We ARE getting foreign troops to help us in IRAQ! Bush told the truth!

[LittleApple81]

TONGA! TONGA! TONGA!

Critics question Tonga's Iraq deployment
The Tongan Government is being accused of sending troops to Iraq for domestic political reasons.

Forty-four Tongan soldiers left to serve alongside US Marines in Iraq earlier this week, but the Kingdom's Human Rights and Democracy Movement says this could make Tonga a target for terrorists.

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"I don't really understand what's the rationale behind why Tonga wants to send the troops," he said.

"And I think sending the troops to Iraq... it's not necessary to defend democracy there, but I think it's a building up of military strength here as well, so it is also in a way sending the message to any reactionary group... yes, the Government has the strength to overcome any."
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200406/s1133579.htm

Map for those not strong on geography:

[Veggie Meathead]

1. Reminds me of the Peter Sellers classic

THE MOUSE THAT ROARED

[LittleApple81]

3. Have you noticed that Peter Sellers's movies are really applicable to

the situation we are in now:
Being There
Dr. Strangelove
The mouse that roared...

[Veggie Meathead]

7. Absolutely.We are all a bunch of Chauncey Gardners

spouting inanities at each other while our whole country has been hijacked by an army of Strangeloves.Ronald Dumbsfeld has indeed achieved his Total Information Dominance over us.

[BattyDem]

2. Gee ...

I feel much better now that 44 Tongans are fighting alongside our guys. Who needs armored vehicles and Kevlar vests anyway ... we've got Tonga Power! :eyes:

[Andy_Stephenson]

6. ***Giggling here***

"Who needs armored vehicles and Kevlar vests anyway ... we've got Tonga Power!"

[stumblnrose]

4. Our Man in Havana

Excellent movie, greater book. Jim Wormold is a vacuum salesman turned spy in pre-Fidel Cuba. He starts sending blueprints of weapons of mass destruction back to Britain and claims there's a huge military installation in the hills behind Havana. Wormold lines his pockets at the expense of the mother country while his blueprint is merely an oversized drawing of one of his vacuum cleaner models.

[LittleApple81]

5. We have several men like that but they don't even bother to go

to Havana. They just stay in DC and sell us the vacuum drawings... for the price of billions and thousands of lives.

[Veggie Meathead]

8. StumblingRose and Little Apple:This points out that humor,

irony and hidden ridicule may be potent weapons in our battle against the reality twisters.

[Qanisqineq]

9. that'll cover about 3 weeks worth of US soldiers killed

Is the Tongan army now depleted?