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| Dutch commandos leave for Iraq |
| 2003-12-04 |
| he first group of about twenty Dutch commandos, out of a final force of seventy, has left for southern Iraq. The remaining soldiers will set off next Monday. The commandos are to search for terrorists in the region where 1,100 Dutch troops are stationed. Defence Minister Henk Kamp decided on the deployment because of the deteriorating security situation. Despite calls from the opposition, he was unwilling to wait for the lower house of parliament to debate the question next week. |
| Posted by:Chuck Simmins |
| #4 Ship, right on. They are very good. Only about 2,200 of them altogether. I had a Dutch exchange officer I became pretty good friends w/when I was w/the 8th Marines. Did close combat school w/him. Very similar to the British Royal Marines. Those guys are awesome to. They won't f*ck around w/any beligerent Iraqis. NATO needs to get real on board w/OIF. In the future they'll need us and our memories will be long about who came to bat (Italians, Spaniards, Dutchmen, & our Brit cousins) & who didn't (Germans, insert Frenchie joke here, & the Belgians - btw Anniversary of Battle of the Bulge is in two weeks). |
| Posted by: Jarhead 2003-12-4 9:23:13 PM |
| #3 Madeline "Thighs" Halfwit and Hillary "Calves" Witchcraft both said that we are in there alone. Both want that organization that spells credibility...the UN, to go to Iraq and get the job done. What maroons. (Perhaps they didn't get the news that the UN ran away.) |
| Posted by: remote man 2003-12-4 6:47:12 PM |
| #2 This must be a lie! Madeline 'Fat Pig' Albright has told me that we are alone in Iraq. CNN harps daily on the fact that we don't have international support. So how could there be Dutch troops in Iraq??? I am sooo confused... |
| Posted by: Swiggles 2003-12-4 4:27:23 PM |
| #1 JarHead: these guys are supposed to be pretty good? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2003-12-4 4:14:59 PM |