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2004-08-10 Southeast Asia

Philippines open to fresh Iraq deployment

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Posted by Fred 2004-08-10 4:16:29 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 What the hell for? They'll just turn tail and run again.

Anyway, they'll need all their troops at home now that they've shown their islamonazis how to win.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2004-08-10 16:38|| http://]">[http://] 2004-08-10 16:38|| Front Page Top

#2 I'll reserve judgement until another Philippine national is kidnapped. That's when the rubber will meet the road.

Does anyone have factual confirmation of the six million dollar ransom that the Philippines was supposed to have paid? If it truly happened, that alone was a crime in and of itself.

Posted by Zenster 2004-08-10 16:49|| http://]">[http://] 2004-08-10 16:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Z,

I have been watching for it, but nary a word. I imagine it will be very difficult to trace and will involve several middlemen (i.e. Malaysia).

Posted by Brett_the_Quarkian 2004-08-10 17:12|| http://]">[http://] 2004-08-10 17:12|| Front Page Top

#4 It is going to be damned hard to rebuild trust between the US and Arroyo's government after we got stabbed in the back in Iraq. Arroyo needs to learn this lesson. It must be burned into her brain. You want the quid with out the pro quo? Find another sucker.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2004-08-10 17:15|| http://]">[http://] 2004-08-10 17:15|| Front Page Top

#5 I have also thought we should pull our troops out, but that would be a bad idea. I know I have read numerous stories about JI-affiliated groups using the S Phillipines islands for training bases since there is little authority there. We need to be there because it is in our interests to limit this.

Posted by Brett_the_Quarkian 2004-08-10 17:18|| http://]">[http://] 2004-08-10 17:18|| Front Page Top

#6 How about deploying their famous 82nd Filipino Airborne Hostage Brigade?

Posted by ed 2004-08-10 17:32|| http://]">[http://] 2004-08-10 17:32|| Front Page Top

#7 You're right, Brett. Like Japan and Okinawa during the Cold War, we now need the Philippines as a forward base in fighting Asian terrorism. Sadly, the Philippines does not seem to understand that they need us a lot more than we need them. Arroyo really screwed the pooch with her ill thought out move.

She pissed off more than just America. Many Philippine guest workers (and their families at home) will wonder why this one hostage got the red carpet treatment while so many others come home in cardboard coffins from Saudi Arabia after being raped as sex slaves or held as virtual prisoners.

Posted by Zenster 2004-08-10 17:38|| http://]">[http://] 2004-08-10 17:38|| Front Page Top

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