France. Germany. Italy. Spain. What have they all got in common.?

frankturk50

Not all countries in the UN send troops to support the US.In korea the Chinese and Russians fought on the other side but were still members of the UN .The idea of the UN is a meeting place for nations if anyone who didnt agree with the US or the majority were thrown out it wouldnt serve much purpose.It would also be a another problem if France went then we would be all the time negotiating to get their troops back when they surrender or change sides which is their usual tactics.

Mamouth

In France we have a lot of soldiers in Africa (maybe too much), English not.
France can't stop operations in Africa and Liban for other (Afghanistan for exemple).

look this pictures
http://medias.lemonde.fr/mmpub/edt/ill/2006/08/28/h_4_OPEX+X1I1_03.gif

soldats=soldiers.

Sorry for my english, i don't speak very well.

SunnyDays

Spain does have troops in Afghanistan ,as does the others, where do you get your info from? The exact figures of headcounts I have no clue, but know Spain has troops there,and the other too as was reported on the BBC news yesterday

mr_white_the_secure_american

They didn't sign on just to go fight for dumbya. Why aren't YOU in iraq FIGHTING?

mowhokman

they just don't want to get in as deep as us. Spain made a big mistake by giving in to muslim terrorists removing there troops.

however they dismiss there own homegrown terrorists; that says a lot as to why they wont get involved; they are scared of muslim extremists

guy o

They didn't invade the country, in fact they recommended against it, why should they help us?
Buck up and take the responsibility. you broke it, you buy it.

ktbaron

They all border with France.

jhn_scholey

We"ve beaten them too many times 4 them to help us.

In-Sync

There are more ways to judge a country's worth then how supportive they are of the United States' imperialistic actions. Besides your facts are wrong. Spain has been supporting the US, though in a limited way.

I believe they should continue being a part of the Security Council, if only to act as a restraining force in the power balance.

Bob N

they are all very, very close to Iraq, like neighbours and they don't want to get caught up in all the fighting.

Fanano

I agree with nutterandbolter =)

Voice of Reason

They have all contributed troops to UN missions.

bubkiss

We do not have too many friends in Europe do we? When they need us we are there to help; however, when we need them they rarely come to our aid. We should consider pulling out of the UN and NATO as well. Stop all aid to these countries that you mentioned, especially to France and Germany. ZERO!

fruitceller3

Hmm they learnt the lessons of the futility of War mongering and and the thirsting for Global Domination?

fliege52000

Italy and Spain having troops in Iraq. I know Spain got them back home again. Germany didn't send any soldiers to Iraq, because they was from the beginning against this war, they are right, and Bush start without UN this war, this was the problem why he didn't get so much support. Germany helping teaching the Iraqi Army and Police in Saudi and Kuwait. Germany send troops to Afghanistan and soon they are sending the jets and controlling from the air the Taliban's.
I'm glad not everybody listen to Bush and send all their troops to Iraq and Afghanistan, what you think what's happened than, WW III. And also Britain getting soon their troops home too.

mariner31

Actually, they are in Afghanistan as part of NATO, not the UN.

Yes, they are very slow to commit the troops that they promised.

I'd love to hear your mechanism for "kicking them out" of the UN or NATO...

007

the European countries have been cowards since the beginning of last century, France being the worse, they laid down for the Germans twice, and then the US had to come and give the countries back at the cost of thousands of US lives, then when we need help, they stick their noses in the air. Thank god for the UK.

happy chappy

the common bond is they r all foreigners!

nutterandbolter

France is the only country in Europe with a strong back bone. france sticks up for her interest only, but the other countries can be bought just like the uk by america

squidly leu

If they left, Europe would be open from invasion....and you know how much Belgium wants to take over.

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