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Coalition forces in Iraq: Slovakia stays, Hungary goes
EUActiv ^ | 25 November 2004 - 08:45

Posted on 01/08/2005 4:17:26 PM PST by jb6

In Short:

While Slovakia has reiterated its commitment to the coalition forces in Iraq, Hungary has announced a full troop withdrawal by the end of the year.

Brief News:

Slovakia has no intention to recall its 100-odd troops from Iraq and will continue to maintain its contribution to the coalition forces there, President Ivan Gasparovic said at NATO headquarters on 25 November. Meanwhile, Hungary announced that its 300-strong military contingent would be fully withdrawn from Iraq by 31 December 2004.

According to Gasparovic, whose country joined NATO in April 2004, Slovakia's military involvement may even increase after the scheduled January elections in Iraq. Slovakia's troops consist mostly of military engineers charged with de-mining operations.

Meanwhile, Hungary is set to join the dozen or so countries among NATO's 26 members which prefer to "bow to public pressure" and stay away from Iraq. Under a recent decision by the parliament in Budapest, Hungary announced on 25 November that it would fully withdraw its forces from Iraq by the end of the year. However, local press reports said that Hungary's defence minister has been authorised to negotiate the contribution of 150 Hungarian soldiers to NATO's newly proposed training mission in Iraq.

Of the original 32 states in the Iraq coalition, 15 have already packed up or plan to withdraw. These include Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Honduras, the Philippines, Norway, Poland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Thailand, Singapore, Moldova, and Bulgaria. Japan aims to limit its military presence to non-combat roles. Still present are Britain, South Korea, Italy and Australia. Germany, along with Belgium, France, Luxembourg and Spain have refused to let their troops stationed at NATO's operations bases participate in the military alliance's new training mission in Iraq.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: hungary; iraq; multinational; poland; slovakia; troll; wot
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To: Grzegorz 246

Really? False information you say? Funny, most of it comes from EU sources, just high lighting to the American people what is said within the EU. Guess that just hurts, doesn't it?


41 posted on 01/09/2005 6:41:35 PM PST by jb6 (Truth = Christ)
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To: jb6
Find those Serbian troops in Afghanistan yet jb6?

Obviously not, which leaves the question of whether you're man enough to admit your error or not, which in itself is just a steppingstone on the way to your admitting you were never an officer in the US Army.

Like eleni121 said, jb6, the truth shall set you free.

You should try it.

42 posted on 01/09/2005 6:50:59 PM PST by Hoplite
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To: Hoplite

The key my friend is to dress up hostile prolixity in the garb of a judicial temperment. It works for me you #%*&. :)


43 posted on 01/09/2005 6:56:25 PM PST by Torie
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To: Hoplite

By the way, I had to look up "moil." I hate when that happens.


44 posted on 01/09/2005 6:57:43 PM PST by Torie
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To: Torie
By the way, I had to look up "moil." I hate when that happens.

He shoots... He scores!!!

Not that I keep track of such things, mind you.

45 posted on 01/09/2005 7:02:26 PM PST by Hoplite
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To: Hoplite

Well, when it comes to addressing the presentation of sciolistic argumentation, you are the master of the eristic method.


46 posted on 01/09/2005 7:15:07 PM PST by Torie
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To: Hoplite
and I "hate" this mythical supreme being about as much as I hate Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny

Why? Because in your infinite arrogance and pride you think only man is capable of making things? Or because hate is your way of life?

I said for the record, so that there is no doubt. Just as you have my record which says that criminals should be held accountable for their crimes no matter whose side they are on.

"With that said, Kosta, I don't recall ever excusing any crimes perpetrated against Serbs"

Hoplite, if you posted one thread or comment to that effect, condemning specifically a Croat or Muslim or K-Albanian crime, I would believe you. But you won't, so I don't.

As far as the Serbs are concerned, they are my family. I don't know if you have one or if you know what a family is, but suffice it to say that just about every American I have met will tell you that even if your family gets in trouble they are still your family and you support them. That is human nature, Hoplite. That also does not mean that one excuses their excesses. The Serbs who committed crimes need to answer for them, just as all others whose hands have blood should too. Where I do disagree with you is that you maintain the insane idea that Serbs should go to the Hague, but Americans shouldn't. Sorry, equal justice is just that -- it applies equally to all.

As for your delusions of stable democracies in Iraq and Afghanistan, dream on. If you think God is a far fetched idea, Afghanistan beats it hands down. You seem to refuse to admit that Islam and culture is inseparable, that a secular Muslim is an oxymoron, and that Islam and non-Islamic societies are incompatible. Hoping, even expecting, a stable democratic Afghanistan, a country that still lives in the 13th century, and considers apostates candidates for hanging, is a truly stupid idea to paraphrase your own words addressed to me.

47 posted on 01/09/2005 7:21:54 PM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: kosta50
The Serbs perps needed and need to go to The Hague because the Serb Courts have a long track record of being institutionally incapable of dealing with them. The key is to punish them, and then punish them some more. The modalities of doing that are secondary. And Hoplite and I both love Santa Claus, in any event I do (and thus you miss the not so subtle point). At least I suspect we loved him when we were very young, and untouched by sin (:)), and thus at least have fond memories, revivified by the experience of our scions.
48 posted on 01/09/2005 7:31:59 PM PST by Torie
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To: kosta50
Like I said, Kosta, this has just turned into a repetition of ground gone over previously, with the added bonus of me condemning what the torbari did to the Serb civilians who fell into their hands in the comment immediately following the one I linked you to back in #25 on this thread.

You're not engaged in a discussion with me, Kosta. You're merely talking without listening - the conversation of the dead referenced by Balkan writers.

I'll take a pass, thanks.

49 posted on 01/09/2005 7:43:58 PM PST by Hoplite
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To: jb6
So, Poland is pulling out, along with Hungary.

No, Poland is staying. Read this;

Albania, Poland pledge to keep troops in Iraq

50 posted on 01/09/2005 8:50:46 PM PST by mark502inf
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To: jb6
There are no Serb troops on the U.S. side in the war on terror either in Irq or Afghanistan. CENTCOM shows coalition partners here. Other Balkan countries have sent troops to fight alongside the USA, however--such as Macedonia, Albania, and Bulgaria.

In Iraq, any Serbs were more likely to be fighting on the side of Saddam Hussein and against the United States.

51 posted on 01/09/2005 9:15:05 PM PST by mark502inf
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To: Torie
The Serbs perps needed and need to go to The Hague because the Serb Courts have a long track record of being institutionally incapable of dealing with them

And Croat, Bosnian Muslim or K-Albanian courts are definitely capable of dealing with their own.

Judging how it handled the Miloshevich trial, the Hague is a joke. It is good that they don't have to be a real court, because they would never get a paycheck.

The key is to punish them, and then punish them some more

As long as you throw in all the rest who have done their share. Your generosity is one-sided.

At least I suspect we loved him when we were very young, and untouched by sin (:))

Sounds like a fallen angel to me.

52 posted on 01/10/2005 1:03:40 AM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: jb6

New FM? What is this?


53 posted on 01/10/2005 1:24:56 AM PST by Kozik
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To: jb6
"Coming from a person who helped reelect communists in his own country and"

Well, I'm pretty sure, that you were adressing this to the Poles in general.
I just can't imagine, that not knowing my record, neither my family you'd write something like this about me???
Either you're narrow minded idiot, or jus a ... - OK, that's it, I was going to write something, that would make them ban me for sure.

I'm fed up with you.
Over and out you rosyjski pacholku (to make it easier for you: "rosyjski" means "Russian" and "pacholek" - "servant, groom"). I think such an expression describes your attitude pretty well.
54 posted on 01/10/2005 9:19:41 AM PST by lizol
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To: lizol

Better then an EU slave.


55 posted on 01/10/2005 9:21:26 AM PST by jb6 (Truth = Christ)
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To: lizol
Withdrawing Ukraine troops from Iraq priority, Yushchenko says
56 posted on 01/10/2005 9:28:38 AM PST by jb6 (Truth = Christ)
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