Hugo Chavez has officially won the award for most paranoid leader of the western hemisphere. He's like Ahmadinejad's dumber, slightly more retarded and better groomed brother. Neither one has a clue what the hell they're talking about but at least Ahmadinejad is scary. He's the believable despot.
Chavez is like a hopelessly psychotic mental patient being carted around an asylum screaming whatever's on his mind just to get someone to listen. 'Oh, look at me, I'm a big bad dictator too!'
Sure, Hugo. Go on with your bad self. I know we here in the U.S. are both clamoring to get into a scrap with you, and yet are awed at your military might.Wearing his old army uniform and red paratroop beret, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez handed new Russian-made rifles to troops on Wednesday, vowing Washington would not defeat his socialist revolution.
Chavez, a left-wing former soldier who says the United States wants to topple him, has ordered officers and civilian reservists to train for a resistance war against U.S. troops who he says plan to seize Venezuela's vast oil reserves. "The U.S. empire has a campaign around the world trying to isolate Venezuela so no one will sell us even a shotgun. This is an act of victory," Chavez told troops after inspecting and sighting a target with one of the new rifles. "We keep warning the imperialist U.S. government that they won't ever defeat us,"
"Fatherland or death," Chavez told soldiers as he slapped the black rifles into their hands. "These are the best rifles in the world."
And apparently they have super-magical-tastic capabilities that don't require ammo clips. Be afraid, America. Be afraid.
(Source: Reuters)
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