Kiwi troops coming home

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The KIWI's are comming home, Yee Haw!


http://www.kiwinewz.com/html/kiwibird.htm


Kiwi troops coming home
16 September 2004
By HANK SCHOUTEN

New Zealand's troops are pulling out of Iraq under a cloak of secrecy as security deteriorates in the battle to control the war-torn country.

Nearly 100 people have been killed in attacks in Baghdad and Baquba this week, while Australia has sent a "logistics team" to Iraq to determine whether two of its nationals are being held hostage.

The New Zealand Defence Force is refusing to give any details of the withdrawal of the 60-strong Kiwi military engineering contingent, which has been hunkered down in Basra for the past five weeks as violence escalates throughout Iraq.

"We do not discuss troop movements in circumstances like this where security is a factor," Defence spokeswoman Sandy McKie said. However, it is understood they are pulling out this week.

The engineers have been in Basra since last September, mainly to help in civil reconstruction around the southern Iraqi city. The contingent was rotated in March and the commitment was scheduled to end this month, with the proviso they would come out earlier if they were no longer able to do their work.
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http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3035130a10,00.html

[underpants]

1. Okay that leaves 149, 940 troops right?

Coaltion of the Willing renamed to the "Coalition of I'm-f**king-outahere"

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2. Every little bit helps

:-)

Bush and Kerry sharpen their fight over Iraq


By John Whitesides


Washington - Democrat John Kerry on Tuesday called the Iraq war the "most catastrophic" of American President George Bush's many wrong choices, but Bush accused Kerry of stealing lines from his old rival Howard Dean.

As the American military death toll in Iraq passed 1 000, Vice-president Dick Cheney warned Americans that Kerry's election to the White House would raise the danger of another "devastating" attack on the United States and could send the country back to a "pre-9/11 mindset".

Kerry, sharpening his attacks on Bush after a week of being pummeled at the Republican convention, said the president made the wrong choice in going to war in Iraq and the resulting costs were depleting the budget of money needed for health care and other domestic needs.
'The most catastrophic choice is the mess that he has made in Iraq'

"Of all the wrong choices that President Bush has made, the most catastrophic choice is the mess that he has made in Iraq," the Massachusetts senator said at a town hall meeting in Greensboro, North Carolina.

"This was his choice. He chose the date of the start of this war. He chose the moment and he chose for America to go it alone - and today all of America is paying the price," he said.
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http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?sf=2813&art_id=qw1094616006815B251&click_id=2813&set_id=1

[joefree1]

3. What are we fighting for? Freedom?

Freedom for the terrorist to arm and regroup? This is really starting to smell stupid.


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