Posted on 01/13/2005 4:09:46 AM PST by kattracks
The Indonesian government yesterday showed its appreciation to U.S. soldiers who have been risking their lives helping tsunami victims by ordering them to get out of the country by the end of March.
"Three months are enough," Vice President Jusuf Kalla told the official Antara news agency. "In fact, the sooner [they leave] the better."
Kalla's government also forced the Abraham Lincoln, from which Navy pilots have flown dozens of food supply missions to the hard-hit Aceh Province, to steam out of Indonesian waters because they refused to let U.S. pilots fly training missions in their air space.
The Indonesians also refused to let the Marines coming ashore rebuild roads, establish a base camp or carry arms.
Lynn Pascoe, the U.S. ambassador to Indonesia, reacted to Kalla's ingratitude by declaring that American troops will help as long as they were needed and "not a minute later."
But in Washington, White House spokesman Scott McClellan demanded "further clarification from Indonesia about what this means."
"We hope that the government of Indonesia and the military in Indonesia will continue the strong support they have provided to the international relief efforts so far," he said.
Although most Indonesians have expressed thanks for U.S. help, nationalist politicians in the world's most populous Muslim country have been grumbling about "American interlopers."
Indonesia's new president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, is a former general in a country that has been under martial law for much of its recent history.
Always wary of America, Indonesia reluctantly allowed U.S. soldiers in when it became clear it could not deal with the aftermath of the Dec. 26 tsunami on its own.
Yudhoyono's government also moved to reassert control over wave-walloped Aceh by ordering aid workers and journalists to declare their travel plans - or face expulsion.
"It is important to note that the government would be placed in a very difficult position if any foreigner who came to Aceh to assist in the aid effort was harmed through the acts of irresponsible parties," the government said in a statement.
The Indonesian government was referring to the rebels who have largely stayed out of the way as the international rescue missions have been mounted.
With News Wire Services
Originally published on January 13, 2005
Me too, I didn't send a penny, but I do contribute to any disaster in the U.S.
They probably believe that the Mossad working in conjunction with the CIA have devised a 'weather machine', enabling the Zionist hooligans and their American 'lackeys' to launch stealthy attacks uopn Muslims.
I wouldn't give them the scraps I throw to my dog.
Gee, these Ameriphobes need to all get on the same page.
"I specifically posted that the U.S. would be vilified before this was all over."
I guess we are on the same page. I predicted that we would see anti-American protests by the end of the month.
"He also said that 12,000 liters (3,170 U.S. gallons) of mineral water intended for tsunami victims had been used as bath water by a district official."
Well, before we blow this hell-hole of a popstand, here's a guy who needs killing-- in public.
Quite often, yes. And, so many have not even opened the book.
Hey, if they want us out, we should go. Why risk establishing an imperial toehold in Indonesia under cover of a relief operation?
So what bank account is that revenue from our imperialistic generating tax going into ? It appears to me that the jest of this article is that we are the ones buying our way to an enlightened and saver age. Assuming that muslim imperial conquests will run as economically productive as the communistic ones, the choice they really have is the choice to be a slave or not. Most people in the end will prefer to get properly compensated.
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Indonesia backs off deadline
New York Daily News ^ | 1/17/05 | AP
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