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JTSimon

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Chavez warns U.S. about '100-year war'
« on: March 08, 2004, 08:57:15 AM »


 ;) lol US got put in check...now lets see what the USgovernment plans to do.


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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- President Hugo Chavez on Sunday vowed to freeze oil exports to the United States and wage a "100-year war" if Washington ever tried to invade Venezuela.

The United States has repeatedly denied ever trying to overthrow Chavez, but the leftist leader has accused Washington of being behind a failed 2002 coup and of funding opposition groups now seeking a recall referendum on his presidency.

Chavez accused the United States of ousting former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and warned Washington not to "even think about trying something similar in Venezuela."

Venezuela "has enough allies on this continent to start a 100-year war," Chavez said during his weekly television show.

He added that "U.S. citizens could forget about ever getting Venezuelan oil" if the United States ever tried to invade the South American country.

Venezuela provides about 15 percent of U.S. oil imports but relations between the two countries are rocky over Chavez's friendship with Cuban President Fidel Castro, his criticism of U.S.-led negotiations for a free trade zone in the Americas and his opposition to the war in Iraq.

The United States was slow to condemn the 2002 coup, initially accusing Chavez of provoking his own downfall.

Chavez has increasingly railed against U.S. meddling in Venezuelan affairs as his opponents step up protests to demand the recall vote. Top U.S. officials have recently accused Chavez of becoming increasingly autocratic.

On Saturday, at least 500,000 Venezuelans marched in Caracas to protest the National Elections Council's decision last week that an opposition petition for the recall vote lacked enough valid signatures. Opponents turned in more than 3 million signatures December 19 but the council ruled only 1.8 million were valid. The council ordered more than 1 million citizens to confirm they signed and rejected more than 140,000 signatures outright.

Rioting over the decision killed eight people and hurt scores more. The violence subsided after the Organization of American States and the U.S.-based Carter Center pledged to help give citizens a fair chance to proved they signed.

Venezuela is deeply divided between those who fear Chavez is trying to impose Cuba-style socialism and those who say he has given an unprecedented political voice to the impoverished majority.

Chavez insists election officials have reason to believe the recall petition is fraud-ridden. He claims many signatures belong to dead people, minors and foreigners.

On Sunday, Chavez promised his government would investigate the deaths and injuries from last week's violence. Opposition leaders accuse National Guard troops of committing abuses while trying to keep rock-throwing protesters from blocking roads with burning tires. Chavez accuses his opponents of instigating chaos.

"The government is investigating all the acts of violence and especially those in which people died," Chavez said. "Violence only takes place when a group of the opposition leaders decide there will be violence."
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/03/07/venezuela.chavez.ap/index.html

 

Woodrow

Re:Chavez warns U.S. about '100-year war'
« Reply #1 on: March 08, 2004, 09:35:25 AM »
War get's a thumbs up?

You're a trick.
 

JTSimon

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Re:Chavez warns U.S. about '100-year war'
« Reply #2 on: March 08, 2004, 09:46:29 AM »
War get's a thumbs up?

You're a trick.

 ;D Standing up to the USgovernment/CIA got the thumbs up...like my comment above ::)


« Last Edit: March 08, 2004, 09:48:26 AM by Killa Kain(I didn't even read your shit) »
 

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Re:Chavez warns U.S. about '100-year war'
« Reply #3 on: March 08, 2004, 11:25:41 AM »
it would be about a 3 month war......bomb the fuck out of them if they even tried anything
 

Trauma-san

Re:Chavez warns U.S. about '100-year war'
« Reply #4 on: March 08, 2004, 12:49:35 PM »
You said "Lets see what the US government plans to do".


I'll sum it up for you: Not a damn thing, fuck Venezuela.  We can grow bananas here.  
 

Woodrow

Re:Chavez warns U.S. about '100-year war'
« Reply #5 on: March 08, 2004, 01:10:50 PM »
Nah, Venezuela is a real cool place. I know a bunch of people from Venezuela, and they all say that Chavez is a tool and he's running their country into the ground. Also, Venezuela is one of the largest non-middle east Oil producerers... somewhere around 2 to 3 million barrels of oil a day I think. It's the 3rd largest in Opec


Regarding maxi-pad's post, It's clear to anbody with half a brain whats going on...

Trouble with elements in your own government?
Not popular with the merchant class?
Fancy yourself a populist, even if you abuse human rights?
Hate it when your plans to become a despot are under scrutiny?

Just do what Chavez does! Blame the US boogeyman under your bed. Who needs evidence?
« Last Edit: March 08, 2004, 01:11:29 PM by Krayze-Eyez Killah »
 

Woodrow

Re:Chavez warns U.S. about '100-year war'
« Reply #6 on: March 08, 2004, 01:11:45 PM »
Congratulations
Hugo Chavez

On your successful completion of the
Kim Jong Ill Dipolmacy Correspondence Course!
 

Trauma-san

Re:Chavez warns U.S. about '100-year war'
« Reply #7 on: March 08, 2004, 04:54:24 PM »
We can't possibly be getting over 80% of our oil from south american countries like Venezuela.  Remember, we're invading Iraq for oil or Bush owns the oil company that makes the money off of it or Halliburton needs the contract or something like that.  We get all of our oil, or at least 90% of it from Iraq... that's what your average democrat tells me.  I read officially that yes, we do get all our oil from South America and only a small percentage from the middle east, but I must be wrong since popular perception thinks otherwise.  
 

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Re:Chavez warns U.S. about '100-year war'
« Reply #8 on: March 09, 2004, 12:06:40 PM »
Chavez is a great man. If you interfere in the affairs of another country, fund the opposition into demanding unconstitutional shit (like steppin down, 2 yrs into his elected mandate), and tryin to overthrow a foreign leader, shouldnt be a surprise when said leader cracks down.

No more aristides.
"One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. "Which road do I take?" she asked. "Where do you want to go?" was his response. "I don't know," Alice answered. "Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."

- Lewis Carroll
 

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Re:Chavez warns U.S. about '100-year war'
« Reply #9 on: March 09, 2004, 12:11:03 PM »
Chavez is a great man. If you interfere in the affairs of another country, fund the opposition into demanding unconstitutional shit (like steppin down, 2 yrs into his elected mandate), and tryin to overthrow a foreign leader, shouldnt be a surprise when said leader cracks down.

No more aristides.

 ;)
 

Woodrow

Re:Chavez warns U.S. about '100-year war'
« Reply #10 on: March 09, 2004, 01:14:55 PM »
Chavez is a great man. If you interfere in the affairs of another country, fund the opposition into demanding unconstitutional shit (like steppin down, 2 yrs into his elected mandate), and tryin to overthrow a foreign leader, shouldnt be a surprise when said leader cracks down.

No more aristides.

You're a fucking moron. I thought you'd chime in with an intelligent comment, but I get this? You aren't that ignorant, don't act like it.

Call him a "Freedom fighter for the downtrodden and opressed" all you want, but it dosen't change the fact that he's a megalomaniac who rigged the elections so that his group of powerful military elites could run the country and control everything in Venezuela. He's well on his way to becoming the Castro of South America. I guess you'd like that tho wouldn't your bitter ass?

Chavez is all up in arms right now, but does anybody here know or even care about the Coup he attemped in 1992?

Regarding the war "Threat", The Chavez government has little popular support remaing, support that would melt away the instant a carrier taskforce sailed into Lake Maracaibo.  If the US went to war with Venezuela we'd have to deal with poorly armed, poorly trained, and badly outnumbered people who didn't want to fight. Columbia sure wouldn't come to their help due to all the support Chavez has given the FARC. I doubt much of south America would care or put up enough of a fight to make it the "hunderd year war" Chavez threatened.
 

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Re:Chavez warns U.S. about '100-year war'
« Reply #11 on: March 09, 2004, 03:36:31 PM »
I was lazy, damn it.

Anyways, I said the guy was a great man. I like him, he has chutzpah. Seems like an affable fellow.

As for your speech, whats the source behind Chavez having no popular support left. You know CIA involvement is not limited to just killing people, it involves funding opposition, including domestic media. Bullshyt unrest destablizes a country, that means ramifications on the economy, you twist a couple of media outlets, and a bunch of fools are gathering on the street.

And yes, Id like another Castro in the area
"One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. "Which road do I take?" she asked. "Where do you want to go?" was his response. "I don't know," Alice answered. "Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."

- Lewis Carroll
 

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Re:Chavez warns U.S. about '100-year war'
« Reply #12 on: March 09, 2004, 04:33:30 PM »
Venezuela ain't shit!  One Time I was like BITCH! gimmie a fuckin drink and then Venezuela did it and shit then went back to cleanin' the floors and I was like BITCH!...Venezuela had some big ass titties! ;D

-KIDRENEGADE-
 

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Re:Chavez warns U.S. about '100-year war'
« Reply #13 on: March 09, 2004, 09:59:58 PM »
I was lazy, damn it.

Anyways, I said the guy was a great man. I like him, he has chutzpah. Seems like an affable fellow.

As for your speech, whats the source behind Chavez having no popular support left. You know CIA involvement is not limited to just killing people, it involves funding opposition, including domestic media. Bullshyt unrest destablizes a country, that means ramifications on the economy, you twist a couple of media outlets, and a bunch of fools are gathering on the street.

And yes, Id like another Castro in the area

 ;) Money money money money money monnnnnnnnney
 

JTSimon

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Re:Chavez warns U.S. about '100-year war'
« Reply #14 on: March 09, 2004, 10:05:54 PM »
it would be about a 3 month war......bomb the fuck out of them if they even tried anything

 ::) You'll have Vietnam flashbacks...from Apocalypse Now.

This ain't no Iraqi desert.