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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (107761)	2/2/2010 8:56:58 PM
From: ggersh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116555

Forgot China/Vietnam

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (107761)	2/2/2010 9:02:09 PM
From: Proud Deplorable	2 Recommendations Respond to of 116555

China versus Taiwan. AMERICA IS PROVOKING A WAR BY SUPPLING WEAPONS China versus Tibet. YES BUT THEY LAY CLAIM TO IT. BAD DEAL ALL AROUND China versus India. HUH? No war going on China versus the Philippines (Spratly Islands). WHAT? No war going on China versus S. Korea. HUH? Nothing here now either Russia versus Georgia (they subverted Georgia sovereignty deliberately). NOPE..No war going on here either but if you are referring to the incident 2 years ago remember that the Bush dog who runs Georgia provoked it. Russia versus Ukraine. REALLY? Where is the fighting now? Russia versus Baltic states. ARE YOU DESPERATE? where is the fighting? And I can list a whole host of other Russia subterfuge during the period we call the Cold War. THE COLD WAR IS OVER AND RUSSIA KILLED MILLIONS OF BUSH STYLE FASCISTS DURING WW2 AND SAVED EUROPE FROM THE GERMANS WHO ARE NOW FRIENDS OF OURS???? You don't see your hypocrisy? Millions of people died as a result of Soviet/Russian intrigues. And hundreds of millions more were made to suffer under the oppression they sponsored. ALL IN THE PAST. America is the new world dictator and millions are dying at their hands TIMES HAVE CHANGED....please get out of the past. ================== The number of countries that the United States has a presence in is staggering. According the U.S. Department of State’s list of "Independent States in the World," there are 192 countries in the world, all of which, except Bhutan, Cuba, Iran, and North Korea, have diplomatic relations with the United States. All of these countries except one (Vatican City) are members of the United Nations. According to the Department of Defense publication, "Active Duty Military Personnel Strengths by Regional Area and by Country," the United States has troops in 135 countries. Here is the list: Afghanistan Albania Algeria Antigua Argentina Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belgium Belize Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil Bulgaria Burma Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Chad Chile China Colombia Congo Costa Rica Cote D’lvoire Cuba Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Djibouti Dominican Republic East Timor Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Fiji Finland France Georgia Germany Ghana Greece Guatemala Guinea Haiti Honduras Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia Lebanon Liberia Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Mali Malta Mexico Mongolia Morocco Mozambique Nepal Netherlands New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria North Korea Norway Oman Pakistan Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Qatar Romania Russia Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia and Montenegro Sierra Leone Singapore Slovenia Spain South Africa South Korea Sri Lanka Suriname Sweden Switzerland Syria Tanzania Thailand Togo Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom Uruguay Venezuela Vietnam Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe This means that the United States has troops in 70 percent of the world’s countries. The average American could probably not locate half of these 135 countries on a map. In contrast... "the Supreme Soviet, the highest governmental body of the Soviet Union, recognized the bankruptcy and collapse of the Soviet Union and dissolved itself. This is generally recognized as the official, final dissolution of the Soviet Union as a functioning state. Many organizations such as the Soviet Army and police forces continued to remain in place in the early months of 1992 but were slowly phased out and either withdrawn from or absorbed by the newly independent states." Awwww too bad you can't find a list of countries that Russia is either occupying or has troops in. There is no such list although some MIGHT be in Cuba getting better health care than they can in Miami