The reason for the decline in the American Economy and value of the Dollar is due in large part because France, Germany, Great Britian, and the other NATO/European nations are scaling back their military to just a Defensive posture. Meaning they are only keeping whats needed for homeland defense, while the US is maintaining the forces needed to keep NATO and the UN as a viable means to defend and keep a peaceful world. The costs that the US encures due to the other Nations decline in military support of NATO and the UN is directly affecting the economy and vice versa for the other Nations economy booming due to the cut in support.

As far as a previous comment about why Britain is fighting the US’s wars … they didn’t have to send troops when the US invaded back in 2003… they had the right to send or not send troops to help out, so they are just as guilty as the leadership in the US is.

Britanistan is real.

The brothers are Sunni and have been to the white house and so on.

Iraq has to stand on three feet not two.

Per capita of force involved mil dead and wounded the Brits copped it.

Basra was the one place Yanks could not go after George Bush the elder betrayed them, the shia to the south and the port.

Time for Iraq to grow up was the order, thru out the alliance.

Grubby shit piece.

“They have helped immensely in the Baghdad area, in particular, to take down the al-Qaeda car bomb networks and other al-Qaeda operations in Iraq’s capital city, so they have done a phenomenal job in that regard.”

. . .Very little is known about the success of their missions but Gen Petraeus indicated yesterday that working alongside their American colleagues in Delta Force the British had had a significant impact in defeating Al Qa’eda in Iraq.

. . .Quoting the Special Air Service motto “Who Dares Wins” the general said there had been numerous successes on many “very important operations”.

“They have exceptional initiative, exceptional skill, exceptional courage and, I think, exceptional savvy. I can’t say enough about how impressive they are in thinking on their feet,” said Gen Petraeus, the main architect of “surge” strategy that has seen a substantial decrease in violence with the influx of extra American troops.

OOPsy, friendly fire by —what’s that??? NOT an American . but by their own British???
I give it 5 years tops, & yes I am gloating. The troops will be patrolling the British streets. Or maybe not, Sharia law will be in full force by then. I think we should sit this one out when Europe errupts into a full scale civil war.

‘the brits’, has two meanings here. it doesnt mean the troops.it means the scum pols. but alas, who wants to REALLY get involved in a campaign, run for office. canvas for a worthy candidate and get all embarassing with PEOPLE.

we can just flame and blame here on the interlink and get all thinky!!

we all deserve this crap and thank God the war has brought it to the surface where we can at least start to work on it. how can two great nations be so lame as to only put forth mccain, obambi or brown etc?

the upper crusty brit officers shouldve stepped up in this but theyre so much better than our officers what do i know. i trained with 2 para right after the falklands and our 19 year olds were bigger and stronger than the limeys any day.
they had cool uniforms and smoked dunhills but everybody knew that popeye would get his head kicked in by all us jocks from the sticks.
we will always be just next to allies as we started off by fighting each other, but thats why they are called grunts.

we arent supposed to have to care about all that diplocrap.

Up England!!! and f k all the iraqi dips s anyway. if they had their s t together to begin with none of this would matter anyway.

perfect world never gonna happen. but it helps to try.

we must stand together against tyranny and look at the big picture, this issue is tailor made to divide and compromise our mission.
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next time we’ll just have to come over for tea and check first to see if youre in some type of arrangement with the enemy. cheerio.

Mary Jackson, I hear you on Obama. I’m afraid he actually will be elected in November, and if he is, I’m not optimistic about his performance in office. I seriously hope I’m wrong on both counts.