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Chavez to Obama, 'Happy 4th. Now stick 'em up

Bruce2995 Wrote: Jul 05, 2010 12:13 PM
Come on down all you gutless wonders sitting at your computer acting all macho, there are flights every day down here. Why don't you come down and punch Chavez? Oh, by the way, you can't bring a gun because you will immediately be arrested, put in jail and probably be killed within the first 24 hours. It only costs $100 U.S. to have somebody killed in jail. Also, Chavez is protected by Cubans because he doesn't even trust his own soldiers and as the Americans found out before the Cubans are fierce fighters and very loyal. Anne, the rigs are mostly on land in the Maracaibo region and if they were offshore they would still be in Venezuelan waters. This is not an international issue. And for the idiot that said P & H should...

Should an attack on any group of Americans be considered an act of good will? Should a hostile takeover of natural resources be considered a threat? Should a foreign power have the right to unilaterally seize American assets with impunity?

Well I suppose if you're Barack Obama, and the foreign power is Hugo Chavez, and the group of Americans are associated with natural resources--specifically oil and natural gas, the answer is obviously no!

Here are the specifics. As of June 24, 2010 at 5:28pm EST, Hugo Chavez had initiated a hostile takeover of eleven oil rigs owned by the...

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