The Pink Flamingo :: The Coming War in Columbia?

I’ve been out of touch these past two days, stuck with CNN, where Barack Obama is already POTUS, choosing his cabinet, ending global warming and cementing world peace. I have no earthly what he is going to do for an encore. Therefore the possibility of Hugh Chavez, the Barack Obama of Venezuela, (okay it’s a cheap shot) invading Columbia came as a complete surprise to me. I thought we were all to hold hands, sing Kum by yah and turn over everything we own and receive according to what Obama thinks we deserve.

Now we learn that the Marxist allies of Columbia and Ecuador have sent troops, tanks, and good wishes to the border of Columbia after the afore mentioned non Marxist nation went after communist rebels inside of Ecuador. Chavez has declared Columbia the “Israel of South America’

Right Pundits has a very quick version of the story. The Marxist thug killed by Columbia was a drug lord named Paul Reyes. The big question is – how involved were we in the bombing inside Ecuadorian territory.

From the BBC

“…Venezuela and Ecuador sent troops to their borders with Colombia on Sunday after their Andean neighbor bombed Colombian rebels inside Ecuador in an attack Caracas said could spark a war. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez also deployed tanks to the frontier, mobilized warplanes and withdrew his diplomats from Bogota in the worst dispute in the unstable region for years. Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa, a close ally of the leftist, anti-U.S. Chavez, expelled Colombia's ambassador and recalled his own envoy from Bogota in protest over what he said was an intentional violation of his nation's sovereignty. Colombia responded to Correa by offering its apologies for the troops crossing the frontier, but said the operation on a jungle rebel camp was necessary because its forces came under fire from inside Ecuador. But Colombia, a U.S. ally, also said it found documents at the camp that linked Correa to the the guerrillas.

"May God spare us a war. But we are not going to allow them to violate our sovereign territory," Chavez, an ex-paratrooper said.

Colombia's troops killed on Saturday 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 across the border. Chavez, who had warned a similar operation in Venezuela would be "cause for war," threatened to send Russian-made fighter jets into U.S. ally Colombia if its troops also struck inside his OPEC country….”

Gateway has more information about Correa of Ecuador being linked to FARC terrorists.