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Junk VFA now!

12:08 pm By la Macha · military interventions · 1 Comment

16 Mar 2009

Seeing as there’s so many smaller South American nations that this could happen to and then Mexico is going to get increase military aid to fight drug cartels (why is it never increased money to fight drug addiction?) I think that the following is important to post.

Dear Friends:

Please visit : http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/JunkVFAnow/

In this new era of the Obama administration, I would like to direct your
attention to the deployment of US troops in the Philippines, under the
auspices of the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA), a joint military agreement
between the US and Philippine governments signed in 1998. The Bush
administration abused the VFA in 2001 after launching the Global War on
Terror after the 9/11 attacks to justify the so-called anti-terrorism
exercises between US and Philippine troops known as the Balikatan (in
Filipino “shoulder-to-shoulder”) exercises. The Bush administration also
tagged the Philippines as the so-called “Second Front” to the War on Terror. Read more…

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