Denmark defends decision to support Iraq war

[ze_dscherman]

COPENHAGEN, July 14 (Reuters) - Denmark has defended the intelligence it used to participate in the U.S.-led war on Iraq in the face of opposition calls for an inquiry into whether the decision was based on false claims.

"The decision to disarm Iraq was not based on CIA intelligence but on reports from former U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix," Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller said on Monday.

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I'd like to hear the comment Blix gives on this ...

[chenGOD]

1. Indeed...

If the Blix reports weren't good enough for the Bush government (who would have grasped at any straw), then how can they possibly have been good enough for Denmark?

Did the Danish population support the war?

What promises of trade did the Bush government offer to the Danes, one wonders.

[Kellanved]

2. Some did

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2971691.stm
http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,246334,00.jpg
Don't know about the Danes in General, but I can't believe that they're like this.
Besides: this one is a real live European Moran: the French Flag is reversed. (could be seen as a Dutch flag)

[tommilator]

3. Our good for nothing govt. did too

The building on the left behind the tree is the american embassy of Copenhagen witnessing the largest protest ever held in front of it. Not even the legendary years of "anti-americanism" back in the days of Vietnam could draw as big a crowd.

The idiotic hot-dog vendor displayed above was fined for discriminating against french and germans but of course likeminded danes, who also feel the muslims need a can of whoop ass to show who's boss, helped pay it.



Now our foreign minister claim that the mere fact that we thought Saddam had WMD's made the threat posed by him real. So there - Saddam hid his 'reconstituted' nuclear arsenal in our heads. Damn him.

But not only in matters of war or peace is the current government a total disaster. Luckily for them they are on vacation and wont give any comments to the oppositions demands of a full inquiry into their support for the war.

But shrub called our PM *personally* to thank him for the support and later he had breakfast with him in the white house... oh we were all so proud :mad:

[chenGOD]

4. Well at least the majority of Danes...

are still sane, judging by the pictures of the protest.


:)