Ecuador to Bush: sure, you can keep your airfield here -- but only if we can open a military base in Miami.
Ecuador's leftist President Rafael Correa said Washington must let him open a military base in Miami if the United States wants to keep using an air base on Ecuador's Pacific coast.LOL
Correa has refused to renew Washington's lease on the Manta air base, set to expire in 2009. U.S. officials say it is vital for counter-narcotics surveillance operations on Pacific drug-running routes.
"We'll renew the base on one condition: that they let us put a base in Miami -- an Ecuadorean base," Correa said in an interview.
"If there's no problem having foreign soldiers on a country's soil, surely they'll let us have an Ecuadorean base in the United States."
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It's about time someone brought up the fact about the American military bases throught the world. According to Chalmers Johnson in "Sorrows of Empire"(quoting a public Dept of Defense listing), the US had 725 military bases/outposts in OTHER COUNTRIES as of 2001, and of course they've increased since 9/11. Yet how many foreign military bases do we have here in the US? To the nearest zero?? Can you just hear the collective heart-attack of 98% of the Reich-wingers if someone even half-seriously started talking about letting foreign on-duty troops reside here in the US??
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