Norway OUT

Norway Follows the Lead of Leaving Spain
2004-04-22
Norway is the next coalition country to leave Iraq before June 30.

According to Norwegian Foreign Minister Jan Petersen, his country sees as priority the peacekeeping mission of its troops in Afghanistan.

Since Spain announced that it would pull out its 1,400 troops, Honduras, with 368, and the Dominican Republic, with 302, have also decided to withdraw their soldiers.

Meanwhile, Thailand's prime minister said his country would withdraw its non-combat troops from Iraq if they were attacked.

US Secretary of State Colin Powell has made phone calls this week to try to hold the rest of the 20-some coalition intact.

http://www.novinite.com/newsletter/print.php?id=33714

how many is that now? 4? 5? did poLand puLL out yet?

I can't imagine that the Brits will want to stay.

the "Coalition" is a joke. the overwhelming majority of troops are US anyway. These "partners" each have sent a few dozen or a couple of hundred or at most 1 or 2 thousand. the UK has 8,000 and we have over 100,000. Other than the UK they could all pull out and it would make no difference.

The fake President went to war on a fake pretext with a fake coalition.

Asked when British and American troops should pull out, 27% said they should leave now - a rise of five points since last month. A further 15% (up two points) said they should leave within six months.

A simple majority, 51%, said troops should remain as long as is considered necessary - down nine points since last month, suggesting a significant switch in public opinion is under way.

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,1195698,00.html

But no major political party is yet calling for British troops to be withdrawn - even the Liberal Democrats, who opposed the invasion, say "Britain now has a moral obligation to the people of that country to establish democratic institutions, and to create an opportunity for them to decide what kind of government they want."

"We regret the decisions by Spain, Honduras, and the Dominican Republic, but we have the enthusiastic support of every other member of the coalition ... except Norway."

any more....

what shall we call it?

in Woodward's book he mentions that Rove is very anti-Swedish, leading him to hate Hans Blix, because Rove himself is of Norwegian descent.

Wonder how he's gonna deal with this "betrayal" by his own "volk"??? :eyes:

"I'm not letting any greedy lying crook get ME voted onto an unemployment line! HASTA LA VISTA, MORAN!"

By the way, how many troops are we talking here?

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rocknation

I am glad they left.

If I had a chance to move anywhere Norway would be high on my list.