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leeway99
03-02-2008, 01:33 PM
Chavez orders troops to Colombian border
Venezuelan leader also warns dispute could lead to war.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23435878/
Jimmydr
03-02-2008, 01:38 PM
Nothing will happen for at least 6 weeks.
leeway99
03-02-2008, 01:42 PM
Do you think this will effect mongers travel plans?
Jimmydr
03-02-2008, 01:45 PM
Do you think this will effect mongers travel plans?
I won't be going to a country at war!
won't affect mine. This is a lot of nonsense. Maybe it will help lower the Peos which is 1840 for a USD now!
Beads
03-02-2008, 01:49 PM
I won't be going to a country at war!
Your going to let a little thing like having to navigate a war battlefield stop you from $7 BBBJs :eek:.
leeway99
03-02-2008, 01:51 PM
won't affect mine. This is a lot of nonsense. Maybe it will help lower the Peos which is 1840 for a USD now!
Damn Kevy... You hardcore.
Jimmydr
03-02-2008, 01:51 PM
Your going to let a little thing like having to navigate a war battlefield stop you from $7 BBBJs :eek:.
I would think that the few 1,000 soldiers stationed in Medellin would leave for a while.
leeway99
03-02-2008, 01:56 PM
I can see the State Dept. hard at work as we speak.
there is just too much going on down there than what i am comfortable with...
ego maniac military and rebel leaders going back fourth with one another..my dick is bigger, no mines is...and on and on
Damn Kevy... You hardcore.
Not really, many Families have relatives on both sides. Plus Chavez does not have that much support in the Army. they tried a coup already, Uribe is well supported by the people of Colombia, who are fed up with FARC.
Chavez will be lucky to survive this.
Ecuador is the real problem, but they are are only a little upset.
leeway99
03-02-2008, 02:04 PM
If this thing escalates, do you think the US will suspend travel there?
Jimmydr
03-02-2008, 02:05 PM
If this thing escalates, do you think the US will suspend travel there?
Why would they?
If this thing escalates, do you think the US will suspend travel there?
You are probably going to send troops to help. You guys got your draft cards yet?:lol: :lol: :lol:
leeway99
03-02-2008, 02:11 PM
Safety. But who knows, they might not give a shit.
PapiQueRico
03-02-2008, 02:47 PM
Hugo "Fidelito" Chavez isn't going to go to war for the FARC. This is all macho posturing. He's not too bright but he is smart enough not to give trigger happy George an excuse to try to oust him again.
In this article havez said they would attck if Colombia does in venazuela what they did in Colombia
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080302/wl_nm/venezuela_colombia_dc
blacksultan
03-02-2008, 03:25 PM
Man, just as long as RPG's and Sidewinders don't hit the Casas where the hoes are at, I am going back. Viva Colombia!!!
Downtown
03-02-2008, 03:37 PM
Unless cooler heads prevail and soon, other governments will start aligning themselves with the players, then we'll see who's in bed with who. For example, I think we know who Cuba will ally themselves with and it may come at a time when they really don't want to be forced to choose, given the change in leadership there. It gonna take some fancy diplomacy to take the heat off and defuse this situation.
jensenspecial
03-02-2008, 06:37 PM
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
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
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
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.
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