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Obama declares Venezuela a threat to U.S. national security
AP ^ | 3/9 | Jeff Mason and Roberta Rampton

Posted on 03/09/2015 9:56:19 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue

U.S. President Barack Obama issued an executive order on Monday declaring Venezuela a national security threat, sanctioning seven individuals and expressing concern about the Venezuelan government's treatment of political opponents.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: executiveorder; venezuela
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Is this some sort of WTF? moment?? Seriously... What about Russia, ISIS, and a slew of other threats slightly more meaningful than Venezuela. Bizarre.
1 posted on 03/09/2015 9:56:19 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Not a mussie country, that’s why ....


2 posted on 03/09/2015 9:58:33 AM PDT by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

It’s interesting, when Hugo Chavez badmouthed Bush, liberals jumped on board and joined in with Venezuela. Now liberals will have to eat their own words to fall in lockstep with Uber Obama to condemn Venezuela now


3 posted on 03/09/2015 10:00:36 AM PDT by realcleanguy
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To: TangledUpInBlue
What? I thought Venezuela was a preview of what 0bama wanted for USA.

4 posted on 03/09/2015 10:01:21 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: realcleanguy

Is Venezuela still sending the Kennedys cheap heating oil to parcel out to east coast Democrat voters?


5 posted on 03/09/2015 10:02:44 AM PDT by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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It’s interesting, when Hugo Chavez badmouthed Bush, liberals jumped on board and joined in with Venezuela. Now liberals will have to eat their own words to fall in lockstep with Uber Obama to condemn Venezuela now

Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.

6 posted on 03/09/2015 10:02:48 AM PDT by jalisco555 ("My 80% friend is not my 20% enemy" - Ronald Reagan)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

What is really going on here?


7 posted on 03/09/2015 10:03:06 AM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: BitWielder1

It was and is...


8 posted on 03/09/2015 10:03:33 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks ("If he were working for the other side, what would he be doing differently ?")
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To: TangledUpInBlue

say what?


9 posted on 03/09/2015 10:03:55 AM PDT by txhurl
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There’s got to be a back story. Maybe Maduro dissed Mooch.


10 posted on 03/09/2015 10:05:13 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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But the ILLEGAL ALIEN IN CHIEF wants it MAKE IT a mussie country ...
11 posted on 03/09/2015 10:05:41 AM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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concern about the Venezuelan government's treatment of political opponents.

How ironic.

12 posted on 03/09/2015 10:06:39 AM PDT by McGruff (weÂ’re leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq - Barack Obama)
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To: ColdOne

Exactly. I mean, so they oppress dissidents. Geez, so a few other hundred countries. How does this suddenly make them a threat to US National Security??


13 posted on 03/09/2015 10:06:58 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue (I have no home. I'm the wind.)
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And yet we’re normalizing relations with Cuba.


14 posted on 03/09/2015 10:08:01 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: TangledUpInBlue

head meet wall


15 posted on 03/09/2015 10:16:42 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: TangledUpInBlue
He misses his butt buddy.


16 posted on 03/09/2015 10:17:37 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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Venezuela is deemed a threat because they are on the verge of once again utterly discrediting Socialism. Just before the Democrat Party is able to fully implement it.


17 posted on 03/09/2015 10:20:10 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Hollywood’s not going to like this, Sean Penn is probably on the phone as we speak.


18 posted on 03/09/2015 10:21:25 AM PDT by eyeamok
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So are we up to another assassination like in Libya?


19 posted on 03/09/2015 10:21:30 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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What brought on the None’s indignation? Did Maduro have some homosexuals and lesbians roughed up?


20 posted on 03/09/2015 10:21:54 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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