Chavez: The U.S. will bite the dust

[John Dibble]

Taken far out of context. He said that if the US were to invade Venezuela, it would lose. With the US so bogged down in Iraq, and considering the Venezuelan military is far superior to the Iraqi one (no 12 years of sanctions on it), and  the terrain in Venezuela is much better for defense, I have to say he's right.

Of course I doubt even Bush is dumb enough to invade Venezuela.

Park a carrier group off his coast and control his offshore oil fields.  This would require very little of the resources used in Iraq or Afghanistan.  This would technically be an invasion and Chavez could do nothing to stop it.  I don't think Chavez would last long with that kind of embarrassment and with the U.S. in full control of his oil production.

Not to mention you could send in air strikes with those carriers parked there.

[John Dibble]

Um, you see, the two countries are..umm.. different?

Because one is a dictatorship and the other isn't, and thus the people in the non-dictatorship will be much more resentful.

Well, for one thing, one has lots more fundamentalist Muslims in it. I'd think that would have been very obvious to you.