Chavez being an attention whore

Lord Zentei · Post by **Lord Zentei** » 2005-09-17 01:03am

CNN wrote:Chavez: U.S. planning to invade Venezuela

Friday, September 16, 2005; Posted: 11:10 p.m. EDT (03:10 GMT)

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Friday he has documentary evidence that the United States plans to invade his country.

Chavez, interviewed on ABC's "Nightline," said the plan is called "Balboa" and involves aircraft carriers and planes. A transcript of the interview was made available by "Nightline."

He said U.S. soldiers recently went to Curacao, an island off Venezuela's northwest coast. He described as a "lie" the official U.S. explanation that they visited Curacao for rest and recreation.

"They were doing movements. They were doing maneuvers," Chavez said, speaking through a translator.

He added: "We are coming up with the counter-Balboa plan. That is to say if the government of the United States attempts to commit the foolhardy enterprise of attacking us, it would be embarked on a 100-year war. We are prepared."

Chavez has been attending the summit of world leaders at the United Nations in New York this week. On Thursday, he denounced the U.S.-led war in Iraq and told other leaders they should consider moving the U.N. headquarters out of the United States.

To prove U.S. intentions to invade Venezuela, Chavez offered to send "Nightline" host Ted Koppel maps and other documentation.

"What I can't tell you his how we got it, to protect the sources, how we got it through military intelligence," he said.

In the event of a U.S. invasion, Chavez said the United States can "just forget" about receiving any more oil from his country.

CaptainChewbacca · Post by **CaptainChewbacca** » 2005-09-17 01:04am

If we invaded his country, we'd get ALL the oil from Venezuela.

Lord Zentei · Post by **Lord Zentei** » 2005-09-17 01:07am

To comment: it's the old "blast a foreign bogey man to distract the populace from problems at home" shtick. How ironic, then that Bush is his chosen bogeyman.

Wicked Pilot · Post by **Wicked Pilot** » 2005-09-17 01:12am

We have plans out there for any contigency imaginable, including invading Venezuela. Creating them is what Unified Commands do on their days off.

CaptainChewbacca · Post by **CaptainChewbacca** » 2005-09-17 01:14am

Wicked Pilot wrote:We have plans out there for any contigency imaginable, including invading Venezuela. Creating them is what Unified Commands do on their days off.

I'd give both my legs for unrestricted access to those plans for a day. The wargamming must be insane.

SpacedTeddyBear · Post by **SpacedTeddyBear** » 2005-09-17 01:17am

In the event of a U.S. invasion, Chavez said the United States can "just forget" about receiving any more oil from his country.

Yep that's right, because we'll be piping it ourselves.

I wouldn't be surprised if those documents are printed online strategy guides for "America's Army".

TimothyC · Post by **TimothyC** » 2005-09-17 04:13am

Wicked Pilot wrote:We have plans out there for any contigency imaginable, including invading Venezuela. Creating them is what Unified Commands do on their days off.

And making the databases to suport them is what a certain OSINT agency does for a living (I know becuase that's what my dad does, or what he says he does atleast).

On Topic: Does this really tell us anything new? Chavez is a nut, but for right now a harmless one. That doesn't mean that we should ignore him though, as he's in our backyard.

NoXion · Post by **NoXion** » 2005-09-17 10:31am

Lord Zentei wrote:To comment: it's the old "blast a foreign bogey man to distract the populace from problems at home" shtick. How ironic, then that Bush is his chosen bogeyman.

And Saddam wasn't Bush's boogey man? Chavez has a right to be concerned about invasion.

Lord Zentei · Post by **Lord Zentei** » 2005-09-17 11:16am

NoXion wrote:
Lord Zentei wrote:To comment: it's the old "blast a foreign bogey man to distract the populace from problems at home" shtick. How ironic, then that Bush is his chosen bogeyman.
And Saddam wasn't Bush's boogey man? Chavez has a right to be concerned about invasion.

It seems we have a newcomer who doesn't understand sarcasm.

Sure Chavez "has a right to be concerned about an invasion". That does not mean that he is not being an attantion whore, nor that he is not using the US bogeyman to distract people form problems at home.

Glocksman · Post by **Glocksman** » 2005-09-17 11:40am

And to inject a dose of cold, hard reality into it, just what would we invade with?
Don't forget the Army's already occupied

in Afganistan and Iraq.
Even if Bush wanted to invade, we couldn't do it.

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2005-09-17 12:01pm

CaptainChewbacca wrote:
Wicked Pilot wrote:We have plans out there for any contigency imaginable, including invading Venezuela. Creating them is what Unified Commands do on their days off.
I'd give both my legs for unrestricted access to those plans for a day. The wargamming must be insane.

Your not kidding. I've heard things... Wargames that read like Zor invented them(IE giant walking nuclear tanks appear, or all airplanes fall out of the sky. Or Zombie Hilter invades New Jersey backed up by the Nazi Radioactive Vampires)

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2005-09-17 02:57pm

This gives me an idea: How about we do so many 'maneuvers' and leak so much 'intel' in Chavez's direction he feels the need to completely bankrupt his country? Who needs invasion when an internal coup will do?

President Sharky · Post by **President Sharky** » 2005-09-17 07:44pm

Because what comes out could be even worse than what we already have?

spongyblue · Post by **spongyblue** » 2005-09-17 09:19pm

I'll let my kid do the talking to this fucker

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v722/ ... ousuck.jpg

If Pat Roberson hadn't open his stupid yap, this nutball Chavez probably woulndt have said nothing. And move the UN out of the US, their a bunch of hardcore wankers anyway.

De-inlined the picture. It's not kiddie porn, but it shows a penis. So let's not tread that line.
-Your Friendly Neighborhood Rampant AI

SPOOFE · Post by **SPOOFE** » 2005-09-17 10:47pm

And Saddam wasn't Bush's boogey man? Chavez has a right to be concerned about invasion.

Chavez is launching missiles as US and British fighters?