Posted on 03/10/2008 7:40:25 AM PDT by milwguy
But in their totality, the hundreds of pages of documents so far made public by Colombia paint an even more chilling picture. The raid appears to have preempted a breathtakingly ambitious "strategic plan" agreed on by Chávez and the FARC with the initial goal of gaining international recognition for a movement designated a terrorist organization by both the United States and Europe. Chávez then intended to force Colombian President Álvaro Uribe to negotiate a political settlement with the FARC, and to promote a candidate allied with Chávez and the FARC to take power from Uribe.
All this is laid out in a series of three e-mails sent in February to the FARC's top leaders by Iván Márquez and Rodrigo Granda, envoys who held a series of secret meetings with Chávez. Judging from the memos, Chávez did most of the talking: He outlined a five-stage plan for undermining Uribe's government, beginning with the release of several of the scores of hostages the FARC is holding.
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For now, the Bush administration appears anxious to avoid this kind of confrontation. U.S. intelligence agencies are analyzing the Colombian evidence; officials say they will share any conclusions with key Latin American governments. Yet those governments have mostly shrunk from confronting Chávez in the past, and some have quietly urged Bush to take him on. If the president decides to ignore clear evidence that Venezuela has funded and conspired with an officially designated terrorist organization, he will flout what has been his first principle since Sept. 11, 2001.
A lame duck POTUS isn’t going to start a shooting war with less than a year until he leaves office. That Iraq has taken so much longer to tighten down has limited our ability to deal with other issues.
Chavez did something very similar in Bolivia.
none of the above three are smart enough to plot. they just hang out with Hugito for the cocaine and will sign or say anything to keep it flowing...
Danny Glover and Sean Penn and Cindy Sheehan
Lethal Stupidity
Dumb Man Walking
The Devil Wears Dumpster
He’s cleaned out the Venz Army of anyone not 100 percent Red and rounded up the firearms from everyone else.
Why not? Bush was just dumb enough to promise recognition to the terrorist mobsters who took over Kosovo with clinton's help. And, by the way, they are major drug runners, too, which may help explain why clinton was so eager to work with them.
So, why not recognize FARC, if we're going to recognize the Kosovar Taliban? Then maybe someone can get a cut of that drug money, too.
Lord, this reminds me of his dad when we were in Panama getting jerked around by Cara de Pina: I got arrested by the Panamanian Defense Forces (PDF) along with 12 other motorcycle riders for “violating the treaty” by riding in uniform (not a violation). Our government “protested in the strongest terms”. 1LT Paz got shot at a checkpoint. Another Protest In The Strongest Terms. Two other incidents, same result. I was very happy to hear the artillery fire at 0050 to start Operation Just Cause, but our response was “it’s about damn time!”.
Colonel, USAFR
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