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10-20-05, 09:43 AM
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| Funky Spunk  Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: take a left at the cow
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 | LOL, Chavez thinks the US wants to invade Venezuela http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4359386.stm US planning invasion, says Chavez Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Washington officially sees Hugo Chavez as an unfriendly leader Venezuela's President, Hugo Chavez, says he is in possession of intelligence showing that the United States plans to invade his country. In a BBC interview, Mr Chavez said the US was after his nation's oil, much as it had been after Iraq's. But he stressed that any invasion would never be allowed to happen. Mr Chavez has long accused Washington of being behind what he describes as a coup - claims the United States denies. An attempt to unseat him three years ago was aborted. The Venezuelan president was interviewed by the BBC's Robin Lustig in Paris, while on an official visit to France. George W Bush should not have any reason to fear - if he does is because he has a dark ghost in his subconscious Hugo Chavez Meeting the president Asked why he thought the US was trying to invade Venezuela, Mr Chavez said: "We have denounced intentions. "A coup happened in Venezuela that was prepared by the US. What do they want? Our oil, as they did in Iraq. "We have detected with intelligence reports plans of a supposed invasion, one that would never happen. But we have to denounce it," Mr Chavez said. Recently a US TV evangelist, Pat Robertson, called for his assassination. Mr Chavez said this would be "cheaper than invading Venezuela". Mr Robertson's remarks were described by the US State Department as "inappropriate", and Mr Robertson later apologised for them. 'No threat' Mr Chavez went on to describe the US as a terrorist government. "It is an imperialist government, one that says it fights against terrorism but protects it. The US throws stones to Latin America. President Chavez, when will you stop using the guise of American imperialism to cover your own country's inadequacies? Erik Risendal, USA Your Say: Chavez's record "But apart from that, Venezuela is the world's fifth oil exporter, and we send a million and a half barrels to the US every day," he added. "We sell oil to people. Another thing is our political differences that I wish could be toned down." He also denied claims that Venezuela was a threat to the international community, saying that his country wanted open relations with the whole world - a multi-polar world - but "with respect". "George W Bush should not have any reason to fear. If he does it is because he has a dark ghost in his subconscious," he said. Controversial leader Correspondents says the Venezuelan president has cultivated ties with other countries that have strained relations with the US - chiefly Cuba and Iran. Washington officially sees him as an unfriendly head of state in South America. Mr Chavez, 55, first came to prominence as a leader of a failed coup in 1992. After being released from prison, he embarked on a political career that swept him to power in 1998, with a promise to transform Venezuela. Relations with Washington reached a low when he accused it of "fighting terror with terror" during the war in Afghanistan after 11 September. The situation hardly improved when Mr Chavez accused the US of being behind the failed coup to oust him in 2002, and of funding opposition groups. The country's vast oil reserves - the largest in the Americas - have given it a strategic importance, but the US state department denies trying to overthrow the president.
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10-20-05, 09:52 AM
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This guy is a nut job!
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10-20-05, 11:59 AM
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ack, he is just creating an outside threat to further solidify his power base and distract from what is happening inside the country.... didnt anybody read "1984"???
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10-20-05, 12:04 PM
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Only thing that I hate is that I have family living there. 
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10-20-05, 12:07 PM
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wonderful country. great people. just choose bad leaders.... sorta like this other country i know.... 
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10-20-05, 12:18 PM
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As far as I am aware EVERY country in the world has contingency plans for, quite literally, every eventuality, I'm pretty sure that there are plans and hypothesis somewhere in the Pentagon for invading the UK, too, just as I would think (and hope) there are the same for the UK doing the same to the US. It makes for interesting war games and ideas. After all, when you work out battle tactics, you don't plan to fight someone worse than you, you plan to fight those that are superior (or at least equal) to you; and, of course, those that you may actually have to attack 
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10-20-05, 12:20 PM
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except, amongst other similar slight variations, you're not going to get shot for calling our President a liar | |
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10-20-05, 12:23 PM
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I say we invade North Pole. I am convinced Santa ain't just making toys. He has yellow cake. I have it confirmed from a reliable source that he bought it from the Easter Bunny, and that the Tooth Fairy was suppyling him with Uranium.
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oil, coffee, emeralds and cocaine..... that's about it.
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10-20-05, 12:44 PM
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10-20-05, 01:23 PM
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That's colombia my man.
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10-20-05, 01:25 PM
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My parents left Venezuela right around the time where the gap between the classes was widening. The rich left, the middle class got poorer and the goverment kept on stealing. Then Chavez, as you stated, started going after the lower incomme people and "inviting" the low class inmmigrants from it's two borders to come live there. Boom instant election. People forget their past so easily. Sad too as Venezuela is a beautiful country.
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