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Chavez Threatening War With Columbia
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| March 03, 2008
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Posted on 03/03/2008 6:17:30 AM PST by jdm
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posted on
03/03/2008 6:17:31 AM PST
by
jdm
To: jdm
I wonder how Jimmy Carter and Robert Kennedy would respond to the charge that they’ve lent their names to a warmonger.
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posted on
03/03/2008 6:19:06 AM PST
by
Brilliant
To: jdm
It’s time to form an alliance with Columbia. We need to cut the head off this snake
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posted on
03/03/2008 6:19:34 AM PST
by
AppyPappy
(If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
To: jdm
WHEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!
lets arm the Colombians.....Heh, Heh.
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posted on
03/03/2008 6:20:01 AM PST
by
Vaquero
(" an armed society is a polite society" Heinlein "MOLON LABE!" Leonidas of Sparta)
To: jdm
Columbia University?
Columbia, South Carolina?
To: jdm
Chavez Threatening War With Columbia
Does Hugo believe that they are too left-wing?
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posted on
03/03/2008 6:21:52 AM PST
by
TruthShallSetYouFree
(Abortion is to family planning what bankruptcy is to financial planning.)
To: jdm
Another excuse for oil prices to bid up on more speculation. Just watch.
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posted on
03/03/2008 6:22:08 AM PST
by
o_zarkman44
(No Bull in 08!)
To: jdm
The obvious point here is that Ecuador and Venezuela have been supporting the communist rebels and their terrorist war against Columbia, and they were afraid that stuff taken from this success would prove it. The bluster is meant to cover that fact and put Columbia on the defensive. It shouldn't. The US should offer to give Columbia 72 F-16s tomorrow, along with 200 M-1s and 300 Bradleys. That will put paid any idea Venezuela has of attacking directly.
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posted on
03/03/2008 6:25:05 AM PST
by
JasonC
To: o_zarkman44
Cover for getting caught supporting terrorism and Marxist revolution abroad, more like.
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posted on
03/03/2008 6:26:08 AM PST
by
JasonC
To: jdm
Wonder how Chavez’s pacifist friends in Hollywood will respond to this?
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posted on
03/03/2008 6:26:57 AM PST
by
tennteacher
(Hunter Conservative)
To: tennteacher
Wonder how Chavez’s pacifist friends in Hollywood will respond to this? Bush's fault.
To: JasonC
Commie China will just send a bunch of their hardware to Chavez. And we will have an arms race in south America.
Chavez needs to be neutralized, not bartered with.
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posted on
03/03/2008 6:35:26 AM PST
by
o_zarkman44
(No Bull in 08!)
To: JasonC
That will put paid any idea Venezuela has of attacking directly. A US CVN off the coast of the border region, combined with a US vow to protect Columbia from a hostile aggressor would call Chavez's bluff.
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posted on
03/03/2008 6:35:42 AM PST
by
SampleMan
(We are a free and industrious people, socialist nannies do not become us.)
To: JasonC
The US should offer to give Columbia 72 F-16s tomorrow, along with 200 M-1s and 300 Bradleys. That will put paid any idea Venezuela has of attacking directly.
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Do you think we have 200 Main Battle Tanks and 300 Bradleys to spare?
Chavez knows that we can't provide any significant support of the materiel or the manpower sort in Colombia.
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posted on
03/03/2008 6:41:42 AM PST
by
wtc911
("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
To: tennteacher
Make their next movie in Caracas ?
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posted on
03/03/2008 6:43:58 AM PST
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(ENERGY CRISIS made in Washington D. C.)
To: jdm
Colombia’s Army and Navy are fairly well equipped and their ground foces have combat experience thanks to fighting FARC. Colombia’s real disadvantage is in air power which is geared mostly for the counterisurgency role. IIRC, they are still operating Mirages and Kfir C.2s.
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posted on
03/03/2008 6:45:37 AM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: Army Air Corps
counterisurgency = counterinsurgency
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posted on
03/03/2008 6:46:02 AM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: jdm
Sorry to be Mr. Spellchecker here, but it is:
COLOMBIA
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posted on
03/03/2008 6:47:12 AM PST
by
mbird139
To: wtc911
Besides, Colombia’s AFV mix is not bad and is geared for their rugged terrain. Their main deficiency is in air power in that they do not have air superiority fighters; their air force is mostly used for COIN work.
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posted on
03/03/2008 6:48:10 AM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: jdm
Color me surprised at Chavez latest "caper."
It seems whenever someone assumes complete power of a country, they start thinking regional expansion...
Is Putin next?
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posted on
03/03/2008 6:48:25 AM PST
by
John123
(Socialism is the best choice for those too stupid to be liberals...)
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