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Hugo Rants Yet Another Time

June 26, 2007

The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming. Does anyone remember that movie? Well, Hugo Chavez must have at least picked up on the theme. His reasons for buying 100,000 weapons, tanks, planes, helicopters, and even the thought of buying a submarine fleet is because the Americans are coming, the Americans are coming. NOT!

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Hugo Chavez urged soldiers on Sunday to prepare for a guerrilla-style war against the United States, saying that Washington is using psychological and economic warfare as part of an unconventional campaign aimed at derailing his government.

“We must continue developing the resistance war, that’s the anti- imperialist weapon. We must think and prepare for the resistance war everyday,” said Chavez, who has repeatedly warned that American soldiers could invade Venezuela to seize control of the South American nation’s immense oil reserves.

Sure, that’s just what George Bush is going to do!

Right after he invades Iran of course.

“It’s not just armed warfare,” said Chavez, a former army officer who is leading what he calls the “Bolivarian Revolution,” a socialist movement named after 19th-century independence hero Simon Bolivar. “I’m also referring to psychological warfare, media warfare, political warfare, economic warfare.”

Under Chavez, Venezuela has recently purchased some $3 billion worth of arms from Russia, including 53 military helicopters, 100,000 Kalashnikov rifles, 24 SU-30 Sukhoi fighter jets. Meanwhile the people are starving and living an even worse life than before he took over to help them.

Opposition leader Julio Borges condemned the president’s interest in acquiring weapons, saying the government should focus on reducing violent crime in Venezuela, which has one of the highest homicide rates in Latin America.

I’m sure we’ll hear more next week as well. :-(

Written by Ernie · Filed Under Daily Commentary 

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