CPP warns against use of Philippines as staging ground for US war against

[Freedom_from_Chains]

Maybe this is why N. Korea has decided that now might be a good time to set off a couple of more nukes.

Information Bureau
Communist Party of the Philippines
Press Release
October 17, 2006

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) today denounced the current large-scale military exercises being conducted jointly in various areas in Luzon and Palawan by US and Philippine as a "continuing transgession against Philippine independence and sovereignty." At the same time, the CPP warned against use of Philippine territory as a staging ground or support base for any possibility of US military aggression against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).

Up to 5,700 US troopers from the 3rd Marine Expeditionary Unit based in Okinawa, Japan and from the Essex Expeditionary Strike Group based in Sasebo, Jaban arrived in Luzon and Palawan to conduct joint drills with 1,300 Filipino soldiers up to October 31.

CPP spokesperson Gregorio "Ka Roger" Rosal noted that more and more US troops are being deployed in joint exercises being conducted in the Philippines "purportedly to counter terrorism, but actually as part of the conditioning to increase the scale of the continuing US military intervention in the Philippines itself as well as in other countries."

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[Greeby]

1. I'd like to think if the US was gonna invade North Korea

They'd do it with a bit more than 5,700 men :eyes: