Croatia backs out of iraq committment!

[historian]

ttp://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=574&e=7&u=/nm/croatia_us_dc
and will not sign agreement of USA being exempt from trial by the international court for war criminals!!!!!

[jay-3d]

1. I don't blame them

It's sad when your scared of your own country.

[newyawker99]

10. Hi jay-3d!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[ThirdWheelLegend]

2. Oops there goes another of the 'coalition of the willing'

TWL

[truthspeaker]

3. Good for them!

[mike1963]

4. Hmmmm... (fixed your link, below)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=574&e=7&u=/nm/croatia_us_dc

;-)

[historian]

5. oops thanks

[Jacobin]

6. Damn, are they removing BOTH of their troops?

Smirky must be freaking out!!

Down to Eritrea and the Soloman Islands!!!!!!!!! Oh no, the horror the horror.

[northzax]

7. so much for that crack croatian unit

we were counting on.

damn that old Europe, it just keeps getting bigger and bigger, and our troops get exposed to more and more for longer and longer.

Thanks, George W, I rather like living in a banana republic.

[chookie]

11. Those Yugo SUVs weren't really helping all that much anyway

Let's see -- Poland out, Honduras out, Spain out, Netherlands out, Croatia out -- who's left? PLEASE tell me Albania is still on our side!!

[greekspeak]

13. I believe that the militarily strategic

El Salvador, Macedonia, and South Korea are still part of the Coalition. Oh...didn't Japan send a slingshot or something?

[chookie]

14. No

They would commit only to high-altitude-launched spitballs, and only then in the face of great popular opposition.

[revcarol]

8. REUTERS: I've got some news for you!!

IRAQ is NOT part of the "global anti-terrorism effort."

:puke: when even news services that should know better morph anti-terrorism with Iraq!

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

9. Welcome back to "Old Europe" Croatia! nt

[bicentennial_baby]

12. Bye bye U.S. military aid

If they receive any to begin with. That's what happens when states refuse to sign Article 98 agreements.

[americanstranger]

15. Coalition of the Dwindling...

Who's next to drop out, i wonder?

-as

[EdGy]

16. I'm really appalled at some of the posts here.

First I think this is excellent news, especially given the way that the US has been threatening and bullying Croatia on this issue, as well as on the International Criminal Court.

It takes guts to stand up to the Bush regime, because they have shown they will retaliate against dissenters, and they have threatened Croatia, Bosnia and other countries.

But I have to say I'm really appalled at the attitude of the posters on this thread who are showing an incredible arrogance which I can only associate with American ignorance and imperialism.

There's really no need to display this kind of ignorance, just because you know nothing of this country and consider it to be a small powerless place.

You should instead be recognizing the kind of courage that it takes for small countries to stand up to the Bush bullies.

I really think there's no hope for the US if even at progressive places like DU we're seeing this kind of imperialistic attitude.