"two wheels" wrote in message
And, we're not
asking the UN for more "boots on ground." Any UN-sanctioned troops
(that might come) are not there to increase the overall number, but
to provide replacements so that American reservists can go home.
Americans need to be rotated out. That's what the UN-sanctioned
troops would be for.

Do you think that it is possible that French or German troops would serve as
part of a UN peacekeeping force?

I ask, because I see an irony in the current situation. A few months ago,
insults were being hurled at the Fr. and Ger. governments because they
didn't support the Bush administration's views. Now, it looks as if the Fr.
and Ger.s are being asked to send their "boys". Can't you see the irony in
the situation where there are "freedom fries" in the White House, and the US
is asking the French to send young men to sacrifice their lives for a cause
that they do not, and never did, believe in?

Regards

Donal
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