Venezuela Next?
 

Just wondering if the pro-Iraq invasion crowd supports invading Venezuela. If not, why not? Doesn't Venezuela pose a more significant threat than Iraq by proximity alone?

Man, if we could only "secure those oilfields", we could stave off the inevitable maybe a couple of years or so--I'm sure these itchy-finger armchair warriors amongst us wouldn't mind sending their firstborn off for that kind of "sacrifice"...and he's a commie-pinko to boot.

Onward Christian soldiers
Marching as to war....

Did you miss the part where the administration vehemently denied, disavowed, and chastised that nutty parson?

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Doesn't Venezuela have more oil than Iraq? If oil is the reason to go, then we ought to get right on down there and secure those oil fields, don't you think?

Go reread what I wrote, silly boy.

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We have serious oil, some serious sticks and stones, and a much greater threat than Iraq, since there aren't 50 more likely targets than the U.S., as is clearly the case with Iraq. Why support one and not the other? The most significant difference seems to be the major religion of the inhabitants.

.........ya...........I've been reading it for years.........it doesn't vary.

The question wasn't posed to the administration.

Google it.

Then you must have missed the part about where 3/4 of the world's petroleum reserves are located. If Venezuela shut-down it would cause some serious waves in the financial markets for several months, but it would not cause a global economic collapse.

It's a matter of scale, see? Some problems are solved with a stick and others are solved by leaving it the heck alone. Venezuela is the latter.

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How do I Google for ms member responses?

I'm lost.

I know.

And did you miss the part where the Bush administration supported the 2002 coup in which members of the Venezuelan military overthrew Hugo Chavez's democratically elected government? If so here's a link.

Unfortunately for the administration, democracy prevailed and Chavez returned to power within about 48 hours.

And if Iraq shut down, by your logic, it would cause a global economic collapse?

You're right, some problems are solved by leaving it the heck alone.

Your logic is faulty, sonny.