Japan troops get Iraq go-ahead

CNN Asia ^

[maui_hawaii]

TOKYO, Japan (CNN) -- Japan's powerful lower house has given the green-light to the nation's biggest foreign military deployment since World War II, passing a law that allows soldiers to be sent to assist in the rebuilding of Iraq.

Though the bill still needs to be passed by the upper house, its approval is almost certain and would permit Japanese troops to serve in a non-combat role in Iraq.

[maui_hawaii]

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This is going to irk China :0)

[krb]

Kakkate Koi!!!

[4mycountry]

Beat me to it. ;)

[Enterprise]

They will be 1,000 peace keeping ninjas. By day they assist, comfort, build. By night, mysterious disappearances, deaths, and partial dismemberments of the enemy. Look for them, you will not see them, listen for them, you will not hear them - until it's too late!!

[Southack]

From this CNN article: "Though most Japanese did not support the war in Iraq, they have been resigned to some sort of military role in post-war Iraq."

From Asia Times:
"The conservative and pro-war Yomiuri Shimbun, on the other hand, thinks that things are going quite smoothly for Koizumi, identifying a broad support for the war among Japanese in its most recent opinion poll. The poll shows that 76 percent of the public find the government's support for the war against Iraq "unavoidable" and "reasonable"."

[Eric in the Ozarks]

A new chapter in the Japanese Army.

[maui_hawaii]

You are talking about two news agencies both with their own agendas. To think of AT or CNN as unbaised wouldn't be smart. Just like with the rest of the liberals and democrats they don't know which direction to take.

[Enterprise]

"A new chapter in the Japanese Army"

A new reason for Saddamites to fear the night.

[zarf]

and the North Koreans to chew on ...

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #10

The rearming of Japan would be Kim Jong-il's lasting legacy. A stupid pot-bellied pig!

[Elsie]

This is going to irk China :0)

Indeed!

Who ELSE can field 200,000,000 fighters?

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Revelation Chapter 9:13-21

 

¹³Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice speaking from the four horns of the gold altar that stands in the presence of God.¹⁴And the voice spoke to the sixth angel who held the trumpet: "Release the four angels who are bound at the great Euphrates River."¹⁵And the four angels who had been prepared for this hour and day and month and year were turned loose to kill one-third of all the people on earth.¹⁶They led an army of 200 million mounted troops--I heard an announcement of how many there were.¹⁷And in my vision, I saw the horses and the riders sitting on them. The riders wore armor that was fiery red and sky blue and yellow . The horses' heads were like the heads of lions, and fire and smoke and burning sulfur billowed from their mouths.¹⁸One-third of all the people on earth were killed by these three plagues--by the fire and the smoke and burning sulfur that came from the mouths of the horses.¹⁹Their power was in their mouths, but also in their tails. For their tails had heads like snakes, with the power to injure people.²⁰But the people who did not die in these plagues still refused to turn from their evil deeds. They continued to worship demons and idols made of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood--idols that neither see nor hear nor walk!²¹And they did not repent of their murders or their witchcraft or their immorality or their thefts.

[section9]

Well folks, the jig is up for Saddam....

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[Southack]

"Who ELSE can field 200,000,000 fighters?"

Well, there are more than a Billion Indians in India. There are a Billion Africans. There are a Billion Muslims.

On a planet with more than 6 Billion people, there are multiple sources of potential 200,000,000 man armies.

But raising 200 million mounts (or horses), that's much more difficult to come by, much more difficult to finance/build, much more difficult to hide from the public until the right time, etc.

[Elsie]

CHAD

 

COLUMBIA

 

MOLDAVIA

 

ROMANIA

 

VENEZUELA

[Elsie]

Sacajawea, not knowing that there would be Apache attack helicopters a mere 200 years in the future, decribes one in her own words like this:

[ErnBatavia]

"Waxie on, waxie off"

[rockfish59]

[KC_Conspirator]

This is going to irk China.

Good. China needs to keep a leash on that sherry swilling, porn loving guy in pajamas in North Korea. If they don't want Japan to increase its military, they better do something with that lunatic on the peninsula.

[witnesstothefall]

About damned time.