Psst ... Hugo, You Aren't As Big As You Think
Hugo Chavez, easily one of the larger thorns in our side right now, issued a warning to Secretary of State, Dr. Condoleeza Rice.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez launched a new verbal attack against US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, bluntly warning her "don't mess with me, girl."
Responding to remarks before the US Congress last week in which Rice called Chavez a "challenge to democracy" in Latin America, Chavez warned the top US diplomat to back off.
"She messed with me again," he said in his weekly "Hello President" television show, deliberately mangling her name as "Condolences." "Don't mess with me, girl."
Last week, after her US Congress testimony, Chavez dismissed Rice as "the imperial lady."
He vowed Sunday that Washington would fail in its bid to arouse international opinion against Caracas, and accused the George W. Bush administration of fomenting transit strikes and other unrest to destabilize his country.
"Venezuela is free and however much they may try to instigate internal movements here, we will defeat them," he said.
On Friday, Chavez had warned that he was taking steps to potentially cut off oil shipments to the United States if Washington attacks his country.
US-Venezuelan relations have gone downhill since Chavez was elected seven years ago. He frequently accuses Washington of plotting against him, and has charged it backed an aborted coup in 2002.
Relations hit a new low earlier this month when Caracas expelled a US naval attache on espionage charges, prompting Washington to retaliate by kicking a Venezuelan diplomat out of the United States.
Despite the war of words, Venezuela remains the fourth-largest supplier of crude oil to its northern neighbor, selling it about 1.5 million barrels daily.
First of all, if I were Hugo Chavez, I'd shut my hole. Tangling with the US is not exactly the smartest thing that he can do, and the little communist bastard might want to talk to the other communist countries of the world that we've dealt with. In the 60's Castro found out what lengths we were willing to go to in stopping more missiles from making it down to his country. And in the 80's, Gorbechev saw that Reagan was no slouch at the poker table; Reagan played to win.
And now, we have this looney, tin-horn dictator making waves against the US. Look, we're not an imperialist nation, so I don't uderstand where his idea comes from that he is going to be attacked by us. The only way he's going to be attacked right now is if he does something inherently stupid. Of course, there is always that possibility; he isn't the sharpest tool in the shed. If that day comes, there won't be any negotiating. We will either take him down, as we did Saddam Hussein, or we'll snuff him. Either way, it's a solved problem.
Publius II
Hugo Chavez, easily one of the larger thorns in our side right now, issued a warning to Secretary of State, Dr. Condoleeza Rice.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez launched a new verbal attack against US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, bluntly warning her "don't mess with me, girl."
Responding to remarks before the US Congress last week in which Rice called Chavez a "challenge to democracy" in Latin America, Chavez warned the top US diplomat to back off.
"She messed with me again," he said in his weekly "Hello President" television show, deliberately mangling her name as "Condolences." "Don't mess with me, girl."
Last week, after her US Congress testimony, Chavez dismissed Rice as "the imperial lady."
He vowed Sunday that Washington would fail in its bid to arouse international opinion against Caracas, and accused the George W. Bush administration of fomenting transit strikes and other unrest to destabilize his country.
"Venezuela is free and however much they may try to instigate internal movements here, we will defeat them," he said.
On Friday, Chavez had warned that he was taking steps to potentially cut off oil shipments to the United States if Washington attacks his country.
US-Venezuelan relations have gone downhill since Chavez was elected seven years ago. He frequently accuses Washington of plotting against him, and has charged it backed an aborted coup in 2002.
Relations hit a new low earlier this month when Caracas expelled a US naval attache on espionage charges, prompting Washington to retaliate by kicking a Venezuelan diplomat out of the United States.
Despite the war of words, Venezuela remains the fourth-largest supplier of crude oil to its northern neighbor, selling it about 1.5 million barrels daily.
First of all, if I were Hugo Chavez, I'd shut my hole. Tangling with the US is not exactly the smartest thing that he can do, and the little communist bastard might want to talk to the other communist countries of the world that we've dealt with. In the 60's Castro found out what lengths we were willing to go to in stopping more missiles from making it down to his country. And in the 80's, Gorbechev saw that Reagan was no slouch at the poker table; Reagan played to win.
And now, we have this looney, tin-horn dictator making waves against the US. Look, we're not an imperialist nation, so I don't uderstand where his idea comes from that he is going to be attacked by us. The only way he's going to be attacked right now is if he does something inherently stupid. Of course, there is always that possibility; he isn't the sharpest tool in the shed. If that day comes, there won't be any negotiating. We will either take him down, as we did Saddam Hussein, or we'll snuff him. Either way, it's a solved problem.
Publius II
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