[KriegerGeist]

Chavez has got to go. Better sooner than later.

Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Iran, Al Qaeda, Saddam, Assad and now Chevez. It's like a cancer that has metastasized and are we going to be able to "chemo-therapy" them all?

[3AngelaD]

He needs the Allende treatment, and he needs it bad. This guy is hand in glove with Castro and every other American enemy on the planet. Time to re-focus our attention on Latin America for a while. We simpley can't have this stuff on our doorstep, and it will be counterproductive to have the Chavez regime in power when Castro finally dies and Cuba finally gets a chance to rejoin civilization.

[livius]

Ping to CW. Not that we didn't know this already...

[lowbridge]

Chavez, you bastard, you had better remember what we (the Bushes in particular) did to Noriega....and Hussein.

[Paleo Conservative]

U.S. intelligence is still coming to grips with reports that Al Qaeda and other Muslim terrorist groups are setting up bases in Venezuela.

Sounds like a good reason to go into Venezuela and wipe out Chavez.

[ppaul]

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[Cincinatus' Wife]

Great catch!

Hugo Chavez - Venezuela

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Venezuelan Arabs Stung by U.S. Charges Like Arab nations and communities around the globe, most of Margarita's well-established Muslim traders bitterly oppose the U.S.-British invasion of Iraq, seeing it as an unlawful and unjustified attack against their race and religion. But the Lebanese, Syrians and Palestinians who have made this tropical resort and duty-free zone their home for decades are even more angry about what they see as another American affront, this time leveled directly against them.

Allegations by a top U.S. military chief that Margarita is a base for radical Islamic groups posing a potential terrorist threat have angered both the 12,000-strong Arab community and the government of Venezuela's leftist President Hugo Chavez. "We have nothing to do with terrorism here. Pure business, that's what we do," Naim Awada, who emigrated from Lebanon 20 years ago, told Reuters in his clothing store in Porlamar. All around him, shop names like Nabil Import, El Laden Mustafa and Flower of Palestine attest to the strong Arab presence on Margarita, an island of tourist hotels, arid hills and abundant beaches off Venezuela's eastern Caribbean coast.

Arab community leaders and Venezuela's government say the allegations by the Pentagon's top soldier for Latin America, Gen. James Hill, are really part of a wider campaign by foes of Chavez to try to discredit the populist president abroad. They say Chavez' opponents, who have failed to topple him over the last year despite a short-lived coup and a crippling two-month anti-government strike, are seeking to paint him as a dangerous anti-U.S. maverick collaborating with terrorism. The debate is more than just academic for Washington because Chavez, a former paratrooper and coup plotter elected in 1998, rules over the world's No. 5 oil exporter that is also one of the top suppliers of crude oil to the United States.***

[Sparta]

Comrade Chavez ping!!!

Chavez should definitely be next up for regime change.