Wednesday, February 08, 2006
CRISIS: The Most Frightening Story I Have Seen in Four Years
by Michael C. Ruppert - The Wilderness Publications
February 7, 2006 0900 PST (FTW) - Another Rubicon has been crossed. President Hugo Chavez has stopped inches short of declaring war on the United States. He threatens to shut down Citgo refineries and services in the US and clearly implies that his government is in direct touch with Iraqi insurgent forces and getting trained on how to defeat US forces in the field (quite a bit of that has been happening in Iraq in case you hadn't noticed). Venezuela is arming rapidly with everything from MiG 29's to the latest evolution of the AK 47. Chavez says everything but the obvious - If you attack Iran, this will be a two-theater war and your economy won't last a week (two-theater, as used here, includes Afghanistan and Iraq as one theater under US Central Command).
I've been watching Chavez's rhetoric for five years and his new statements here are orders of magnitude more hostile, even for the bellicose Chavez, than ever. For those of you who doubted that Iran alone, with its global economic significance, was not enough to deter a US attack, what say you about an Iranian-Venezuelan pact? A two-font war, with oil used as a strategic first strike? (I'm pretty sure that's the way the Department of Defense and Donald Rumsfeld will see it.) For that reason, as I read this story, I can see for the first time that nuclear launch codes and procedures might be getting a dust-off.
Oil has just become the ultimate weapon of mass destruction. Scissor, paper, rock.
My heart skips a beat.
What we are watching now is a giant game of chicken, with hot rods racing for the cliff to see who stops first. The problem, of course, is that either side could take the whole planet along on the trip to the bottom. There will be, and there can be, no "winners" anywhere if the human race continues to deal with Peak Oil the way it has been. I haven't been this shaken since 9/11.
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by Michael C. Ruppert - The Wilderness Publications
February 7, 2006 0900 PST (FTW) - Another Rubicon has been crossed. President Hugo Chavez has stopped inches short of declaring war on the United States. He threatens to shut down Citgo refineries and services in the US and clearly implies that his government is in direct touch with Iraqi insurgent forces and getting trained on how to defeat US forces in the field (quite a bit of that has been happening in Iraq in case you hadn't noticed). Venezuela is arming rapidly with everything from MiG 29's to the latest evolution of the AK 47. Chavez says everything but the obvious - If you attack Iran, this will be a two-theater war and your economy won't last a week (two-theater, as used here, includes Afghanistan and Iraq as one theater under US Central Command).
I've been watching Chavez's rhetoric for five years and his new statements here are orders of magnitude more hostile, even for the bellicose Chavez, than ever. For those of you who doubted that Iran alone, with its global economic significance, was not enough to deter a US attack, what say you about an Iranian-Venezuelan pact? A two-font war, with oil used as a strategic first strike? (I'm pretty sure that's the way the Department of Defense and Donald Rumsfeld will see it.) For that reason, as I read this story, I can see for the first time that nuclear launch codes and procedures might be getting a dust-off.
Oil has just become the ultimate weapon of mass destruction. Scissor, paper, rock.
My heart skips a beat.
What we are watching now is a giant game of chicken, with hot rods racing for the cliff to see who stops first. The problem, of course, is that either side could take the whole planet along on the trip to the bottom. There will be, and there can be, no "winners" anywhere if the human race continues to deal with Peak Oil the way it has been. I haven't been this shaken since 9/11.
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