September 10, 2004
"Coalition Of The Shrinking"
Costa Rica asked the United States to remove it from a list of Iraq coalition partners Thursday, after the Constitutional Court ruled inclusion on the list violated the country's pacifist principles.
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The court ruling, announced late Wednesday, was cheered by a country that widely rejected the U.S.-led war in Iraq.
Sounds a lot like "New Europe" -- whose populations opposed the war by very wide margins (even up to 90% in some cases), but whose governments saw fit to join the U.S. bandwagon.
Costa Rican President Abel Pacheco put down his joint long enough to weigh in on the court's decision:
I was just supporting a friend in the fight against terrorism. Costa Rica was against terrorism, against dictatorships and that was it.
Afterward, it turned out that there weren't weapons and all that, but that happens.
Yeah, that "happens"! Happens every fucking day that you invade another country killing tens of thousands of people because its weapons of mass destruction pose the greatest threat to global peace in all of world history, but then the "weapons and all that" turn up missing.
Anyhow, the White House reaction -- ''Every country has to make their own decision about how they want to participate, and in what ways,'' -- is a bit tame, isn't it? After all, Costa Rica has just announced that it is no longer "with us", ergo, it is "with the terrorists". C'mon Scottie, we wanna see some haranguing!
Posted by Eddie Tews at September 10, 2004 01:04 AM
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