Rumsfeld: Venezuela Build-Up Is Concern

[Poiuyt]

Rumsfeld: Venezuela Build-Up Is Concern
Oct 2, 11:47 PM (ET)
By LOLITA C. BALDOR

MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) - The recent military build-up in Venezuela by U.S. nemesis President Hugo Chavez has other countries in the region worried that the weapons could end up in the hands of terrorists, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Monday.

"I can understand neighbors being concerned," said Rumsfeld, who is attending a meeting of Western hemisphere military leaders here this week.

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Venezuela's defense minister Gen. Raul Isaias Baduel, who is also attending the meeting, said Monday that his country's recent military spending spree wasn't "an arms race," despite Washington's protests.

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"I have spoken to Mr. Rumsfeld to convince him that he should try smoking Venezuela's good tobacco," Baduel told the Associated Press. "He said he doesn't smoke, that his wife wouldn't let him."

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http://apnews.excite.com/article/20061003/D8KGTQJ00.html

So are they setting us up for an invasion of Venezuela now?

[Nutmegger]

1. Is that the new talking point now?

That Chavez is/will sponsor "terra-ism"? Give me a break...:eyes:

[Greatwildbeast]

2. Rumsfeld is senile.

He has about as much credibility as a convicted felon serving a life sentence.

[Nutmegger]

6. You said it...

and welcome to DU!!! :hi::toast:

[Amonester]

3. Methinks this pic symbolizes the TRUE reason behind Herr's...

"CONcern"

Herr To The Hague

[judaspriestess]

4. The build up of ear wax and cataracts on you

is also a concern for many rummy.

[Phredicles]

5. The same question applies here as for invading Iran:

With what army? Ours is already spoken for, as least as long as The Decider is in office.

[BrotherBuzz]

8. With a US financed mercenary army recruited from

Ecuador, Paraguay, Colombia and Peru, trained by retired military "private contractors", financed with the 7-8 billion dollars the military "lost" in Iraq, and all being done under the radar to avoid accountability?

Privatizing war is not only the logical extension of the Bush administration's mania for contracting everything out to the private sector; it also shields the White House's activities from the U.S. Congress.

There, how's that for a crazy tinfoil idea? ;)

[bridgit]

7. the bfee is only concerned with any alleged "build up" where they...

no longer have access to a regions oil, and it is just that simple

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4544390.stm

http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news.php?newsno=2068

Venezuela tightens oil grip - The government last week seized the fields of two multinational oil giants ~ http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0414/p06s01-woam.html

[Warren DeMontague]

9. Sorry, son, you can't have any new wars

until you fix the old ones. Period.