Poland to withdraw troops from 'high-risk area' near capital

[kskiska]

Poland scaled back its military commitment in Iraq yesterday in response to Tuesday's devastating attack on the UN headquarters in Baghdad.

Under a hastily agreed new formula for the occupation, Polish troops will withdraw from a "high-risk area" near Baghdad, leaving the territory to come under the command of US forces, Polish Foreign Ministry officials revealed.

"We have ceded 1,000 square kilometres that would have come under the control of the Polish command to the US administration," Tadeusz Iwinski, a senior foreign policy adviser to the Polish Prime Minister, Leszek Miller, told The Independent.

Poland is due to take formal charge of the central third of occupied Iraq, sandwiched between the American and the British zones in the north and south, on 1 September.

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[Cha]

1. Getting a little too dicey for them, eh?

I don't blame them but aren't they being paid our tax money to be a
part of that warped coalition that went over there and attacked Iraq?

Cause bush said so?

[diamond14]

2. Poland calls Iraq a "new Vietnam".....

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A Polish general and strategy expert, Stanislaw Kosiey, warned in the conservative daily Rzeczpospolita of the increasing number of attacks being launched by Iraqis against occupying troops. "The attacks could last many years, and they are more and more better organised," he said, and they could give rise to a "new Vietnam".

[realFedUp]

3. all 20 of them eh?

So when does Spain through some troopers in the mix...
haven't heard Bush talk about his good buddy Aznar in awhile.

[alcuno]

4. How did Poland fall for a deal that gave them the central third?

British get the Shia, Americans get the Kurds, and the Poles get the Sunnis? And Poland, we have some well-priced swampland for you in Florida. Suckers.

1000 square kilometers. Would that be Baghdad?

On Edit: How much of our 280,000,000 dollars do we now get back?

[indictrichardperle]

5. tough to find cheap cannon fodder

other than us, not many countries/leaders are that heartless.

Until Sneering Dick and his neo-con henchmen get their grubby little paws off the oil and contracts noone is going to contribute jack shit.

[diamond14]

8. rummy tried to get Poland to do the land-mine removal....nt

.

[PartyPooper]

6. If only all of the 'coalition' forces were to pull out of this quagmire

unless the U.S. were to ask...and receive full U.N. participation, supervision, and control. Hmmm. I don't think that's going to happen. But, it *will* be a major issue in next year's presidential campaign. Guaranteed!

:dem:

[rooboy]

7. Largest coalition in history, wasn't it???

my my, how empty THAT sounds now...

[Ouabache]

9. The Coalition of the Risk Aversive

has a nice ring to it, eh?

[kskiska]

10. I remember how the Freepers

were posting large flags of all the countries backing the U.S. in the war, ad nauseam. Where have all those flags gone?