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2005-07-30 Thread Larry C. Lyons
Germany. Ramstein is being significantly scaled back. larry On 7/29/05, Robert Munn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > not exactly what I meant, but ok. I should have said non-U.S. territory. > > > >> Can anyone think of other places the U.S. has totally evacuated > > after a long-term military presen

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2005-07-30 Thread Larry C. Lyons
Its already happening. Uzbekistan (just north of Afghanistan) has ordered the US military out of a major air base. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/29/AR2005072902038.html U.S. Evicted From Air Base In Uzbekistan By Robin Wright and Ann Scott Tyson Washington Post Sta

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2005-07-29 Thread Robert Munn
not exactly what I meant, but ok. I should have said non-U.S. territory. > >> Can anyone think of other places the U.S. has totally evacuated > after a long-term military presence? > > South Dakota? > > - Jim > > > Robert Munn wrote: > > >No surprise that we're building long-term bases in Ir

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2005-07-29 Thread Jim Campbell
>> Can anyone think of other places the U.S. has totally evacuated after a >> long-term military presence? South Dakota? - Jim Robert Munn wrote: >No surprise that we're building long-term bases in Iraq. We we asked to vacate >Saudi Arabia, Kyrgyzstan is asking us to leave, Qatar is an unkno

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2005-07-29 Thread Robert Munn
No surprise that we're building long-term bases in Iraq. We we asked to vacate Saudi Arabia, Kyrgyzstan is asking us to leave, Qatar is an unknown in my mind, and Turkey screwed us in 2003. (Well, they screwed themselves out of $10 billion, but it's all about us, right? ;-) ) I think it has alw

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2005-07-29 Thread Dana
Yeah, Clovis NM will probably pretty much wiped out if they close Holloman. I hear ya. Dana On 7/29/05, Ray Champagne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's nice. We're going through some nasty BRAC changes around here > (one of the region's biggest employers is a Nuke shipyard nearby), yet > we h

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2005-07-29 Thread Ray Champagne
That's nice. We're going through some nasty BRAC changes around here (one of the region's biggest employers is a Nuke shipyard nearby), yet we have shitloads of money to build bases in Iraq. Fuckin' A bubba Dana wrote: > the US is building 20 "enduring bases" in Iraq to the tune of some $200

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2005-07-29 Thread Dana
the US is building 20 "enduring bases" in Iraq to the tune of some $200 million by the way, this is not a quizz, it's a question. These are factoids gleaned from sources I believe in enough to ask the question but not enough to accept as fact yet. -- He don't understand that sometimes a man Has