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Ecuador wants military base in Miami

flywallyflyflywallyfly Posts: 1,453
edited October 2007 in A Moving Train
Hehehe. This guy is hilarious!

http://uk.reuters.com/article/reutersEdge/idUKADD25267520071022

NAPLES (Reuters) - 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.

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 during a trip to Italy.

"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."

The U.S. embassy to Ecuador says on its Web site that anti-narcotics flights from Manta gathered information behind more than 60 percent of illegal drug seizures on the high seas of the Eastern Pacific last year.

It offers a fact-sheet on the base at: http://ecuador.usembassy.gov/topics_of_interest/manta-fol.html

Correa, a popular leftist economist, had promised to cut off his arm before extending the lease that ends in 2009 and has called U.S. President George W. Bush a "dimwit".

But Correa, an ally of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, told Reuters he believed relations with the United States were "excellent" despite the base closing. Continued...
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  • LikeAnOceanLikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    Nice.. Let him have his airbase! lol.
  • RolandTD20KdrummerRolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    http://www.alcnoticias.org/picture/Rafael%20Correa,%20electo%20como%20Presidente%20de%20Ecuador.jpg
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    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

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  • catefrancescatefrances Posts: 29,003
    reciprocity. what a concept. :)
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  • NoKNoK Posts: 824
    Classic... now lets hope all the middle eastern countries follow suit..
  • jlew24asujlew24asu Posts: 10,118
    why does he want one here?
  • TheVoiceInsideTheVoiceInside Posts: 361
    i like this guy. hes a funny guy. its funny cuz its true ;)
  • polarispolaris Posts: 3,527
    i like this guy cuz he's doing something about the galapagos ...
  • LikeAnOceanLikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    jlew24asu wrote:
    why does he want one here?
    Why not? We have them everywhere.. To protect interests.
  • jlew24asujlew24asu Posts: 10,118
    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    Why not? We have them everywhere.. To protect interests.

    what interests would he be protecting in america? he has none. I dont think "just because" is a valid enough reason.
  • LikeAnOceanLikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    jlew24asu wrote:
    what interests would he be protecting in america? he has none
    He's just making a point. He's not going to build an airbase here obviously. If he doesn't want our military base in his country he has every right to fight it.
  • jlew24asujlew24asu Posts: 10,118
    LikeAnOcean wrote:
    He's just making a point. He's not going to build an airbase here obviously. If he doesn't want our military base in his country he has every right to fight it.
    then he should just say no. saying he wants to build a base here just because we want one there is just plain dumb. he doesnt want a US airbase there? ok fine.
  • LikeAnOceanLikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    jlew24asu wrote:
    then he should just say no. saying he wants to build a base here just because we want one there is just plain dumb. he doesnt want a US airbase there? ok fine.
    ok, I see your point.
  • polarispolaris Posts: 3,527
    jlew24asu wrote:
    then he should just say no. saying he wants to build a base here just because we want one there is just plain dumb. he doesnt want a US airbase there? ok fine.

    the point he is trying to make is that americans are hypocritical - if any foreign country wants to build a base in american soil - most would balk but have absolutely no problem having american bases on other country's soil ...
  • TVVNCYBRAPJTVVNCYBRAPJ Posts: 84
    flywallyfly wrote:



    The U.S. embassy to Ecuador says on its Web site that anti-narcotics flights from Manta gathered information behind more than 60 percent of illegal drug seizures on the high seas of the Eastern Pacific last year.


    [quote/]

    So when our base in Ecuador closes we have to rely on the Ecuadorian Air Force and Navy for counter-narcotics intelligence?...

    "Mr James, how you you like to be the under secretary of the DEA?"
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  • YoyoyoYoyoyo Posts: 310
    Hrm..time for Operation Condor II...

    Lets just pour some invasive species onto their crops...or use defoliant to kill their crops...or stage a coup...etc..
    No need to be void, or save up on life

    You got to spend it all
  • RolandTD20KdrummerRolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    It's almost as though it's political. Hey...Imagine that?!

    Politicians using politics?!?!?!

    Never saw that one coming in a million years...
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

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  • boxwine_in_hellboxwine_in_hell Posts: 1,263
    jlew24asu wrote:
    why does he want one here?

    I believe he's making a point.
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    I think I'd rather smother
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