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Colombia Seeks Criminal Charges Against Chavez for Allegedly Aiding in Mass Murders
Foxnews.com ^ | 03/04/08 | AP

Posted on 03/04/2008 8:53:33 AM PST by DFG

BOGOTA, Colombia — President Alvaro Uribe said Tuesday that his government would ask the International Criminal Court to try Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez for financing and supporting Colombia's main rebel group while it was engaging in genocide.

The Uribe government claims documents found in the laptop of a slain commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia indicate Chavez's government recently gave $300 million to the group known as the FARC

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chavez; columbia; uribe; venezula
It's good to see that there a few leaders in South America with the balls to stand up to Chavez.
1 posted on 03/04/2008 8:53:37 AM PST by DFG
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To: DFG

Bravo!


2 posted on 03/04/2008 8:54:27 AM PST by Brian S. Fitzgerald ("We're going to drag that ship over the mountain.")
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To: Brian S. Fitzgerald

And the International Criminal Court will do what about it?


3 posted on 03/04/2008 8:56:11 AM PST by Eurale
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To: DFG
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1980161/posts
4 posted on 03/04/2008 8:57:19 AM PST by King of Florida (A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.)
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To: DFG
I wonder if any of the Democrat candidates would have the cajoles to take a stand against Chavez.

Kennedy didn’t follow through and we got 50 years of Fidel.

Chavez is a sly fool who is pushing every button in South America to create problems.

5 posted on 03/04/2008 9:01:04 AM PST by OKIEDOC (Kalifornia, a red state wannabe. I don't take Ex Lax I just read the New York Times.)
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To: Eurale
And the International Criminal Court will do what about it?

Have an expensive, protracted show trial which will result in liable charges being filed against the Brazilians for having the gal to accuse saint Victor, the peoples living martyr of anything as seemly as complicity in mass murder.

6 posted on 03/04/2008 9:02:28 AM PST by conservonator (spill czeck is knot my friend)
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To: Eurale

Isn’t chavez the appointed judge of that court?


7 posted on 03/04/2008 9:03:15 AM PST by Walkingfeather
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To: conservonator

he may have to stay at home, or only a very few outside countries, like Bolivia, Ecuador and Cuba.


8 posted on 03/04/2008 9:08:43 AM PST by gusopol3
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To: DFG

Raoul will be the middle man now to keep the money flowing and be the cut out to keep Chavez in good graces, watch for Cuba to start playing a bigger role behind the scenes now that Chavez got his paddies slapped.


9 posted on 03/04/2008 9:09:12 AM PST by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: gusopol3

how could I forget Iran.


10 posted on 03/04/2008 9:09:57 AM PST by gusopol3
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To: gusopol3

Don’t forget Iran.


11 posted on 03/04/2008 9:10:13 AM PST by conservonator (spill czeck is knot my friend)
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To: gusopol3
how could I forget Iran.

;)

12 posted on 03/04/2008 9:11:33 AM PST by conservonator (spill czeck is knot my friend)
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To: OKIEDOC; tx_eggman
would have the cajoles

Is that a cross between frijoles and cajones? You're in Oklahoma fer cryin' out loud... learn to speak the state language... Spanish!
13 posted on 03/04/2008 9:12:45 AM PST by SpinnerWebb (Islam ... If you can't join them, beat them.)
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To: OKIEDOC; tx_eggman

My bad.. you’re in Cali! Even worse!


14 posted on 03/04/2008 9:13:34 AM PST by SpinnerWebb (Islam ... If you can't join them, beat them.)
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To: OKIEDOC

Yes and let’s face it, we wouldn’t give two *hits about Venezuela if their was no oil. How much sanctions has North Korea received from violating multiple arms and proliferation treaties? Of course Iran and Iraq have had them. I don’t think my simple connect the dots mathematics is out of line. Can we please actually drill in ANWR and offshore, pretty please Ms. Pelosi? We know seals are more important than people but just this once, pretty please?


15 posted on 03/04/2008 10:00:45 AM PST by quant5
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To: DFG

El Hugo is in way over his head. I mean waaaaaaay over his head.


16 posted on 03/04/2008 10:01:09 AM PST by TexanToTheCore (If it ain't Rugby or Bullriding, it's for girls.........................................)
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To: quant5
I have thought for some time that it will take an outright catastrophe before the politicians will go against the left wing kook environmentalists.

I have walked in ANWAR and can tell you about the only thing it is good for is raising Caribou and drilling for oil.

In the next 500 years I wonder how many Americans will actually visit that area and experience it’s desolation.

Probably not many.

17 posted on 03/04/2008 10:26:33 AM PST by OKIEDOC (Kalifornia, a red state wannabe. I don't take Ex Lax I just read the New York Times.)
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To: DFG

...you’re looking to a liberal group to hold a liberal accountable?

Good luck with that...


18 posted on 03/04/2008 11:09:02 AM PST by Tzimisce (How Would Mohammed Vote? Hillary for President!)
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To: OKIEDOC

I never been there but my point was not lost on deaf ears. I also believe war will occur to wake us up. More likely a ME war where supply is temporarily disrupted. While the U.S. government has stocked up on supply, the average consumer will be screaming for blood. People are starting to go nuts! Every day their is new shootings where the gunmen then takes his own life.

Times are going to have to become much tougher to change our political system and that’s a shame, you would figure people could start becoming more proactive about how they manage their lives and whom they vote for. Instead, it’s likely hundreds of thousands of us will have to die before it changes and let’s pray that number does not become millions.


19 posted on 03/04/2008 11:21:40 AM PST by quant5
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To: OKIEDOC
I have walked in ANWAR and can tell you about the only thing it is good for is raising Caribou and drilling for oil. You're forgetting mosquitoes. ANWAR is great for breeding those.
20 posted on 03/04/2008 11:29:24 AM PST by Seattle
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