Kyrgystan Unrest

[broken_legs]

http://www.arirang.co.kr/News/News_View.asp?nseq=101954&code=Ne2&category=2

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8608870.stm

http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/kyrgyzstan-unrest-poses-dilemma-for-us-military/19430867

Coles:

Government is corrupt. People overthrowing it.

The US uses Kyrgyzstan as an airbase to launch sorties into Afghanistan. This relationship is in trouble. Russia is sending troops there now to 'Protect Russians'

[Beerking]

Originally posted by broken_legs
Russia is sending troops there now to 'Protect Russians'

Georgia part deux?

[97'Scort]

Originally posted by Beerking
Georgia part deux?
People have actually heard of Georgia. I consider myself pretty up-to-date on what the world is these days and like hell I could pick this place out on a map. It's one of those little ex-bloc hellholes that wouldn't have survived if the Americans didn't move in.

[slinkie]

georgia had so much fox-news flavour spin on it to make russia look like the antagonist .

[civic_stylez]

the boston globe big picture has some unreal photos from the uprising. The police are getting shit kicked big time... the government building has been totally over run. A their president swears he will not back down... this is only going to go downhill....

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/04/crisis_in_kyrgyzstan.html

thailand is going to hell too....

[CUG]

It's the WHITE AMERICANS fault.

[syeve]

Originally posted by CUG
It's the REPUBLICAN WHITE AMERICAN BANKERS fault.

Fixed

[sexualbanana]

Originally posted by civic_stylez
the boston globe big picture has some unreal photos from the uprising. The police are getting shit kicked big time... the government building has been totally over run. A their president swears he will not back down... this is only going to go downhill....

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/04/crisis_in_kyrgyzstan.html

thailand is going to hell too....

That's crazy

[Antonito]

Originally posted by CUG
It's the WHITE AMERICANS fault. Did a brown person look at you funny today? Your persecution complex is more raging than usual

[01RedDX]

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[dr_dreidel]

hey at least gilles duceppe looks out for his voters interests
cant really say that for any of the other leaders

[Antonito]

Originally posted by dr_dreidel
hey at least gilles duceppe looks out for his voters interests
cant really say that for any of the other leaders No other leader has a guaranteed ace up the sleeve to blackmail the rest of the nation into giving their interests never ending "funding".

[97'Scort]

Originally posted by 01RedDX
I doubt you or many other people had heard of either places before they made the news. They may seem poor, but they have an old history, and a very different definition of what being poor is. You say they wouldn't have survived if the Americans didn't move in, but it's the opposite - this wouldn't be going on if not for the corrupt American-supported leader.


I resent that. I am familiar with Georgian history and I knew Kyrgystan was one of the ex-Solviet bloc countries. I also maintain that without the US filling the power vacuum after the collapse of the bloc there would have been even more problems. It's well established that US military bases indirectly employ in the local population at least twice what is actually stationed at the base.

[01RedDX]

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[Kloubek]

Crazy pictures. I just had to modify one of them....

http://members.shaw.ca/kloubek/public/training.jpg

[mx73someday]

Originally posted by 01RedDX

Great news for unemployed Americans! :clap:

And local women who enjoy rape.

[97'Scort]

Originally posted by 01RedDX

Do you also maintain that Bakiyev wasn't corrupt? :nut:

Hell no. I'm saying that the country was better off in the long run with the Americans dicking around in there rather than the Russians, which is what would have happened.

[CUG]

Originally posted by mx73someday


And local women who enjoy rape. Sorry, lol

:rofl:

http://www.ratemyeverything.net/ImageDatabase/PostImages/8016/Large/40_Lb_Box_of_Rape.jpg

[ekguy]

Originally posted by dr_dreidel
hey at least gilles duceppe looks out for his voters interests
cant really say that for any of the other leaders

Let's not start with Gilles Duceppe. I have family in Quebec and they all say most people in Quebec are sick of his separatist ways and are more worried about jobs and the economy than ditching out from Canada...

[CUG]

Dost thou enjoy American rape?

[Cos]

Does anyone have coles notes as to WHY they are rioting? I have read the guardian article, the boston article, a standard article and a CNN article and none of them explain WHY they are rioting.