Did we ask?

Apparently several Arab nations, following an Arab League meeting, announced that they would not be sending troops to Iraq.

ARAB countries would refrain from sending troops to Iraq as long as US-led coalition forces occupied the country, Arab League Secretary General Amr Mussa said in Tunis today.

"Sending Arab forces to Iraq is tied to certain conditions - first of all the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq," he said.

Gen Mussa was speaking at a joint press conference with Tunisian Foreign Minister Habib Ben Yahia following an Arab summit.

"This subject was not debated at the Arab summit," he said.

Two questions. The first is, "Did we ask them to send troops?" The second is, "If we did, why wasn't the person who thought of this bone-head idea get fired?"

Sending troops from all the local tyrants into Iraq would be a nightmare.

Comments

[Kristin]

It would be a multilateral nighmare though. And that's what is really important.