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To: Ilaine who wrote (43217)	5/10/2004 3:31:17 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793718

<They'll be even safer when they go home, tail between their legs, like the Spanish.> CB, think of Lebanon, Somalia, Vietnam - sometimes the USA changes its mind about what's a good idea, and goes home, defeated in battle, tail between legs. I think it's better to identify a bad idea and quit while ahead, than to go on with the head-against-the-wall-of-reality process. It's better to be mistaken for a coward than confirmed as a mindless moron. A few New Zealand troops, whose main occupation was intended to be construction, need to react to their surroundings and decide the best course of action. They, for now, think it best to retreat to barracks. Sounds good to me. I think it's incorrect of you to call them cowards. I haven't seen anything to suggest that. I'm quite happy to call military people cowards, which they are, all too often. The NZ soldiers aren't there to simply obey British or American commands in whatever conflict results from USA/British activity. I suspect the Japanese aren't in the conflicts either. I would not suggest they are cowards. < "The 61 NZ army engineers were sent to Iraq's southern area of Basra to help rebuilding schools and water plants and other humanitarian aid." > New Zealand doesn't want to be seen to be supporting this: See "Ilsa Koch Gets Kotched" fredoneverything.net Especially, they don't want to be killed while supporting it. They are there to drain the swamp, not fight the alligators. It's important to not be distracted from the objective when one is up one's arse in alligators. Mqurice