VHeadline.com guest commentarist Dr. Harold Mandel writes: If Bush orders an invasion of Venezuela to remove whomsoever the CIA has labeled as the left-wing, radical regime of President Hugo Chavez Frias ...the losses will be catastrophic.

On the days prior to the invasion, the United States Air Force and Navy would be ordered to neutralize as much of Venezuela's military power as possible.

Around the clock, air raids would result in not just the blowing apart of Venezuelan military installations ... the lives of multitudes of civilians would also be shattered as school houses, coffee shops, banks, homes and more would be blown up in the crossfire from the raids.

• The American ground invasion would then be met with a strong defense and the casualties on both sides would be high.

As American troops flood the country, the strained Venezuelan resistance would give way to the development of insurgency forces ... the fighting would be brutal as American tanks enter Caracas with the streets bloodier than Iraq.

There would be no winners in such a war.

Bush must stop planning such an invasion of Venezuela and must instead begin to respect Chavez as the democratically-elected and popular social reformer that he undoubtedly is.

Dr Harold Mandel
haroldmandel@yahoo.com

Dr. Harold Mandel is the director of the H Mandel Enterprises Foundation and the International Association for Victims of Psychiatrists and Psychologists.  He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa from Dickinson College, a New York State licensed physician, businessman and journalist.  Dr. Mandel has taken anti-psychiatry and anti-psychology positions due to his findings that psychiatry and psychology have become abusive disciplines in this era. He is a strong supporter of alternative medicine. You may email Dr Harold Mandel at:  haroldmandel@yahoo.com

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