Venezuelan General: US Attack Possible
If the United States attacked Venezuela, it would have to counter resistance from more than one million men and women, and it would have a toll of many victims that it could not stand, Venezuelan General Alberto Muller warned on Tuesday.

If necessary, the country will resist any foreign aggression with "primitive guerrilla" fighters stressed the high-ranking officer, who was recently reincorporated into the National Armed Force (FAN) by President Hugo Chávez, after 20 years in retirement.

In statements to foreign reporters in Caracas, Muller, who headed Chávez´s first election campaign, noted that he sees little possibilities, however, of an imminent US attack.

According to the general, the US armed forces are going through a serious crisis regarding human material, since they are incapable of recruiting troops to replace their men in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Bush is discredited both in the country and abroad.

Asked about a possible use of troops from any of Washington´s strategic allies, like Colombia, Muller pointed out that if that country gets involved in an aggression against Venezuela, the guerrillas will take over power.

Although unlikely, the high-ranking officer said that the threat of an attack is real, considering the position of George W. Bush´s government, the principles of his so-called pre-emptive war and the interventionist tradition.

He recalled that the United States has invaded Latin America many times, first in a temporary way, but now it has the theoretical foundation of the "pre-emptive war" to attack a country that might pose a potential danger for the future.

But Venezuela, he warned, is not Panama, Nicaragua or Grenada, rather a nation of nearly one million square kilometers with a militarily complicated geography, including the Amazon rainforest, the plains or the mountains.