How long before the money starts running out...

[p_p_man]

or American deaths become unacceptable?

"WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 — The United States will send more than 1,700 troops to the Philippines in the next few weeks to fight Muslim extremists in the southern part of the country, opening a new front in the campaign against terrorism, Pentagon officials said today.

The first troops are to be deployed within days. Unlike a six-month mission last year that involved 1,300 American troops, it will not limit United States forces to an advisory role allowing them to fire only in self-defense, military officials said.

The operation will last as long as necessary "to disrupt and destroy" the estimated 250 members of the extremist group Abu Sayyaf, one official said. It steps up the battle against terrorism as the United States prepares for possible war with Iraq and continues to hunt Al Qaeda in Afghanistan."

Bush's Global Push For An Empire

ppman

 

[REDWAVE]

Deja vu all over again

The first U.S. invasion of the Phillippines was right after the Spanish-American War. The Filipinos at first thought the Americans intended to liberate them. They overthrew Spanish imperial rule and declared independence. Then they found to their dismay the U.S. was coming not as a liberator, but as a new conqueror and enslaver. A bloody war ensued, in which the U.S. military massacred huge numbers of the Filipinos, both combatants and non-combatants alike. Now a resurgent U.S. imperialism is coming back, under the guise of being invited in by Arroyo's client regime, which itself took power in a very dubious "popular" uprising against Estrada, which in fact was a coup by the Philippine elite.

What was it Marx said about history repeating itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce?

 

[Linedrive]

The nature of the current enemy requires US forces to go oversee's in pursuit of them...even you should understand that. What is your point?

 

[Ham Murabi]

If it's the war on terrorism (and it is), I don't object to my tax money being funneled that way.
As a supporter of terrorism, ppman, I can understand why you would prefer that the U.S. didn't care.

 

[p_p_man]

There never has been a war against terrorism...

Bush is just using that to further extend American influence. If there was really a war against terrorism he wouldn't be bothering with Iraq...

Their contribution is minimal to the point of being almost non-existent.

ppman

 

[Don K Dyck]

Re: There never has been a war against terrorism...

Bush is just using that to further extend American influence. If there was really a war against terrorism he wouldn't be bothering with Iraq...

Their contribution is minimal to the point of being almost non-existent.

ppman

Like he says.

The biggest terrorist in the world is Dubyah Shrub and his band of henchmen . . .

The war on Islam in the Philippines is just a return to the Vietnam daze of an Asian Empire . . .

 

[SINthysist]

This morning's headlines: Enough troops in place. New moon rising.

LC says the 15th, but I say, disinformation. I'd have CNN or FOX on all weekend in the background if they had those sorts of things here in KANSAS ...

I seen a ba_ad moon risin'
I seen trouble on da way...

Saddam, Don't out tonight!
You've got to send your double,

There's a bad moon on the rise!

[I waste my best stuff on you loosers! LOSE HER!]

 

[miles]

or American deaths become unacceptable?

"WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 — The United States will send more than 1,700 troops to the Philippines in the next few weeks to fight Muslim extremists in the southern part of the country, opening a new front in the campaign against terrorism, Pentagon officials said today.

The first troops are to be deployed within days. Unlike a six-month mission last year that involved 1,300 American troops, it will not limit United States forces to an advisory role allowing them to fire only in self-defense, military officials said.

The operation will last as long as necessary "to disrupt and destroy" the estimated 250 members of the extremist group Abu Sayyaf, one official said. It steps up the battle against terrorism as the United States prepares for possible war with Iraq and continues to hunt Al Qaeda in Afghanistan."

Bush's Global Push For An Empire

ppman

8.5 on the PP Spew Scale. Solid C&P prefaced by a meaningless thread title.

hic

 

[brokenbrainwave]

Re: Re: How long before the money starts running out...

8.5 on the PP Spew Scale. Solid C&P prefaced by a meaningless thread title.

hic

blah blah blah


say something even remotely original one fucking time please

you're just mad cause he is right this time. Granted, it aint often he is right, let the ole fart have this one.

 

[SINthysist]

Friday, Feb. 21, 2003 10:53 a.m. EST
Ijaz: Al-Qaeda Ready for North Korean Plutonium

Using plutonium it could obtain within weeks from North Korea, al-Qaeda operatives based in Indonesia and the Philippines may be able to build a nuclear device by May of this year, a New York businessman who has worked closely with Mujahedeen and Islamist leaders is warning.

"According to my intelligence sources in the Far East," writes Mansoor Ijaz in this week's Weekly Standard, "the outlying renegade provinces of Indonesia (Aceh, for example) and the Philippines (where al Qaeda affiliate Abu Sayyaf rules) are infested with senior al Qaeda leaders."

"Each one is financially empowered to purchase North Korea's plutonium the moment it is reprocessed," he adds ominously.

Ijaz calls al-Qaeda's explosives expertise "unsurpassed in non-military circles" and warns that Pyongyang will be able to turn out "Coke cans of plutonium at the rate of one per week by the end of March."

"[Al-Qaeda] gets military-grade C4 charges from China and Iran," he says. "It employs Hezbollah and Hamas guerrillas trained in the fine arts of detonation devices (witness particularly the maritime attacks against the USS Cole and the French oil tanker); and it has brainwashed legions of men who are willing to die for the cause."

The New York investment banker, who helped negotiate a deal turned down by the Clinton administration in the late 1990s for Osama bin Laden's release to the U.S., warns that in a worst-case scenario, al-Qaeda could use North Korean plutonium and Hezbollah C4 to "construct a crude but effective nuclear device in weeks, if not a month."

Disaffected Pakistani nuclear scientists would be willing to share their expertise, he predicts.

Citing "published - and so far undisputed - reports" over the last three years, the former Clinton administration terror troubleshooter says that eight senior nuclear scientists left Pakistan without obtaining the required No Objection Certificates needed for travel abroad.

"They remain unaccounted for and at least some are reported to have traveled to Australia and Indonesia," he adds.

China has helped Pyongyang refine its nuclear technique, he says, noting that Beijing has supplied "key chemicals to separate plutonium from depleted uranium." Meanwhile, Pakistan has given North Korea centrifuges to enrich uranium and schooled Pyongyang's nuclear scientists in the ways of bombmaking.

Late Thursday the Pentagon acknowledged it was dispatching up to 3,000 troops to the Philippines to counter the al-Qaeda threat in the region, but it is not known whether the deployment has anything to do with fears of a possible North Korean connection.

 

[RosevilleCAguy]

or American deaths become unacceptable?

"WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 — The United States will send more than 1,700 troops to the Philippines in the next few weeks to fight Muslim extremists in the southern part of the country, opening a new front in the campaign against terrorism, Pentagon officials said today.

The first troops are to be deployed within days. Unlike a six-month mission last year that involved 1,300 American troops, it will not limit United States forces to an advisory role allowing them to fire only in self-defense, military officials said.

The operation will last as long as necessary "to disrupt and destroy" the estimated 250 members of the extremist group Abu Sayyaf, one official said. It steps up the battle against terrorism as the United States prepares for possible war with Iraq and continues to hunt Al Qaeda in Afghanistan."

Bush's Global Push For An Empire

ppman

No problem. Some bank in England is sending us money from their accounts.

 

[Don K Dyck]

or American deaths become unacceptable?

"WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 — The United States will send more than 1,700 troops to the Philippines in the next few weeks to fight Muslim extremists in the southern part of the country, opening a new front in the campaign against terrorism, Pentagon officials said today.

The first troops are to be deployed within days. Unlike a six-month mission last year that involved 1,300 American troops, it will not limit United States forces to an advisory role allowing them to fire only in self-defense, military officials said.

The operation will last as long as necessary "to disrupt and destroy" the estimated 250 members of the extremist group Abu Sayyaf, one official said. It steps up the battle against terrorism as the United States prepares for possible war with Iraq and continues to hunt Al Qaeda in Afghanistan."

Bush's Global Push For An Empire

ppman

Well, the money HAS run out . . .

A news release this weekend has announced that the U$ government may be now officially bankrupt. The U$-Iraq Imperialist War of Conquest for Control of Undeveloped Middle East Oil Reserves is costing about $US 2 billion per day and the government has spent all of its credit and is unable to lift the limit on bonds . . . hardcopy coming . . .

 

[phrodeau]

Get your income tax checks in ASAP, and top off your gas tanks.