Seriously
Is Hugo Chavez a complete fucktard or what?
Chavez: Oil Will Be Destroyed if Attacked
By DEBORA REY
Associated Press WriterASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Wednesday again raised the specter of U.S. designs to oust him and promised that his government will blow up his country's oil fields if the United States should ever attack.
U.S. officials have repeatedly denied any military plans against Chavez, but also call him a threat to stability in the region.
Speaking to other South American leaders, Chavez said his conflict with Washington is rooted in the U.S. thirst to control oil. He said the Americans will be denied that in Venezuela, which is the world's fifth-largest oil exporter and one of the biggest suppliers to the U.S. market.
If the United States attacks, Chavez said, "We won't have any other alternative - blow up our own oil fields - but they aren't going to take that oil."
Some of Chavez's political opponents at home call his warnings about a U.S. invasion far-fetched and contend he pursues the verbal conflict with Washington to encourage a sense of struggle against a foreign enemy as he heads toward the presidential election in December.
Chavez cited what he called a regular flow of threatening statements and actions from the U.S. government, from U.S. naval exercises being held this month in the Caribbean to U.S. questions about Venezuela's deepening ties with Iran.
"The latest they've invented is that we're sending uranium to Iran, and what's more yesterday it came out in the Venezuelan press that we're making a secret plan to bring Iranian nuclear missiles and install them in Venezuela," he said.
In that report, the Venezuelan newspaper 2001 cited unidentified U.S. intelligence sources as saying Iran and Venezuela made a secret deal to ship missiles to Venezuela and Cuba aboard oil tankers. It did not provide any details about its sources, and the report was roundly denied by Venezuelan officials as preposterous.
Chavez accused the United States of "searching for an excuse for anything" against Venezuela, noting U.S. warship are holding exercises this month in the Caribbean - "there under our very noses."
In Caracas, meanwhile, Venezuela's defense minister, Adm. Orlando Maniglia, said Chavez's military plans to hold its own exercises soon along the coasts and with neighboring countries' armed forces.
"We already have planned some future exercises with the government of Curacao, and also with the Dutch, with the navy and armed forces of Colombia," he said, without giving any details.'
But Venezuela also has problems with neighboring Colombia. It demanded Wednesday that Colombian President Alvaro Uribe investigate a Colombian magazine's allegations that Uribe's secret police plotted to assassinate Chavez.
"The government of President Uribe is obligated to thoroughly investigate and share its investigation with the Venezuelan government," Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel told reporters in Caracas.
Uribe has denied the accusations.
Alek has more on Childish Chavez at Vcrisis.
He's a fucktard, allright, but a dangerous one.
The retard should as Saddam Hussein how that particular ploy worked....
What a maroon!
He's acting rather childish don't you think? He's like the dull child in the classroom that occasionally bursts out shouting because he feels ignored.
Uh, I don't know much about oil but, wouldn't blowing up the fields - given that oil in underground - sort of blow up the country?
President Bush should say in a major speech: "Once and for all, I'd like to put to bed a particular notion that's been espoused in neighboring Venezuela, namely that the United States plans to invade. Frankly, Mr. Chavez, we are not going to invade. Not now, not ever. We don't care about the shitty little commune you're building. Just keep pumping the oil to us you hypocrite and or cut us off and sell it to China for I'll I care. But please, for the love of Bolivar, stop your incessant moaning. It's a broken record already."
Just the other day he was talking about having the indians shooting the invaders with poison darts. Between his come mierderia, the nut job in Iran, the other nut job in North Korea, the world's sure gone crazy.
In the last 2 months I've read: 1776 and John Adams by David McCullough, Team of Rivals (About Lincoln) by Doris Goodwin, and am now reading Alexander Hamilton by Chernow. Seeing the genius and intellect of these folks amazes me. Yet hundreds of years later, you would think the world would get leaders of some equal caliber. But rather than evolving, the world has regressed to the bronze age. Just take a look at Chavez and these other clowns on the planet. Darwin was wrong. There is no evolution. Soon, we will be overrun by a worldwide dictatorship controlled by apes.
Aaargh. Let's see:
* Chavez schmoozes with the mullahs so he can feel better when he cries "Wolf!" about a US attack -- which he plans to repell by gathering a great imaginary army. So, he intiates joint military exercises with that state-of-the-art giant, the Curacao military .....
* Confiscating the oil industry in Ven., Chavez forgets that he can't get it out of ground or out the door without Western tech. But no fear: China, Iran, India, and a host of former Brit colonies, I suppose, can do the trick. As of the end of March, only one major Western oil company remained in Venezuela (the Spanish). Exxon sold its interests to the Spanish after refusing to pay Chavez' tax hike. That's what happens when you mess with TX, where Exxon is based.
Let him eat cake ... I mean, drink his oil & burn his fields ... who cares?
Ese indio seboruco y torpe no se ha enterado todavia que todas las economias socialistas y comunistas acaban en el toilet. Ademas, es bien feo el chamo.
The only thing presidential about Chavez, like any good Latin dictator, is his penchant for expensive suits and his massive traveling entourage. Pero el mono aunque lo vistan de seda .... never mind.
Pedante, estupido y aburrido, he was a lot funnier when he used to take on Condi Rice.
Cigar Mike, that's something that has for some time now depressed me. It was an amazing congregation of incredibly brilliant, gifted men who came together for the founding of the United States, and what do we have now? George Bush and John Kerry. You know who the first election for president of the US was between?
Thomas Jefferson and George Washington. Now, with that kind of choice, you just CAN'T LOSE.
I have theories about why that was true then and not now, but it is sad either way.
To answer the original question, without any perambulations:
Yes.
Julio