European support for a war in Iraq overrated

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: B00ne

Originally posted by: Red Dawn
A little off topic but I read that when Hitler annexed the Rhineland one of the few countries that supported going there and disarming the Germans was Mussolini's Italy.

are u sure 'bout that - cause Mussolini and Hitler were allies

Ironic isn't it. I guess once Mussolini realized what a bunch of pussies the rest of the Euro's were he decided to side with the one country that he felt threatened by.

 

[308nato]

Originally posted by: B00ne

Originally posted by: Red Dawn
A little off topic but I read that when Hitler annexed the Rhineland one of the few countries that supported going there and disarming the Germans was Mussolini's Italy.

are u sure 'bout that - cause Mussolini and Hitler were allies

I believe Red is right, Mussolini thought he was the king o' the hill there for a bit, till the Fuehrer did a little splainin' to him.

 

[rufruf44]

Originally posted by: B00ne
308nato: agreed, but NK is threatening with using them, threw out inspectors, dismantled observation and so forth, even the intelligence services ahve a hard time obtaining info about anything in this country. I read the other day that the CIA and the russion are working together already for quite a while in NK - CIA supplying the russians with tech and the russians use their relations to get in the ppl (they have an ambassy there)

anyway I find NK quite frightening and regarding despots I'd say this Kim guy is the Nr1

Yep, but I'm confident China will reel Kim back (or manipulate him around) eventually. They won't let NK goes beserk, attack South Korea, and in turn get pummelled by the US, because then they will have a unified Korean pennisula on the other side of the border, which much stronger ties to the west than to China.

 

[308nato]

Originally posted by: B00ne
308nato: agreed, but NK is threatening with using them, threw out inspectors, dismantled observation and so forth, even the intelligence services ahve a hard time obtaining info about anything in this country. I read the other day that the CIA and the russion are working together already for quite a while in NK - CIA supplying the russians with tech and the russians use their relations to get in the ppl (they have an ambassy there)

anyway I find NK quite frightening and regarding despots I'd say this Kim guy is the Nr1

Kim is freakin nutbag grande no doubt. But, the cards he has dealt previously show that he only cares about staying Numba1 himself and getting more Daffy Duck cartoons and hookers. Things can change, but, Kim isn't an imminent threat to anyone but his own people. Dangerous yes, but, the devil you know can be better to work with than the one you don't see as clearly.

 

[hagbard]

Originally posted by: Czar
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L30567527

BRITAIN

A YouGov poll for the Sunday Times on January 26 showed 68 percent of people thought Prime Minister Tony Blair had failed to convince them of the need for war with Iraq. Some 26 percent said they were convinced Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was dangerous enough to necessitate a war.


FRANCE

A CSA Institute poll published on January 23 showed 73 percent of French people were against a U.S.-led attack on Iraq, up from 66 percent in a similar poll two weeks earlier.


GERMANY

An opinion poll by Germany's Forsa institute published a week ago found 69 percent of Germans wanted the country to vote against any U.N. resolution mandating war against Iraq. An Emnid poll in Der Spiegel news magazine showed 72 percent of Germans were against their troops joining any war.


SPAIN

A January poll by right-of-centre newspaper El Mundo found 80 percent of Spaniards opposed the U.S. stance towards war in Iraq while another by a radio station in the same month showed only 6.6 percent thought there were reasons to go to war. No official poll has been carried out since September, when two thirds of Spaniards opposed a war.


ITALY

A poll by Swg published on January 29 showed 72.7 percent of Italians disagreed with a U.S.-led preventative war against Iraq while 18.8 percent said they would support such action.


DENMARK

A Vilstrup Research poll published on January 25 showed 79 percent of Danes would oppose a U.S.-led war without a U.N. mandate while 57 percent would still oppose a war if there was a U.N. mandate.


CZECH REPUBLIC

A poll by the publicly-funded CVVM agency in the Czech Republic on Thursday showed 67 percent were against a war with Iraq and 24 percent of respondents were in favour. The support total falls to 13 percent without a second U.N. resolution while the percentage against the war rises to 76 percent.


HUNGARY

A Gallup poll published on January 27 showed 82 percent of Hungarians opposed military action under any circumstances. The remaining 18 percent said they would support a war but of those, two thirds said that support would be conditional on U.N. approval.


POLAND

A TNS-OBOP survey showed 63 percent of Poles opposed sending troops to join any action against Iraq but 52 percent thought the country should give political backing to the United States for any such action.


PORTUGAL

No official polls were available but an informal survey by Diario Digital showed opinion running almost two to one against Portugal supporting any U.S.-led action.

Here's another case where the people are wiser than their leaders.

 

[Red Dawn]

Going to war with Iraq isn't all that popular here either.

 

[SlowSS]

Originally posted by: SnapIT

Originally posted by: ncircle

Originally posted by: Zakath15

Originally posted by: ncircle

the difference being we can take the whole damn globe with us!😀😀😀😀😀😀😀

Oh, joy.

🙂 i find strange comfort in that too.

But that is just because you are ignant and stuf...

Originally posted by: SnapIT
Until you learn how to spell intelligence i suggest that YOU STFU...

Hmmm...You can't even spell ignorant and stuff ....and you're telling someone else to STFU???

 

[hagbard]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Going to war with Iraq isn't all that popular here either.

True.