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Chavez orders troops to Colombian border (10 battalions, WAR?)
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Posted on 03/02/2008 10:35:00 AM PST by MeanGreen2008

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To: MeanGreen2008

Hugo got tired of waiting for GWB to attack. His people just weren’t buying it anymore so he found a different country to mess with.


81 posted on 03/02/2008 11:50:58 AM PST by NonValueAdded (Who Would Montgomery Brewster Choose?)
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To: MeanGreen2008
Dr. Jack Wheeler predicted this when VZ economy starts to drop, he said Chavez would attempt to start a war and he said it'd be Columbia since chavez couldn't get the US to bit. He said we'd be sending troops in. We've had our sops in Columbia for a while now. Wheeler said we'd be sending in the Marines.

It's a ploy to take VZ citizens off the huge economy problems that commie thug has caused.

82 posted on 03/02/2008 11:54:07 AM PST by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand;but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
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To: MeanGreen2008

Between the hostage-takings and Chavez’s ties to FARC, I guess push was going to come to shove.

Unless, of course Kofi Annan can be persuaded to leave Kenya and try to get these neighbors to the table. (/sarc)


83 posted on 03/02/2008 11:56:05 AM PST by P.O.E. (Thank God for every morning.)
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To: gbaker
I would see it as mexico getting ready to invade us. I'm sure Columbia sees it that way as well.

chavez is gonna hang around as long as castro I bet. Another thorn in our side for decades.

Unless his military leaders.......

84 posted on 03/02/2008 11:59:37 AM PST by processing please hold ( "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.")
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To: MeanGreen2008

Chavez touches Colombia...he’s dead meat along w/Castro.


85 posted on 03/02/2008 12:04:32 PM PST by gitmogrunt (16 years of Clinton-Bush destroyed America.)
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To: HokieMom

give the USMC a good xcuse to go in


86 posted on 03/02/2008 12:05:22 PM PST by CGASMIA68
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To: EdArt
Yes under Bush or even McCain but not under “Living Leftist Obama”

I dunno about that. I think South American leaders, even leftist ones, would react like the Saudis...publicly yelling for the US to stay out but privately begging an Obama to DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS NUT! if he starts invading neighbors.

That, and the internal pressure, would likely force even Obama to bomb some aspirin factories and get in his way.
87 posted on 03/02/2008 12:05:30 PM PST by Arkinsaw
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To: Momaw Nadon
A tank battalion has 3-4 companies with a total of some 50 tanks.

500 tanks?

88 posted on 03/02/2008 12:06:59 PM PST by processing please hold ( "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.")
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To: webheart

Very good analysis, Wag the Dog works everywhere indeed. The only side issue is that Chavez is a Megalomaniac and doesn’t know when to stop, which will add to matters.


89 posted on 03/02/2008 12:11:25 PM PST by WoofDog123
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To: MeanGreen2008

If you recall a few years back a coup took hugo the nut out of power and then he got back in, why did we allow that to happen?


90 posted on 03/02/2008 12:12:36 PM PST by Joe Boucher (An enemy of Islam)
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To: EagleUSA

“That scumbag should be taken out like Noriega was taken out”

Please direct me to the pre-deployed US 10,000+ troops, airfield, mech infantry, deployment facilities, within a few *miles* of Chavez’s HQ. This is a totally different situation logistically, aside from the fact Chavez is not a career CIA payrollee.

Also, Noriega could have been ‘taken out’ without firing more than maybe a few shots if the US had simply agreed to take him into custody as we were asked to during the October ‘89 failed coup.


91 posted on 03/02/2008 12:14:44 PM PST by WoofDog123
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To: MeanGreen2008

It’s not the headline on the website for CNN. I wonder why that is.


92 posted on 03/02/2008 12:16:17 PM PST by AfterManyASummer
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To: angeliquemb9
Scary isn't it?

How anyone here possibly thinks that we can keep doing what we are doing and get involved with Iran, and get involved with Venezuela, and still be prepared to deal with China and/or Russia if needed, is living in a dreamworld. It's scary to think that so many people here are so willing to throw our already overworked and stretched thin military at this situation, and every other hotspot. How exactly can we do this without the military, and country, collapsing under the weight?

93 posted on 03/02/2008 12:16:43 PM PST by frankiep (Democrats base their ideology on the premise that you are too stupid to do anything for yourself.)
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To: cowtowney

We’ve spent billions on equipment and training.


94 posted on 03/02/2008 12:16:54 PM PST by Recon Dad (Marine Spec Ops Dad)
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To: MeanGreen2008

This guy starting a fight would be in US interests, as it might wake up the region’s leaders to the fact they have a hitler amongst them.


95 posted on 03/02/2008 12:17:05 PM PST by WoofDog123
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To: varon
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?

Just how has Castro has de-stabilizing fuel prices?

96 posted on 03/02/2008 12:17:48 PM PST by Popman (Gold Standard: Trying to squeeze a 50 lb economy back into a 5 lb bag)
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To: WoofDog123

Grenada’s a pretty quiet place, but it is close by....


97 posted on 03/02/2008 12:17:59 PM PST by P.O.E. (Thank God for every morning.)
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To: maquiladora

“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.”
There were those who said that when Saddam did this to Kuwait.


98 posted on 03/02/2008 12:22:10 PM PST by DogBarkTree (The correct word isn't "immigrant" when what they are doing is "invading".)
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To: maquiladora

“We’ve just got to remember that Chavez is a loudmouthed bully that likes making outlandish remarks.”

You may be right. It would be a mistake to create policy based on that thought, though.


99 posted on 03/02/2008 12:24:14 PM PST by Fox_Mulder77
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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?

Does Mexico have ten battalions? Could the leadership get them headed in one direction?

100 posted on 03/02/2008 12:26:43 PM PST by NoControllingLegalAuthority
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