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

Posted on 03/02/2008 10:35:00 AM PST by 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He's also ordered the Venezuelan embassy in Bogota closed and say all embassy personnel will be withdrawn from Colombia.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."


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: battalion; battalions; chavez; colombia; commie; coward; hugochavez; kneejerk; posturing; psycho; venezuela; venezuelantroops
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To: processing please hold

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


61 posted on 03/02/2008 11:30:20 AM PST by keats5 (tolerance of intolerant people is cultural suicide)
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To: processing please hold
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

62 posted on 03/02/2008 11:32:54 AM PST by ricks_place
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To: Arkinsaw

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”


63 posted on 03/02/2008 11:34:24 AM PST by EdArt (free to be)
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To: keats5
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.

64 posted on 03/02/2008 11:35:04 AM PST by processing please hold ( "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.")
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To: processing please hold

Ten battalions... Ten Texas Rangers.


65 posted on 03/02/2008 11:35:15 AM PST by GAB-1955 (Kicking and Screaming into the Kingdom of Heaven!)
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To: Popman
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?

66 posted on 03/02/2008 11:36:10 AM PST by varon (Allegiance to the constitution, always. Allegiance to a political party, never.)
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To: GAB-1955
Way too many Rangers........
67 posted on 03/02/2008 11:36:38 AM PST by cmsgop ( You go to da box..... you feel shame)
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To: keats5
“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.

68 posted on 03/02/2008 11:37:11 AM PST by GAB-1955 (Kicking and Screaming into the Kingdom of Heaven!)
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To: SoldierDad

>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.


69 posted on 03/02/2008 11:37:16 AM PST by Darnright
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To: rockinqsranch

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


70 posted on 03/02/2008 11:37:29 AM PST by Soliton
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To: SoldierDad

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.


71 posted on 03/02/2008 11:39:17 AM PST by eleni121 (+ En Touto Nika! By this sign conquer! + Constantine the Great)
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To: ricks_place
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.

72 posted on 03/02/2008 11:40:13 AM PST by processing please hold ( "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.")
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To: SoldierDad
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?

73 posted on 03/02/2008 11:41:33 AM PST by xjcsa (I hated McCain before hating McCain was cool.)
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To: GAB-1955
Ten battalions... Ten Texas Rangers.

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

74 posted on 03/02/2008 11:44:48 AM PST by processing please hold ( "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.")
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To: Darnright

Chavez needs to lose his position, and soon.


75 posted on 03/02/2008 11:44:54 AM PST by SoldierDad (Proud Dad of a 2nd BCT 10th Mountain Soldier home after 15 months in the Triangle of death)
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To: Jedi Master Pikachu
Rice just got back from Colombia end of January.

Illuminating IBD editorial here...

Whose Failure On Colombia's Pact?

76 posted on 03/02/2008 11:45:24 AM PST by andyandval
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To: eleni121

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


77 posted on 03/02/2008 11:45:52 AM PST by SoldierDad (Proud Dad of a 2nd BCT 10th Mountain Soldier home after 15 months in the Triangle of death)
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To: xjcsa

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.


78 posted on 03/02/2008 11:49:07 AM PST by SoldierDad (Proud Dad of a 2nd BCT 10th Mountain Soldier home after 15 months in the Triangle of death)
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To: processing please hold
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.

79 posted on 03/02/2008 11:49:36 AM PST by gbaker
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To: maquiladora

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??


80 posted on 03/02/2008 11:50:42 AM PST by tcrlaf (VOTE DEMOCRAT-You'll look great in a Burka!)
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