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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (109941)	8/5/2003 4:31:47 AM
From: Noel de Leon	Respond to of 281500

"Did the US become an army of permanent occupation in the Phillipines? We maintained our bases there for many years. But when the Phillipinos voted us out, we left ...." 1) The Filipinos don't have oil. 2) Between 1898 and 1946 it certainly looked like "permanent occupation". Permanent is, of course, never permanent in your eyes. Things change and therefore allow you to say that permanent occupation is not a fact of life. In 1988 would you have said that the occupation of Poland by the USSR was not permanent? (and crowed in 1990 when you were proved correct.)