Who are you gonna believe ? Me or your lying eyes ?

Things are going just swell in Iraq. We have attracted all the terrorists to a central location. Better to fight them there than on our own soil. We are making progress every day. More people are killed in auto accidents than are killed in the war.

The major combat operations are over. We should be able to set up a working government in 60 days and the Iraqi people can govern themselves. The money from the oil belongs to the people. Saddam was stealing all the wealth from the people.

The morale is high amongst our troops. They are not sitting ducks. We are trying to get more nations to help the "coalition". They hate our freedom. They hate the idea of democracy. We will stay the course.
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edited for sarcasm note

... for frying eggs on rocks!

http://www.wunderground.com/global/stations/40650.html

Eliminate....

Yep, this is a fair and balanced discussion board. Thanks, kentuck, for bringing out into the open all the things everybody here secretly knew was true. ;-)

It's all over now, baby Bush.

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Poland To Withdraw Troops

AUG 21 - Poland scaled back its military commitment in Iraq yesterday in response to Tuesday's devastating attack on the UN headquarters in Baghdad.

Under a hastily agreed new formula for the occupation, Polish troops will withdraw from a "high-risk area" near Baghdad, leaving the territory to come under the command of US forces, Polish Foreign Ministry officials revealed.

"We have ceded 1,000 square kilometres that would have come under the control of the Polish command to the US administration," Tadeusz Iwinski, a senior foreign policy adviser to the Polish Prime Minister, Leszek Miller, told The Independent.

According to Professor Iwinski, the central zone was previously considered a "low- risk area" but Tuesday's bombing had forced a review of security concerns.

News of the blast caused anxiety in Warsaw, where senior officials were meeting Junichiro Koizumi, the Japanese Prime Minister, to discuss technical and financial assistance for Poland's new international mission.

Serious concerns persist over the country's largest foreign intervention even within the Polish military.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=435687

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Japanese Troops In Iraq Unlikely

TOKYO, Aug. 20 (UPI) -- Japanese politicians say it's now unlikely Japan's Ground Self Defense Forces will go to Iraq following the explosion at the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad.

The Diet passed legislation last month authorizing sending the forces to Iraq to provide humanitarian aid and to help reconstruct the war-torn country's infrastructure in "non-combat areas."

But the Mainichi Daily News says opposition politicians now say Tuesday's bombing shows there are no areas in Iraq that are free from possible conflicts.

Even Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda, who along with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi spearheaded the move to send the GSDF troops to Iraq, now says such an action may be impossible this year.

Fukuda said: "At the moment I cannot say whether the (GSDF) will be sent within this year or the next year. We will only decide on the timing after carefully studying the local situation."

http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20030820-071406-1584r.htm

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Spain Under Pressure To Withdraw

MADRID (AFP) Aug 20, 2003 The Spanish government came under pressure Wednesday to withdraw its troops from Iraq as it mourned the first Spanish fatality in the international reconstruction effort to rebuild the war-shattered country.

Navy captain Manuel Martin Oar was one of at least 24 people killed in Tuesday's attack against the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad, which has been condemned around the world. .

Spain already has 744 soldiers there, but the death of one of their own number has shocked the population and opposition parties demanded a parliamentary debate in the belief that Spanish forces should be brought home.

Socialist Party president Manuel Chaves called for a parliamentary debate "leading to the exit" of Spanish forces.

http://www.spacewar.com/2003/030820162011.e0swgu59.html

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Canada is out as well..

Canada Could Not Spare Soldiers for U.N. Force in Iraq: Defence Minister

QUEBEC (CP) - A mission in Afghanistan, peacekeeping and now giant forest fires in the West leave Canada without spare troops for a potential UN force in Iraq, Defence Minister John McCallum said Thursday.

"There is no question of sending out more soldiers," McCallum said. "We're somewhat overextended anyway. We are overstretched at home right now." Canada has launched a 2,000-soldier mission to secure part of Afghanistan. About 2,000 additional troops will replace them in six months. Another 1,200 Canadian troops are already part of a NATO peacekeeping mission in the Balkans.

In addition, McCallum pointed out that 671 soldiers are fighting fires in British Columbia.

"This is something out of the air, unpredictable," he said. "We may even go up from there."

Canada has sent aid and humanitarian flights to Iraq. Even as Canada reduces commitments to peacekeeping missions in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the Golan Heights, the soldiers couldn't simply be sent on another mission, McCallum said.

more…
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2003/08/21/165799-cp.html

Someone, get an exorcist, quick!