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Chavez: Venezuela to get defense system - "We're going to armor Venezuela."
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| 8/3/06
| Jorge Rueda - ap
Posted on 08/04/2006 1:34:05 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge
In this image released by Venezuela's Miraflores Press, Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, second from right, attends a military ceremony as he sits next to his Defense Minister, Gen. Raul Baduel, right, Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel, left, and Falcon state's Governor Jesus Montilla, second from left, in La Vela in Venezuela's Falcon state, Thursday, Aug. 3, 2006. Chavez said he has recalled his country's ambassador to Israel to show his 'indignation' over the military offensive in Lebanon. (AP Photo/ Miraflores Press)
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posted on
08/04/2006 1:34:44 PM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ......Help the "Pendleton 8' and families -- http://www.freerepublic.com/~normsrevenge/)
To: NormsRevenge
I have a gut feeling that Hugo is going to start invading places in South America, or at least providing arms to rebellions against democratic countries to put in place communist dictators like him self.
To: NormsRevenge
Hugo's military will appreciate all the new weapons to use against him when they overthrow him. We should promise his general through back channels full US support for a military junta there if they'll cleanse the earth of President Greasy.
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posted on
08/04/2006 1:39:17 PM PDT
by
MikeA
(Not voting out of anger in November is a vote for Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House)
To: NormsRevenge
"Venezuela will be armored to defend ourselves against any aggression."Good luck, Hugo. Keep telling yourself that you're not Manuel Noriega.
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posted on
08/04/2006 1:41:24 PM PDT
by
catpuppy
To: catpuppy
Hugo will be able to fend off an air attack from Columbia or any of his neighbors; they don't have advanced stealth technology.
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posted on
08/04/2006 1:45:10 PM PDT
by
dogcaller
To: NormsRevenge
we're coming to get you Hugo, Be Afraid Very Afraid!
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posted on
08/04/2006 1:45:38 PM PDT
by
usmcobra
(Hey Stand, who's standing in Lee Circle?)
To: NormsRevenge
How stupid could anyone be? Didn't watch how we took apart the Air Defense System the Russians supplied Saddam. If he decides to take the US on we will do the same to his.
What an absolute waste of money. He should be plowing the money into new roads, education and health services for his
countrymen. What a way to squander your country's Natural Resources.
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posted on
08/04/2006 1:49:32 PM PDT
by
BubbaBobTX
(I wasn't born in Texas but I got here as fast as I could.)
To: NormsRevenge
What neighboring country could ol' commie Chavez seriously be worried about invading Venezuela? Aruba? Grenada?
Paranoid commie piece of $hit. I wish the God we *did* have the cojones to really be an imperialist power and take this pr!ck down.
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posted on
08/04/2006 2:00:19 PM PDT
by
bassmaner
(Hey commies: I am a white male, and I am guilty of NOTHING! Sell your 'white guilt' elsewhere.)
To: NormsRevenge
I see a great opportunity here. Cash on the table so to speak. We make a deal with the Russians. They send Hugo 30 fighters, we knock them down. Hugo orders 30 more, we knock down 30 more. Hugo orders 50, (he's getting pissed now) and we knock them down too. And the deal with the Russians is we get ten percent of the net for providing them with a steady customer.
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posted on
08/04/2006 2:12:12 PM PDT
by
navyblue
(Semper ubi sub ubi)
To: navyblue
Sounds like a plan. The Mexicans can drive down and pick up the scrap and sell it.
To: NormsRevenge
"We're going to armor Venezuela."They keep acting the way that they're acting and making friends with the monsters they are befriending, they gonna need it... and it won't do ANY good. Ask Saddam. He had the best air defense system money could buy. Lasted about a minute thirty.
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posted on
08/04/2006 2:15:53 PM PDT
by
Phsstpok
(Often wrong, but never in doubt)
To: NormsRevenge
His entire air defense system would be obliterated within an hour or two by a combination of cruise missiles, JDAMs, long range naval gunfire, and HARM missiles.
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posted on
08/04/2006 2:17:16 PM PDT
by
COEXERJ145
(Free Republic is Currently Suffering a Pandemic of “Bush Derangement Syndrome.”)
To: NormsRevenge
There are apparently several versions of the Su-30 - some with 10 year old technology. We'll see if Russia trusts him enough to sell him the MKI version.
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posted on
08/04/2006 2:20:06 PM PDT
by
gondramB
(Named must your fear be before banish it you can.)
To: COEXERJ145
>>His entire air defense system would be obliterated within an hour or two by a combination of cruise missiles, JDAMs, long range naval gunfire, and HARM missiles.<<
I'm not a military guy but wasn't the lesson of Desert Storm that the important thing isn't the individual pieces but the rather the whole system that decides the battle?
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posted on
08/04/2006 2:24:13 PM PDT
by
gondramB
(Named must your fear be before banish it you can.)
To: NormsRevenge
"We're going to acquire the most modern anti-aircraft defense system," Chavez said....
Yeah, right. Like the US is going to sell you something.
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posted on
08/04/2006 2:25:55 PM PDT
by
mad puppy
( The Southern border is THE issue)
To: BubbaBobTX
Re post 8. I thought the same thing. These guys are beyond stupid.
I remember the first gulf war. Bagdad was, supposedly, the best defended airspace in the world. Superior technology, training and tactics won out with few casualties for the good guys.
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posted on
08/04/2006 2:29:41 PM PDT
by
Former Proud Canadian
(How do I change my screen name after Harper's election?)
To: gondramB
If I understand what you're saying, then yes. If you destroy the C&C centers, the effectiveness of the system is greatly reduced. One drawback to Soviet/Russian air defense systems is their very integrated C&C system. We knocked out much of the Iraqi C&C system with CALCM's on the first night of the war.
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posted on
08/04/2006 2:30:14 PM PDT
by
COEXERJ145
(Free Republic is Currently Suffering a Pandemic of “Bush Derangement Syndrome.”)
To: COEXERJ145
It sounds like you understood perfectly.
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posted on
08/04/2006 2:31:59 PM PDT
by
gondramB
(Named must your fear be before banish it you can.)
To: NormsRevenge
Good for you, Jugo. Of course, we'll turn that stuff into match-sticks with our F-22s, but don't let that stop you from investing your precious petro-bucks.
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posted on
08/04/2006 2:33:30 PM PDT
by
Antoninus
(Public schools are the madrassas of the American Left. --Ann Coulter, Godless)
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