Someone call Cornholio...
Posted on 08/02/2006 1:54:10 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, on a world tour during which he signed a $3 billion arms deal with Russia, has begun talking about combining several of South America's largest armies to counter U.S. influence.
"We must form a defensive military pact between the armies of the region with a common doctrine and organization," Mr. Chavez said July 5 in Caracas during a military parade, which Argentine President Nestor Kirchner and Bolivian President Evo Morales attended.
In another speech before he left for Moscow last week, Mr. Chavez said: "We must form the armed forces of Mercosur, merging warfare capabilities of the continent." ...
Mr. Chavez elaborated on the rationale for a combined military during a visit to Bolivia in May on which he was accompanied by Venezuela's army chief, Gen. Raul Baduel.
The need is for a Latin American alliance "equivalent to NATO, with our own doctrine, not one that's handed down by the gringos," he said in a TV broadcast at the Inca shrine of Lake Titicaca.
Mr. Chavez called the United States the "greatest threat" to the world when he announced the purchase of 24 Su-30 Sukhoi fighter jets and 53 Mi-17, Mi-26 and Mi-35 combat helicopters from Russia last week. ...
After Mr. Kirchner's July visit to Caracas, Argentina established a bilateral military commission with Venezuela.
Venezuelan generals met with Bolivia's high command last month to propose a "merger" of their armed forces, according to military officials in La Paz who say the Bolivian chief of staff, Gen. Freddy Bersatti, backs the idea.
Mr. Chavez has provided the Bolivian air force with T-34 jet trainers as well as two Super Puma helicopters. Mr. Chavez says he is sending Bolivia weapons to replace equipment, which the United States is confiscating over differences in anti-drug and counterterrorism policies.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Hugo Chavez's "Axis of Evil Tour 2006."
Get on it, Hugo!
Dr. Dementia speaks again. I hope the US just keeps right on ignoring this blathering idiot. It just really gets under his skin.
The more evil rears its ugly head in our world, the closer the Lord's Chastisment is to happening.
Chris Dodd's buddy, Hugo Chavez, is a war monger.
Someone call Cornholio...
A fool and his money......
Yeah, I wonder what the "Peace Mother" thinks of her hero's saber-rattling.
The Momar Khadafi of South America.
This little pipsqueak will eventually be cowering under his bed and his pants will be wet and he will be sucking his thumb.
Whoa, here we go - this is the opening move everyone's seen coming from miles away:
"Mr. Chavez elaborated on the rationale for a combined military during a visit to Bolivia...The need is for a Latin American alliance"
Combined Latin American Military - With Chavez as the head, of course. "And once I'm in control of all of the militaries in South and Central America, the governments will then find it within their best interests to entrust their governing to my benevolent wisdom."
I hear the Warsaw Pact has a few openings.
What makes this lunatic think that we are going to invade his third world country?
And every time we buy gas, we fund this idiot commie.
Hugo Chavez will take his country to bankruptcy.
He's not doing it for defense, he's doing it to expand his own holdings. Once he's in charge of everyone else's militaries it gets a lot easier - a take over done on paper.
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