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**jensenspecial** · 03-02-2008, 06:37 PM

Originally Posted by Jimmydr

I won't be going to a country at war!

hahahahahaha.....YOU LIVE IN A COUNTRY AT WAR...you are trippin', man

**ElPlomero** · 03-02-2008, 07:24 PM

Maybe we're at war, but the latest version of the RPG won't hit CONUS from Iraq.

Even though GW accused Saddam of it, they have never and will never have ICBM's.

**BlueDevil** · 03-02-2008, 08:17 PM

I will remain optimistic and believe that this is just posturing by Chavez. With Castro at home in bed, Chavez may feel the need to step up to the plate and become the new voice of the Latin American people. At any rate, the Colombian Ejercito already has thousands of troops amassed in Cucuta, Norte de Santander (on the border with Venezuela) in anticipation of trouble.

**JuanElGriego** · 03-02-2008, 08:34 PM

Chavez missed an incredible opportunity.

He was voted in by the people because he promised to do all he can to help the lower and lower-middle classes of Venezuela that have long been ignored by the ruling elite there. With Venezuela drowning in oil revenues due to the going price of a barrel of crude, he had more than enough money to do just that, yet he chose to focus on every country's business except his own. Instead of transforming Venezuela, he's kept sticking his nose in places that he didn't need to in his lust to be "voice of Latin America", but instead, he just looks like another guy with a bigger mouth than brain. Projects that could be getting done in Venezuela are getting done in Nicaragua and Bolivia with Venezuelan money cuz Chavez wants everyone to know he's such a generous guy. It's cool to be generous, but clean your own house up first.

As usual, it's the Venezuelan people getting the shaft yet again.

**MyTio** · 03-02-2008, 09:38 PM

Originally Posted by jensenspecial

hahahahahaha.....YOU LIVE IN A COUNTRY AT WAR...you are trippin', man

Venezuela will be a nice place to visit if Chavez is as stupid as he seam to be and invades Columbia he will be gone and we will have another place to go hunting

**PapiQueRico** · 03-02-2008, 09:48 PM

Originally Posted by uncle226

Venezuela will be a nice place to visit if Chavez is as stupid as he seam to be and invades Columbia he will be gone and we will have another place to go hunting

You can go now. Travel buds of mine were there last year and had a great time!

**MyTio** · 03-02-2008, 09:53 PM

I have been there already will return one day I have some cousin the live their

**SJG** · 03-02-2008, 11:15 PM

What is interesting is this is exactly how World War 1 started. Austrians chased Serbian terrorists/revolutionaries into Serbia and the all of Serbia's and Austria-Hungry's allies (Germany and Russia principle amoung them) lined up and squared off.

Luckily, the only world power in play here is the US, ally to Colombia. I think it's safe to say we won't be commiting troops if the situation gets out of hand. Because we are stuck in the quagmire that is Iraq, we can't even respond to a natural disaster within our own borders, there is no way we can project any significant force in South America.

If this doesn't die down, it will escalate into Democracy vs. Socialism in South America, the latest battleground for this ideological war.

The funny thing is, that in either system, no matter who comes to power, it eventually becomes a ruling elite that the common people and the poor suffer under.