Seven Ukrainian Soldiers Killed in Iraq

[leftchick]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050109/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ukraine_iraq&cid=540&ncid=1480

KIEV, Ukraine - Seven Ukrainian soldiers serving in the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq (news - web sites) were killed in an explosion, the Defense Ministry said Sunday.


The ministry's press service said it could not immediately provide any other information.


In Iraq, Maj. David Gibb of the British Army said eight soldiers had been killed in the country's south, but he said their nationality was not immediately known.


Ukraine is the fourth-largest contributor of troops to the U.S.-led war effort with 1,650 soldiers.

[Wright Patman]

1. Since Yushchenko is being lauded as

a pro-Western Bush puppet with a neocon wife, it appears those hundreds of thousands of Orange Revolutionaries wound up demonstrating on behalf of sending more Ukrainians to their deaths in Mesopotamia.

Must be nice to hate Russia so much that you're willing to die face down in the desert sand for American war criminals instead of kowtow to Putin.

The Ukrainians remind me of the Southerners who just voted to eat dog food (at best) in their senior years rather than vote for the hated Massachusetts lib'rul 'faggot'-lover.

[kostya]

3. What the hell are you talking about? Both Yushchenko and Yanukovych

were for pulling out the troops. What an idiotic post. - K

[Wright Patman]

4. Read what Bush

said during his 2000 campaign about not having our military deployed in never-ending operations of "nation building" overseas.

I know what Yushchenko said. I also know for whom he works. Watch what he does; not what he says.

Maybe Ukrainians have historical reasons to hate all Russians just as Southerners have reasons to hate 'Yankees," but now both groups are dying in Iraq and the odious Russians and Northerners (mostly) are staying out of it. Hate is a very destructive emotion.

[bin.dare]

2. Ukraine Lacks Funds To Withdraw from Iraq

Ukraine’s defense minister said Dec. 6 that his country lacks the funds to withdraw its troops from Iraq, despite a decision to do so by the country’s parliament, news reports said.

Defense Minister Alexander Kuzmuk said the withdrawal of Ukraine’s 1,600 troops stationed in southern Iraq would cost $11 million and that the armed forces currently lacked such funds.

He stressed that parliament’s vote Dec. 3 was non-binding and that a final decision had to be made by the coalition forces themselves.

"And in that case, the coalition will also take part in withdrawing Ukrainian troops from Iraq, and Ukraine will be able to rely on its financial and material help," news reports quoted Kuzmuk as saying

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