Chavez has a new cheerleader..

[terry]

Named anonymous..

cali  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sun Jan-17-10 05:58 PM
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Chavez says U.S. occupying Haiti in name of aid
   
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CARACAS
Sun Jan 17, 2010 5:34pm EST
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez addresses lawmakers during his annual report to the National Assembly in Caracas January 15, 2010. REUTERS/Miraflores Palace/Handout

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez on Sunday accused the United States of using Tuesday's earthquake in Haiti as a pretext to occupy the devastated Caribbean country.

World | Natural Disasters

"I read that 3,000 soldiers are arriving, Marines armed as if they were going to war. There is not a shortage of guns there, my God. Doctors, medicine, fuel, field hospitals, that's what the United States should send," Chavez said on his weekly television show. "They are occupying Haiti undercover."

"On top of that, you don't see them in the streets. Are they picking up bodies? ... Are they looking for the injured? You don't see them. I haven't seen them. Where are they?"

A perennial foe of U.S. "imperialism," Chavez said he did not wish to diminish the humanitarian effort made by the United States and was only questioning the need for so many troops.

The United States is sending more than 5,000 Marines and soldiers to Haiti, and a hospital ship is due to arrive later this week.

On Sunday the country's president said U.S. troops would help keep order on Haiti's increasingly lawless streets.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60G2DW20100117

anonymous171  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sun Jan-17-10 06:19 PM
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11. Imagine if Cuba occupied the Dominican Republic for similiar reasons
   
I can see Chavez's concern.

cali  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sun Jan-17-10 06:20 PM
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12. we aren't occupying Haiti. period.

chrisa  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sun Jan-17-10 06:25 PM
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15. Distributing aid is "intervening?"
   
Edited on Sun Jan-17-10 06:26 PM by chrisa
I'm sure there's some people there happy for our "intervention."

anonymous171  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sun Jan-17-10 06:27 PM
Response to Reply #15
16. When you are doing it with aircraft carriers and military personnel, yes.
   
I support what they are doing, I'm just saying that I can understand Chavez's concern.

I guess we should have just sent Sean Penn and his rowboat so Chavez wouldn't be "concerned".

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[Randy]

I guess the proper US response is for one civilian helicopter to swoop in within the first half hour of a disaster and drop off a couple of pallets of $100 bills. 

[The Village Idiot]

He has a point 

 

I say we airdrop them 25,000 bureaucrats!!

[BlueStateSaint]

He has a point 

 

I say we airdrop them 25,000 bureaucrats!! 25 million Democrats!!

Fixed!

[Randy]

Fixed!

50 million would be even mo better

[BlueStateSaint]

50 million would be even mo better

Crawl, walk, run . . .  Gotta start somewhere! 

[JohnnyReb]

I guess we should have just sent Sean Penn and his rowboat so Chavez wouldn't be "concerned".

Now who would you rather have coming to your rescue?

A: Sean Penn in a leaky row boat.
B: Touchy feely DUmmies.
C: A contingent of US Marines.
D: Obama.

You can select only one. ..or a combination of any 3 that doesn't include the USMC.

[crockspot]

It's just a warmup for when Venezuela is hit by a natural disaster and we send in a half million marines.