Posted on 06/24/2005 12:15:50 PM PDT by areafiftyone
PARIS, France (AP) -- The president of the only Latin American country with troops in Iraq said Friday he will not pull them out until democracy is in place there.
"Why should we leave Iraq now when the basic conditions have not been met?" El Salvador's president, Tony Saca, said in an interview with The Associated Press in Paris, where he met with President Jacques Chirac at the end of a three-nation European tour.
Saca said a president, a constitution and a public police force need to be in place in Iraq before his troops will leave.
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This guy knows what's up, apparantly.
Let's just hope the terrorists don't start on the El Salvadorans, or they may just change their minds.
President Saca has more sense than anyone in the Democrat party!
I would have thought that this post would bring some encouragement and friendly comments about the President of El Salvador and his country who are standing with us in Iraq. Pleeease! This attitude reeks of condescendence, is it because they are Latin Americans?
Really? What makes you think they would change their minds? Are they not capable of standing like we and the English are? I would have thought that this post would bring some encouragement and friendly comments about the President of El Salvador and his country who are standing with us in Iraq. Pleeease! This attitude reeks of condescendence, is it because they are Latin Americans?
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Not at all, but at least a handful of countries have pulled out once terrorism hit close to home. Spain comes to mind. While I applaud the President's remarks and am happy he has declared his country's commitment to keeping its troops in Iraq for the long haul, I am well aware that such good intentions have a way of changing. I was thinking, I wonder if the terrorists even knew up to today that El Salvador had a contingent in Iraq. If they didn't, they do now. And that could have serious consequences for the El Salvadoran people.
Oh, and I might suggest that in the future, before you get your shorts in a knot and hurl ethnic and/or racial accusations against me, you at least make a polite inquiry if I post something you don't understand.
El Salvador knows a thing or two about violence. From 1980 to 1991, when the country had around 5 million people, they lost about 100,000 to one of the most vicious guerrilla wars in modern times. It might take a lot more than a few scattered bombings to get them to back down.
The exploits of the Cuzcatlan Battalion are well-known and well-covered in the Salvadoran press. Last year, one of the soldiers fought off Iraqi insurgents with a dagger after running out of ammunition.
It might take a lot more than a few scattered bombings to get them to back down.
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I hope you're right. And thanks for telling me about the Cuzcatlan Battalion. Alas, such positive news rarely, if ever, makes it into our media.
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