[TFL-Thumper]

"4. The government has decided to strengthen safety measures to prevent similar incidents and to seek the early withdrawal all South Korean civilian residents, excluding essential personnel."

When the going gets tough, run.

[skeeter]

5. Our government's basic spirit and position has not changed. We confirm that again because our troop deployment is for reconstruction and humanitarian aid support for Iraq.

I think this is a righteous response to the atrocity. I don't fault the S Koreans for removing non essential personnel.

[AppyPappy]

If I were them, I'd step up the military force to show strength.

[El Conservador]

I think it's a common-sense measure...

The soldiers will be coming, anyway.

[Alberta's Child]

Removal of civilian personnel isn't exactly "running." In fact, the most effective means of dealing with this sh!t is to shut down all civilian operations (hospitals, water facilities, food convoys, etc.) and let several thousand soldiers roam about the countryside.

I know it sounds coldhearted to blame the victim here, but any civilian who stayed in Iraq (or anywhere else in the Middle East, for that matter) after the Nick Berg incident really should have had a psychiatric exam.

[Mister Baredog]

When the going gets tough, run.

U.S. State Dept reccommends the same thing. Of course they are amoungst Bush's worst enemies. Most of Washington runs on leaks from these career mostly morons.

[El Gato]

When the going gets tough, run.

They are sending the additional 3000 troops. I don't think I'd call that running.

[onyx]

Withdrawing "NON ESSENTIAL" personel is your idea of running?

[Revolting cat!]

When the going gets tough, run.

When the going gets tough, post brave comments on an Internet forum sitting on an American obese ass in an easy chair. Anonymously, of course.

[Military family member]

The U.S. embassy has essentially done the same thing, asking all civilians to leave. This happen after Nick Berg