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To: NormsRevenge
There was one other attempt at a resort on Vieques and that one failed. Spent seven days on the island and left two days early for San Juan. I promise never to go there again. They have some of the most beautiful beaches on the south shore, but the culture can best be described as entitled. The biggest mistake according to locals that are honest was when the US failed to remove all of the inhabitants from the island in WWII. I like PR, but Vieques is a lesson in all that is wrong there.
5 posted on 02/24/2003 11:07:23 PM PST by PA Engineer
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To: PA Engineer; NormsRevenge; appeal2; AF68
The perfect place for people who would give an arm and a leg to go on vacation.
6 posted on 02/24/2003 11:48:01 PM PST by holyscroller (Why are Liberal female media types always ugly to boot?)
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To: PA Engineer
"...the culture can best be described as entitled."

The culture can better be described as corrupt.

Most of those young guys pretending to be fishermen on Vieques, that are hostile to tourists, are drug smugglers.

Tourists and Naval personnel are potential witnesses to the crimes they're committing.

That's the dirty little secret that the media and our government is allowing to leak out through the press, now that our Navy has been forced to leave.

History will record that the mightiest Navy the world has ever known was handed its greatest defeat at the hands of a few drug smugglers and terrorists, without ever firing a single shot in anger in return.

This giant give-a-way of 36,000 more U.S. Taxpayer owned acres and billions of dollars worth of infrastructure, on two Naval bases in Puerto Rico, will justify efforts to mark Bush down as one of this country's greatest failures as President.

Bush jr.'s name will be right there alongside his father's and Jimmy Carter's.

And, to paraphrase John Paul Jones, Bush "has only just begun to give the American Taxpayer's stuff away!"

9 posted on 02/25/2003 3:13:16 AM PST by 4Freedom (America is no longer the 'Land of Opportunity', it's the 'Land of Illegal Alien Opportunists'!!!)
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