Chavez itching for South American war
Let me mince no words: There is no world leader thirsting for war with anyone as badly as Hugo Chavez.
Here's the deal: Leftist Ecuadoran leader Rafael Correa didn't seem as upset the day before yesterday about Colombia reaching inside Ecuadoran territory to strike at a camp of FARC leaders, making their most important kill yet in taking out commander and spokesman Raul Reyes, one of seven members of the guerrilla group's hierarchy.
But in the past several weeks, Chavez, a longtime supporter of FARC, has been doing the "hostage negotiation" dance with FARC in an effort to publicly usurp the power and influence of Colombian President Alvaro Uribe (who, it has to be said, has really cleaned up the country and is Satan to Hugo because he has a good relationship with the U.S.). The slaying of Reyes puts Uribe firmly back in control and probably wounds the FARC -- a longtime thorn in the side of Colombian stability -- to the point of no return.
Chavez's message now: He's has Russian arms and he wants to use 'em. He licks his lips at the thought of drawing the U.S. into a South American conflict, and is trying to stoke the fires by saying that the U.S. jointly killed Reyes. He's gotten lapdog Correa as riled up as he needs to be.
"...Chavez on Sunday promised Venezuela would respond militarily if Colombia violates its border, where he ordered tanks as well as thousands of troops. He also ordered closed Venezuela's embassy in Bogota.Ecuador's president, Rafael Correa, called for the troop deployment while also withdrawing his government's ambassador from Bogota and expelling Colombia's top diplomat.
'Mr. Defense Minister, move 10 battalions to the border with Colombia for me, immediately — tank battalions. Deploy the air force,' Chavez said during his weekly TV and radio program. 'We don't want war, but we aren't going to permit the U.S. empire, which is the master (of Colombia) ... to come divide us.'
Correa said Colombia deliberately carried out the strike beyond its borders. He said the rebels were 'bombed and massacred as they slept, using precision technology.'"
Precision technology? What's wrong with that? It meant that innocents weren't killed. Oh, that's right... you refuse to believe that the FARC are terrorists...
"'This could be the start of a war in South America,' Chavez said. He warned Uribe: 'If it occurs to you to do this in Venezuela, President Uribe, I'll send some Sukhois' — Russian warplanes recently bought by Venezuela."
The thing about Chavez is that Colombia may not even have to step one inch inside Venezuela's border for him to find "cause" to start a war. And never mind that he took his helicopters inside Colombia for his FARC kaffeeklatsch hostage retrieval.
Ms. Johnson, I don't think you are in a position to 'throw stones' as the conservative that you are...let's just take a look at the war monger we've had as president for the last seven years....
Mitch, there's a HUGE difference between going to war to try to right a wrong (ever seen the photos of Saddam's mass graves? take a look at pics gathered by Iraqis:
http://www.9neesan.com/massgraves/)
and a man who operates out of a megalomaniac desire for continental domination and Bolivarian oppression. When was the last time the U.S. saber-rattled against its neighbors? We don't.
I smell a rat (a Soviet rat) behind all his rattling and screaming by Venezuela and Equador. Remember when Russia invaded Agfanistan? Remember how the USA sent arms and advisers to fight the Communist invasion? Remember how the USA trained and equipped young muslims eager to fight the infedels? Remember how Osama Bin Laden (a young leader amongst the muslims) loved the USA.? Remember when Russia lost and left Afganistan and we "thought" we won? Well, you know who those eager young (and not so young) muslims are fighting now, and who is still leading them.
Now that we are up to our neck fighting on two fronts, now that our economy is...well, you know what it is, the time came for Russia to pay us back. The Russian are not doing the fighting, oh no. They will continue to supply advisers and arms (for oil) and they will sit back and wait. Just like the USA did a few years ago. Except, that we did not get oil and we did not sit back and wait...
I smell something about the hullabaloo connected with Equador and Venezuela. I smell a rat. A nice fat Russian rat. A rat, who's been waiting patiently to get even with the USA, for what the USA did to Russia about twenty years ago when Russia invaded Afganistan. Remember when we send military advisers and arms to help the beleaguered people of Afganistan fighting the Russian Communist invasion? We armed and trained all those young eager Muslims coming from all Arabia to fight our and their perennial enemy, communism. Among the fighters there was a young men from a good Saudi family. Osama Bin Laden. He fought well with what we gave him. He became a leaders and the fighters followed him and they defeated the Russians and the Russians left. Remember all that? I believe (and pehaps I am wrong) that our action helped accelerate the decline of the Russian communist power. Time went by. Russia, more or less, regrouped whatever there was left of its former power and watched and waited. 9/11 came and left. It seemed that the man in charge of the attack on our soil was that nice guy from the good Saudi family, Osama Bin Laden. USA went to get Osama Bin Laden and seven years later Bin Laden is still cavorting all over the land. The Russian rat smiled. Our economy is steadily collapsing. Our dollar is loosing value. Our past and current leaders are...well, you know what they are. Our future leaders keep on promising this and that, keep on kissing kids and keep on having dreams.
The Russian rat made his move, The rat sold high tech fighters planes to Venezuela, got lots of oil (you can bet on that) trained the Venezuelans in the proper use of the new toys, smiled, sat and now, sipping a Cubalibre, the rat is watching....