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To: jttmab who wrote (134865)5/29/2004 3:33:21 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
Jtt, but if you count the 150,000 in Iraq, enforcing UN resolutions, the numbers swell. <At present, U.S. troops and civilian police account for 464 of the 42,597 UN peacekeepers worldwide...

Impressive: 1%>

Then there are those on USS Kitty Hawk, sailing around the water between Taiwan and China, keeping the peace. kittyhawk.navy.mil

Plus a lot more besides. And so there should be. I'm paying a lot of taxes to King George III [without representation I might add] and I expect some services.

Hubble, the legal system, and peace-enforcing forces are just a few of the good works they are doing with my taxes [turning a blind eye to all the boondoggles for now].

Mqurice



To: jttmab who wrote (134865)5/29/2004 4:36:05 PM
From: Ish  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 281500
 
<<..At present, U.S. troops and civilian police account for 464 of the 42,597 UN peacekeepers worldwide...>>

And in Iraq it's 130,000 US troops with 00000000 UN troops helping out. I can't see why we should support an organization that won't support us.


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