Posted on 11/19/2009 11:54:58 AM PST by Heartlander2
Obama’s trip to China must have hurt his ego because of all the world press he’s receiving.
If you read the history of Romania’s Nicolae Ceaucescu, he did not become truly insane until after a 1971 visit to North Korea, where he became enamored of the sorts of devotion he saw being showered upon Dear Leader
“VZ is goin’ be in a world of hurt...when the Columbian President decides to move.”
And I’m afraid Colombia is going to be in a world of hurt, when the rest of the world fails to support them.
VE is a $#!?hole right now due to his socialist policies, so Chavez needs to distract his people somehow...
Hugo going Jim Jones?
Colombia is to Venezuela as West Berlin was to East Berlin.
Ceaucescu’s ghost lives on in the White House.
No water or electricity lately in many parts of the country and Hugo has to get people’s mind off of that.
I think you’re one of the only others out there who knows what a “Colombian bow tie, or neck tie” is.
Actually, on Chavez, it might be an improvement on his appearence.
arrived in trucks on the Venezuelan side at two pedestrian bridges that link communities on both sides ... and then proceeded to dynamite them,”
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Just to split the communities ?...
You knew that Venezuela's coke-head clown dictator was going to find a pretext for war with Colombia a month ago in Wars On The Way. The Colombian Army's take-out of Chavez's FARC buddy Raul Reyes, a murderous Marxist midget (he was barely over five feet tall) last Saturday (3/01) provided it.
Now let's hope Uribe accepts Chavez's offer of war. For if he does, it's bye-bye, Hugo.
For all the billions of dollars Chavez has spent on Russian weapons, there is no such thing as a Venezuela military in reality. The Venezuelan Army has never been in a war, save for a brief border skirmish with British Guyana over a century ago in the 1890s. Historically, the purpose of the Venezuelan military has been to keep whoever had seized power in power, to quash rebellions and popular revolts.
Today, Chavez is so hated by many of his own generals that they have little desire to obey his commands to "move ten battalions" (about 6,000 soldiers) plus tanks to the border with Colombia. Further, they know that if ordered into actual battle, their soldiers are so ill-trained they will be slaughtered or defect en masse.
The Colombian army of 270,000, well-equipped and trained after $5 billion of US support (courtesy of George Bush) dwarfs Venezuela's of 82,000. Further, Colombia's soldiers are battle-hardened after years of fighting a war with the FARC guerrillas, a war which is now close to being won. They would eat Venezuelan soldiers for desayuno.
Chavez knows this, so unfortunately, his war threats are bluster and bluff. The real bright spot, though, is that Chavez does not possess a rationally functioning brain. Uribe does - and thus knows if he can enrage and goad Chavez enough, it will tip him into the irrationality of an actual military attack on Colombian territory.
“The Colombian army of 270,000, well-equipped and trained after $5 billion of US support (courtesy of George Bush) dwarfs Venezuela’s of 82,000.”
Thank God for a president that at least meant well for his country!
To clarify, Colombia will kick VE’s butt militarily...but in the aftermath, I’m afraid it will create a potential long term conflict in the jungles, and create political unstablitity in VE.
If recent events have told us anything, the world will side with those at fault, ie, VE, and Colombia’s struggle (successful recently) to become a thriving and civilized country will become a notch more difficult.
The way our backwards world is, the UN will probably demand that Colombia apologize for defeating VE.
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