Is Chavez suicidal?

First, he threatens to cut off our oil supply and now he wants to cut off our coke supply.
It's one thing to threaten a super power, it's quite another to threaten a drug cartel.
He may beat his friend Fidel to Hell.

Chavez sends tanks to Colombia border in dispute

Reuters
Sunday, March 2, 2008; 1:09 PM

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela President Hugo Chavez ordered tank battalions to the Colombian border and mobilized warplanes on Sunday after Colombian troops struck inside another of its neighbors, 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.

"Mr. Defense Minister, move me 10 battalions to the frontier with Colombia immediately, tank battalions," Chavez said on his weekly TV show. "The air force should mobilize. We do not want war."

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.

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, Chavez reinforced the warning, adding he would send Russian-made fighter jets into U.S. ally Colombia if its troops struck in Venezuela.