Cambodia rejects US request for troops in Iraq

[Judi Lynn]

April 21, 2006
World (as of 5:18 PM)

Cambodia rejects US request for troops in Iraq

PHNOM PENH - Cambodia has turned down a US approach on sending troops to Iraq and Afghanistan, Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Friday.

"We will not send our armed forces to Iraq because the issue there is not in the hands of the United Nations," Hun Sen told reporters.

But even if the UN were in command, Cambodia would still not send troops to Iraq or Afghanistan, he said following a meeting last week with US Ambassador Joseph A. Mussomeli, who asked him to consider sending troops.

"Every day we have seen people get killed and taken hostage" in Iraq, Hun Sen said.
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http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=36308

[ET Awful]

1. It takes a lot of goddamn gall to even ASK Cambodia.

I mean . . "hey Cambodia, I know we abandoned you to the Khmere Rouge and bombed the piss out of your people simply because your neighbors were traipsing through your jungles, but hey, can you forget all that and send some of your people to get killed for us?"

[saigon68]

2. They sure know how to commit War Crimes though

[ET Awful]

3. So we'd be getting them there as "advisors"?

Wow, talk about role reversal.

[saigon68]

12. They can kill someone with a shovel

It's cheaper than a 6 cent round of 7.62 x 39 mm

[David__77]

8. That's not true.

The "Khmer Rouge" were fighting the US. It wasn't the job of the US to occupy Cambodia to prevent them from taking power. They had a lot of support in 1975. The blame for most of the deaths, though, can be laid on the US. If it weren't for the genocidal bombing campaign by US planes, I doubt the Khmer Rouge cadre would have done the things they did to anyone considered a pro-US person or supporter of the pro-US Lon Nol regime.

[cliss]

11. Exactly what I was thinking.

We have now become the Telemarketers of the World. There is no depth we will not stoop to. No leader who is exempt from our harassment.

Hell, we'll even call Madagascar and bother them. I'm sure all the world leaders know when Bush is calling to nag them about something.

They just turn on the Voice mail.

[bowens43]

4. Wow! Cambodia morally superior to the US.

Thanks W

[erpowers]

5. Someone Learned Something

Here is another quote from another article about Cambodia's rejection of the idea of sending troop to Iraq and Afghanistan. I think you could say at least someone learned something from the Vietnam War. "So I will not let my people, who went through 30 years of suffering from war, see more horrible days of separation and suffering from the continued terrorist activities of decapitating hostages in Iraq," he said.

[rodeodance]

7. Cambodia is helping to clear mines from Sudan

Cambodia, heavily mined itself and still emerging from three decades of bloody civil war and the Khmer Rouge "Killing Fields" in which an estimated 1.7 million people died, is sending soldiers to Sudan to help clear mines.

[rodeodance]

6. We must be forning a new 'coalition of the willing"

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

9. Are you sure this isn't an "Onion" article? n/t

[Tight_rope]

10. LMBAO...Are Bushco getting desperate or what?

Why not just install the ole "Draft", or are Bushco afraid that some repukes kid might get caught up in it get killed.