U.S. Commander Slams NATO Iraq No - Shows

[Khephra]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The top U.S. military commander in Europe criticized NATO countries who refused to provide military instructors for a training mission in Iraq, saying the result will be an increased burden on allies who are contributing.

``It's important to recognize that once the alliance gets involved in an operation, it is important that all allies support the operation,'' Gen. James Jones, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe said Tuesday.

He said ``nine or 10 or 11'' of NATO's 26 countries would not send instructors, even though they voted to approve a mission there.

``This is disturbing. I hope it is a one-time event, because it really will be a limiting factor in the long term in terms of generating forces and successive rotations,'' Jones said in a speech at the National Press Club.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-US-NATO-Iraq.html

[KingChicken]

1. We steped in our own shit...

[bvar22]

2. I am surprised that bush* can ANYONE to...

...help him with his little psycho war crimes.

[Malva Zebrina]

3. Someone needs to bring up the assinine president

and his insane foreign policy.

He went to Chile, for chrisake, and acted like an ass even getting into a fistscuffle with the Chilean security enforcers and never bringing up anything but "terrarists" even though Chile has suffered quite a bit with Pinochet. Never mentioned a thing about it. Just went on being a little frat boy clown as if that could make up for his stupidity and his arrogance.

He shows up with his tablclothed wife as if the people of Chile had to bow down to him now that he as a Man Date from the
American people. Lookee at meee--I won an election and now I have a Man Date. I am king, even here in Chile.

He apparently was the only one who bought it--the rest either laughed at him or looked the other way. He could not even preside over a state dinner and it's 200 invited guests. Instead, it was cancelled because no one was willing to walk through little metal detecting stations. So he got to clown at a dinner for twenty, instead. Must have made him very cranky or very drunk.

Well Chili didn't cowtow to his Man Date and that said what most of the world has to say about this classless, clueless ass we have the misfortune to call our president.

This guy Jones, needs to get out of the American the Great, mode and get real.

[tabasco]

4. Did he forget Poland??

I thought we had a big coalition with lots of help and stuff like Bush said.

[aneerkoinos]

5. Italian strike

Yes, boss! Sure, boss! ASAP, boss, on the job! Who, me lazy, boss? Why, boss, did your head just explode!!!? :D

Traditional European resistance, gotta love it!

[DulceDecorum]

6. You get more with money

than you do with lies.

The core provision of the treaty is Article V, which states:
The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defense recognized by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO
IRAQ HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH SEPTEMBER 11.
Those other nations
who can recall their own history
do not wish to repeat it.

Chiến Tranh Chống Mỹ Cứu Nýớc
is Vietnamese for
War Against the Americans to Save the Nation.

Fighting on one side was a coalition of forces including the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam or the "RVN"), the United States, South Korea, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, and the Philippines. Participation by the South Korean military was financed by the United States, but Australia and New Zealand fully funded their own involvement. Other countries normally allied with the United States in the Cold War, including the United Kingdom and Canada, refused to participate in the coalition, although many of their citizens volunteered to join the US forces.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War

I wonder how they say
War Against the Americans to Save the Nation
in Iraq.......

[LynnTheDem]

7. bush broke it. bush BOUGHT it. Let BUSH carry ALL the burden.

WHY the fck should ANY other nation share ANY of the burden BUSH CHOSE to make.

[Garion_55]

8. This is what America wanted.

(half of it anyway)

Why are we so surprised that that's what we are getting?

We had a chance to change leadership, to go to the rest of the world with a fresh start, with a new president who was actually willing to work with every one else on the planet. I know that that is what I wanted. I wanted this country to join the world again.


We chose the way of the cowboy though.

When a cowboy travels, whats his mode of transportation?

Thats right! a horse!

How many people can a horse hold?

When i see cowboys on TV, they are usually riding alone. Except for when they are saving someones life in a shootout or its a hot chick riding with. Cowboys dont ride around on horses with other cowboys. Just not cool.

So thats what we're doin. Bush 1st term was all about pissing on our allies and invading a county for bullshit reasons. Bush 2nd term is spending 4 more years paying for all of his 1st term mistakes, losing more and more of the few allies that we do have, instead of starting over and working with our allies.

I told every republican that i knew before the election that thats what was going to happen. They were cool with that.

So no bitching and whinning now about our allies not helping.

[saigon68]

9. Fascism= When Generals start making policy speeches to the Press

And then a LAP-DOG press dutifully reports the PROPAGANDA