[AmericanInTokyo]

OK. So they aren't Combat Troops and it isn't all-together 'altruistic'.

However, they are needed, they are on the way now, and it was a LANDSLIDE SOUTH KOREAN PARLIAMENTARY VOTE IN FAVOR with a lot of angry leftist de-Genova-type anti-US demonstrators in the Seoul streets dejected, and it is a heck of a lot more than France is doing to support the Good Guys!

E-Mail, Wire, Call, Write the S. Korean Embassy in Washington, D.C. to say "Kamsahamnnida" ("Thanks!")

[Stultis]

There must be some mistake, or a fabrication simliar to the reports of French officials desperately attempting to stem popular anti-Americanism in their country. Le Partie Democratique has assured us that international resentment against America would only grow as the war in Iraq continued!

[oldironsides]

Oh Goody, now the PX facility in the area will be stripped
by the Koreans. We had the ROK forces in Vietnam and they bought every friggen thing off the shelf and sent it back to Korea. They even bought hard to find female products. They left the US military in a real bind. Let us hope they have these people under some sort of control this time.

[RightWhale]

Good. They can sense the changing tide. Alliances are being formed, old alliances are being discarded. Sea change.

[risk]

68 against

Let's take names.

[proud American in Canada]

bump! thank you!

can someone post an email address! ?

[Revel]

They had better quarantene these guys for for two weeks before they allow them to come. They could be carriers of the SARS virus.

[Right Angler]

This is truly good news!

I shouldn't bring this up, but did anyone else notice that one of the Millenium Democratic Party members was named "Jong Bum-goo"? Wow, that's an unfortunate name!

[Centurion2000]

BUMP !!!!

[truth_seeker]

Smart fellows. Thanks for the help.

They will be in position for Iraq reconstruction work, for which they have well qualified companies.

And they can count on us, if N. Korea acts up, too much.

Contrast this behavior, with France (who has started whining they want in, on Iraq reconstruction work).

Let France donate free cheese and froglegs to Iraq. Otherwise, stfu.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Thanks for your post. Somebody spooked Mr. Roh real good. He was all over the place pushing for this troop deployment as if his life had depended on it.

I think that international credit rating agencies(especially Moody's) and foreign investors were spooked by constant discords between Mr. Roh and American gov. Wealthy people in S. Korea got spooked, too. Such a scare created many disturbing phenomena. The sudden popularity of dollar-denominated bank accounts among well-to-do folks. Talks of emigration via investment visas. People buying up gold. Foreign business execs bailing out, with two years still left in their leases, even though their lease agreement has no provision for any kind of refund. All these things must have made Mr. Roh really scared.

It was fun to watch some of his erstwhile die-hard constituency turning on him, basically branding him as a traitor over this flap.

[Mamzelle]

I appreciate the gesture, but it is grudging at best. Roh is under pressure because the US has taken him up on Roh's campaign pledge to put the US in its place. Roh wants more "equal" partnership with the US, and even said in a conflict with NK, SK should be neutral. What Roh means by "equal" is for the US to take orders from a leftist Roh.

We have 37,000 troops standing between Roh and NK, and Roh only has energy to criticize us. And these aren't "engineers" and "medical personnel", but combat-ready.

Time to bring these troops home, redeploy in a place more in the interests of the US.