Republican Lawmaker Connie Mack Proposes U.S. Embargo on Venezuela http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=386874&CategoryId=10718

At the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, the largest yearly gathering of conservative activists which serves as a place for presidential hopefuls to measure their early support, Mack on Saturday devoted almost his entire speech to Chavez, whom he called a “thugocrat” who resorts to using weapons such as oppression, aggression, terrorism and drugs to “destroy” Latin American freedom and democracy.Republican Congressman Connie Mack of Florida, who has been very critical of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, on the weekend once again called for Washington to place Venezuela on the list of countries that sponsor terrorism and to impose a “full-scale economic embargo” on Caracas

[An embargo is usually the prelude to some kind of military confrontation. And the vast oil reserves of Venezuela might make that kind of activity look attractive, to some in the bowels of power in DC as did the invasion and occupation of Iraq: we all know just how catastrophically that ended for US oil interests.