Out with the old axis, in with the new axis
posted at 5:14 pm on July 2, 2007 by Bryan
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Iran & Venezuela unite against America:
The presidents of Iran and Venezuela launched construction of a joint petrochemical plant on Monday, strengthening an “axis of unity” between two oil-rich nations staunchly opposed to the United States.
Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who both often rail against Washington, also signed a series of other deals to expand economic cooperation, ranging from setting up a dairy factory in Venezuela to forming an oil company.
“The two countries will united defeat the imperialism of North America,” a beaming Chavez told a news conference during an official visit to the Islamic Republic, which the United States has labeled part of an “axis of evil”.
Venezuela’s economy is falling apart, much like Iran’s, but that doesn’t make either one toothless by a long shot. They’re both arming up, largely with Russian help in Venezuela’s case, and they’re both in strategic positions to be able to bother us a great deal.
In fact, it wouldn’t surprise me at all if the axis here functions like the axis that the allies had to defeat 6 decades ago: It’s a military as well as economic and ideological bond. What I’m saying is, if we strike Iran, it’s not a stretch anymore to think that Chavez might try something in our hemisphere in retaliation. Not a direct attack on us; I don’t think he’s a complete fool. But he might try something against a key ally of ours, like Venezuela’s neighbor Colombia, a close strategic US ally and provider of about 4% of the oil we use everyday.
Chavez is clearly arming up for something and has been for years.
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Hmmmmmmmmmmm, I wonder … how much easier would it be for al qaida and/or Hezbollah to enter the United States, through our non-border with Mexico, if Venezuela committed to such a project?
OhEssYouCowboys on July 2, 2007 at 5:21 PM
Great call Bryan. This too shall be ignored – like Iran. In the end, we will only do something after we are struck first. Then, the public will get behind doing something about it for – say – about 10 months. Then, “the current administration has us in a quagmire – blah – blah – blah…”
On-my-soap-box on July 2, 2007 at 5:21 PM
I have a hard time imagining Chavez will try something real big in South America. I think its more to beat down his own population and try and project a tough image internally. My history background isn’t in South America, but I don’t really think South Americans are big on invasions. Most of them just end up being little bloody clusterf*cks that get little accomplished while they try to keep a war going and their own populations under control.
Bad Candy on July 2, 2007 at 5:23 PM
I’m pretty sure Chavez has already committed to training Hezbollah fighters to speak Spanish and pass for Hispanics to aid their efforts to “defeat North American imperialism” or whatever euphemism they’re using these days for “kill a lot of Americans”.
JadeNYU on July 2, 2007 at 5:24 PM
Here is at least one link about the Hezbollah/Chavez link…..there are plenty of others.
JadeNYU on July 2, 2007 at 5:27 PM
Yeah, this evil alliance is certainly nothing to dismiss. As for the last theory there, Bryan, I’ve wondered for some time now if Chavez was arming up to invade Columbia at some point.
CP on July 2, 2007 at 5:32 PM
Well, here’s hoping Venezuelans are planning ahead to make alot of posters with big red arrows so our B1’s know where Chavez is. It would be great to later see you-tubes of a trail of tens of thousands of arrows leading to the out-house of a hut in the middle of the jungle where that little miscreant is hiding and then a big flash.
Dusty on July 2, 2007 at 5:38 PM
Hey, the little feller’s still gotta fly home, don’t he?
mojo on July 2, 2007 at 5:39 PM
I wonder how long before Chavez and his country are turned into an Islamic state??
PaKeystoner on July 2, 2007 at 5:40 PM
and don’t forget Venezuela’s support of FARC and
LINK
Topsecretk9 on July 2, 2007 at 5:41 PM
JadeNYU on July 2, 2007 at 5:27 PM
But, JadeNYU, I’m sure that Chertoff has no “specific information” regarding any Chavez/Hezbollah connection, so no threat really exists. I’m going to call it the Chertoff Blankie Theory, to wit: when I get scared of the possibilities, I hide my face under my blankie, and call the possible … impossible.
And, thanks for the link – have you sent it to Homeland Security?
OhEssYouCowboys on July 2, 2007 at 5:46 PM
Better add Putin, Assad and Pelosi to that list.
Tony737 on July 2, 2007 at 5:46 PM
Would make no sense for Chavez to move on Colombia. That would benefit the US in one of two ways: Either the supply of cocaine into the US would dry up, freeing up billions of dollars in the state treasury, or, if Chavez adopts the cocaine business himself and tries to push it into the States, that would give the US the legal and moral excuse to conduct “drug enforcement” operations against Venezuela vis-a-vis Colombia.
Is Chavez that stupid? Well, he’s fat and ugly, could stupid be far behind?
jihadwatcher on July 2, 2007 at 5:54 PM
I know Cindy Sheehan threw in the towel at her Texas camp out, but does that mean she gave up human shield duties for her buddy Chavez? She might want to avoid the rush and just fly down there now.
e-pirate on July 2, 2007 at 6:04 PM
I’d happily send Chertoff that link, but, I’m pretty sure he’d just write me back and tell me that I’m pushing a Chavez/Hezbollah link because I’m a racist.
JadeNYU on July 2, 2007 at 6:38 PM
Chavez is the kind of guy who – aiming to be el Presidente for life in what was once a putative democracy – starts out by whipping up popular hysteria and paranoia by repeatedly claiming that a Yanquis invasion is coming any time now (hence the overheated rhetoric) … and ends up swallowing his own propaganda (hence the big-ticket arms purchases).
Spurius Ligustinus on July 2, 2007 at 8:03 PM
Chavez is either suicidal or very stupid. Given that he is a leftist, I’d have to say he’s both.
He’s arming up to protect himself from his own people.
Of course if some Spanish speaking Al-Qaeda type crosses the Mexican border with Iranian explosives and kills some Americans, all the arms the commies sell him will be useless.
I would hope.
Of course that will also be the end for the open borders crowd.
reaganaut on July 2, 2007 at 8:19 PM
That’s an interesting thought. Obviously nothing of the sort would be attempted outside of a state of war, but hypothetically, I wonder if an F-22 could make a plane “disappear” over the mid Atlantic without anybody being any the wiser. I suppose all it’d take is the recovery of one bit of fuselage or engine shroud showing inward-directed fragmentation damage to blow things wide open.
Or maybe I shouldn’t have even said anything. If there are any moonbats reading, the next time an airliner goes down over water somewhere they’ll be blaming it on the F-22 (which in their accounts will no doubt gain various supernatural powers like the ability to circumnavigate the globe unrefueled and induce failures in things like hydraulic systems via “black” directed-energy weapons, or pilot telekinesis, or dark sorcery, or something).
Blacklake on July 2, 2007 at 8:28 PM
Make no mistake – there is a new axis of countries on a warpath with us. But this time, can you imagine most Americans committing wholeheartedly to support a war, making sacrifices, living through rationing, changing all industries to wartime manufacturing, for four years, while willing to sustain tens of thousands of deaths of our military?
We’re doomed, I tell ya!
stonemeister on July 2, 2007 at 9:18 PM
Pat Robertson not so crazy now heh Bryan?
Drtuddle on July 2, 2007 at 9:37 PM
Not long, I’m afraid. Chavez is already starting the ‘Islam is Peace’ stuff, so it won’t be too long. Here is a disheartening article regarding the Islamist connection to South America:
There are plenty of others if you do a search on Hezbollah and South America using your favorite, communist-friendly search engine.
I wonder how our good friend Jimmuh Carta feels about giving away the Panama Canal now (probably delighted) that the Chinese are running it.
Abu Daboo Doo on July 2, 2007 at 9:37 PM
Uh-oh, the US soccer team is heading to Venezuela for the Copa America.
Gee, I wonder how they’ll be received?
reaganaut on July 2, 2007 at 9:43 PM
oops, we’re already there, and not doing well…
reaganaut on July 2, 2007 at 9:47 PM
Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez and Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who both often rail against Washington
Why does Dinnerjacket get described as one who “often rails against Washington.”
Why is there never included “and calls for the destruction of Isreal, the West, and Infidels of all stripes.”
If Pres. Bush ever called for the destruction of a country and a cleansing of its people, how often do you think that quote would be associated with him?
VolMagic on July 2, 2007 at 9:53 PM
Add North Korea or Saudi Arabia to the mix, and we will have our new “Axis of Evil” for the 21st Century. Hippee!
Wuptdo on July 2, 2007 at 11:17 PM
Looks like a snap from the world’s worse Gay pride parade.
profitsbeard on July 3, 2007 at 12:25 AM
Yeah, there’s cause for concern. One is a dictator in all but name only who’s countrymen are becoming increasingly unsettled. The other is perceived as a lunatic – even by the lunatics under lunatic standards – who can’t politically survive much longer. Losers unite!
thedecider on July 3, 2007 at 1:03 AM
“The two countries will united defeat the imperialism of North America,” a beaming Chavez told a news conference
Does Chavez know something about the North American Union that we don’t??
gmoonster on July 3, 2007 at 1:04 AM
That, my friend, depends entirely on what he’s smoking at the time in question.
thedecider on July 3, 2007 at 1:46 AM
They call that “arming up”. That is total joke. We spend more in a day than they do in a year – on brand new cutting edge technology not usless Russian crap. I tell ya these two contries have no idea what they are ratteling swords with.
amend2 on July 3, 2007 at 9:48 AM
Punks! Our State Department and President have managed to make these two major players. They aren’t! They are small time twerps that should be treated as such but we have managed to make them seem like super powers. sigh…
sabbott on July 3, 2007 at 10:21 AM
In 1971 I was part of the cadre that help put the Shaw of Iran through pilot training in the USAF.
Knowing the ‘man’ and his proclivities where known by all but judging the man was not our job. Therefore, it came as no surprise the outcome on his return to Iran.
A word to the wise, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a shorter version of the Shaw.
MSGTAS on July 3, 2007 at 10:22 AM
Don’t forget China… which is really the biggest threat of all.
Maxx on July 3, 2007 at 11:37 AM
Hey, the little feller’s still gotta fly home, don’t he?
mojo on July 2, 2007 at 5:39 PM
I like your thinking….
soulsirkus on July 3, 2007 at 12:06 PM
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