Becuase nothing kills tanks quite like the A-10, except maybe the Apache...
Posted on 03/05/2008 8:51:22 AM PST by vadum
Now more proof of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's ties to international terrorism have emerged. According to a news story, a laptop computer belonging to Raul Reyes, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) leader killed days ago by the Colombian military, contains documents indicating that "Chavez, seeking to raise the FARC's stature and relieve it of its international pariah status, shares their goal of isolating and discrediting Colombia's president, Alvaro Uribe." The laptop also discloses a $300 million gift from Chavez to Colombian rebel groups. Previously, Chavez angered Colombians by urging its government to stop calling the communist FARC and the smaller National Liberation Army (ELN) "terrorists." FARC and ELN are "true armies" that have "Bolivarian goals," Chavez says.
This is the same Hugo Chavez who stood at the dais of the United Nations General Assembly in September 2006, the day after President George W. Bush did the same, and insulted the U.S. president in terms even arch-liberal Congressman Charles Rangel (D-New York) found offensive (CNN video of Rangel statement). Chavez made the sign of the cross, and called President Bush "the Devil," adding "and it smells of sulfur still today."
Chavez's links to terrorism are already well documented. He supports Iran's Holocaust-denying president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and Iran-financed Hezbollah, the Lebanese terrorist group. He allowed Hezbollah and the Palestinian Hamas terrorists to open offices in his country's capital, Caracas.
American leftists love Chavez, of course. Jesse Jackson, Representative Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), and Howard Zinn all sing his praises. On a 2006 visit to Venezuela, useful idiot Cindy Sheehan urged the world to bring down "the U.S. empire" and declared she would rather have Chavez in the White House than President Bush.
The Hollywood left is also part of the Chavez lovefest. Actors Danny Glover, Kevin Spacey, Sean Penn, Ed Asner, singer Harry Belafonte, and supermodel Naomi Campbell all speak glowingly of the man who now rules Venezuela by decree. The Venezuelan government is even providing Glover, the Lethal Weapon star, at least $20 million to make movies.
Meanwhile, a willing tool of Chavez's foreign aid program to Americans is former Representative Joseph P. Kennedy II (D-Massachusetts), who heads a nonprofit called Citizens Energy Corporation. CITGO oil company, which is owned by the Venezuelan government and controlled by Chavez, provides discounted home heating oil for America's shivering masses, and Joe Kennedy is the public face of the program. Kennedy is the fellow you see in television ads promoting the program, which comes to America by way of "our good friends in Venezuela."
We'll never know what Kennedy's father, the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy, a man who called communism "a tyranny that holds its captives in a vice-like subjugation," might think of his son's collaboration with Chavez, an admirer of Fidel Castro. As a young man Senator Kennedy was an anti-Communist who had worked for Senator Joseph McCarthy on his anti-subversion subcommittee. The two were so close that RFK made the famous Red hunter godfather to his firstborn child, former Maryland Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend.
Read the current issue of Organization Trends to learn more about Hugo Chavez and his American support network. The article is called "The American Friends of Hugo Chavez: Dial 1-800-4-TYRANT," by Ana Maria Ortiz and Matthew Vadum.
Maybe there will be a Hellfire, JDAM, or Tomahawk with his name on it in the not too distant future.
Do you suppose it bothers any of the peace-crowd that Chavez is funding a war?
Somehow I do not belive that Chavez is ready for a dozen A-10 Warthogs to demonstrate what modern warfare is all about. But he thinks he is. The next week or so will be MUY Interestante.
I say push the button George. You got nothing to lose.
Just curious - why A-10s and not F-117s?
True enough. I will note, however, that as RFK geared up to run for President in 1968, he had moved considerably to the left, stabbing anti-war candidate Eugene McCarthy in the back by entering the Democrat primaries only after McCarthy had shown LBJ's vulnerability. This, coupled with his lifelong propensity for rank opportunism, suggests to me that had he lived, RFK would have gone WAY left, just like the rest of his worthless party, perhaps even into the Che-Mao-Ho-land of mindless leftism that forms the core of the current Democrat party.
Yes, he worked for Joe McCarthy. Mussolini started out as a socialist too.
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AS of March 4, 2008 - that’s yesterday - the F-117 is retired.
A-10s are specifically designed to take out tanks, and they do it very well.
I read about this last night in a Investors Business Daily editorial. I just checked the websites of Reuters, cbsnews, nbcnews, abcnews, msnbc,...............not a sign of anything about this.
This story will never make it onto the radar screen, because he’s a Socialist, and the media’s default position is to coddle him.
Becuase nothing kills tanks quite like the A-10, except maybe the Apache...
“AS of March 4, 2008 - that’s yesterday - the F-117 is retired.”
is that true? What is going to replace it?
Because everything after dark is a stealth fighter in Venezuela...
When are the esteemed press going to ask our Presidential candidates about how they propose to handle this??
Laptop links Obama, Chavez, Colombian revolutionaries
Narco-rebels say Venezuela aiding them, more help coming from Democrat president
WASHINGTON – A laptop computer captured in the possession of a slain Colombian revolutionary provides tangible evidence Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is aiding the narco-rebels and that they see more help coming next year if Barack Obama becomes president.
The laptop was seized Saturday after a raid by Colombian government forces on commandos of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. Some 23 rebels were killed in the raid, including Raul Reyes, their leader. The files on the computer provide details and context to what the Colombian government claims is Chavez’s effort to subvert the U.S. ally.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=58071
must be the reason they left hugo’s company OUT of the $18B tax package on oil companies
WorldNetDaily
Laptop links Obama, Chavez, Colombian revolutionaries
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=58071
Share this with any Obama supporters you know:
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Thanks for this important link OPS4.
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