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Anti-Drug Air Base Pact To Be Ended (Ecuador)
The Washington Times ^
| Oct 30, 2007
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Posted on 10/30/2007 8:49:18 AM PDT by RDTF
QUITO, ECUADOR The Ecuadorean government on Friday insisted on ending a cooperation agreement with the United States that allows the U.S. military to use a coastal air force base for anti-drug operations in the Andes.
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...Galo Mora, a representative of Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa, told participants at a solidarity forum with Cuba.
The 10-year agreement, signed by the United States and Ecuador in 1999, allows Washington to deploy up to 475 military personnel in Manta in support of counternarcotics operations.
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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: andes; cia; communists; cuba; dea; drugwar; ecuador; idiotpostfest; narcoterrorism; wod; wodlist; wodwodlist
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To: jas3
America has the right to protect its interests in the world. Our troops don’t take orders from foreign governments. Castro would like us to leave Gitmo bay too. Should we? Should we just do whatever our communist enemies want us to do?
To: Tailgunner Joe
Looks like this invasion from the South (Mexico, Central America, South America) is the WWIII we have been looking for. And they haven’t even fired a shot. Their citizens are here and sending money back to keep bolstering their economy.
Another poster hit it right....start shipping these illegals back to their roots.
Even though their government won’t help the returnees, at least the flow of money from this end will be slowed considerably.
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10/31/2007 2:26:18 PM PDT
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xrmusn
To: Tailgunner Joe
America has the right to protect its interests in the world. Our troops dont take orders from foreign governments. Castro would like us to leave Gitmo bay too. Should we? Should we just do whatever our communist enemies want us to do?
That's a very tricky theory, depending upon how one defines interests. For example, one could argue that it is in America's interest to have a cheap supply of oil. Would it therefore be justified to invade Mexico to secure that oil?
Our troops actually do take orders from foreign governments, if you cout the UN. And that is a sad fact.
No, the US Navy should not leave Gitmo unlike when the lease was up for Subic Bay in 1991. If I remember correctly both the US and Cuba need to affirmatively consent to break the lease. It doesn't matter what Castro wants. He must live by his predecessor's agreement.
No, we should not just do whatever our communist enemies want us to do.
However, the air base in Ecuador should be closed when the lease is up, unless it is successfully renegotiated, regardless of what local communists think. The United States needs to deal with other countries on a just and equitable basis, or it will lose its leases in the Marshall Islands, Ascension, Qatar, etc. if the locals in these regions decide to throw them out.
jas3
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10/31/2007 6:58:54 PM PDT
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jas3
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