Egypt Will Not Send Troops to Iraq-Official

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ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Egypt will not send troops to Iraq to help restore postwar security, Egyptian presidential adviser Osama el-Baz said Tuesday.

The United States is seeking a U.N. resolution for countries to provide troops and cash for Iraq. Egypt is a U.S. ally in the Middle East.

"Egypt will not send troops to Iraq and no one has asked it to," el-Baz told reporters in the United Arab Emirates' capital Abu Dhabi after talks between the UAE and Egyptian presidents.

"The subject of Iraq is being studied by Arab leaders," he added.

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1. A Friend In Need Is A Pain In The Ass

Count another "American Friend" giving us the finger instead of a hand.

How much money to we shovel to Mubarak for a pseudo-peace with Israel and keeping his Islamic fundamentalists under wraps. We've been proping up this autocratic regime and have little to show for it. Mubarak knows he's sitting on a tinderbox of fundamentalist resentment that could easily turn Egypt into the next Iran...the worst nightmare for the U.S. and the BushCo. family interests. Thus we'll shrug our shoulders and then send the next check to Cairo.

Without Egypt there is no Pan-Arabism in any group this regime attempt to scrape together to play in their "coalition of the willing". And so far the willing are getting farther and further. Virtually all the Arab countries now have told the manchild not only won't they participate in his invasion if there was a U.N. resolution, but no way, no how.

The longer we remain in Iraq, the worse things could get as our propped up puppets in the region come under stronger and stronger resentment from their masses. I don't think Wolfie or his cabal thought of this scenario when they were salivating over maps in the early days of this corrupt regime.