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The Uzbek State on Friday endorsed the government's decision to evict U.S. troops near a military base. The 93 senators voted unanimously to support the July order from President Islam Karimov, giving the United States six months to vacate the airbase at Karshi-Khanabad, in the southern Kashkadarya region.

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"We know that fundamentalist moods arise wherever U.S. bases appear," Kashkadarya governor Nuritdin Zainiyev said before the vote. "Enemies of the United States appear wherever there is a U.S. military presence, and we don't want to be caught in-between."

I'm not sure how bases in other countries work, but if we are there invited I suppose they can resend that invitation. But I'm not buying the reason. Call me "paranoid", but I suspect there are other motives, but aren't there always? I'm not saying we belong there or not, but I certainly suspect their reasons for not wanting us.

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posted at 15:20:47 on 08/26/05 - Category: Army

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Bender wrote:

GOOD FOR UZBEKISTAN!!!!! I honestly wish that more countries would follow their lead and give our occupying troops the boot. I think it is absolutely ridiculous that our military has become the "world police" and/or babysitters for nations that just can't get their sh*t together... we DON'T belong in Iraq, we DON'T belong in Afghanistan, and why does no one seem to pay attention to the fact that 16 of the 19 hijackers on 9-11 were from SAUDI ARABIA, and our president just so happens to be best buddies and business partner to all the Saudi royalty?!?!?!?!? F*ck Bush, and f*ck this war....i wanna move to Canada :(
08/27/05 11:00:11

matt wrote:

Move to canada.
08/29/05 13:48:14

Bender wrote:

that is exactly what i'm going to do within the next ten years while i still have relatives alive in alberta and manitoba! :) I am still patriotic , just in the sense of what our founding fathers' intentions were, not the bastardized mess our so-called democracy has become!
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