In contrast to Germany, where Volkswagen is headquartered, Japan isgiving important support to the rebuilding of a democratic Iraq:"JAPAN STANDS BY AMERICA "December 13, 2003 -- Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi hasgiven the go-ahead for the deployment of 600 ground troops to Iraqearly next year. They will be supported by air and naval units. It's amajor victory for the Bush administration...."[T]wo Japanese diplomats and their Iraqi driver were gunned down inTikrit the weekend before last. But their murder, and threats from alQaeda that Japan will be attacked if it assists the U.S.-ledcoalition, seem only to have stiffened Koizumi's resolve...."It makes South Korea's promised deployment of 3,000 troops morelikely to happen."And - with forces of 28 other countries already helping the U.S. inIraq - it underlines the relative isolation of France, Germany andBelgium, the European states that opposed the forceful removal ofSaddam Hussein...."Koizumi believes that Japan's honor is at stake: "The United Statesis Japan's only ally," he said, "and it is striving very hard to builda stable and democratic government in Iraq . . . Japan must also be atrustworthy ally to the U.S."Source: 's government, on the other hand, ran a gratuitouslyanti-American election campaign, joined France and Russia insabotaging U.N. support for the removal of Saddam Hussein, has refusedto commit troops to suppress continued Baathist and jihadist terrorismin Iraq, is refusing to cancel debts for contracts made in support ofSaddam, and is now shrilly complaining that it won't be offered Iraqrebuilding contracts paid for by U.S. taxpayers.If you care about democracy in the Middle East and an end to terrorismoriginating from that venue -- and are trying to decide between aGerman or Japanese car -- I'd skip the German car until that countryrestores its moral fabric to that obtaining when Germany was a loyalNATO ally and appreciated the U.S. as the nation that defended Germanyfrom Soviet...

Do you work for Toyota, Honda or Nissan?If you were *really* serious about supporting American diplomacy, wouldn'tyou suggest buying an American car instead of a Japanese car?Oh, yeah, that's right...your only *real* intention here was to flame the VWgroup.

That's odd. I didn't see anything at all about mercedes or mercedes partsanywhere in this post. Methinks somebody took the wrong exit off theautobaun.

Amen. Good for Japan for sticking to their commitment and supporting us. Shame on Germany and France from putting money ahead of principle.||Well put.||||||> News events this morning haven't been kind to my critics. Had the||> advice and all-out efforts of Germany's Schroeder government and||> France's Chirac government prevailed, Saddam Hussein and his Baathist||> allies would still be murdering, raping, gassing, and funding||> international terrorism.||>||> Now Saddam doesn't even have a rat-hole outside Tikrit to call his||> little kingdom any more, and the Mideast and world will be better for||> the change.||>||> Let Germany and France receive the anger of international consumers||> until their governments unreservedly rejoin humanity's ranks.||>||> ---||> Richard Schulman||> Remove antispamming "-xyz" for email reply||||Texas Parts Guy

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Rex B 22 years ago

Amen. Good for Japan for sticking to their commitment and supporting us. Shame on Germany and France from putting money ahead of principle.

||> Now Saddam doesn't even have a rat-hole outside Tikrit to call his ||> little kingdom any more, and the Mideast and world will be better for ||> the change. ||>

||> Let Germany and France receive the anger of international consumers ||> until their governments unreservedly rejoin humanity's ranks. ||>

||> --- ||> Richard Schulman ||> Remove antispamming "-xyz" for email reply || ||

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