How embarrassing is this?

[shiva2999]

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/CCD46023-B295-41BA-A8DF-FA969AC5E238.htm

Japan to offer US loan for troop exit

Sunday 19 February 2006, 9:41 Makka Time, 6:41 GMT

Japan will propose lending money to the United States to speed up the planned relocation of 7000 marines out of the country.

Japan is keen for the troops to leave Okinawa to reduce simmering tensions with local residents, but the United States has said a plan to move the troops to Guam will take decades unless Tokyo picks up much of the approximately $8 billion price tag.

Such spending will be unprecedented and requires parliamentary approval.

The move to Guam is part of the Pentagon's troop realignment plans in the region.

The United States wanted Japan to pay for a quick move outright, but the idea for a loan arrangement emerged in an attempt to gain public support, the Nihon Keizai newspaper reported on Sunday, without citing sources.

Japanese officials are uncertain whether Washington would accept Japan's loan proposal, the Nihon Keizai said.

Defence officials were not available for comment on Sunday.

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[sukie]

I like it. What's embarrassing about this? Makes total economic sense.

[rob on the job]

Let squeeze their nuts a little.

Hold out for $16 billion.

[shiva2999]

Cool. The pirate supporters are down with extortion.

Surprise, surprise.

[sukie]

Fee for service is more precise.

[rob on the job]

Well, if al Jazeera reports it, you know it is the sheer unvarnished truth.

[shiva2999]

Well, if al Jazeera reports it, you know it is the sheer unvarnished truth.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

Pathetic.

[shiva2999]

Fee for service is more precise.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Even more pathetic.

[sukie]

Capitalism baby.

[rob on the job]

the US kept Okinawa alive for decades with its military presence.

Without the US, Okinawa would have been a haven for sea gulls.

It's about time the Japanese began to pay the US back for all its economic investment.

[shiva2999]

Capitalism baby.

Gangsterism baby.

[shiva2999]

the US kept Okinawa alive for decades with its military presence.

Without the US, Okinawa would have been a haven for sea gulls.

It's about time the Japanese began to pay the US back for all its economic investment.

Now out comes the "They owe us" rationalization.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

[rob on the job]

They do owe us. Big-time.

Just wait 'til Canada gets ITS bill.

Woo doggie.

[shiva2999]

They do owe us. Big-time.

Fat Tony has spoken.

[rob on the job]

I hope the Japanese enjoy their island of sea gulls after the US pulls out.

[shiva2999]

I hope the Japanese enjoy their island of sea gulls after the US pulls out.

I'm sure they will if you haven't polluted it beyond recognition.

http://www.wonder-okinawa.jp/023/eng/001/001/index.html

History of Okinawan Karate

It is said that the traditional Okinawan martial arts called Te and Chinese Kenpo were blended together and developed into karate. Karate later underwent significant developments in Okinawa based on several factors, including the policy of banning weapons following the political centralization of King Shoshin (1477-1526) and the Satsuma Clan's invasion of Ryukyu (1609).

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[rob on the job]

$16 billion or we're staying put.

[Meathead]

Let squeeze their nuts a little.

as opposed to squeezing their little nuts

[35Pete]

$16 billion or we're staying put.
$16 billion?? They STILL owe us for all the ammunition and ordnance that we used on them in 1945 to take that shitty island.

I'd say $25 billion (as adjusted to 2006 dollars).

[rob on the job]

as opposed to squeezing their little nuts

How racist of you to imply our Asian brothers have gonads the size of bing cherries.

[shiva2999]

You guys are parasites.

Get the **** out of Okinawa. They don't want you there.

[rob on the job]

You guys are parasites.

Get the **** out of Okinawa. They don't want you there.

Who cares?

Next time they start a war, tell 'em to win it.

[35Pete]

Who cares?

Next time they start a war, tell 'em to win it.
:rofl:

And pay us for all that damn ammo we used!

[rob on the job]

:rofl:

And pay us for all that damn ammo we used!

Yeah, atom bombs aren't cheap, you know.

[shiva2999]

LOL!

Americans. World's biggest bloodsuckers. You got a bunch of men and equipment over there doing sweet **** all. Only Reoublicans could defend that.

[gilchristfan]

You guys are parasites.

Get the **** out of Okinawa. They don't want you there.

Woody likes it there...so we stay.

[Stealth01]

Okinawans want the MARINES out. Not the US. Notice how Kadena Air Base is not mentioned, only the 7000 marines?

There have been some bad, bad things with Marines down there. Rapes of children, sexual assaults, robberies. Etc. A disgrace to the Corps, honestly.

I've BEEN to Okinawa. SPent two months there. Interacted directly with its wonderful people. They do NOT hate Americans. They are among the most polite, friendly people I have ever met. They want the Marines out because the Marines commit the majority of American-committed crimes there.

That they want to "loan" us the money to move them out is pathetic. They should be giving us a GRANT. After all, their economy exists because we built it for them.

[ticatfan3]

I'm sure they will if you haven't polluted it beyond recognition.

http://www.wonder-okinawa.jp/023/eng/001/001/index.html

History of Okinawan Karate

It is said that the traditional Okinawan martial arts called Te and Chinese Kenpo were blended together and developed into karate. Karate later underwent significant developments in Okinawa based on several factors, including the policy of banning weapons following the political centralization of King Shoshin (1477-1526) and the Satsuma Clan's invasion of Ryukyu (1609).

...more...Just like here in the old american bases ,left all your dumps behind full of pcb's and such and never payed or even help clean it up.

[rob on the job]

.... That they want to "loan" us the money to move them out is pathetic. They should be giving us a GRANT. After all, their economy exists because we built it for them.

Your whole post was great, Chris, but this was especially well done.

[rob on the job]

Just like here in the old american bases ,left all your dumps behind full of pcb's and such and never payed or even help clean it up.

Fortunately, you covered the mess with a bunch of empty beer bottles so it blended in with the rest of the Canadian landscape.

[shiva2999]

Like the husband says to the battered wife, "Who's put food in your mouth and clothes on your back and a roof over your head bitch?"

[rob on the job]

Like the husband says to the battered wife, "Who's put food in your mouth and clothes on your back and a roof over your head bitch?"

To which she replied, "You did, Shiva."

[shiva2999]

Not me. I don't pay for no bitches, the bitches pay for me.

And the only battering I do is with the Hammer of Thor.

[35Pete]

Just like here in the old american bases ,left all your dumps behind full of pcb's and such and never payed or even help clean it up.
Why should we? Did you ever pay us to defend you?

[Stealth01]

Not me. I don't pay for no bitches, the bitches pay for me.

And the only battering I do is with the Hammer of Thor.

See? I knew Shiva had a sense of humor.

[smaweet]

I "mastered" Sanchin years ago!


If I stuck around with it long enough, maybe I could have been able to do this: http://www.wonder-okinawa.jp/023/eng/009/002/b_015e.wvx



If I could ever find the time, (and a nearby facility that teaches Okinawan,) I'd definately do that stuff again!

[г]

Chris, what's the going rate for Okinawa poon tang ?

[Stealth01]

LOL. Dunno. Never paid for it. Never had any Okinawan, either. I was kinda married when I was there.

[35Pete]

Chris, what's the going rate for Okinawa poon tang ?
Last I heard it as $420 an hour. There is a $400/hour surcharge for the ho's that is charged to pay for the bullets, shells, and bombs that we used to kill the bastards back in '45. Ohh the glory days when wasting the enemy made for good newsreel.

They are no longer inhuman bastards though. Today they are our friends. But still, they need to pay for the expense that we incurred for showing them the "American Way".

[smaweet]

Syugoro Nakazato
1999 Honored by Governor of the State of Texas, U.S.A.

http://www.wonder-okinawa.jp/023/eng/014/001/index.html




Didn't the conservatives of the board get the memo? Bush honors these guys!

[г]

LOL. Dunno. Never paid for it. Never had any Okinawan, either. I was kinda married when I was there.

It's like the sushi they make from the fat belly of the tuna...

[READandREACT]

I've always said conservatives will whore out their mothers for a buck.

This thread and the ridiculous responses just simply do not surprise me...

[35Pete]

I've always said conservatives will whore out their mothers for a buck.

This thread and the ridiculous responses just simply do not surprise me...
Not whoring. Just payment for that INVALUABLE gift of liberating the bastards.

[READandREACT]

Not whoring. Just payment for that INVALUABLE gift of liberating the bastards.

Liberating what 'bastards'?

[uppy]

Japan is rich and free..the US Army and Douglas MacArhur made it so.

[35Pete]

Liberating what 'bastards'?
65 years ago when they started a war with us they were bastards.

[Canisius85]

I've BEEN to Okinawa. Spent two months there.


Was that when you visited with Mr. Miyagi?

[rob on the job]

The Okinawans want the Marines out, then help pay for the move.

It makes total sense.

It makes so much sense, in fact, that the Left is waving its little shriveled arms in the air in protest.

[Stealth01]

Was that when you visited with Mr. Miyagi?

No. That would be when I attended an Air Force school. Mr. Miyagi and I were in the States. :)

Seriously, my Sensei has met Pat Morita. Said he's kind of a jerk. Was, actually...since he's dead.