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spike420211
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I'm assuming, by your signature, that you are implying America and the entire coalition entered Iraq via false reports, misleading evidence, and under a veil of smoke with fingers pointing one way, but the true plan calling for an alternate, most likley that you are assuming oil..?
For anyone to say, today, that it was a mistake to enter Iraq is, atLEAST, feutile in theory, and fruitless in action. The days of scrutinizing the reasoning behind/for involvment, entry plan, and initial course of action, are, for now, behind us...put up on a shelf, if u will...The general public's main focus now should be "Ok, no changin' it now, we're in country, boots on ground... Let's get behind the troops, and finish this war, these wars!
To withdraw troops now would be a blunder the likes of which most cannot even comprehend.
Question: with American troops spread so thinly between Afghanistan and Iraq, Al-Quida's change in focus towards strengthening forces in northwestern Pakistan, a possible future major armed conflict with Iran,
the long-standing abhorrence to re-instating the draft...
[we'd rather send all those stupid kids to college, and we can't print enough money to pay them anywayz...]
At what point does it become pointless-or even suicidal- for US troops to stay any longer?
Let it be known, Human kind is still operating off of the same fear, hate, love, jealousy, greed, and compassion as it has for centuries... Of all the advances in technology, culture, language, and religion... We haven't one new emotion. That said, had we not gone into Iraq, and were boy-cotted crude oil, our gasoline rocketed to $12.00 ,and higher, a gallon, you would be ok with that, I assume...?? Not I!
What is done is done, of course. A lot of us feel that alleged behind-the-scenes activity leading up to all this was meant to BOLSTER the price of gasoline.
Meaning, I agree with you, oil was a priority in this war, however not the main focus, as many claim.
Our main focus is the regeneation of a nation, the build up of their infastructure, to include their oil industry, thus developing a new, strong, ally in the middle east.
We're not there- is this still possible?
From what we get in the media in the US, I'm not sure.
The middle east, being center stage for much of the worlds affairs for years to come.
IM GLAD WE WENT INTO IRAQ, WE LIBERATED AN OPRESSED PEOPLE, WE ELIMINATED A DESPOT, AND SECURED, ARE SECURING, A LARGE PIECE OF THE WORLDS ENERGY PUZZLE.
This is my point of view, Im not downing yours, Im simply disagreeing.
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since you've been to ground zero amongst all this,
I definitely respect your opinion.
I served under a lot of guyz who returned from serving in Thailand,
rotating in and out of temporary duties in Vietnam.
The whole situation, to them, made even less sense.
[well, except for the concept of cheap hookers]
Tracer,
I assume you've had a chance to return to the US, and have a grasp of what's going on domestically. No easy answers here either. We might literally have to get you guys all back in one piece, and regroup and re-assess.
This is my point of view, Im not downing yours, I'm out of the loop, so to speak, and somewhat confused.
an interesting, slightly off-topic tidbit 4 u folks.
[Dino, they're saying this would allow u to play @ Stars. Hmmm]
please note the deep concerns of european poasters ITT below,
re: the US dollar:
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/28/internet-poker/pokerstars-testing-euro-currency-597134/ |
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ManilaDog
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Meanwhile, regarding recent comments regarding the subject of annexation:
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Japan pushes for East Asia bloc
By Jason Szep and Yoko Nishikawa Jason Szep And Yoko Nishikawa – Sat Oct 24, 9:54 am ET
HUA HIN, Thailand (Reuters) – Japan's prime minister backed a U.S. role for a proposed EU-style Asian community on Saturday, telling Southeast Asian leaders Tokyo's alliance with Washington was at the heart of its diplomacy.
Making a case for an East Asian Community at a summit of Asian leaders in Thailand, Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama said there should be some U.S. involvement in the bloc, which faces stiff obstacles including Japan's historic rivalry with China.
It was unclear how a U.S. role would work. But the comment may help allay concern in some countries that such a body would ultimately fail by shutting out the world's biggest economy.
Hatoyama may also be trying to defuse U.S.-Japan tension over the long-planned reorganization of the American military presence in Japan, the first big test of ties between Washington and the new Japanese government.
Oh goody. Mach 3 Japanese Zeros.
Yeah, indeed. There is some kind of Mitsubishi thang going on here. Let's refresh with the MacArthur thang: Japan can build anything as long as the parts cannot be used in war. Out with the zeros and in with the Diamante.
About seven years ago, a CIA spook told me to grab Mitsubishi stock, and I have seen what has taken place so far. The level jump is back into aeronautics, of course, and this is, of course, what trumps Airbus on any Sunday.
Although the matter is now left up to the Japanese solely, some feel it is still in Uncle Sam's hands. Others feel it is part of the non-existent Japanese pacifist constitution. Mitsubishi can't do it without the US, the US cannot do it without Japan. Both are aware they lose to Airbus alone. Both are aware they work together but their respective citizenry is caught up in the other bullsh!t that has been fed them.
And where is the best place to make these Mach 3 Zeros?
Australia.
Asian Economic Union, baby. That's what I am talking about.
"Japan places the U.S.-Japan alliance at the foundation of its diplomacy," Hatoyama said at the meeting, according to a Japanese government spokesman.
"I would like to firmly promote regional cooperation in East Asia with a long-term vision of forming an East Asian Community." Several Southeast Asian leaders expressed support for the bloc, but none spoke of a U.S. role at the meetings.
The talks are part of a three-day leaders' summit which got off to a rancorous start on Friday, marred by a diplomatic spat between Thailand and neighbor Cambodia, a trade feud over Filipino rice
FACT: before Agent Orange hit Vietnam, Vietnam had enough arable land to food 90% of asia.
I find it hard to believe, from those I know in the filipino community back in Cali, that the Philippines has enough rice available for export.
Unrelated somewhat related, okay, related like Jerry Lee Lewis could get married to his cousin related, factoid: Texas produces so much damned rice that almost all of it is exported to where? Iran/Iraq. Perhaps it is not so much that the Philippines has enough to export as they have Something to export. Manila Dog......Manila Dog.......
and a few no-shows in the 10-member Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN).
China had a very different message at the meetings, signaling possible trouble ahead for Hatoyama. While he promoted a new community, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao focused on the current one, delivering what Chinese state media described as a six-point proposal for strengthening links with ASEAN.
Translation:
We wanna own ur a$$, like we own teh water rights to Mt. Everest and all the watersheds in Tibet. You may not ever have liked our glorious chairman's politics, but you guyz gotta admit, Mao was a friggin genius.
I do not believe that Hatoyama (Japanese for Pigeon Mountain) has made any overtures towards Taiwan. Indications he is in the different direction. If there is trouble ahead for Hatoyama, it is because he is too left, too socialist and an inappropriate foil for the PRC. The PRC squawking is for their domestic agenda, not because they are rufflin' feathers at Japan. We shall see if Hatoyama visits the Yasukuni shrine because that is the end all to allabouts of the wheretoall when it comes to the PRC, Japan and the Koreas. Korea and China NEED the PM of Japan to visit the Yasukuni shrine just to keep the citizenry riled up and on their side.
This included developing a recently signed China-ASEAN free trade pact and accelerating regional infrastructure construction.
MYANMAR, NORTH KOREA
An ASEAN statement summing up talks within its own members urged its most recalcitrant state, Myanmar, to ensure elections next year are free and fair, though it stopped short of seeking the release of detained pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi.
Has anyone checked 2 see if Myanmar really does have any friggin' oil?
It is the stuff they scrape off their face after eating French fries. Of course, I am only talking about the leaders of the military.
That came a day after ASEAN launched a human rights commission as part of a plan to build an economic and political community by 2015, and drew a scathing rebuke from rights activists who said it was toothless and lacked independence.
The region's leaders also called on North Korea to return to six-way nuclear disarmament talks.
Tell me something, feihua. Why would a huge country like China want to put up with a tiny rogue nation, damn near totally sealed off and in posession of nukes, run by a lunatic that makes their own gov't. look like Finland?
I don't think they do, to be honest. But for communist nations, it is like a freebie when no one else wants to, either. Kind of like....Libya. Myanmar does have a very good heroin trade, and has had one for quite some time. The junta was quite outspoken when they said they would stop it at any time with the proper reimbursement from Washington. While Washington could not admit to such a thing, and it made it more difficult to arrange such a thing following Iran and Contra-gate, the window to China was left open as a supporter of something or other......kind of a enemy of my enemy is a friend to your mother who I would love to fnck. When it is boiled down, Myanmar and Thailand don't exactly get along and this is a window of some sort to the PRC. Because Thailand is the USA's Asian Chile, it makes sense to side with Myanmar.
The summit in the resort town of Hua Hin gave Asia's economic titans, China and Japan, a chance to jockey for influence in Southeast Asia, a region of 570 million people with a combined $1.1 trillion economy, as it pulls out of recession.
Japan's new government sees its influence bound to the East Asian Community, an idea inspired by the European Union that would account for nearly a quarter of global economic output.
It would encompass Japan, China, South Korea, India, Australia and New Zealand, along with ASEAN countries.
After meetings with China, Japan and South Korea, ASEAN holds talks on Sunday with India, Australia and New Zealand.
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Sunday will push another idea for a new, separate forum of Asia-Pacific nations to respond to regional crises. His idea includes the United States.
Washington has stepped up Asian diplomacy under the Obama administration and fears missing out on such groupings, especially as Japan considers redefining its U.S. security alliance, and Beijing expands its diplomatic and trade presence.
I take it this means they want 2 shut down Yokota and Okinawa.
Shutting down Yokota gives Japan the extra needed airfield that compliments and outdoes both Narita and Haneda. Japan wants influence there, but not to shut it down to incoming flights. Japan doesn't want Okinawa shut down as much as it needs Okinawans to shut up. Only Okinawans want the US out of Okinawa, but the kicker is that if the Okinawans can get the US out of Okinawa, the Okinawans will go to get Japan out of Okinawa as a follow-up.
Stated before, I believe that the only reason Japan wants the islands around Sakhalin is to move the US bases there. This would be suitable to the US. However, with US missile defense now deployed across Japan, the idea is for the US to milk their positioning for as long as possible and then say "meh" if it actually has to happen.
It can only happen....how? Go back to Mach 3 Zero talk.
Let Mitsubishi build weapons of war and the US can leave. But only if Mitsubishi is allowed to do so.
Exactly how Washington would participate is uncertain.
copper colored pachinko balls with Abe's pic on em.
I appreciate your French perspective on things. Small ball. Small..pachinko....balla.
Asked if Washington would be a member of the Community, a Japanese government official told reporters: "It remains unclear. We have to see how multilateral meetings will turn out today."
yes, even the Japanese love 2 pad the f*** outta their travel vouchers.
The proposal wasn't elaborated upon, said Mari Elka Pangestu, trade minister of Indonesia, Southeast Asia's biggest economy. "How the U.S. participates -- because the U.S. is one of our dialogue partners -- we need to think through."
Translation:
We need more armamentz for our part in the Jihad.
China has been coy about the idea while rapidly expanding ties across Southeast Asia -- from building sleek new government offices in Cambodia to working closely with reclusive Myanmar.
"China wants to establish healthy relations with the new government in Japan, so it is not going to object to discussing this idea," said Shi Yinhong, a regional security professor at Beijing's Renmin University.
"But everybody understands the idea of an East Asia Community is extremely far off," he added.
Host Thailand deployed about 18,000 security personnel backed by military gunships, and lots of hookers, determined to avoid a rerun of mishaps at past summits. |
Sources say the Asian Economic Union coin will be pachinko ball shaped in pink gold plated aluminum and branded by Sanrio.
Isn't the Yakuza gonna be pissed about counterfeit pachinko balls floating
all over asia? 
Yakuza.........I have Yakuza running all around the neighborhood......in their pajamas and punch perm hairdos and their passe Louis Vuiton wallets.....I think these guys are back to just backsetting odometers.
China has released information that the coin will be used as ammunition.
Rapid payment policy imho. This also means they're going into debit cards in a big way obv.
Gunpowder will be outsourced by both China and Japan to Laos. |
This will all, someday, be known as
The Pacific Rim Job. |
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The problem with Philippine rice isnt quantity............the Islands import a lot of rice........because of corruption and many things political......there is enough rice farm land here to produce enough for all of S E Asia.
The big rice farmers who are politically connected make much more money from exports.
We grow our own here in our village...its more than enough,although I do buy a better quality for my family |
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spike420211
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thx 4 the input Manila.
My take of things there, background-wise, is obv. from my Air Force days.
So many countries 2 keep up with and all. |
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feihua
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Manila, please give us an update on your own personal typhoon thing......how have you weathered things, literally?
As far as the reasoning that the US is in Iraq because of freedom..........I can't accept it.
If that is the case, then the first Gulf War should have proceeded. As well, if it is the case, the US is ignoring a great portion of the world.
We don't even have to say the US went into Iraq because of oil. The US went into Iraq because of Bush/Cheney and now we understand how few actually sided with them on the decision but felt compelled at the time to agree because they liked their jobs.
Someone have a good heart to heart talk with Aung San Suu Kyi when it comes to the US getting involved over freedom, she will listen politely, offer you a cup of tea and then continue to sit on her as s, doing what she does in the name of freedom and being far more successful with it than the US has or has been claimed to do.
Let's don't kid ourselves........the US entered ONE WAR in the name of freedom.
Korea was about China flexing muscle. It was not about freedom.
Vietnam was about France getting stuck in their own brand of imperialism. It was not about freedom.
Not even the invasion of Grenada was about freedom as much as it was about airbases.
Yet not even Desert Storm was about freedom, but again about another country flexing its muscle.
Perhaps some day the US will truly return to war as a method for protecting freedom, but it relies much too heavily upon sanctions and negotiations as a substitute to encourage nations to protect freedoms.
The United States is now in Iraq simply because it cannot get out. And that makes sense enough.
The reasons it went into Iraq had to do with two men first and an agreeable cohort second. |
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missjugsalot
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desert storm wasnt about freedom? Ridiculous. Have you forgotten that saddam invaded kuwait? They were raping and killing the peaceful people of kuwait because saddam thought it should belong to him. So we killed them quite efficiently, and stopped when Bush 41 decided he didnt have the political courage to finish the job. Gulf war 2 was a continuation of the first war, based on saddam violating the terms of the ceasefire agreement, and based on 17 UN resolutions. Saddam housed, payed and aided terrorists, while allowing the intelligence agencies of the world to believe he had WMD's. His mistake. After 911, Bush told the world, if you house or aid terrorists, you will be treated the same way, it was called the "Bush doctrine."
Mr tracer, you will not get anywhere with the people here about Iraq, but i for one agree with you. Kiwi thinks rape rooms and oppression, poison gas attacks and feet first wood chipper political executions are better than living under freedom, and having to risk being blown up by foreign born insurgents. Of course, Israel has to risk that every day, but he wont make the argument that Israel would be better off under a saddam type despotic regime. Feihua twists everything to fit his absurd view of the world. If Vietnam wasnt about freedom, why then was the result of our departure the murder of millions of civilians? Why does S Korea need to defend its northern border from Kim jong ill? It couldnt possibly be about keeping their freedom, could it? I just love when the pus sy socialists of the world distort history to fit their flawed world view.
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Flying_Kiwi
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Kuwait was set up by the west so they could side-drill oil from Iraq. So when Saddam attacked Kuwait and the US responded, it wasn't about freedom but about protecting their own interests... as always.
"we have no friends, America only has interests" |
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alex j beeson
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Kuwait was set up by the west so they could side-drill oil from Iraq. So when Saddam attacked Kuwait and the US responded, it wasn't about freedom but about protecting their own interests... as always.
"we have no friends, America only has interests" |
What? Kuwait funded Iraq's war against Iran, to the tune of over 65 billion dollars. After the war the Iraqi's asked Kuwait to forgive the debt, which Kuwait refused. After that the tensions between the two countries increased and it was Iraq who ALLEDGED that Kuwait was slant drilling. No proof of that was ever established.
It was about money for sure and someone's interests, but it was the Iraqi's making the moves for themselves to get out of paying for the loans they got from Kuwait.
Also, the people of Kuwait have been there for a long time and Kuwait has always been seperate nation of sorts. It was the Ottomans who officially set up Kuwaits borders back in 1922 or so. Then they got full independence from Britain in the 60's. As they should have as they are their own people.
Set up by the west, Pfftttt. They got their independence as they should have. In the Kuwaiti people's best interest as determined by the people of Kuwait.
Yep but everything is the West's fault, more specifically, the US's fault.
Who was crying as loud as Kuwait for US intervention in the first gulf war? And yet again America comes as liberators only to be decried as Imperialists. So lame. |
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Flying_Kiwi
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Kuwait's independence served western interests. The west acted to protect Kuwait's freedom not out of some kind of moral obligation but ensure their little puppet state wasn't lost.
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Just like those ALLEDGED WMDs, right? |
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alex j beeson
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Kuwait's independence served western interests. The west acted to protect Kuwait's freedom not out of some kind of moral obligation but ensure their little puppet state wasn't lost.
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Just like those ALLEDGED WMDs, right? |
Wow, you are a little confused I think. We are talking about the First Gulf War. Iraq certainly had lots of chemical and bio weapons. We know cause we destroyed them.
Second, you ignore facts.
Iraq owed Kuwait a lot of money.
Iraq asked Kuwait to Forgive the debt.
Kuwait refused.
Iraq invades.
To you Iraq is justified to invade Kuwait because Kuwait is a "puppet state".
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| Kuwait's independence served western interests. |
And to you Kuwait's independence did not serve the Kuwaiti's interests? Only other countries?
Whose interests is your countries independence serving then, if not your own? Oh wait, you are not really independent are you? All right then, on you knees boy and swear your allegiance to the Queen. Prostrate yourself like a good little subject.
You will be bowing down kissing Obama's shoes next. |
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Flying_Kiwi
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| Wow, you are a little confused I think. We are talking about the First Gulf War. Iraq certainly had lots of chemical and bio weapons. We know cause we destroyed them. |
That comment wasn't specific to either war, but merely pointing out your hypocrisy regarding Sadam using phony allegations to support an invasion when your country has done exactly the same. Whether it was in the same war or not is irrelevant.
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I don't recall saying that.
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I didn't say that. I said Kuwait's independence serves other countries interests, which you then turn into me saying it doesn't serve Kuwait's interest. Of course it does. |
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feihua
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It is quite easy to be both a liberator and an imperialist.
It is not as easy to gain support as an imperialist as it is to gain support as a liberator.
Gaining support as a liberator does one no good because there is no increase from such support, and it is flawed because the support comes from the weaker side of the potential conflict.
Precisely, the ones who accuse a country of engaging in imperialism are making an attempt to liberate the same country from denial.....because there is no other country that can be given credit for being able to liberate a liberator.
It is not likely the United States would have entered World War 2 had it not been attacked by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor. And prior to that attack, there was never any mention of the United States in the business of protecting freedom on any sort of global basis.
Certainly, the steel embargo that helped set up the situation of WW2 was not an act that the US was doing in the name of freedom.
This is not to say that I am labeling the US as an aggressor. However, it is not wise for a soldier to make a claim as to why a soldier is doing what a soldier is doing when the only answer sufficient and necessary is to reply that a soldier is following orders.
And that answer should be obvious.
The problem with the United States involving war is that it is the only country to have the equipment to ferociously dominate and end a conflict through force quickly and handily. But the United States pulls punches in the name of fair play, respect and finally, the freedom of those caught up in the scenario. And these punches being pulled are not actually in the name of humanitarianism but actually in the name of politics and an attempt to increase favor towards the opinion felt necessary to allow the US to make broad strokes unannounced in the name of war.
It is Ronald Reagan's shutdown of the media involving the invasion of Grenada that set up the opinions to guide George W. Bush towards the open invasion of Iraq whether anyone approved or not.
I am not so sure that I would be against the US turning Afghanistan into a sea of glass with nuclear strikes in the days of the initial US involvement in Afghanistan. It is a war in America's interest, not the world's interest, but the US government is not comfortable with announcing the truth of that - it is just a poor political move.
And it is the same hand tying problem that prevented the US from carpet bombing North Vietnam sufficiently to gain dominance in a war that the United States had difficulty in understanding how to fight, which lead to the loss of the United States on the behalf of France.
Much of the world, a great deal of the world, outside of the United States understands that one enters war in order to kill and destroy. This same portion of the world is quite comfortable with such knowledge and tends to word things in a manner that such a situation is not provoked.
The only place in the United States where it appears to be okay to openly talk about such truth is inside the barracks.
Likewise, an aggressive communist nation is no more entering a war to encourage the spread of communism as it is to further their own individual and most likely corrupt interests.
Yesterday, the US was condemned again by the world with a vote of 185 - 3 regarding how the United States treats Cuba.
Only Israel and Palau support the United States.
Somehow this treatment by the United States is want to be supported as a move in the name of freedom, yet arguably 98% of the world is against such a move by the United States.
And how is the United States now attempting to win a war in Afghanistan? Through money rather than bullets by setting up a program where it will pay the Taliban to switch than fight.
It is not a move to change religious thinking which brought about the situation for war, it is a move to simply control the level of fighting. It is to reduce the fighting and give economic position back to the United States. And while it has worked in the sons of Iraq campaign, it nonetheless allows religious thinking intact, and religious thinking that can hardly be given credit for promoting freedom domestically much less globally.
The United States has known for a very, very long time that it did not need to become involved in a war in Angola to promote freedom and to stop communist influence - all it had to do was set up a chain of Seven Elevens and perhaps throw in a Major League Baseball team to win the hearts and minds of that country's citizenry.
It chose to do neither because contrary to popular opinion, it does not enter war to promote freedom. And it uses Intelligence best - secretly, covertly, out of the public eye, out of public scrutiny - when entering a war to maintain the interests of the USA.
The bottom line is that US involvement in war, generally, is about maintenance. |
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ManilaDog
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[quote="feihua"]Manila, please give us an update on your own personal typhoon thing......how have you weathered things, literally?
As we are located 280kilometers south of the Metro Manila Area.....and from the center of the two " Super " Typhoons........we didnt have the damage that Manila and north had......we did have very heavy rains.....16.5 inches in one day etc.......the wind was more than gale force..................
We had a lot of water....but it drains down hill from us.
No human injuries and animal deaths were very minimal.
The lingering problem is now humans are getting an increasing number of Dengue cases...its almost epidemic.
As an aside....we had a wedding here on Oct 18.........29 yo daughter was married to a local boy( man ).........that was a Sunday......party started on Fri with the butchering of 50 chickens..........and continued to Weds after a Christening on Tues........
I dunno how many chcikens and pigs were finally consumed but it was a lotta food...........
We had guest s fro China,Japan,Korea.India,Holland and Australia
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Flying_Kiwi
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feihua
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Congratulations on the son-in-law.
Good to hear everything is screwed down. |
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ManilaDog
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Congratulations on the son-in-law.
Good to hear everything is screwed down. |
opps forgot...one guest from Saudi Arabia also |
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