illegal occupation” of the Falklands and repeated his call for a regional military alliance against Britain and the United States.
“If we had been united in the last war, we could have stopped the old empire,” Chavez said, as he gesticulated to maps showing how Venezuelan aircraft and submarines would intercept British warships. “Today we could sink the British fleet.”
Chavez has often expressed support for Argentina’s claim to the Falklands, but his latest broadside was notable for both its antiBritish vitriol and its unprecedented threats. He declared that British history was “stained with the blood of South America’s indigenous people” and demanded revenge for the “cowardly” sinking of the General Belgrano, the Argentine cruiser.
Western diplomats have long grown used to harangues from Chavez, who announced this weekend that he would negotiate with guerrillas holding dozens of hostages in Colombia, including three US contractors and Ingrid Betancourt, a French-Colombian abducted as she campaigned for president in 2002. But US and British officials have recently become more concerned by his willingness to lavish billions of dollars from Venezuela’s soaring oil income on military capabilities.
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...besides. It would be a GREAT object lesson to the Iranians.
Yeah and the US would nuke your a** in a New York second... (another latin-american moron)
Exactly...except this blah-blah-blah is arming himself with high tech weaponry that can make good his claims against the Brits. Time we put him squarely in his place...about 6ft under.
Well Noriega gets extradited this week ........there’s room at the Inn now ........:o)
Road trip ?
Good idea...this idiot needs to be taught a lesson.....reminds me of the Moammar Khadafi days when he use to mouth off like this... this guy is stupid beyond belief....
It had to be better than the early 1970s.
:^)
Let's let him sink 90% of his GNP into hardware for a few years first, then take him up on a fight when he asks for it.
All I ask is that we wait for Danny Glover and his entourage to arrive before we take the actions needed. Let’s hope Ed Asner and Harry Belafonte join him.
Paul Shanklin needs to write another yoogo song for Rush to play.....
J-DAM coming! (courtesy of the British Navy...right down his chimney)
The Panamanians danced in the streets when we picked him up.
My bet is the Venezuelans will with Chavez, too-- except for the German expats there.
And that ugly little buck tooth anti everything skank that’s fonda Chavez as well........
He and Danny are joined at the hip...shouldn't be difficult....:o) Wonder what Danny would think about socialism then??
hehehe...nope, more like a sea cruise.
He is sounding exactly like Khadafi. Needs to get some of that same ointment for what’s ailing him.
| "'If we had been united in the last war, we could have stopped the old empire,' Chavez said, as he gesticulated to maps showing how Venezuelan aircraft and submarines would intercept British warships. 'Today we could sink the British fleet.'" |
Exactly.
LOL....yep ole pineapple face is due his second stop on his world prison tour. France gets him next I think ? He won’t finish that visit until he takes the big dirt nap.....what is he 80 ?.....may mid 70’s ??
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