Venezuela gets 2m reserve troops

[Felix the Cat]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4718688.stm

Venezuela has increased the number of reservists in its military to a total of two million men and women.

Army high command spokesman Col Herrera Jimenez said that around one-and-a-half million Venezuelans had recently signed up to become reservists.

He said the kind of war Venezuela wanted to fight was a people's war like in Iraq, "where an entire population is rising up against a foreign aggressor".

The news may alarm the US and countries neighbouring Venezuela.

Since last November, Venezuela's armed forces have been carrying out a massive recruitment drive for new reservists.

Boosting defences

Col Jimenez, who is in charge of the military's recruitment programme, said that the country's two million reservists would serve in the territorial guard and the reserve of the army, air force and navy.

"We fully expect these reservists be armed and to be able to fight in the front line if and when required," he said.

He said the four months of basic training would start in the first week of March.

Venezuela's military high command and indeed President Hugo Chavez himself say they want to boost the country's defences to repel any potential threat or attempt to invade the country.

His decision to increase the reservists from 500,000 last year to two million means that around one in five Venezuelan adults could be called up for military service in the event of war.

Rifle deal

President Chavez has repeatedly accused the US of aggressive behaviour towards Venezuela.

The US has a military reserve roughly half the size of the one being assembled in Venezuela.

However Venezuela only has enough rifles to equip its professional army of around 80,000 soldiers.

But last year President Chavez announced the military was purchasing a further 100,000 Russian assault rifles.

The government is also studying the possibility of manufacturing many more of these Kalashnikov rifles in Venezuelan factories.

[Jimbo Gomez]

However Venezuela only has enough rifles to equip its professional army of around 80,000 soldiers.



Hahahahahahahahaha, tough guys there. Those bolshevik wogs and their stupidity never ceases to amaze me, lmfao.

[nateddi]

hey there you little shit, why don't you shut your fucking trap and see what happens if the imperialists dare invade. venezuela is getting good arms shipments from russia and is ready to oppose US imperialism.

it's not military might that wins movements, but the hearts and souls of the people. the people in venezuela are committed to maintain their democratic government and stand up to US imperialism. they've proved it in the collapse of the coup and the recall election and they will prove it again if the yanks try to do anything.

14/88

Heil Hugo

We WILL secure the existence of our people and a future for bolivarian society.

[B-Pep]

Hahahahahahahahaha, tough guys there. Those bolshevik wogs and their stupidity never ceases to amaze me, lmfao.

1) They're not bolsheviks
2) Your zionist will think twice about invasion if Venezuela can put up a fight

How is building your military up stupidity?

[nateddi]

thanks for backing me up, Red

i really hate it when kikes talk shit about our country in our forum

BOLIVARIANISM FOREVER

[Jimbo Gomez]

I'm not a kike you dumbass, I'm a nationalist Catholic.

This antiwhite socialist should be shot dead. Descendant of negroes and injuns, drooling over the thought of ramming a fork in whitey's eye.

[Billy Score]

He is a hero to his people who is standing against western imperialism. Whether he is injun or negroid is of no concern to me. The point is he is justified. The problem with white nationalists is their obsession with defending whites even when the whites are blatantly wrong, or in issues where race simply does not figure.

[Jimbo Gomez]

Whites aren't wrong there. They've been in South America for hundreds of years, and they built civilization there. The fact that this man got elected in the first place is only because whites introduced elections there. His desire to chase them out is disgusting and needs to be punished. I hope some criminal shoots him dead.

[Billy Score]

We aren't talking about Africa here, South America did have urban development and was in some ways even more advanced then the Europeans of their time. That whites conquered them makes no difference, Chavez is a mixture, all mestizos are mixtures and the whites who complain about them today fathered them centuries ago.

He is not driving out "whites" or attacking whites, he is standing against the United States and thus standing against the tide, against Zionism. To be against him is to support the status quo. And the Status quo is a nightmare.

[Jimbo Gomez]

What zionism? I doubt he even mentioned the word zionism (the only thing you MIGHT base this on is his Christkiller statement, but even his local jews said this was about capitalism).

[Billy Score]

What zionism? I doubt he even mentioned the word zionism (the only thing you MIGHT base this on is his Christkiller statement, but even his local jews said this was about capitalism).
This has nothing to do with the christ killer statement. He is reaching out to the Hamas Government, was a good friend of Saddam's Iraq and i believe enjoys good relations with Iran. They oppose Iran's being fowarded to the security counsel.

[President Camacho]

Whites aren't wrong there. They've been in South America for hundreds of years, and they built civilization there. The fact that this man got elected in the first place is only because whites introduced elections there. His desire to chase them out is disgusting and needs to be punished. I hope some criminal shoots him dead.I really wish that we'd just leave the area alone like the chunky spic keeps whining for us to do. That way, the Venezuelans will realize that their country is shitty because of its leaders, its political system, and the people themselves.... NOT because of "American imperialism" (boo hoo :( )

[Billy Score]

very funny king tiger. quit the shit.

[Eisenhans]

Sorry, red, but I agree with the King Tiger there.

[Felix the Cat]

USS George Washington Prepares for Deployment to Caribbean (http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=4691566&nav=menu45_3)

(AP) - Navy officials say the USS George Washington aircraft carrier strike group will deploy to the Caribbean in coming days.

The Norfolk-based carrier's strike group includes roughly 6,500 sailors, an air wing and three smaller warships, two of which are from Norfolk. They'll be gone through late May.

The ships will take part in Operation Partnership of the Americas, an exercise that will focus on diplomacy and fighting drug and human trafficking.

Navy officials say the deployment to the Caribbean is unusual, because most carriers head to the Middle East.

Lieutenant Commander Chris Loundermon with the US Southern Command says the carrier has radars and sensors that can help track drug running and other illegal activity.

The George Washington last deployed to the Persian Gulf in 2004, then spent most of last year at the Northrop Grumman Newport News shipyard. It's scheduled to replace the aging USS Kitty Hawk in Japan in 2008.

[Crowley]

In any event the US is not considering invading Venezuela. Its hands are full in far away desert shitholes.

[Jimbo Gomez]

In any event the US is not considering invading Venezuela. Its hands are full in far away desert shitholes.

They should just have the CIA assasinate that obnoxious brown monkey.

[Crowley]

They should just have the CIA assasinate that obnoxious brown monkey.


Sometimes it's not that easy. The CIA never managed to get Fidel.

[Jimbo Gomez]

They didn't try hard enough. A few cruisemissiles can get the job done with ease.

[Crowley]

They didn't try hard enough. A few cruisemissiles can get the job done with ease.

I agree where the CIA failed the Airforce would likely succeed.

[Jimbo Gomez]

Did your great Hugo finally manage to change the flag and put Bolivar on his horse facing the left instead of the right now Mazdak?

[Northern_Paladin]

it's not military might that wins movements, but the hearts and souls of the people. the people in venezuela are committed to maintain their democratic government and stand up to US imperialism. they've proved it in the collapse of the coup and the recall election and they will prove it again if the yanks try to do anything.

14/88

Heil Hugo

We WILL secure the existence of our people and a future for bolivarian society.

I thought they didn't believe in elections down in South America?:confused:

Ok they don't need US Imperialism. Venezualans need Chavez's Democracy and Socialism. Just don't blame the US when you guys end up having to Sell oil to Russia for 50 pesos a barrell.

I really wish that we'd just leave the area alone like the chunky spic keeps whining for us to do. That way, the Venezuelans will realize that their country is shitty because of its leaders, its political system, and the people themselves.... NOT because of "American imperialism" (boo hoo :( )

That's right piss off America and make them go crazy with the Neutron Bombs. We'll just Neutron bomb you and take all your Oil.:rofl: And if Russia has a problem they can eat Uranium and Hydrogen. We have enough if dropped on one spot would break through the Earth's Mantle.:D

That would be like giving the Earth a deep cut. It would spew out Lava and Nuclear fall out all over.

[LastResort56]

Chavez is correct to speak out against American wars out in the middle east for God's chosen people.

However, he is going a bit too far, boaderlining paranoid self-rightous prick. He is convinced that the US will invade Venezuela for its oil. If anything his country is invading the US and taking all the welfare his people can get.:rofl: It would be best for Chavez to tone it down a bit, calling the Iranian president his "trench mate" vowing that America will be destroyed, and making agressive moves in military. If we did not live in such a era where threats by little brown people are so adbundant and ignored, which Im glad of, comments like that would have resulted in Chavez dead and Venezula nuked.

[Northern_Paladin]

If anything his country is invading the US and taking all the welfare his people can get.:rofl

We have enough Land Scapers and dish washers.:o:deadhorse: Did you know 1 dollar is 70 Pesos?