AP: Chavez accuses US of "spying" - Democratic Underground

Duke Newcombe

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Thu May-22-08 12:09 AM
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AP: Chavez accuses US of "spying"

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D90Q6K580&show_article=1

(Yes, Breitbart...but it is an AP feed story)

Chavez accuses US of spying on Venezuela

May 21 02:26 PM US/Eastern

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - President Hugo Chavez is accusing the United States of using anti-drug flights in the Caribbean to spy on Venezuela.

Chavez claims that a U.S. Navy plane that flew into Venezuelan airspace during an anti-drug mission last week was actually involved in reconnaissance.

"They are spying," Chavez said during a speech on Wednesday.

Chavez warned Washington that he would dispatch fighter jets the next time a U.S. military plane violates Venezuelan airspace.

To what end? With an relatively open travel policy, and a porous border, spying from right next door would be an easier option.

Duke

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DCKit

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Thu May-22-08 12:20 AM
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1. Provocation. n/t

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Duke Newcombe

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Thu May-22-08 12:23 AM
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3. Chavez isn't "crazy, crazy"...just "crazy like a fox"...

He knows it's suicide to do anything provocative.

For the record, I think this either (a) didn't happen, or (b) was accidental, but if it were (c) intentional, this only adds to his heroic role as the beleagured revolutionary hassled by the Norteamericanos.

Duke

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DCKit

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Thu May-22-08 01:24 AM
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4. That's what I meant - provocation by U.S.. Of course we'd never do that. n/t

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Ghost in the Machine

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Thu May-22-08 12:20 AM
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2. Damn... Hugo just walked right into their trap...

by saying he would send fighters after the US planes if they entered his airspace again, *this* misadministration will use it to say he has declared War on America...

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