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Prior to this, former Japanese Prime Minister Fukuda promised U.S. President Bush the Japan "Self-Defense Forces'" continued performance of their refueling mission in the Indian Ocean. The Japan Liberal Democratic Party, too, criticized opposition parties standing against the convocation of an extraordinary Diet meeting while persistently calling for convening it for the extension of the new law.
Commenting on this, Minju Joson Tuesday observes:
The Japanese reactionaries seek to realize their ambition for overseas aggression at any cost through the SDF's overseas advance and their continued military operations under the pretext of "cooperation in UN peace-keeping operations".
While working hard to extend the above-said law, the Japanese reactionaries seek to enact what they called a "permanent law" in a bid to justify the rapid dispatch of huge SDF troops overseas, regardless of place and time.
It was also to serve this purpose that the Japanese government underscored the need to institute the "permanent law" for the overseas dispatch of the SDF in the recently announced "2008 white paper on defense".
The Japanese reactionaries' moves to extend the new law, institute the "permanent law" and equip SDF troops with modern weapons, etc. bring into bolder relief the grave and dangerous nature of their evermore undisguised moves to emerge a military power and launch overseas expansion.
Their attempt to realize the ambition for overseas expansion while talking about "peace" will get them nowhere in the bright world today as it is no more than a pipedream.
