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Iceland Unhappy U.S. Pulling Defenses Out
Chron.com ^ | March 16 2006 | KRISTA MAHR/AP

Posted on 03/16/2006 12:33:55 PM PST by knighthawk

REYKJAVIK, Iceland — The United States, which has long provided Iceland with its only military force, has decided to withdraw most of its service members and all of its fighter jets and helicopters from the country later this year, the U.S. ambassador said Thursday.

Iceland's government, which had recently offered to pay some of the cost of its defense to try to keep U.S. forces here, said it regretted the decision.

In an interview with The Associated Press, U.S. Ambassador Carol van Voorst said she and Nicholas Burns, the U.S. under secretary of state, had told Prime Minister Haldor Asgrimsson and Foreign Minister Geir H. Haarde of the unilateral decision on Wednesday.

(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: badidea; iceland; militarybases; reykjavik; stupidmove; unemployedwomen
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To: ncountylee

Don't all the women there have blond hair and blue eyes and are tall and statuesque?


41 posted on 03/16/2006 12:49:47 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (None genuine without my signature)
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To: Dog
Read Red Storm Rising

Just what I was thinking. It was the oppening attack of Clancy's WW III. The Ruskies shut down direct US air and sea access to Northern Europe.

42 posted on 03/16/2006 12:51:19 PM PST by Ditto
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Some are shorter and have green eyes (my down fall).


43 posted on 03/16/2006 12:52:33 PM PST by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: knighthawk

44 posted on 03/16/2006 12:52:56 PM PST by wallcrawlr (http://www.bionicear.com)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
They sort of have a Swedish, mixed with Eskimo, mixed with Martian look going, but somehow it all comes together beautifully.

They don't look like hot girls from anywhere else.

45 posted on 03/16/2006 12:53:13 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: dead
they have weirdly hot chicks up there.

"Weirdly hot"? I can picture "hot", but what is "weirdly hot"? Are they hot in a weird way?

;-)

46 posted on 03/16/2006 12:53:47 PM PST by SIDENET (Gonna shake it, gonna break it, let's forget it better still)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

"Don't all the women there have blond hair and blue eyes and are tall and statuesque?"

If Bjørk is any indication, the answer would be no.


47 posted on 03/16/2006 12:54:38 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: knighthawk

Too fracking bad. Iceland has always treated all servicemen -- except for white officers -- as social untouchables. They remind me of the topside folks in the SG-1 Episode "What Lies Below," where the swells live in a wonderful deluxe city and the rest are enslaved in subterranean mines. As O'Neill says, "You can do your own shoveling for a while."


48 posted on 03/16/2006 12:54:42 PM PST by pabianice
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To: SIDENET

"Are they hot in a weird way?"

Shatner-era Star Trek, green chick weird-hot, lol.


49 posted on 03/16/2006 12:55:58 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: dead
No kidding...we NEED to protect them (at least the MOIST ones)...
50 posted on 03/16/2006 12:56:18 PM PST by Range Rover (Kerry is STILL a Fraud...Rather is the Court Jester)
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To: pabianice

I've heard that USN ships visiting there have gotten a somwhat uneven reception....just heresay, though.


51 posted on 03/16/2006 12:58:02 PM PST by A Balrog of Morgoth (With fire, sword, and stinging whip I drive the RINOs in terror before me.)
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To: Range Rover

Oops...that one got away. She was quite the looker too.


52 posted on 03/16/2006 12:59:26 PM PST by Range Rover (Kerry is STILL a Fraud...Rather is the Court Jester)
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To: Jeff Head

I agree. The Soviet Union may be gone but Russia is headed by a ex-KGB crook who wants to bring back the old ways.


53 posted on 03/16/2006 12:59:49 PM PST by Paul_Denton (The U.N. Building. What a joke! They turned it into low rent housing. It's a dump.)
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To: RegulatorCountry
Shatner-era Star Trek, green chick weird-hot, lol.

Cool! I was thinking more along the lines of three boobs, or something like that.

I know, I know...the whole thread just got dumber because of me.

54 posted on 03/16/2006 1:00:24 PM PST by SIDENET (Gonna shake it, gonna break it, let's forget it better still)
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To: Jeff Head

I entirely agree. IIRC, Iceland is the world's oldest democracy. And as you point out, they are very strategically located. This seems to be a bad decision from what I can tell.


55 posted on 03/16/2006 1:00:47 PM PST by twigs
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To: ncountylee

I have a friend who has lived there. He too says the girls are gorgeous. He said they are basically pure blooded Vikings.


56 posted on 03/16/2006 1:01:23 PM PST by yarddog
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To: dead
Plus they have weirdly hot chicks up there.

I dunno about weird but they are hot :)

57 posted on 03/16/2006 1:01:37 PM PST by Paul_Denton (The U.N. Building. What a joke! They turned it into low rent housing. It's a dump.)
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To: Dog

That soviet navy is gone.


58 posted on 03/16/2006 1:03:45 PM PST by buwaya
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To: knighthawk
The U.S. military spends about $250 million a year to operate Keflavik

It's staggering how much money we waste. If there was one credible threat to this area... maybe. But there clearly is no rational reason to base there permanently.
59 posted on 03/16/2006 1:03:58 PM PST by Daus
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To: SIDENET

"I was thinking more along the lines of three boobs, or something like that."

Nah, the weirdness is a sort of otherworldly quality ... nothing that involves aesthetic peculiarities.


60 posted on 03/16/2006 1:05:35 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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