August 15, 2007 (LPAC)--Dick Cheney is proving that he treats the Philippines Constitution with as much disregard as he does the U.S. Constitution. According to the Philippines Inquirer, "heavily armed US Special Forces troops were captured on film leading a Philippine Army military convoy Tuesday in Indanan town, Sulu province, where Philippine security forces are fighting Muslim insurgents. An Agence France-Presse photographer filmed the US troops aboard a Humvee armored jeep as two soldiers manned a vehicle top-mounted with a machine gun with a miniature US flag clearly visible on the back of one soldier's helmet. The American troops were part of a convoy of Philippine Marines hunting members of the terrorist group Abu Sayyaf."

The problem with this is that it is unconstitutional for foreign troops to fight on Philippine soil. Cheney, however, is blatantly ignoring this law in order to establish grounds for permanent US troop deployments in the the region.

Lee McClenny, a US Embassy spokesperson, while claiming the Special Forces and "are not involved in any combat roles," then admitted that they would "fire back if fired upon" - which is to be expected while leading a convoy in a battle zone. "Yes, they travel with Philippine military convoys. We rotate our people in and out of Jolo on a regular basis," McClenny told AFP.

Philippine legislators are demanding an investigation, but the government is refusing, Cheney-style, to allow any "disruption" in the "war on terror."