latvia honors bush with their highest award...WTF??

[silverchair]

i just don't understand why people are kissing this guy's ass? i heard this on NPR.

[HockeyMom]

1. Read somewhere

that Latvia got $6 BILLION to join the Coalition of the Bought and Paid for.

[NV Whino]

5. Thanks. I was going to ask how much Kkkarl paid for it.

Edited for spelling. (Just sprained my ankle. Must have affected the typing fingers as well.)

[Rick Myers]

2. What is their highest award? An American Quarter?

Kidding...

It's the 3-star award or something. Dubya can pin it on his shoulder and pretend he's in the miltary.

[DrDebug]

4. The Cross of Hypocracy

It takes a tremendous lack of guilty and empathy to obtain that award and * qualified cum laude!

[K-W]

3. The US is being very nice to them to woo them from Russian influence.

Its all geopolitical maneuvering, they arent kissing his ass so much as shifting thier nations position in the world.

[KlatooBNikto]

6. There goes Latvia. Bush will invade them when he realizes that

Latvia is harder to spell than nookular.

[bluedog]

7. we bought that........

expensive award for us............

Key aid provisions in the supplemental include the following

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* In addition, $308.1 million in military aid is slated for 15 countries. They include Bahrain, Oman, which are providing logistical support for the war, but also Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Estonia, "Latvia", Lithuania, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia, whose main contribution to the war effort has been diplomatic support for the U.S.
(The prime minister of Slovenia later announced that his country had been listed erroneously as a member of the coalition, and said that Slovenia would not receive the $4.5 million in military aid that had been designated for it.)


http://www.fas.org/gulfwar2/at/