Spain's PM surprises troops in Iraq

[rooboy]

Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar paid a surprise visit to Iraq on Saturday, flying in with his defence minister to inspect Spanish troops deployed in the south of the country, national radio reported.

Mr Aznar left Madrid on Friday for Kuwait where he went by helicopter to Diwaniyah, the radio's special correspondent said, becoming the third top western politician - after US President George W Bush and Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld - to travel to the war-torn country in three weeks.

Mr Aznar was a staunch backer of the US-led invasion of Iraq, and contributed some 1,300 troops despite virulent public opposition to the attack without a UN mandate.

A delegation of 17 people, among them the Spanish Defence Minister Federico Trillo, accompanied Mr Aznar for this visit of several hours to the city 160 kilometres south-east of Baghdad.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1014107.htm

[arcos]

1. how original...

:eyes:

[KissMyAsscroft]

2. When does Mongolia, or the Virgin Islands...

or whatever other pissant country we paid off....

When does their leader visit?

Im guessing Blair on Christmas Eve singing carols with some handpicked British troops.

Ahhh the beauty of it all!:puke:

[izzie]

3. Yes the willing are coming. God bless the Willing

and our pocket book.