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Originally posted by Zeld2.0
Not entirely true Glad
Many people, including these board posters, always said the Iraq fight was going to be easy or it was going to be a cakewalk and laughed when the main fighting was declared over. Now the admin has to eat its own words.
The US doesn't expect helpe because it shunned the world oh so recently. The same people who said "fuck france and the UN its useless" because the gov't said so, now realize the government is basically BEGGING france and germany to vote in what the US wants and the US is right now revising its plans just to get the vote.
The other countries are probably laughing now, how the US was once high and mighty and now its literally crawling back. The only country not laughing would be Britain whose own leader has his own career in peril.
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I am Canadian, and I am NOT laughing. Definitely not laughing, this is a very serious matter, and has the potential to become a very serious quagmire. The UN, including Canada should shut the fuck up and do the right thing. And that goes for America too. Enough of the bullshit and rhetoric and lets work together to get Iraq working again.
At some point you have to get the US and British armies the hell out there and replace them with UN peace keepers from several different nations. That may have to happen sooner rather than later.
This is a very unstable part of the world, even more unstable of late. Like it or not, the international community has to start acting like adults and the american administration has to start rethinking its current strategy of insulting and maligning anyone not american or British.
And yes, Tony Blair is on the hot seat, and the shit may just fly clear across the Atlantic.
I have to think that with an election coming up in one years time that the democrats are going to play their trump cards in about 4 to 6 months time.