Is the Uk involed in Iraq?
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The Australians are over their 2 but we never get a mention\nJust atleast the UK get mention in their news.
1136689
Gee, let's see:  Germany, France, England, Italy, all the UN.  Enough, or should I go on.  It is funny, a martinet calling a government "puppet."  Get your head out of your *ss and realize that it is NOT the US who is the problem in IRAQ, it is the TERRORISTS.
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It is my opinion that we should start allowing the Iraqi Army to take control (Of course when ready).  NATO has been a great help in the Global War on Terrorism, by taking a majority of a sector in Afganistan.  Coalition Forces are in Iraq, still to this day... The Republic of Georgia, Britain, Japan, Korea, the list goes on.... You go to remember, it a team effort there in Iraq... though I can't wait for the day we can hand the reigns over to the Iraqi Security Forces and go home to the family.
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England, take them on decision in UN  Secretariat to declare war on Iraq, at the same time going to war and steal live their troops in Iraq. In whatever they are inseparable or parts and parcel of like a coin.
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IT WAS IN FACT...IRAQ.   any doubt as to why we are there now fighting someone else's  Holy war?
857986
yes\n\nhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2005/10_october/06/bush.shtml
701078
No, right now, they are having trouble in Iraq, because they can't tell their enemies from their allies.  No technology can do that.
973857
Possibly.......  the US already has a very large airbase in Saudi Arabia and troops stationed in Kuwait in smaller bases.  Potentially, the US may keep a base in a friendly area of Iraq potentially not in the contorversial areas like the Sunni triangle. (Possibly in the North).  Potentially, the British may maintain a presence in the Basra area to protect the exportation of oil  \n\nRegardless, this question is probably unanswerable at this time based on the current situation.  If troop numbers are declined soon, it is more unlikely that permanent bases will be established.
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yes. haliburton is one of the puppeteers of the bush regime.\n\ni think you will like some of the questions i've been asking too. \n\nlike the one about the US being a resource for the parasitic government that is the bush regime. from what i can recall no one really liked that question either.\n\nthe idea that iraq had second class infrastructure might be tempered by a cursory glance at google earth... well, unless they've updated their pictures now. i remember the placed used to look pretty sweet.\n\njoin the club of criticised critical thinkers hehe
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For every genuine picture or blog coming out of Iraq, there are a hundred either mocked up or used out of context.\n\nUnless you saw it with your own eyes its best not to jump to conclusions as modern photgraphic techniques can make anything beliveable.\n\nAbout two years ago a mainstream British newspaper carried a front page set of photgraphs of British Soldiers abusing Iraqis in the back of a truck.\n\nThere was uproar worldwide and people were killed in the reprisal riots.\n\nWhat many of us, who actually know what they are looking at, noticed however were some minor discrepancies in the equipment the "soldiers" were carrying. For instance the SA80 rifles the guys were holding were not the current issue model, and neither did they have the correct serial numbers. To the untrained eye an SA80 mk1 looks like an SA80 mk2, but there are subtle differences.\n\nAnyhow, after people got killed as a result of the article, and relations between the Brits and the locals in Basra took a downturn, a group of idiots in the UK were caught, arrested and then admitted to faking the photgraphs in a warehouse in England in order to both sell them for money and to protest the war. Even the lorry in question was traced and had never been outside the UK. None of the people in the photos were soldiers, or Iraqis and all of the gear had been sourced from surplus shops and the rifles were de-activated junk from gulf war one.\n\nThe newspaper editor was forced to resign, but his actions in publishing the photos as genuine had cost lives. People had died as a result.    \n\nAlso to back up previous comments, there are no incendiary weapons which burn the body yet leave the clothes, also napalm and white phos are two different things.
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as long as President Bush is in office we will be in Iraq. would hope that people will look down the road and see the importance of a free Iraq. wonder what would have happened if the French would have left us in the middle of the Indepence war. we would still be british. we needed others for our freedom. it is only fair and smart to help others to be free.
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I wouldn't count on anything that isn't related to Iraqi having anything done with it by the US.  On the other hand...does Burma have oil?  If the answer is yes, then it is a possibility!
1084607
Hi, I am an Englishman and never visited the States. I suppose like many people I would have to say that I have had mixed feelings about the USA. Most of the information regarding world events etc comes via the media and does not I think always give the most unbiased opinion. Not just in political events. We all see popular shows like Oprah and this without doubt has a profoundly negative effect. We see in the main what can only be described as weirdos and have to wonder if these strange selfish people are indicative of the country as a whole.\nHigh consumers, irresponsible ecological attitude and a me, me, me mind set.\nAll sounds horrible doesn't it? Thankfully there is the Internet where over the past couple of years I have made some excellent friends who have illustrated that there is a far more caring and unselfish, generous aspect to many of the citizens of the US than I previously thought. \nMy country and yours have been strong allies both economically and in time of conflict and shared a whole lot together. I personally hope that this will always be the case.\nWho knows what may happen in Iraq, North Korea and the rest of the world. But I believe that in the main (although always influenced by oil) The forces currently in Iraq are trying extremely hard to bring about stability. If they were only allowed to do so, your country and mine could bring our troops home. The sooner the better.\nIn a nut shell I am pro American. OK?
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It is a widely held believe that Bush was pushing for the Iraq war well before 9-11. \n\nThe British are all over a story that has not touched down in the US. See link below.  Bush and Blair discussed painting US aircraft to look like UN planes and fly them over Iraq baiting Saddam to fire at them.\n\nBush was prepared to lie about this. Blair committed troops to Bush plans in January 2003 based on cheap stunts like that.\n\nThere are 100 other reasons to believe that Bush has a secret agenda, if you will a conspiracy.\n\nCheck Bush´s pal Scooter who was arrested for his actions to get us to war with Iraq.\n\nBTW, I dont remember a time when any vice-president has played as big a role as this executive of Haliburton.  By the way of the total dollars spent in Iraq how many have gone to Dick´s company?\n\nSorry that I don´t seem to have an opinion on this!!!
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I agree that this is obvious.  Iraq was probably the hegemon in the Middle East before the US invasion, though Iran had already been clamoring for increased power and influence in the region.  Now that Iraq has fallen into great turmoil, Iran now has an opportunity to increase its influence and establish itself as the leading Muslim nation, much as the US is considered the leading democratic nation.  Iran has much to gain from a destabilized Iraq, and is thus contributing to the violence through weapons sales.
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It may be viewed as a Crusade, although the battle is not in the Holy Land (aka Jerusalem). \n\nLest I mistake your question for purely rhetorical value, our involvement in Iraq is based upon:\n\n1. The assumption that Iraq had WMDs\n2. The assumption that Saddam Hussein was funding anti-American and anti-Israeli terrorism\n3. The assumption that Saddam posed a threat to stability in the region\n4. The belief that Saddam had committed crimes against humanity\n\nThere has been no evidence found of the first assumption, although credible evidence indicates that the U.S. provided chemical weapons to Iraq during its war against Iran, the latter of which was considered an enemy to the U.S.\n\nThere has been little evidence found of the second assumption, which makes sense given that Saddam was a secular person of Sunni descent, and the radical theology underpinning Al-Qaeda has far more support among Shi'ites than Sunnis (although terrorists represent only a small, radical fringe of Islam, and there are terrorist groups with chiefly Sunni members). The terrorist attacks on American troops are mostly opportunistic by pre-existing groups or precipitated by new groups that have sprung up in response to the invasion.\n\nThe third assumption is debatably true. Saddam's armies invaded Kuwait in 1991 and fired missiles into Israel in 1992. \n\nThe fourth assumption (I labeled it a belief) has strong evidence behind it, and currently forms the basis of the ongoing trial.\n\nThe motivation for the United States has nothing to do with religion, although it is an unfortunate coincidence that a mostly-Christian nation has invaded two mostly-Islamic nations, as this adds fuel to the fire of radical beliefs that hold that the United States is the enemy of Islam.\n\nThe next president elected will be a Democrat (since the GOP is out of political capital at this point), and will probably close out the current operations (since there's little public support behind them). Hopefully, whoever is in office next will be able to gain more credibility and provide a more effective diplomacy so the military solution is not resorted to.
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Britain has been an ally of ours since the first World War.\nAnd they're as fierce as ever to support the same matters we stand for.\nGod Save the Queen and God Bless the USA!