U.S. gauging Romania’s interest in expanded role

[lebkuchen]

Behind the scenes of the two-week training exercise, the U.S. military is staging a public relations effort to win support of future exercises and gauge how tolerant villagers are to the idea of a more expansive training area that could make the rumble of airplanes overhead and Bradley fighting vehicles on the ground a more frequent occurrence.

Smith and a team of four civil affairs specialists from the Wisconsin National Guard have descended on towns within a roughly 115-square-mile area, talking with mayors, policemen and people on the street to find out if they would welcome an increased U.S. military presence in the area.

http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=30682

[wake.up.america]

1. NU!!!! Romania does not want US troops!!!

[Lecky]

2. Why do we need U.S. military presence in Romania?

[lebkuchen]

4. So Cheney et al can reap big bucks building/rebuilding bases there

while shutting down present ones in Germany. Also, supposedly to ship equipment faster to the Middle East.


http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=30660

About 6,100 troops to leave Würzburg by Sept. 2006


http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=30661

Where, when units are scheduled to go

[henslee]

3. Yeah the Bureau of Romanian orphanages and Abu Grahib staff can

compare notes.

[lebkuchen]

5. Not to mention women kidnapped for the sex slave trade

The DoD made a sanctimonious fuss awhile back about passing a UCMJ law that soldiers could not "hang" with prostitutes, all the while making plans to send units unaccompanied to Romania, Poland and Bulgaria for six or more months at a time, where women are lured into giving up their passports for "great" jobs overseas, only to be kidnapped and used in the sex slave trade "industry."

http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=23729&archive=true

Troops say proposed UCMJ change unfair in prostitution-legal Germany

[Robeson]

6. Ploesti Oil Fields....Here we come!

[bribri16]

7. One thug nation making nice to another thug nation. n/t