"saying Saddam "has gone from power, he won't be coming back." "*
 

Did they worry that somehow he'd retake power if they didnt capture him or something?

* Blair

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Its happen before throughout history.

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That a rogue dictator managed to overwhelm the most powerful coalition in history and ridded the whole country of them?

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There's no American forces in the Netherlands, is there?

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Wasn't Texan stationed in Belgium?

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you better know belgium ISNT in the netherlands.

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I think it's more of a meaningless piece of rhetoric which can now be definetley utilised by them than anything else.


P.S, I hope they handle him so gently.*






* Like they don't get John Prescott to sit on his face or anything like that. Would be absolutely terrible.

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I thought the Netherlands was Belgium Holland and someone?

Or was that a long time ago? :/

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I thought Holland was like a small section of the Netherlands, but now they are the same country. Except Holland isn't a country at all, and the Netherlands is the country that everyone thinks is Holland. The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxemburg just make Benelux.


Or something.

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Ah. Well who cares they are insignificant anyway.

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yer, mostly, but we are as everybody would, too proud to acknowledge that

we do have our influences, but not mayorly.

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maybe there's a CIA alumni he can get into now.

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Most powerful coallition?

I read a comical part in Michael Moore's new book about the members of this "thirty strong" coallition.

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I'm pretty sure if we put the US up against anything short of a new lunar body they'd nuke it out of existence.

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But as to it being the most powerful _coallition_ ?

Afghanistan
Albania
El Salvador
Eritea
Estonia
Ethiopia
Latvia
Lithuania
Nicuragua
The Phillipines
Palau
Iceland
Costa Rica
The Marshall Islands
The Solomon Islands
Micronesia
Poland (sent 200 troops)
Morocco (sent no troops but offered to send monkeys to detonate bombs)
Uzbekistan

Formidable?

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Is his book any good? I've been thinking about buying it.

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well yu did happen to miss out the USA there...

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Im not a Michael Moore fan. It started off really well, with some well backed up interesting comments. (Intrepid or whatever right wing idiot that said his questions to bush were rubbish might want to scan through the extensive list of source articles he names), Some really interesting comments, followed by some "comedy" which completely missed the mark about a scenario where we'll have no oil or something. The chapter im reading at the moment is written from God's perspective. With this book, you have to take a chapter as a different piece altogether, as if it was written by different people. Its good, but some bits are fair pish, like.

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The word coalition doesn't imply anything about power being spread out equally (where's the UK on that list though deffeh). It's a fairly pointless coalition but it is the most powerful one in history.

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Along with a few other countries, yes. But i was showing you the fearsome majority of the coallition of the willing.

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An "interesting" thought:

2 different view points from 2 diff polls:

CNN
Will the capture of Saddam Hussein help bring stability to Iraq?

Yes 69% 112891 votes

No 31% 50996 votes

Sky News
Saddam's capture: Will it bring peace to Iraq?

Yes 45.61%

No 54.38%

Says somat huh?

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The USA* and the UK are in it, thus it is powerful.

I think Moore is a bit of a fanny really; an emotional nobody who wont shut up.

*probably powerful enough to kill everyone else in the world combined :/

That optimistic Americans go to CNN.com, and cynical Europeans go to sky.com? :bunny:

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i think they were worried that he'd be chased out of the country and would end up living in the wilderness and while he was there he'd be hungry and not know what to eat but they he'd make friends with animals and theyd start talking to him and he'd be all like 'wtf animals cant talk' then the wacky warthog would be like 'yeah we can also you should eat bugs then you wont be hungry' so then he'd eat bugs and run around till one day one of his ex-wives tracked him down and told him iraq was horrible under the coalition and to go back and hed be like 'no fuk u' but then he'd meet a monkey and find a big pond which he'd look into and see visions and his father would tell him to return home so he'd go back to iraq and find it overrun with americans and be all like 'wtf' so he'd hunt down the leader of the government and fight him and all his lackeys and defeat them and then hed say 'oh look i am king again' and he'd rule iraq and everyone would be happy ever after except america but they suck anyway am i rite

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I think you'll find the word you're looking for is Benelux ;).

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a-wimba-what?

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I call them The Low Countries. They are a group of squat little nations.

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How can they send afgan troops?
The place is hardly pacified is it?

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most of the countries i listed didnt send troops

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Sit on my face and tell me that you love me
I'll sit on your face and tell you I love you too
I love to hear you oralise
When I'm between your thighs
You blow me away!

Sit on my face and let my lips embrace you
I'll sit on your face and then I'll love you truly
Life can be fine if we both sixty-nine
If we sit on our faces in all sorts of places and play
Till we're blown away!

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The 254th Base Support Battalion in Schinnen, the Netherlands. There is also a U.S. transportation battalion in Rotterdam. I don't know what else. Probably some Marines at the embassy.

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oh to be an american soldier in holland. boring!

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That's US soil though, so it doesn't count.

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except when they hae to nip out to get some crisps from the shop, then they are in the netherlands.