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2003-05-09 Home Front

Vieques Closing Explodes in Protesters Faces

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Posted by OldSpook 2003-05-09 01:17 pm|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Too sweet! Unfortunately for the DoI, though, they'll be the next target of the fury. Hope they can weather the storm until the 'Ricans ask for the base to come back.

Posted by Dar 2003-05-09 13:35:27|| 2003-05-09 13:35:27|| Front Page Top

#2 Ah, the old exploding rabbit trick...

Posted by mojo 2003-05-09 13:37:20|| 2003-05-09 13:37:20|| Front Page Top

#3 So all of these protests over the years turn out to be rich landowners paying local losers to agitate, not really the environmentalists that the US press had been protraying. Puerto Rico needs to shit or get off the pot. Either clean up their corruption and request statehood or be forced to become an independent country. We pay enormous subsidies ($10 billion a year)to keep it running. So kudos to Rumsfield. As far as I'm concerned, they can lose their US citizenship and become the next Haiti.

Posted by 11A5S 2003-05-09 13:52:33|| 2003-05-09 13:52:33|| Front Page Top

#4 Vaya con dios, muchachos!

Posted by tu3031 2003-05-09 14:00:26|| 2003-05-09 14:00:26|| Front Page Top

#5 Rumsfield/Rice 2008!

Posted by Ptah 2003-05-09 14:22:39|| [www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2003-05-09 14:22:39|| Front Page Top

#6 "Always remember, you ASKED for it." -- Bugs Bunny

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-05-09 15:16:38|| 2003-05-09 15:16:38|| Front Page Top

#7 Alaska Paul and I have both had extensive dealings with USFWS and their related agencies. I can assure you that clearing the unexploded ordinance will require an Environmental Impact Report (3-5 years), then the actual clearing work, which would require mucho $&time and extensive disruption to the refuge heh heh, which would require Mitigation and Monitoring - 5 years, Before starting the process over to try and develop the land. This is a royal screwing of the first order. Where is Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Hillary Clinton et al? Nowhere to be seen now that the cameras are gone

Posted by Frank G 2003-05-09 16:48:50|| 2003-05-09 16:48:50|| Front Page Top

#8 This could very well be the best "you lie in the bed you make" move that the U.S. military will make in the the Western hemisphere for the next 50+ years. My hats off to whomever thought of it.

Posted by Mike N. 2003-05-09 17:05:11|| 2003-05-09 17:05:11|| Front Page Top

#9 The only part of that island that was bombed was the far western tip. Now, since all the Navy land (most of the island) will be essentially undevelopable the Viequenses may start to smell the cat food.

Maybe.

Posted by Parabellum 2003-05-09 18:21:35|| 2003-05-09 18:21:35|| Front Page Top

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