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    Norways new primeminister Stoltenberg says he have informed GWB that Norway will pull its troops out of Iraq.
    "The Parthians are dead, the Britons conquered; Romans, play on!"
    Gamingboard, Rome 3. Cent. AD

  • #2
    How many did you have, what was the reason you put them in and what is the reason you are pulling them out?

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    • #3
      how many - 15
      reason to put them in - officers assisting the brits and the poles
      reason to pull them out - dunno
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      • #4
        They say that Norway had 20 staff officers, most of whom were working on training Iraqi soldiers. I'm not sure why that would be objectionable.
        I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891

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        • #5
          Only 15? The Danes seem weirder by the minute.

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          • #6
            Reason to pull them out: A new leftwing government?!!

            Probably part of the deal to get the lefties in the government.
            "The Parthians are dead, the Britons conquered; Romans, play on!"
            Gamingboard, Rome 3. Cent. AD

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            • #7
              well there used to be about 150 from an engineer squadron.
              don't know why that makes the danes seem weirder though.
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              • #8
                and yep this is a concession to the socialist party. they're pretty anti-american. if they got their way the would leave nato and abolish the monarchy, so this is nothing really.
                Stoltenberg (social democrat) is quite moderate and a reasonable fellow though, he also told Bush that the close cooperation in Nato and Afghanistan and so on will continue.
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                • #9
                  Thorvald Stoltenberg? If it was him, I remember the name... he had some role in Yugoslavian wars as negotiator or something.

                  Why Danes are different? Because they got pretty involved, unlike everyone else.

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                  • #10
                    Our primeminister just back from the UN-thingie. He and the pres. of Iraq both said that they would'nt put an end date to our involvement 'cause that just would make the terrorist feel that have a date-line to work after.
                    "The Parthians are dead, the Britons conquered; Romans, play on!"
                    Gamingboard, Rome 3. Cent. AD

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                    • #11
                      This is his son, Jens

                      ah I see what you mean. I guess the danes are pretty weird.
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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by DanS
                        They say that Norway had 20 staff officers, most of whom were working on training Iraqi soldiers. I'm not sure why that would be objectionable.
                        Symbolism is the reason they came in, symbolism is the reason they go out.
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                        • #13
                          Why is that weird?
                          "The Parthians are dead, the Britons conquered; Romans, play on!"
                          Gamingboard, Rome 3. Cent. AD

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                          • #14
                            different is perhaps a better word
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                            • #15
                              We had a thread about Danish involvement in Iraq some time back. BlackCat and Winston explained it but I still found it strange. Why Denmark yes and Sweden, Finland etc. no?

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