Re: possibly OT... US forces around the world... Is this really true....?

I can't confirm the accuracy of your figures but theU. S. does have
military 
bases around the world.

This is an unnecessary, expensive and poorly effective defence of the U.
S.

"Katt" <kahgfghttt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> Saw this somewhere and wondered if it's actually accurate...
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> "Wa****ngton and its apologists continually insist that the US is 'not an

> imperial power'. Yet of the 192 supposedly 'sovereign' states recognised

> by the United Nations, no fewer than *133* have a US military presence
--  
> which, in each and every case, the population was not consulted about;
did 
> not vote for; and cannot choose to remove..."
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> Anyone know how I can confirm the figures...? The '192' does appear in
the 
> wikipedia page for the UN...
>
> Ta.
>
> K.
>
>
>