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Iraq, Syria--then Belgium ?

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Tuesday April 15, 2003 18:06author by joe ranii

Translated from Le Soir US Ambassador slams anti-war Belgium 11 April 2003 BRUSSELS – The US Ambassador to Belgium has sent an angry letter to the Belgian government, accusing it of blatantly supporting the Iraqi regime. US Ambassador Stephen Brauer lashed out at the government for its refusal to seal off the Iraqi embassy or take steps against any Iraqi officials in the country. In an interview with the Flemish financial daily De Tijd, Brauer went as far as to suggest that the perceived lack of cooperation could result in Nato headquarters moving from Brussels to elsewhere. Foreign Affairs Minister Louis Michel, who came out in support of France and Germany in early February, condemning a war in Iraq without UN approval, was said to be ‘astonished’ by the letter’s content.

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we can only hope
author by danpublication date Tue Apr 15, 2003 19:14author address author phone

we can only hope that NATO completly finished and that the Americans move right out of Europe totally.

maybe then we can have some say for ourselves.

this thing isn't surprisin, he'd do well to read the likes of the Daily Star or Sun, this sort of anti-war relating to being pro-saddam is all to familiar.
maybe after politics the guy should go ask murdoch for a job, he'd be great.I suppose since i'm against the war i'm also pro-terrorism, or maybe pro-dictatorships, oops wait isn't that the Americans themselves who do this sort of thing all the time...Saudi Arabia, Iraq itself, Bin Laden...

NO NATO
EUROPE FREE FROM AMERICAN CONTROL

US out of Europe
author by Kerrypublication date Wed Apr 16, 2003 04:13author address author phone

Yeah, then Europe can get back to its good old ways of tearing itself to bitz (Franco-Prussian war, WWI, WWII, Bosnia...)

Yeehaa
author by :¬)publication date Wed Apr 16, 2003 15:47author address author phone

Well at least we ain't poppin' caps in each others asses. No to gun control!

Then
author by Niamhpublication date Wed Apr 16, 2003 15:52author address author phone

Iraq, Syria, Belgium, Dundalk...

???
author by danpublication date Thu Apr 17, 2003 13:05author address author phone

"WWI, WWII,"
what, i take you're american?
you think if america leaves us alone for we'll start having wars against other.typical cultureless, consumerist, socially engineered american brainwashed crap.

europe, the world needs to be free from american military occupation.you guys have bases all over Europe and the world, you have no right to be here any more.

YANKEES GO HOME

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