Don't Touch Base: US 'gateway to hell' fate questioned

Newly-elected Kyrgyz President Atambayev says he will shut down the key US military base in the country. Former President Bakiyev wanted to do the same, but changed his mind a year before a major uprising ousted him from power. The Manas Airbase was opened in Kyrgyzstan in 2001, after the US-led coalition invaded Afghanistan and the need to supply the contingent with fuel, weapons and manpower arose. According to Pentagon reports, 15,000 troops and 500 tonnes of military cargo pass through the base every month. Some 1,200 of personnel are stationed there.

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[PutschPatriot]

@radroofer Its our fault, we have a duty to overthrow tyranny and we sit idle and let it happen.....

[Whyunounderstand]

@valekm Very true lots of immigrants in Australia....hardly any support from us to them. Im serb and i can tell you the schools i went to there was no love for Americans among the chinese, viets, Arabs ETC.....lots of the Aussies also dont like them because they see they are complete bullshit artists.

[aznsoulja1995]

And when the USA steps out from the international scene, everybody will start relying on the Chinese currency and language, and you queers along with China can start polluting the earth even more, good luck without the USA. Because I'm sure the US try's to stop pollution.

[electricfemale]

I am from America and so ashamed of the awful things this country has done under the name of freedom, the country is taken over, feeding its own so much bad medicine, food and fear. We all need to keep sending love and trying to see the truth. People are the same everywhere, and some get a taste for power, it makes them stupid. I love you all.

[MrNelsonButterscotch]

@ScatmanJoeButt .........Did you reply to the wrong person or something? I don't understand.

[PakHidOsama]

@ScatmanJoeButt Rofl dude your stupid. Hitler killed 16 million people, ok, no he is not a man of honor. Even if Hitler killed 16 million people you guys killed MILLIONS of people in Japan, thousands in the Vietnam war, Hundreds of thousands in Libya, thousands in Iraq, and thousands in Afghanistan and those people were innocent civilians. Not to mension the amount of Pakistanis you kill in the US drone attacks. Your US media brainwashes you. America is gay

[ScatmanJoeButt]

@MrNelsonButterscotch Im indian, SO SHUT THE FUCK UP! What? Gonna call us Indian a disease too? You sound like Hitler. Don't try and post your dumb shit ideas on the web and expect everyone to agree. Infact, thank the evil "white man" for making this world better. Steve Jobs is white, and is he a demon? No. Infact, i stand proudly by what he has done. That "white man" revolutionized everything along with others. Careful what you say, Karma's a bitch and so are you, you fuck tard. NOW SHUTUP!

[ScatmanJoeButt]

@PakHidOsama How are we terrorist? The US isn't just white people but an entire group of people who decided to dream and innovate. If we are terrorist, what is Hitler? Is he a man of honor? A man we should call a hero for causing the deaths of 16 million people? We have to fight wars to protect people from people and stop fuck ups from killing more. Terrorism is fought by Russia, France and Britain aswell. You might aswell call everyone a terrorist. No US= Dead, suffering world. Think, it saves

[PakHidOsama]

FUCK USA! They can suck my cock

[PakHidOsama]

@ScatmanJoeButt US = Terrorist. They dont fight for anyone. Have you seen how many civilians they have killed back in Afghanistan that werent even terrorist? The amount of civilians that US has killed in Libya and Afghan are atleast 10 9/11s...

[PakHidOsama]

@AlwaysinTrancee Falling of the USA will be great for the world

[ScatmanJoeButt]

@AlwaysinTrancee exactly and without the US to be the big brother, many countries will fall. Thats the problem, everyone hates the largest personn but when they leave the picture and something even worse comes in, everyone regrets and suffers. Happened in ww1 where Germany suffered so much for fighting a war only to protect their weak allies and then turned into the still most feared force in the world. Rather fight som scraggly terrorist than a modern nazi army