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2003-11-20 Korea

It's time to wean S. Korea from US military dependence: Rumsfeld

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-11-20 23:07|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Damn, Jarhead speaks and Rummy reacts!

Posted by Steve White 2003-11-20 12:15:29 AM|| 2003-11-20 12:15:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 This has been overdue for a long time.

Posted by Patrick Phillips 2003-11-20 4:41:24 AM|| 2003-11-20 4:41:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Steve W., I called in a favor. I told Rummy about the bad kim-chee and that since the Norks have went to 4'10" soldiers I felt the SKor's could handle them. He agreed, we drank a beer & had a hearty laugh about those six Iraqi mortarmen getting whacked last week by that gunship.......BTW - Rummy predicts Oklahoma over USC in the BCS final 28 - 17. ;)

Posted by Jarhead 2003-11-20 6:08:49 AM|| 2003-11-20 6:08:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Steve White, funny thing, I thought the exact same thing when I read this post. Nice going Jarhead.

Fact is the South Koreans made a big stink about wanting the troops gone. They were very persuasive. Sometimes you should think about what you demand because you just might get it.

Posted by ruprecht 2003-11-20 8:46:24 AM|| 2003-11-20 8:46:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Anyone think the troops are headed for Iraq ? Why waste 'em on a sunshine policy when they're needed elsewhere. Is Germany next ? Rummy is my hero either way.

Posted by eyeyeye 2003-11-20 9:01:50 AM|| 2003-11-20 9:01:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 In honor of this, the Von Trapp Family singers in concert:

So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, good night! ...

Posted by Chuck Simmins 2003-11-20 9:28:39 AM|| [http://blog.simmins.org] 2003-11-20 9:28:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Guess the SKors didn't learn the lesson "Be careful what you wish for" from Peurto Rico

Posted by Yosemite Sam 2003-11-20 9:58:33 AM|| 2003-11-20 9:58:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Well, it's nice that in these polarized times that there is something most Americans can agree upon.

We no go to Korea anymore.

Posted by Hiryu 2003-11-20 10:00:34 AM|| 2003-11-20 10:00:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 "No blood for Hynix!...Or Samsung!...or Daewoo, or Goldstar, or..."

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-11-20 1:06:36 PM|| 2003-11-20 1:06:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 So long, and thanks for all the soju!

Posted by BH 2003-11-20 2:38:23 PM|| 2003-11-20 2:38:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Can the last guy out of Yongsan garrison please turn off the lights? And I had a pair of shoes on order at UN Shoes, across from the Itaewan gate, can you be a sport and pick them up for me? Thanks, ever so.

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2003-11-20 2:44:43 PM|| [www.sgtstryker.com] 2003-11-20 2:44:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 When i was stationed at Osan in 88-89 i thought back then that our troop levels were way to high. Most people thought we were there to stop the South from taking that North. Let's get out and let them have at it.

Posted by Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2003-11-20 3:12:21 PM|| 2003-11-20 3:12:21 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 I just had an idea - pull out all U.S. forces, and also evacuate all the older folks that remembered, and are grateful for, American sacrifices to keep the Reds out and leave all the snot-nosed little protesting know-it-alls behind to the mercy of Kim Jong Il's thugs.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-11-20 4:39:25 PM|| 2003-11-20 4:39:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Just to be jerky...

Perhaps it will be easier for the NORKS to reconcile (beg, surrender, plead) with the SKs if the big nooses are out of the picture. Save a little face, rewrite a little history... who knows.

Posted by Shipman 2003-11-20 5:29:54 PM|| 2003-11-20 5:29:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 I have some concern that this will result in even more civilians in Seoul.

Posted by Dishman 2003-11-20 8:20:32 PM|| 2003-11-20 8:20:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 No more smell of crap dumped on fields, no more icy wind coming down across the Sea of Japan, no more kimchee-breath on mama-san...

What's to NOT like?

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-11-20 11:58:27 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2003-11-20 11:58:27 PM|| Front Page Top

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