They made the mistake of trying to strong-arm a South Georgia boy who has been doing this for 20 years,
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Robertson's comments last week have increased already tense relations between Caracas and Washington. On his TV show The 700 Club, ... is a dangerous enemy to our south, controlling a huge pool of oil that could hurt us very badly. We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability. We dont need another 200-billion-dollar war to get rid of one strong-arm dictator. Its a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with.
of President Chavez of Venezuela If he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it . . . . It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war. And I don't think any oil shipments will stop. . . . . Chavez is turning Venezuela into a launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism. . . . We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability. We don't need another 200 billion dollar war to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm dictator.
They wanted to strong-arm the parties into a dirty compromise, a compromise that in their heart of hearts they knew wouldn't work.
I am not going to let Stu Jackson gangster me out of money for something that wasn't even properly investigated. I don't know what I am going to do yet, but I am going to do something. I am not going to sit there and let him strong-arm me.
It was a much different experience this time around, ... He knew it was out of his hands, first of all, and he didn't try to strong-arm his way with influence. It was a beautiful time.
The strong-arm tactics being used by the administration are clearly backfiring,
The closest thing to strong-arm tactics I've heard about is that sometimes a company may want to run a third-party product, and Microsoft says that if they do, it won't support the platform. Is it possible Microsoft does this Sure.