Kowabunga

It seems that over the weekend off Comrade Chavez noticed and decided to give me something to write about this morning. Yesterday, the Dictator of Venezuela announced that he was ready for war with the United States. He claimed that the U.S. is already executing a media, propaganda and economic war against his totalitarian regime. Somehow I missed the announcement that we were carrying out such a campaign against him.

From FoxNews:

Dressed in olive green fatigues and a red beret, Chavez spoke inside Tiuna Fort - Venezuela's military nerve-center-before hundreds of uniformed soldiers standing alongside armored vehicles and tanks decorated with banners reading: "Fatherland, Socialism, or Death! We will triumph!"

"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.

U.S. officials reject claims that Washington is considering a military attack. But the U.S. government has expressed concern over what it perceives as a significant arms build-up here.

Ah, yes, he is just pumping up his people in the fashion of such tyrants as Castro, Hussein, Stalin, Mao, and that nutter with the little mustache that wrought so much terror in the world.

Ho many times over the past couple of years has he claimed that the U.S. wants to bring him down and topple his government? How often has he refereed to our as "evil" and "the devil?"

If we wanted to carry out an economic attack on his country, all we would have to do is stop importing oil from there. Not likely to happen, unless we open up ANWR and more off-shore drilling. Then, in a couple of years we can tell Chavez to stick his oil up his, well, you get the idea.

Comrade Chavez, who idolizes Fidel Castro, has in recent months confiscated oil companies and has shut down Venezuela's oldest broadcasting station (so much for free press in that country) and has threatened to "nationalize" other business sectors. Such actions will divide the people of his country, at least the ones who are paying attention to what he is doing. We don't have to carry out a campaign of psychological warfare against Chavez.

What is of concerned is his purchase of over $3 Billion in arms from our "ally" Russia, including 24 SU-30 Sukhoi jet fighters. Chavez also announced that he is considering buying anti-aircraft missile batteries and submarines. These are a serious concern if he is able to make these purchases.

Quite frankly, I believe that Chavez overrates his importance. He hasn't murdered hundreds of thousands of his own people (like Saddam Hussein), or is executing acts of terrorism on a global scale. Okay, he has been cavorting with terrorists, like Ahmadinejad (did I spell that right?), so maybe there is some "guilt by association." Maybe.

Eventually, I hope, that his move to eliminating free speech in Venezuela will bring about his downfall and the people of Venezuela will regain their natural rights of "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness."

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