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bobdina
08-10-2009, 03:12 PM
Chavez Urges Military to Prepare for War
August 10, 2009
Associated Press

CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez told his military to be prepared for a possible confrontation with Colombia, warning that Bogota's plans to increase the U.S. military presence at its bases poses a threat to Venezuela.

Chavez has issued near daily warnings that Washington could use bases in Colombia to destabilize the region since learning of negotiations to lease seven Colombian military bases to the United States.

"The threat against us is growing," Chavez said Sunday. "I call on the people and the armed forces, let's go, ready for combat!"

The former paratroop commander said Colombian soldiers were recently spotted crossing the porous 1,400-mile (2,300-kilometer) border that separates the two countries and suggested that Colombia may have been trying to provoke Venezuela's military.

"They crossed the Orinoco River in a boat and entered Venezuelan territory," Chavez said. "When our troops arrived, they'd already left."

In Bogota, Colombia's foreign ministry issued a news release denying reports that soldiers crossed into Venezuela, after a revision of troop movements by the Colombian military.

Chavez said Venezuela's foreign ministry would file a formal complaint and warned Colombia that "Venezuela's military will respond if there's an attack against Venezuela."

Chavez said he would attend this week's summit of the Union of South American Nations in Quito, Ecuador, to urge his Latin American allies to pressure Colombian President Alvaro Uribe to reconsider plans to increase the U.S. military presence.

"We cannot ignore this threat," Chavez said during his weekly radio and television program, "Hello President."

Chavez also halted shipments of subsidized fuel to Colombia, saying Venezuela should not be sending cheap gasoline to an antagonistic neighbor.

"Let them buy it at the real price. How are we going to favor Uribe's government in this manner?" he said.

Colombian officials say Venezuela has no reason to be concerned, and that the U.S. forces would help fight drug trafficking. The proposed 10-year agreement, they claim, would not push the number of American troops and civilian military contractors beyond 1,400 - the maximum currently permitted by U.S. law.

Tensions between the neighboring South American nations also have been heightened over Colombia's disclosure that three Swedish-made anti-tank weapons found at a rebel camp last year had been purchased by Venezuela's military.

Chavez has accused Colombia of acting irresponsibly in its accusation that the anti-tank rocket launchers sold to Venezuela in 1988 were obtained by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. Sweden confirmed the weapons were originally sold to Venezuela's military.

Chavez denies aiding the FARC. He claims the United States is using Colombia as part of a broader plan to portray him as a supporter of terrorist groups to provide justification for U.S. military intervention in Venezuela.

Chavez said Sunday that diplomatic relations with Uribe's government "remain frozen" even though he ordered Venezuela's ambassador to return to Colombia more than a week after he was recalled.

Cruelbreed
08-10-2009, 04:42 PM
Chavez urges Venezuelan military to go get its ass kicked.

Reactor-Axe-Man
08-11-2009, 11:04 PM
See also where he's making big weapons buys. The only reason that he didn't intervene on behalf of his Marxist fellow traveler Zelaya in Honduras was that he lacked the capability to do so.

GTFPDQ
08-12-2009, 12:45 AM
Why cant that munter just keep his yap shut. Fat faced fucker wants to wait until the US increases its presence in Columbia, then have a go. EPIC FAIL on the way!

ghost
08-12-2009, 09:55 AM
The fucking Venezuelans? Are you kidding me? Shit, just let the Chileans take care of em, they can handle it.

The last thing that the Venezuelans want to face off with are a bunch of pumped SEALs and Rangers, running around in the jungle. They will be slaughtered. Mark my words.

Reactor-Axe-Man
08-12-2009, 11:43 PM
I can think of a single submarine in the Chilean Navy that could wipe out the entire Venezuelan Navy - the Simpson. That little boat took out an entire U.S. carrier group during the RIMPAC '96 wargames. It's a freakin' sardine can, though. True story, when I first saw the Simpson at SUBASE Pearl Harbor, the first thing I thought was 'where do they keep the key they use to unroll the top of the boat to let the crew out?' The second thing I thought after seeing the red white and blue stars and bars flag flying from the jackstaff was 'Texas has a navy?'

GTFPDQ
08-13-2009, 12:09 AM
Right what one of you fuckers moved Chile...... Last time I looked it was miles away from Venezuela. Own up you country moving bastard.