Britain, Belgium, and Denmark have each announced their intentions to join the US air war in Iraq today, with the British and Belgian parliaments both voting in favor of conducting airstrikes, and the Danish government announcing it, with a parliamentary vote still pending.
Britain’s vote came after many hours of debate on the conflict, but passed overwhelmingly 524-43. Britain’s six Tornado fighters were already conducting reconnaissance flights, and will simply expand that to join the attacks.
The Belgian parliament’s vote was similarly overwhelming, 114-2 in favor, with six F-16s being sent to Greece and eventually Jordan, from which they will launch strikes. They are also sending two military transport planes and 120 pilots.
Denmark, which did not vote on the war, is also sending seven F-16s, along with 250 pilots, into the region to conduct strikes on Iraq. They had already sent a single transport aircraft, along with 55 ground troops meant to guard the single transport aircraft.
None of the nations, and indeed none of the US “coalition” partners in Europe, will be conducting airstrikes in Syria. British officials, who explicitly argued around the legality of bombing Iraq, did not attempt to make similar cases on Syria, as the US has.
The pipsqueak vassals join in with their master.
Time to award Pope Urban II the Nobel peace prize posthumously.
After all, it was his idea first.
Yes, because Belgium and Denmark are so on edge for war these days. Can't hold them back any longer !!
As expected. Belgium, a country that mysteriously launders huge sums to ensure the price of the dollar doesn't tank, no doubt at the orders of the "Federal" reserve. And Denmark…the country to gave birth to the most repulsive European next to Jose Barroso: Anders Rasmussen.
Reminiscent of Bush II's "Coalition of the Bribed and Bullied" in Iraq War 2. A fig leaf of international approval and participation, while the US does all the killing. Yowza. How many times are they gonna do the same thing over and over and just change the names and faces to make us think it is something different? Boy I bet the Iraqis really love us by now.
Again, another regional war where jIsrael sits on their hands and plays the innocent while reaping the dividends of another Big Goy Cattle Intervention.
Just once I would love to see a USS Liberty pulled on the Israelis. The USAF says "oops" after they drop a few bombs and kill an equal number of Israeli soldiers/civilians, on a boat, in the OT, I don't care where.