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TheDormouse

(1,168 posts)
Sun Dec 18, 2016, 01:01 AM Dec 2016

This fecker. Duterte. Remember Noriega? [View all]

President Rodrigo Duterte threatened Saturday to terminate a pact that allows U.S. troops to visit the Philippines, saying "bye-bye America" as he reacted with rage to what he thought was a U.S. decision to scrap a major aid package over human rights concerns.

A U.S. government aid agency, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, said earlier in the week that its board deferred a vote on a renewal of the development assistance package for the Philippines "subject to a further review of concerns around rule of law and civil liberties." ...

"I understand that we have been stricken out of the Millennium Challenge. Well, good, I welcome it," Duterte said with apparent sarcasm.

"We can survive without American money," he said....

In November, Duterte said he wanted U.S. troops out of his country in the next two years.

"I want in the next two years, to be freed from the presence of foreign military troops. I want them out," Duterte told reporters Nov. 1. "And if I have to revise or abrogate agreements, executive agreements, I will." ...

While calling Americans "sons of b------" and "hypocrites," Duterte praised China as having "the kindest soul of all" for offering what he said was significant financial assistance. "So, what do I need America for?" he asked.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/12/17/philippines-duterte-us-over-aid-bye-bye-america/95557384/

Remember what happened to Manuel Noriega, Big Man of Panama?
And what happened to Sadaam Hussein, Big Man of Iraq?
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This guy is a whackjob & the majority of the people in the Philippines support him AgadorSparticus Dec 2016 #1
you're right--& China's trying to Bogard territory in the Philippines' TheDormouse Dec 2016 #3
Why slays me is that they were all, "please help us, usa friends from AgadorSparticus Dec 2016 #9
Serious answer...democracy brooklynite Dec 2016 #30
I understand that while it may be enticing since he has not succumbed to AgadorSparticus Dec 2016 #31
"No indication of personal corruption" ... YET TheDormouse Dec 2016 #32
I'd rather live under corrupt pols than fascists who kill & imprison at will TheDormouse Dec 2016 #33
He's the Filipino Trump. backscatter712 Dec 2016 #24
really???, hopefully the people of the Philippines will take care of his reign Demonaut Dec 2016 #2
they like him KT2000 Dec 2016 #7
I thought he and dumphuck were buds.. so why Cha Dec 2016 #4
I mention Noriega & Saddam Hussein not TheDormouse Dec 2016 #5
Is there a Filipino mafia? Duterte's time on this Earth may not be long TheDormouse Dec 2016 #6
Duterte probably is the Phillipine Mafia... Wounded Bear Dec 2016 #12
"Drug dealers" Chinese criminal gangs making meth in the Phillipines AngryAmish Dec 2016 #21
No surprise there; Chinese behind majority of manufacturing worldwide TheDormouse Dec 2016 #23
I think he's both a thug AND crazy TheDormouse Dec 2016 #28
We have no right to act against Duterte Cicada Dec 2016 #8
We have EVERY right to act against him when he calls our potus SOB. AgadorSparticus Dec 2016 #10
after trump gets in i will be calling the potus much worse...please don't invade me dembotoz Dec 2016 #14
How am I invading you? I don't understand your post. AgadorSparticus Dec 2016 #15
Noriega was captured and jailed, bad idea for Duterte Cicada Dec 2016 #18
Anything beyond cutting funds, we'd have to do it with the UN. AgadorSparticus Dec 2016 #20
And when the UN refuses to act? TheDormouse Dec 2016 #22
"If" rather than "when," LanternWaste Dec 2016 #26
Ignoring the evil that goes on within a countries borders just because it... EX500rider Dec 2016 #11
It wasn't just us, either. There is UN involvement. AgadorSparticus Dec 2016 #16
Usually intervention kills more than it saves Cicada Dec 2016 #19
We don't need to give them money though. NYC Liberal Dec 2016 #13
Sounds like 'Duterte' is Tagalog for 'Trump'. KamaAina Dec 2016 #17
Sounds more like a Spanish name, but yeah, he's their Trump. n/t backscatter712 Dec 2016 #25
A lot of U.S. companies have call centers setup in the Philippines. If Duterte still_one Dec 2016 #27
Access to Southeast and East Asian countries is a crucial part of US's containment of TheDormouse Dec 2016 #29
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