Seriously, why don't we sanction someone to go drill Chavez a new fifty caliber anus, right in the middle of his forehead?? Think what that would do for the quality of his speeches...
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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Jane? Nah, she deserves a private hell all to her own. She deserves special billing.
If you are gonna make these kinds of threats...you damn well better be on the move!
I’m sure they said that about Hitler too.
oh, i know for sure they said the same thing about Osama Bin Laden.
The US is under attack internally by Mexicans...and externally by radical Muslims...and latin american socialists like Chavez...how can we be so blind??
At that time the excrement will strike the proverbial cooling appliance.
Well, it is hard to look at Central and South America and come away with a view that is much different than yours. There are some bright spots, but nothing like north of the Rio Grande.
If people choose to live a simpler lifestyle, I can understand. I don’t quite understand the desire to live in huts. I guess nobody really does want to, but the ability for them to advance sure seems stunted down there.
I’ll admit to not really understanding why more of those nations haven’t done better.
Should also add that the Brits could have upgraded their RAF Harriers with either Blue Vixen or the US’s APG-65 (As the US Marines, Italians and Spanish have) ... which would also permit organic air cover capability.
Self important blowhards like the above only tow the leftist party line because it's the "in" thing.
We need to handle Chavez the same way Prime Minister Howard of Australia handled North Korea.
Evidently they told them once, through diplomatic channels, to stop sending ships with drugs to Australia. Evidently, last week, an NK ship carrying drugs approached the coast and the Australian forces dropped 2 ea 2000# bombs on it and sent it to the bottom.
Put an end to the provocation first, clean up diplomatic problems later!
my, my, my... he really is the busy little social monkey these days isn't he???
Bush: "YEAH, Yeah, yeah, WHATever... just fill'er up MonkeyBoy!!!"
Then I can’t see it happening, unless it’s part of a global free for all, a pig pile on the USA and Britain. Taiwan, Iran/Hormuz at the same time, would greatly over stretch us. That’s when the second tier enemies would jump into the fray.
Seems I read some books about this kind of scenario......
The [Iranians] President’s chief strategist, Hassan Abbassi, has come up with a war plan based on the premise that “Britain is the mother of all evils” – the evils being America, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, the Gulf states and even Canada, all of whom are the malign progeny of the British Empire. “We have a strategy drawn up for the destruction of Anglo-Saxon civilization,” says Mr Abbassi. “There are 29 sensitive sites in the U.S. and in the West. We have already spied on these sites and we know how we are going to attack them… Once we have defeated the Anglo-Saxons the rest will run for cover.”
The IRGC chief warned that Iran was seeing through “critical days” and “fate-determining years”. He described the purpose of Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution as the “Salvation of Muslims” from the hands of the “oppressive U.S. and Israel”.
IMHO it is mainly because they keep pointing the finger at the west/US...and not accepting the fact that THEY are responsible for their own situation and problems....nothing will ever change until you first accept the truth...
“I double dare him.”
That may not necessarily be the government’s attitude.
We’re going to have to squash this nastly little toad.
Out of just about any group, there are bound to be a few really active individuals. These are the left’s...
I agree with you. It just seems these few have taken leftist steroids or something. They’re in a whole class of their own.
“It looks to the world we are afraid, ...”
We are not the macho nation that we were right after WWII. That’s why we allow immigration of people who hate this country and whose intent it is to destroy it from within. Yes, we are afraid - it is the old appeasing game all over again.
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