Rumsfeld appeals for NATO help in Iraq

[leftchick]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1520&ncid=1520&e=2&u=/afp/20041012/pl_afp/nato_us_iraq_rumsfeld_041012143042


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NATO defense ministers holding informal talks in this ski resort in the Carpathian Mountains are expected to take up a NATO plan to train Iraqi security forces in a significant expansion of the alliance's involvement in Iraq (news - web sites).


US officials are concerned that NATO trainers will not be on the ground in Iraq until next year, too late to have an impact before crucial January elections.


But Rumsfeld, speaking to reporters after meeting with Romanian leaders in Bucharest, said there was much US allies could do before the elections.


"We need more equipment. We need it from NATO nations, we need it from non-NATO nations. We need it gifted," he said. "

[Voice_of_Europe]

1. Please.... Pretty please..... Pretty Please with Sugar on top...

NO!

[Norquist Nemesis]

2. In a word...

PANIC!!!

[shaolinmonkey]

3. Do we need "Old Europe's" help now?

If I were in NATO, I'd flip him off and then moon him.

[cliss]

9. Can you believe it?

Just when I thought I'd seen it all, along comes RumsFailed and tops it. "We need help". "You give it to us...notice "we need it GIFTED".

What a creep. What a loser. And yet the US is going to keep all the oil revenue, while the NATO countries contribute troops and risk their lives. For what?

[hatrack]

14. Yes, was he asking "Old Europe" or "New Europe"?

And was it the Old Rumsfeld or the New Rumsfed doing the asking?

[soothsayer]

19. lol! too funny!

[Wapsie B]

4. Wait a minute now.

I thought this was America, the land of rugged individualism. Piss on the world and go our own way. Hmmmmmmm, have a pResident who is seen as a fool by the rest of the world and has alienated much of the world and now we ask for help?

[JDPriestly]

5. In a word ...

Bush is "stealing" Kerry's plan.

[elf]

7. yes, but it doesn't work

they won't "help" a Bush regime, they are waiting for Kerry.
Then it's another ball game!!
I know my fellow Europeans..........but they will NOT SEND TROUPES!!!!!

[fob]

13. And in 2 more words, that means he's sending "mexed missiges"!

[napi21]

6. OH! Rummy is now taking Kerry's advice????

I've seen this several times already. They badger Kerry for not having a plan, and when he gets a little specific, ShrubCo tries to incorporate those ideas into their actions.

[thecrow]

10. I wish they'd do it

with regards to taxes, healthcare, schools, homeland protection....
Oh they're not going to do that?
VOTE KERRY!

[librechik]

12. yup, they are shameless! and the sheep don't even notice the

flipflop

[Javaman]

15. He's lobbying for a job in Kerry's admin LOL

[Stockholm]

8. Old Europe to Rumsfeld - which election are you talking about?

We thought the crucial elections was in November?

Anyhow, we will be get back to you with an answer first week of November we promise...

[librechik]

11. I hope they say "Sure! Just as soon as the Shrub is gone!" n/t

[tlcandie]

16. Rummy's not looking too suave there...

He not feeling up to speed lately? :shrug:

[Zorra]

17. Need help? Remember the last time Redrum asked for help in Iraq?:

[Jacobin]

18. Why bother. He'll be out of a job in a couple of months

I'll bet they are snickering at him.

[Ganja Ninja]

20. Would you like an order of Freedom Fries with that crow Rummy?

Can anyone imagine a Democratic administration embarrassing the country this way?

[daleo]

21. Here is some NATO help

Never
Again
Totalitarian
Ogre

[freeminder]

22. he must have been kidding

at the very least I sincerely hope Old Europe gave him the finger and told him to go Cheney himself.

Mooning is not a bad idea either. I'll forward it to my prime minister.

[louis-t]

23. B-b-b-but I thought that NATO and the UN

were irrelevant!!!! How could this be???? Spin will be: "They finally came around to our way of thinking"