No date set for Japan fact-finding team for Iraq (Getting cold feet)

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/T281426.htm

TOKYO, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Japan said on Monday it would send a fact-finding team to Iraq as soon as possible to assess what role it can play in rebuilding the war-torn country, but it set no date for the team's departure -- a necessary step before Tokyo can make a controversial decision on whether to dispatch troops.

The government in July pushed through a law allowing it to send troops to "non-combat zones" in Iraq. Opposition parties said there were no such areas and that deployment would violate Japan's pacifist constitution.

Japanese troops have not fired a shot in combat since Japan's World War Two defeat in 1945.

Any eventual dispatch of troops to Iraq was thrown into doubt after the suicide bombing of U.N. offices in Baghdad intensified safety concerns.

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[LeftistGorilla]

1. could you blame them?

look whats happened just in the past two weeks....
facts finding? Just watch (non-American) news...

[Kbowe]

2. They only need to wait one more week...then they won't have to go.

The US will be out of there too! Events are out of our control now that we have incited this carnage.