Posted on 09/05/2016 12:02:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
President Obama had better think twice about raising the issue of Philippine extra-judicial killings, warned the country's confrontational leader on Monday.
The US president and his Philippines counterpart, Rodrigo Duterte, were set to meet in Laos this week, where Obama is attending a meeting of Southeast Asian leaders. White House officials previously said Obama would confront the Philippines President about his country's handling of drug dealers, including extra-judicial killings, or government executions without the benefit of judicial proceedings or due process.
But the Filipino leader did not take kindly to that notion.
"Who does he think he is? I am no American puppet. I am the president of a sovereign country and I am not answerable to anyone except the Filipino people," Duterte scoffed in a speech Monday. "Son of a b****, I will swear at you."(continued)
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no obamma mamba jamma lenin khomeini is his beeat&^..
he would be killed for being gay where he comes from
Go ahead, cancel it.
Putin has already been talking with Duterte about sending aid.
It’s not like the Philippines is strategically located in the Pacific or full of natural resources waiting to be tapped...
Cut off your nose to spite your face... Do it.
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