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

"thomas p." <gudloos@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message news:48a1e248$0

> One observation about the above.   The US, just like any other nation,
is 
> far from perfect, but there is no reason to make up claims such as:  "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..."  Almost all of the nations

> he mentioned are functioning democracies.  The freely elected
governments 
> have the right to cancel agreements with the US.
>

Ludicrous post. 'The freely elected governments have the right to cancel 
agreements with the US' is, in this context, the stupidest, most 
historically uninformed, most politically deluded statement I have read in

months.

K.