Will Jeb/Clinton/Poppy /Powell be setting up a military base in Indonesia?

[KoKo]

Will all this aid money from the US come with the pricetag of the Carlyle Group setting up a permanent "Relief Base" there which is a guise for US Military Presence? (You know, rebuilding the Resorts, etc. does require the population to be secured so that there isn't "construction looting," etc.

An article on Buzzflash got me thinking this. About how we'd tried to set up a base before but the "people" didn't want it.

Money for disaster aid often doesn't get to the poor who need it, but goes into the pockets of the folks who use it to oppress the poor.

I'm very worried about sending Repugs to Indonesia to "check out" the disaster. Then having Clinton/Poppy together to raise funds.

It's starting to sound a little like "CONTROL." Here's a link to many articles on the Tsunami with reports from all sources: tinfoil, scientific, speculative and mainstream.

http://64.224.42.246/weblog/indy_post.cfm?logID=E9FA26E3-7898-4FCA-90246CBF0F3B6445

[Goathead]

1. No way

There is a lot of factional fighting in Indonesia, the one thing the different factions are all in agreement with is their hatred of the U.S./Australia.

[signmike]

2. Well, the FIRST thing they sent was

a couple of war ships and 2,200 marines.:o

[diamond14]

3. YES ! here's a link....Vietnam-era base re-opened in THAILAND

Indonesia is still too 'civil war', but Thailand will work real well...bush* is already sending Iraqis over there for torture...

http://dc.indymedia.org/feature/display/111903/index.php

The Pentagon has announced it is returning to its old Vietnam War haunts at Utapao Royal Thai Naval Air Force Base 90 miles south of Bangkok on the Gulf of Thailand. In this clear escalation of the American military presence in Southeast Asia, the ostensible plan is to set up a "command center" for the tsunami emergency relief effort. Utapao air base will serve as a staging base for U.S. military and rescue aircraft. The emergency relief operations appear to provide a windfall opportunity for beefing up the American military presence in Southeast Asia, part of the expanding Pentagon strategy of "forward positioning," establishing sites, so-called "air cargo hubs," where American forces can stash equipment and enter and leave as desired.

During the Vietnam War, Utapao functioned from April 1967 as a major staging base for B-52s carrying out bombing raids over North Vietnam, and KC-35 stratotankers of the Strategic Air Command. Many American GIs served there <1>.

Despite Thailand's neutrality on the war in Iraq, Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra allowed Utapao to be used by American warplanes flying into combat in Iraq last year, and into Afghanistan earlier. There is also speculation that Utapao, with its infamous facilities for 'sophisticated interrogation' (a military heirloom from the Vietnam era), is probably where various al-Qaeda suspects have been secretly grilled.

[KoKo]

4. I hesitated to post this for fear of sounding cruel...but your link...

sounds like it might be the truth of it...sadly. It's amazing the "Luck" Bush has. Especially for "war mongering/building military bases and gettin a "foothold" into places that we shouln't be."

Amazing...

[goforit]

5. Well..I do think it fascinating today that you can read them like a book.

The funny thing is these schmucks think no one is watching them,
and even more hilarious, they think nobody knows about it.

Well, one of these days they'll trip and fall pretty damn hard.

It's called karma.

[KoKo]

6. kick.....