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That damned Clinton
On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 22:03:47 -0400, wrote:
On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:46:35 -0700, jps wrote:
If this was just about oil we would have invaded Venezuela by now
We don't have any good excuse to invade Venezuela. Our history is to
undermine power in South America, we don't invade other than Grenada.
Aren't you the people who say we didn't have an excuse to invade Iraq
either? (something I agree with BTW)
Yes, but they ginned one up anyway from the scraps they had.
What scraps do we have on Venezuela other than a mouthy president?
After the last 50 years I wonder, do we really need a valid excuse to
start a war.We have a long rich history of starting wars over lies.
I could probably include every war WE started in that.
(The Mexican war, Spanish American war, Vietnam, Grenada, Iraq or
Afghanistan)
We just create a villain, create a provocation out of a minor incident
that may not have even happened, demonize the enemy in the press and
then go get him.
It may have something to do with how many ex-pats we have living here.
There's a pretty big Venezuelan population in the states. Can't
afford to alienate the Venezuelan ballplayers in MLB.
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