Hugo Chavez of Venezuela

The dictator of Venezuela who is only kept in office because of $100 a barrel oil is blowing off more steam again. This time it is towards the West (physically speaking) and not towards the North (America). Oh yes, and he's kept in office by playing on the vulnerabilites of the poor by giving them rum, scotch, and other alcoholic pleasures while giving guns to his key informants in the community.

Everyone knows that he wants to rule the West (from Canada to the Antartica) while Ahmadinejad rules the East (and we're talking more than just the Middle East too). So, when Chavez & Ahmadinejad is not assailing the United States, Israel, Spain, and anyone else that's had an interest in democracy, he's now bellowing insanities against Colombia.

He's still smarting from the defeat on being installed as a dictator for life.

Chavez ordered tank battalions to the Colombian border and mobilized warplanes on Sunday after Colombian troops struck inside Ecuador in an attack on rebels. He also ordered the shutting of Venezuela's embassy in Colombia and the withdrawal of all diplomatic staff in the dispute, warning Colombia's actions could spark a war in South America.

Reminds me of how high schoolers act.

Colombia's military said on Saturday troops had killed Raul Reyes, a leader of Marxist FARC rebels, during an attack on a jungle camp in Ecuador in a severe blow to Latin America's oldest guerrilla insurgency. The operation included air strikes and fighting with rebels across the frontier.

Does this remind you of Turkey going after rebels in northern Iraq?

On Saturday, the anti-U.S. Chavez warned Colombia against doing the same in Venezuela because he would interpret it as a "cause for war." On Sunday, he said he would send Russian-made fighter jets into U.S. ally Colombia if its troops struck in Venezuela. As though they were going to. It's just more political grand-standing by a man that wants to be thought of as a bigger than he is on the world's stage.

The leftist, anti-U.S. Chavez has been in a diplomatic dispute with his ideological opposite, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, for months because of the Venezuelan's mediation with FARC rebels over their hostages. Uribe has accused Chavez of using the mediation to meddle in Colombian affairs.

The sky is falling, the sky is falling!

President Hugo Chavez ordered Venezuela's embassy in Colombia closed and told the military to send 10 battalions to the border after Colombian troops killed a top rebel leader. Hugo also told his defense minister to "Move 10 battalions for me to the border with Colombia, immediately." He ordered the Venezuelan Embassy in Bogota closed and said all embassy personnel would be withdrawn.

And when the dust settles NOTHING will be done because Chavez doesn't want to risk his reputation being tarnished. But "appearing MACHO" sure plays well in the press!