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Manila to Withdraw from Iraq 'As Soon as Possible' (“In response to your request…”)
Reuters via Yahoo! ^ | 7/12/04

Posted on 07/12/2004 2:30:46 PM PDT by dead

DUBAI (Reuters) - The Philippines will withdraw its forces from Iraq (news - web sites) "as soon as possible," Philippine Deputy Foreign Minister Rafael Seguis said on Monday in a statement he read out on al Jazeera television.

"In response to your request, the Philippines ... will withdraw its humanitarian forces as soon as possible," Seguis said according to al Jazeera's Arabic translation of his remarks. His statement was addressed to the group which is holding a Filipino driver hostage.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: appeasers; cowards; enablers; filipinohostage; gutless; ira; iraq; peacekeepers; philippines; quitters; sadsadday; shameful; yellow
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To: AQGeiger

Roger that. What is with these naive governments?


21 posted on 07/12/2004 2:49:06 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Havoc be upon them!)
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To: jveritas

The point is not how many. They are going to try to pick off one nation at a time until they believe they can isolate us. And they are certainly counting on those traitorous bastards in our country to give them aid and comfort. Fifty years from now, there may well be a debate on why Michael Moore was not hung for treason.


22 posted on 07/12/2004 2:49:32 PM PDT by doug from upland (Don't wait until it is too late to stop Hillary -- do something today!)
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To: dead

I think I'm going to puke.


23 posted on 07/12/2004 2:50:54 PM PDT by veronica (Hate-triotism, the religion of leftists, liberals, anti-semites, and other cranks...)
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To: Maigrey

The real irony is that the hostage is already dead. Probably.


24 posted on 07/12/2004 2:52:55 PM PDT by savedbygrace
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To: doug from upland
"The point is not how many. They are going to try to pick off one nation at a time until they believe they can isolate us."

You know, I'm not isolationist by nature, but if the rest of the world wants to turn tail and run every time someone makes a threat, then perhaps we ought to withdraw our troops and our economy from the rest of the world, then lock down our borders and coasts completly with all those extra troops we'd have, and kick back while the rest of the planet descends into chaos. Give me secure borders and coasts, and a working, functional missile shield, and I'll be perfectly content.

In fifty years, maybe there will be some people worth talking to once more.
25 posted on 07/12/2004 2:59:01 PM PDT by NJ_gent
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To: dead
Is it too late to give the Philippines back to Japan?

j/k

This is actually sort of bizarre to me:  I work with a lot - and supervise a few - Philippinoes.  None of them are wimps....and they come from a country that has more than it's fair share of home-grown islamoassholes.

26 posted on 07/12/2004 2:59:37 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny
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To: NJ_gent
 

If no one else wants to help us take the long, hard road of problem-solving then screw it:  "I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit.  It's the only way to be sure."

27 posted on 07/12/2004 3:05:59 PM PDT by Psycho_Bunny
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To: dead
Spain and now the Philippines have gone "wobbly." Terrorism obviously pays, so we can expect more of it.

Nice going, guys. Real macho of you.

28 posted on 07/12/2004 3:10:42 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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To: dead
The elephant never forgets.

Bush has 4 more years to cut foreign funding with the blessings of the American people.

29 posted on 07/12/2004 3:12:22 PM PDT by concerned about politics ( Liberals are still stuck at the bottom of Maslow's Hierarchy)
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To: Psycho_Bunny

DISGUSTING

I AM SO MAD...

The USA should say F*** everyone and pull our troops from Europe and everywhere else.

Let these people fight their own damn battles.


30 posted on 07/12/2004 3:12:59 PM PDT by Cheetah1
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To: Cheetah1
The USA should say F*** everyone and pull our troops from Europe and everywhere else.

After the election. We'll owe those countries nothing when they find themselves praising Allah. We can sit back and watch, saying we don't believe in butting in anymore. It's not appreciated.

The elephant never forgets.

31 posted on 07/12/2004 3:17:46 PM PDT by concerned about politics ( Liberals are still stuck at the bottom of Maslow's Hierarchy)
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To: Dog Gone
This is way more pathetic than what Spain did. Spain cowering the way they did was bad enough but this is even worse. One group uses one hostage to change a Nations foreign policy. How could a government be so ignorant?
32 posted on 07/12/2004 3:18:34 PM PDT by ThermoNuclearWarrior ("If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking." - General George Patton Jr.)
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To: dead

The only thing that is keeping me from screaming right now is the slightest chance that once the truck driver is released they will say 'screw you' and send in a couple thousand troops to hunt down these animals.


33 posted on 07/12/2004 3:20:12 PM PDT by Marfoe (http://www.marfoeblog.com)
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To: jveritas
We are doomed. The one hundred or so Filipino soldiers are leaving Iraq. How can we fight the enemy without the help of this supreme Filipino military force?

Bump. How will our coalition survive without the "Fighting Fifty-One" from Manila?

34 posted on 07/12/2004 3:25:06 PM PDT by pickemuphere
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To: Cheetah1
I AM SO MAD...

Iraq is mostly stable now, and a sovereign nation. It won't be long before our guys come home. Even the terrorists are being cast out by the new government, and the borders monitored.
If nations are pulling out this easily, maybe Iraq is a lot more stable than we know. Maybe we're close to pulling out as well. Most of the work has been done. Just a little more to go.

35 posted on 07/12/2004 3:26:50 PM PDT by concerned about politics ( Liberals are still stuck at the bottom of Maslow's Hierarchy)
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To: dead

Bunch of Pukimo Molakais.


36 posted on 07/12/2004 3:44:30 PM PDT by Rome2000 (The ENEMY for Kerry!!!!!)
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To: SandyInSeattle
I hope these terrorists realize by now that other countries may tuck their tails and run home, but we stay and finish what we came to do.

Not if John Kerry, John Edwards, Ted Kennedy, Pat Leahy, and Hillary Clinton have their way. They are determined to make this America's next Vietnam.

37 posted on 07/12/2004 3:49:22 PM PDT by af_vet_1981
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To: af_vet_1981

Fair point.


38 posted on 07/12/2004 4:01:54 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (Monthly Donors NEVER need tons click "co-ordinating")
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To: blanknoone
The Philipines were obviously a Spanish colony.

But they learned nothing when they were an American protectorate.

39 posted on 07/12/2004 4:22:15 PM PDT by jriemer (We are a Republic not a Democracy)
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To: blanknoone
"The Philipines were obviously a Spanish colony."

The national language is American English.

40 posted on 07/12/2004 4:32:29 PM PDT by blam
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