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Venezuela Challenges US with 2M Voluntary Soldiers
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| March 5, 2006
| Foreign News Desk
Posted on 03/06/2006 5:16:29 PM PST by proud_yank
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To: I got the rope
"He's building small arms plants. He's getting help from the Russians and the Chinese."
Uh oh, thats not good.
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posted on
03/06/2006 8:20:23 PM PST
by
Hill of Tara
("The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants.")
To: Brilliant
Conscription is inefficient. Not always. It worked fine for us in WW-II. It depends on both the current military conditions and state of the art, and upon the social and political conditions in the country at the time.
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posted on
03/06/2006 9:10:48 PM PST
by
El Gato
To: Petey139
The best they can arm these guys is the cheapest hand gun in the world (Found at your local Dollar Store) and perhaps a Hockey Helmet, Jock Strap and a Army Uniform. I I'm sure that if you buy a few hundred thousand, Chinese clones of the AK-47 are pretty cheap, cheaper than that handgun bought at retail in the US most likely. There are after all dirt simple weapons, designed to be operated by uneducated peasants, and produced on the crudest of tooling.
Mikhail Kalashnikov is a brilliant designer,, working with some really tough constraints.
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posted on
03/06/2006 9:19:08 PM PST
by
El Gato
To: Barnacle
In the "American continent"? What's that? Technically North, Central and South America are a single landmass. IOW, the American continent. Monroe Doctrine applies. Red Chinese not welcome.
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posted on
03/06/2006 9:23:55 PM PST
by
El Gato
To: proud_yank
This reminds me of something I heard on t.v. when I was a kid "what if someone threw a war and no one showed up?" This dude has been preparing his people for the imminent "Imperialist Invasion" yet he is not even on the U.S. radar that much anymore. This sounds like another socialist jobs program to me. Gotta keep the subjects on there toes and afraid that the outsiders are gonna get them so they don't pay attention to the emperor who has no clothes.
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posted on
03/06/2006 9:24:55 PM PST
by
spikeytx86
(Beware the Democratic party has been over run by CRAB PEOPLE!)
To: proud_yank
Venezuela Challenges US with 2M Voluntary SoldiersRepeat after us Hugo. Operation. Desert. Storm.
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posted on
03/06/2006 9:40:00 PM PST
by
TeddyCon
To: proud_yank
Is this an American "wet dream?"
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posted on
03/06/2006 9:41:09 PM PST
by
Hunble
To: proud_yank
And Russia wants to arm each one with a Kalashnikov.
Also, Chavez wants to rebuild the Nicaraguan military for the Sandistinias.
To: proud_yank; Tailgunner Joe; MARKUSPRIME; Stellar Dendrite; Kitten Festival
To: agooga
"What the article fails to mention is that 20 Venezuelan regulars are roughly equivalent to one US soldier from any branch of service-- including coast guard and boy scouts"
And any American gun owner with an assault weapon...
To: proud_yank
Every time I see Hugo Chavez he seems to be doing a bad impression of Richard Dreyfuss in Moon Over Parador.
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posted on
03/07/2006 3:01:01 AM PST
by
highlander_UW
(I don't know what my future holds, but I know Who holds my future)
To: proud_yank
The best thing to do with Chavez is to let him bluster away and completely ignore his efforts. He'll self destruct soon enough.
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posted on
03/07/2006 3:06:51 AM PST
by
roaddog727
(P=3/8 A. or, P=plenty...............)
To: proud_yank
Wow what a site it'll be seeing 2 million soldiers surrending to reporters.
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posted on
03/07/2006 6:56:03 AM PST
by
x5452
To: x5452
So, you discount Hugo Chavez as a threat?
To: Thunder90
I think he's an idiot, and I think we'd wipe the floors with him if he tried to act on even 1/1000th of his idiotic threats.
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posted on
03/07/2006 9:09:58 AM PST
by
x5452
To: proud_yank
Send Jimmy Carter down to try to calm Hugo. Have Carter tell him if he persists our next envoy will be Pat Robertson.
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posted on
03/07/2006 9:13:38 AM PST
by
FreePaul
To: proud_yank
About 500,000 voluntary civilians began the four-month military training program on Saturday. Venezuela will have the largest reserve army, double the size of US armed services reserves, in the American continent by the summer of 2007. With that many trained soldiers, Chavez better take care of everybody or he is training the cadre of a very large coup.
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posted on
03/07/2006 9:14:29 AM PST
by
N. Theknow
(Kennedys - Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - But they know what's best.)
To: proud_yank
First, it's nice to see that the Venezuelans have found something to keep them busy.
Second, isn't Venezuela on a different continent? (rhetorical question)
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posted on
03/07/2006 9:17:03 AM PST
by
Doohickey
(If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice...I will choose freewill.)
To: Doohickey
First, it's nice to see that the Venezuelans have found something to keep them busy.
Yes it is, but unfortunately their new 'hobby' will most likely result in a huge wave of Venezuelan immigrants to Miami.
Second, isn't Venezuela on a different continent? (rhetorical question)
Same hemisphere though :-)
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posted on
03/07/2006 11:59:18 AM PST
by
proud_yank
(Liberalism - The 'Culture of Ignorance'.)
To: El Gato
Technically North, Central and South America are a single landmass. Still, North America and South America are two distinct continents.
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posted on
03/07/2006 6:12:21 PM PST
by
Barnacle
(John R. Bolton, Samuel A. Alito and John G. Roberts. - Bush did well with these.)
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