{"id":3583,"date":"2005-08-24T13:42:57","date_gmt":"2005-08-24T20:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/08\/24\/chavez-to-us-bring-it-on\/"},"modified":"2005-08-24T13:42:57","modified_gmt":"2005-08-24T20:42:57","slug":"chavez-to-us-bring-it-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/24\/chavez-to-us-bring-it-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Chavez to US: Bring it on!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tLest we forget, Castro&#8217;s good buddy Hugo Chavez has essentially dared the US to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/WORLD\/americas\/08\/09\/chavez.invasion.ap\/index.html\">invade his sorry country:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The U.S. government has strongly denied Chavez&#8217;s claims that it is considering military action against Cuba&#8217;s closest ally in the Americas.<\/p>\n<p>But Chavez said late Monday that the U.S. government, which &#8220;won&#8217;t stop caressing the idea of invading Cuba or invading Venezuela,&#8221; should be warned of the consequences.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If someday they get the crazy idea of coming to invade us, we&#8217;ll make them bite the dust defending the freedom of our land,&#8221; Chavez said to applause.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps assassination really is the best option, especially now that Pat Robertson <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/US\/08\/24\/robertson.chavez\/index.html\">has wussed out<\/a>.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lest we forget, Castro&#8217;s good buddy Hugo Chavez has essentially dared the US to invade his sorry country: The U.S. government has strongly denied Chavez&#8217;s claims that it is considering military action against Cuba&#8217;s closest ally in the Americas. But Chavez said late Monday that the U.S. government, which &#8220;won&#8217;t stop caressing the idea of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/24\/chavez-to-us-bring-it-on\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chavez to US: Bring it on!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-VN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}