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Freerepublic)
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Paul Martin to announce that Canada sending 30 soldiers to train Iraqis
Canada will contribute up to 30 soldiers to a NATO-led force that
will help
train the new Iraqi army, senior federal officials confirmed Friday. The
formal announcement will be made when Prime Minister Paul Martin gathers with
other leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization meeting Tuesday in
Brussels.
EU
to Open Baghdad Training Office; Officials Hail Unprecedented Unity
Over Iraq
The European Union agreed Monday to open an office in Baghdad to
coordinate
the training of Iraqi judges, prosecutors and prison guards in a step hailed
as a sign of unprecedented unity over Iraq within the 25-nation
bloc. ... "We
are for the first time really united on Iraq," said EU foreign
policy chief
Javier Solana. "That without any doubt is going to be very
important to the
meetings we are going to have ... with President Bush."
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Bush, Chirac Call for Withdrawal of Syrian Troops From Lebanon
U.S. President George W. Bush and French President Jacques Chirac, meeting
in Brussels before European Union and NATO summit talks tomorrow, called for
Syria to pull its troops out of Lebanon. "We urge full and immediate
implementation" of a United Nations Security Council resolution
calling for
withdrawal of all foreign troops from Lebanon, the two leaders said in a
statement. "We have the same approach to the situation which is
prevailing in
Lebanon," Chirac said before a dinner with Bush. ...
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Bush Suggests Chirac Is 'Good Cowboy' (Hat tip:
The
Vodkapundit)
Only months after he criticized countries "like
France," President Bush was
lavish in his praise of French President Jacques Chirac, one of the sharpest
critics of the U.S.-led war in Iraq. "I'm looking for a good
cowboy," Bush
said Monday when a French reporter asked him whether relations had
improved to
the point where the U.S. president would be inviting Chirac to the U.S.
president's ranch in Texas.
If there is something a little unseemly about the sudden cooperativeness of
recently truculent friends, President Bush is making light of it. He has grown,
in the best way, beyond the need to gloat. The dangers facing the
world have not
yet abated, but are starting to be recognized by allies who were hitherto too
fearful or uncertain to look upon them. "This is not victory of a
party or of
any class." It is
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everyone's hour.
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