CPP warns US using country as pawn
The Communist Party of the Philippines on Tuesday warned of the possibility that the United States would use the country as a staging ground to launch a war against North Korea.
Gregorio “Ka Roger” Rosal, spokesman for the CPP, said the joint US-Philippine military exercises in Luzon and Palawan could be a preparation for the attack. He also said that the country would serve as a support base.
According to Rosal the continuous deployment of US forces to the Philippines and other countries on such a large scale could not be interpreted any other way. He said the US did exactly that before launching the invasion of Iraq in 1989-90 and again in 2003.
He said patriotic Filipinos should oppose this machination by the US government, adding that they should not allow join “aggression against countries and peoples fighting to defend their independence and freedoms.”
He also said that the joint US-Philippine military exercises represent intervention in purely internal affairs of the country. He said the drills are just a pretext for the foreign troops to build database on the insurgents and familiarize themselves in areas of conflict.
Up to 5,700 members of the 3rd Marine Expeditionary Unit from Okinawa and the Essex Expeditionary Strike Group from Sasebo arrived in Luzon and Palawan to conduct joint drills with 1,300 Filipino soldiers until October 31.