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Kerry Says 'False Pride' Holding Bush Back in Iraq Mon July 21, 2003 04:14 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential contender John Kerry urged the Bush administration on Monday to seek U.N. support in stabilizing Iraq and questioned if "false pride" was delaying the move. Kerry, a Massachusetts senator who is one of nine Democrats vying to challenge President Bush in 2004, told reporters the help of other nations was crucial in helping stabilize post-war Iraq. He said "my blood boiled over" when he read in the New York Times on Saturday that some in the Bush administration might...

<p>CRAWFORD, Texas — With U.S. casualties becoming a near daily occurrence in Iraq (search) and criticism mounting, President Bush said Monday that he wants other nations to play a greater role in the country's peacekeeping and reconstruction.</p> <p>"Obviously, the more help we can get, the more we appreciate it. And we are continuing to work with other nations to ask their help and advice," Bush said from his ranch in Crawford, Texas, where he was meeting with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi (search). "A free Iraq is a crucial part of winning the war on terror."</p>

`Arrogant behavior' comes back to haunt USAfter thumbing its nose at the UN, the Bush administration is finding it hard to enlist international support now that it needs help in stabilizing IraqDPAMonday, Jul 21, 2003,Page 9 US President George W. Bush's determination to act on Iraq without broad international support may be returning to haunt him as the US military struggles to secure and stabilize the country, and few nations appear willing to help out. India last week rejected a US appeal for 17,000 troops, and key allies like France and Germany say they won't send troops without backing from...

The three ruling parties in Japan agreed Friday to pass a bill on Wednesday that will allow the government to dispatch military forces to Iraq to assist in reconstruction work, moving the schedule up two days. According to Kyodo News, the parliamentary affairs chiefs of the Liberal Democratic Party, the New Komeito party and the New Conservative Party decided to ask the House of Councillors to vote on the bill at the committee level on Tuesday and at its plenary session on Wednesday. Meanwhile, Japanese Premier Junichiro Koizumi was harshly criticized on Friday for his support to the U.S. invasion...

Russia Is Prepared to Consider U.S. Proposal to Bring More International Troops to Iraq The Associated Press MOSCOW July 17 — A top Russian diplomat said Thursday that Moscow is prepared to consider a U.S. proposal for a U.N. Security Council resolution aimed at bringing more international troops to Iraq and would weigh sending its own peacekeepers there under a U.N. mandate, the Interfax news agency reported. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Secretary of State Colin Powell said Wednesday that there has been discussion about the possibility of a new U.N. resolution. Annan said the aim of the resolution would...

Armed forces chief says French troops to Iraq not on agenda ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS, July 12 — France could spare some 5,000 soldiers for an operation in Iraq but has received no orders to prepare for such a mission, the chief of the country's armed forces suggested in an interview made available Saturday. Gen. Henri Bentegeat was referring Washington's request for soldiers to help stabilize Iraq. U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said last week that the United States ''would be happy to have troops from a wide variety of countries, including France.'' France already has 15,000 troops deployed in operations...

NEW DELHI, July 14 — In a sharp blow to America's postwar plans, India refused today to send peacekeeping troops to Iraq. The Bush administration had hoped that India would send a full army division of 17,000 or more soldiers to serve in the Kurdish region around Mosul, and it had exerted considerable pressure on the government of Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to do so. That would have made the Indian contingent second in numbers only to the United States in the occupation force and given a more international texture to a coalition that consists primarily of American and...

BANGALORE - India, after foot dragging for over two months, will not send its troops to participate in a "stabilization force" in Iraq. Wary of the negative political and electoral fallout of sending its troops, especially in the context of the recent revelations regarding the Central Intelligence Agency's use of false information in the leadup to the war on Iraq, the government turned down the American invitation. Foreign Minister Yashwant Sinha said that such a deployment could be considered only under a United Nations mandate. The decision came after a meeting of the cabinet committee on security in Delhi on...

SOMEONE on John Kerry's staff ought to show the senator a newspaper every now and then. In Washington on Thursday, Kerry held a news conference in which he likened Iraq to Vietnam and accused the Bush administration of being too proud to let other nations help stabilize Saddam's former playground. "I learned a long time ago in Vietnam what happens when pride gets in the way of making honest decisions," Kerry said. "We carried that war on for too many years because of pride. And I refuse to see us now put American soldiers in risk because we are unprepared...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India says it will not send peacekeeping troops to Iraq without a United Nations mandate, rejecting a request from Washington for help in the war-torn nation. The decision came after Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's Hindu nationalist coalition government failed to build a domestic consensus in support of sending troops to Iraq, an old friend of India. New Delhi had earlier opposed the U.S.-led war against Iraq. "Were there to be an explicit U.N. mandate for the purpose, the government of India could consider the deployment of our troops in Iraq," foreign minister Yashwant Sinha told...

<p>PARIS (AP) -- France could spare some 5,000 soldiers for an operation in Iraq but has received no orders to prepare for such a mission, the chief of the country's armed forces suggested in an interview made available Saturday.</p> <p>Gen. Henri Bentegeat was referring Washington's request for soldiers to help stabilize Iraq. U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said last week that the United States "would be happy to have troops from a wide variety of countries, including France."</p>

Spain agreed yesterday to send 1,300 troops to Iraq, the country's largest foreign military expedition since its colonial wars in Cuba and the Philippines more than a century ago. The troops, mostly from the Spanish Foreign Legion, will join a 9,200-strong multinational Polish-led force that will take over security in the south-western provinces of Qadisiyah and Najaf bordering Jordan. The announcement was greeted with caution in Spain, which in recent decades has maintained a pacifist stance, stemming from the painful memory of the civil war. The last time Spain sent as many troops abroad was in 1898, during the Spanish-American...

The U.S. Senate has passed a non-binding resolution calling on the Bush administration to consider requesting troops from NATO allies and United Nations' member states to help stabilize and rebuild Iraq. The measure passed on a 97-0 vote, reflecting lawmakers' concerns about whether there are enough coalition troops in Iraq to establish security, restore basic services and rebuild the country's infrastructure. Senator Joe Biden The key sponsor, Democratic Senator Joe Biden of Delaware, said internationalizing the coalition to a greater degree would make the United States, which makes up the bulk of the force, appear less like an occupier. "We...

Japanese lawmakers approve deployment of troops to Iraq Compiled by Our Staff From Dispatches AP, Reuters Friday, July 4, 2003 TOKYO The lower house of Parliament on Friday approved the biggest overseas troop deployment by Japan since World War II, passing a law that allows the government to send soldiers to help rebuild Iraq. Japanese troops would serve in a noncombat role, mainly transporting supplies and ammunition. The move would deliver on a pledge that Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi made in May to President George W. Bush. Japanese news organizations have reported that the government intends to send about 1,000...

<p>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.</p> <p>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.</p>

Kiev, 3 July: The Ukrainian Defence Ministry has started forming the 5th Detached Mechanized Brigade which is to join a multinational stabilizing force in Iraq. At present, there are 1,647 servicemen in the Ukrainian peacekeeping contingent, the press service of the Ukrainian Defence Ministry has told Interfax-Ukraine, adding that the number could be increased to 1,800 as the strength of the contingent is being adjusted. The Ukrainian contingent will be subordinate to the General Staff of the Ukrainian armed forces and will operate under the aegis of the joint command (administration) for the implementation of a UN Security Council's resolution....

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Poland is sending 2,300 soldiers. Ukraine promises 1,800. Small bands of Macedonians and Albanians are already here. And Sri Lanka says it's ready to consider requests for help. A posse of nations is materializing to help keep Iraq's peace, but big powers like France, Germany and Russia are showing little inclination to join. After invading Iraq over the objections of some allies and spurning a major U.N. role after the war, the United States -- whose troops are increasingly coming under attack -- has begun to seek help. "The more (foreign troops) there are, the fewer...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Poland is sending 2,300 soldiers. Ukraine promises 1,800. Small bands of Macedonians and Albanians are already here. And Sri Lanka says it's ready to consider requests for help. A posse of nations is materializing to help keep Iraq's peace, but big powers like France, Germany and Russia are showing little inclination to join. After invading Iraq over the objections of some allies and spurning a major U.N. role after the war, the United States — whose troops are increasingly coming under attack — has begun to seek help. "The more (foreign troops) there are, the fewer of...

WROCLAW (Reuters) - The advance guard of the 9,200-strong multinational stabilization force Poland will command in central and southern Iraq left Wednesday on the country's biggest military mission in nearly 60 years. The 250 Polish troops, including the zone's future commander General Andrzej Tyszkiewicz, will pave the way for the force that will control a stretch of territory running from the Iranian to the Saudi border. "The Polish forces are beginning their biggest military operation since the end of World War II," Prime Minister Leszek Miller told the troops and their families at an airport in the southwestern city of...

<p>Two divisions of international troops will begin moving into Iraq by the end of this month to help relieve the nearly 150,000 American troops now working to stabilize the country, Pentagon officials said yesterday.</p> <p>Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the international troops &#8212; up to 20,000 of them &#8212; are "gearing up" to go to Iraq.</p>