President Bush’s “coalition of the willing” is set to all but disappear from Iraq by the end of the year, with 13 countries, including South Korea, Japan, Moldova and Tonga preparing to withdraw their few remaining troops.
Britain, Australia, Romania, Estonia and El Salvador are the only nations, apart from the US, that plan to remain after a UN mandate authorising their presence expires on December 31.
London must still reach an agreement with Baghdad, however, to keep its 4,100-strong contingent on the ground into the new year. Failure to do so in time would leave British troops without legal cover and they too would have to leave…
President Bush and Tony Blair scrambled the coalition together in the build-up to the Iraq invasion in a bid to put an international face on what was fast becoming an unpopular war. But the list of participants drew scorn for failing to include a greater number of powerful states, with the US and Britain the main contributors.
While the coalition is dissolving, another force of foreigners is still thriving in the country: thousands of private contractors from developing countries such as Peru, Uganda, the Philippines and Bangladesh.
And we all know what useful skills private contractors bring to Iraq.
#19 – Paddy-RAMBO
>>So, come Jan 20, the only chickenhawks to
>>occupy the White House in the last 50 years
>>will have been Clinton & Obama. Prior to that
>>it was FDR.
Paddy-RAMBO, you must work really hard to come up with things as idiotic as the things you say. Clinton and Obama as chickenhawks. Sheesh. I can’t believe that sort of moronic arrested development comes natural to ANYONE. Do you have a staff of writers?
# 21 Mister Mustard said, “Paddy-RAMBO, you must work really hard to come up with things as idiotic as the things you say.”
So, what branch of the military did Clinton & Obama server in?
@22 – Paddy-RAMBO
>>So, what branch of the military did Clinton & >>Obama server in?
They didn’t server in any branch, Paddy-RAMBO. Of course, they didn’t get Poppy to get them a plum position flying geraniums from nursing home to nursing home during the Viet Nam war to take the place of their “military” serverice, go AWOL even from THAT cushy job, and then come into office breathing fire and pawing the floor in their eagerness to start a war that somebody ELSE would fight.
You DO know the definition of chickenhawk, right? Out of the three, only Dumbya (and many members of his administration) qualify.
# 23 Mister Mustard said, “They didn’t server in any branch”
[A person who favors military force or action to carry out a foreign policy but has never served in the military.]
Okay. Clinton used the military to attack countries who weren’t at war with us. Obama has stated he would bomb Pakistan & increase the war in Afghanistan.
Chickenhawks …
#24 – Paddy-RAMBO
You don’t have to be a card-carrying anti-war pacifist to escape the “chickenhawk” moniker. Sometimes war (or “bombing”) is the only option.
In Dumbya’s case, after his ignominious “military” serverice (which was servering his country to about the same degree as clearing brush from his Crawford “ranch” servers his country), he declared a unilateral invasion of a sovereign nation on false pretenses; pretenses that he knew (or should have known, if he was sober more than half the time) were cooked up for the purpose of feeding his war-hunger.
As a result, 4000+ Americans have died, and somewhere between 500,000 and 1,000,000 other have died, all in the cause of nurturing his Oedipus complex.
Mission Accomplished?
# 25 Mister Mustard said, “You don’t have to be a card-carrying anti-war pacifist to escape the “chickenhawk” moniker. Sometimes war (or “bombing”) is the only option.”
Yep, for chickenhawks with a hammer, every problem is a nail.
I’m glad we had NO choice but to bomb Yugoslavia.
[2000] “About five hundred civilians died in ninety separate incidents as a result of NATO bombing in Yugoslavia last year.”
Got t love them chickenhawks. LOL
#26 – Paddy-RAMBO
>>Got t love them chickenhawks. LOL
Kind of ironic (LOL) that a guy named RAMBO would love chickenhawks (LOLOLOLOL), but you obviously do.
There’s no other explanation for your continued fawning over the worst president in the history of the republic (apparently solely on the basis of his chickenhawkdom, which is all he’s ever been successful at), and your desire to big-tent the chickenhawk category to include others that no one else ever thinks to include.
LOL. ROTFLMAO! LOLOL!
# 27 Mister Mustard said, “Kind of ironic (LOL) that a guy named RAMBO would love chickenhawks (LOLOLOLOL), but you obviously do.”
Hey, no matter how retarded, ya gotta like Clinton & Omama. Chickenhawks are people too.
#28 – Paddy-RAMBO
Now I KNOW yer jes’ funnin’ me. Of all the things President Clinton and President-Elect Obama might be called, “retarded” is not one of them.
And a Bushbaby like yourself referring to ANYONE as “retarded”?? Now that’s a big hearty belly-LOL! LOL!!!.
Give it up, Paddy-Rambo. Go back to playing with the remote-controlled cars, and maybe the Repugs can dig up somebody who’s not a felon or terminally stupid to run for office in 2016.
And if not, hey, look at all the fun you will have had playing with those cars for 8 years. They’re kewl! That will be a Mission Accomplished in and of itself.
# 29 Mister Mustard said, “Of all the things President Clinton and President-Elect Obama might be called, “retarded” is not one of them.”
I consider any chickedhawk as somewhat retarded.
#24–Paddy-O==well done. You actually referred to an objective source.
Chickenhawk: [A person who favors military force or action to carry out a foreign policy but has never served in the military.]
Now, I still think Bushieboy is a chickenhawk and Clinton/Obama are not. Doesn’t seem to fit the definition by which I agree to be bound.
Well, perhaps the key word here is “favors.” Did Clinton/will Obama, favor other action before resorting to military action? I think so.
Was Bush a chickenhawk? Most certainly, on two levels. One, the worst kind of chickenhawk is one who shirks military duty while enlisted and then goes on to send other military to their death. A Super-Chicken Hypocrite-Hawk if you will.
Second, we all know Bushieboy is just a meatpuppet for Cheney, who again, all agree is a Chickenhawk.
Ambiguity resolved.