Hugo "Hooga Booga" Chavez

Is this guy for real? Whatta loon.

Of course, on the off-beat chance that the U.S. were ever to invade Venezuela, I think it would be enough to push even ME over the edge of being extremely pissed off at our government's own lunacy.

I'm sure Hugo "Hooga Booga" Chavez has reason to believe such wild accusations are going to win him favor with his own citizens. Strike fear of America into their hearts and the next thing you know, they all love him again as being their great protector against the U.S. At the very least, he'll succeed in diverting attention from his own horrible mis-management of his own country.

With any luck, his own "masses" will have the brains to understand this but it's possible that if they are not connected well enough, they're going to be swayed like dummies on a string. Question is, are they informed enough to see it?

Bizarre.

--Wag--

Yahoo news article link: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050917/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/us_venezuela_4

Text of Yahoo! article since Yahoo! loves to take stories down after only a very short period of time. Let's preserve it here for all time! ;-)

Chavez: U.S. Plans to Invade Venezuela Sat Sep 17, 7:24 AM ET

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 is 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.

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