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Terwijl Nederlandse troepen zich opmaken om in Afghanistan onduidelijke militaire missies te beginnen, willen de Amerikaanse troepen zo snel mogelijk uit het Midden Oosten weg. Information Clearing House: 'Troops say they want to come homePoll of forces in Iraq shows majority think U.S. should leave within a year. Nearly three of every four American troops serving in Iraq think the United States should withdraw all its troops and end the war within a year, according a Zogby-Le Moyne College poll released Tuesday. Le Moyne faculty helped develop and word the poll's questions, which were given to troops in face-to-face interviews in Iraq, pollster John Zogby, of New Hartford, said. Zogby said the poll was commissioned by a wealthy war opponent, whom he would not name. Zogby said the man "had no input into the questions or analysis and was not trying to make a point." Despite President Bush's declaration that American troops should remain in Iraq as long as needed, 72 percent of 944 military members polled there said he should bring all the troops home within 12 months. More than a quarter said American forces should leave immediately. "The results are startling," Zogby said. "I'm not the first person to use the term 'Viet- nam,' but it does suggest somewhat of a morale issue - certainly a disagreement."' Lees verder: http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12187.htm Maar omdat iemand het vuile werk moet doen, heeft de Amerikaanse regering de NAVO ingeschakeld. Niet voor niets heeft Washington De Hoop Scheffer secretaris-generaal van het militaire bondgenootschap gemaakt. De belofte was - en is nog steeds - dat de regering Balkenende pal achter de Amerikaanse terreur in het Midden-Oosten blijft staan. In een speech op 11 maart 2002 verklaarde president Bush: 'We wil not send American troops to every battle, but America will actively prepare other nations for the battles ahead.' En dat gebeurt nu met de goedkeuring van een meerderheid in het Nederlands parlement, een meerderheid dat overigens geen enkele moeite deed om onafhankelijke informatie te vergaren. Over de drijfveren van de neoconservatieve bende die nu in Washington aan de macht is, schreef de gerespecteerde Amerikaanse geleerde Chalmers Johnson in 'The Sorrows of Empire' : 'Since 1991, the United States has been by far the largest single seller of munitions on earth. From 1997 to 2001, it exported 44.82 billion dollars in arms; the next-biggest supplier, Russia, sold 17.35 billion. Train and sell - it is a closely meshed system to enlist allies... Among the hidden motives behind such programs is finding surrogates for American troops in order to avoid casualties that might roil the "homeland."'