Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski has slammed Dem president hopeful John Kerry for not recognizing Poland’s contributions and sacrifice to the war in Iraq.
“It is sad that a senator with 20 years of experience does not recognize Polish contribution. This is immoral,” Kwasniewski told FACTS in an interview commenting on the US Presidential Debate.
“It is sad that a senator with 20 years of experience underestimates Polish sacrifice, this is sad.”
The Polish President added however that one should consider this was a part of the ongoing electoral campaign.
“I do not think this was out of ignorance,” the president emphasized on the TVN Facts.
“There is one thing which should be stated clearly: this coalition is not just the United States, Great Britain, Australia alone; it also involves participation of Polish, Ukrainian, Bulgarian and Spanish soldiers who have died. It is immoral not to recognize the involvement we contributed based on our conviction that there should be unity in fighting terrorism, that there was a need to display international solidarity and that Saddam Hussein was a dangerous individual of this world.”
“President Bush acted like a real Texan gentleman, he made sure to show appreciation for other countries’ involvement in the coalition,” Kwasniewski pointed out.
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The outspoken Kwasniewski raised alarms at the White House earlier this year after he told a group of European reporters: “But naturally I also feel uncomfortable due to the fact that we were misled with the information on weapons of mass destruction.”
Whoops. Not the start to re-kindling international relations Kerry had hoped for, I suspect.
The reason Poland’s withdrawing it’s 2500 troops (which is more than Spain sent and only 500 behind Italy), is because of huge public discontent with the Iraq situation.
I don’t doubt that any soldiers they sent are fine brave men and all, but wtf, who cares? The additional logistics and firepower or whatever from them couldn’t possibly help one way or the other.
So, whoopie do, it’s not like there are tons of PMs in europe that love Bush.
It’s called politics boys. You’re under pressure to withdraw your troops. You want the big guns in the states to save face. You blame it on Kerry. Do you seriously think they’re withdrawing their troops because the challenger in the presidential campaign a) dissed them and b) didn’t actually diss them because they didn’t have any troops in the invasion?
At one point during the debate, Kerry was criticizing Bush for not garnering more international support for the war in Iraq. During the discussion, he mentioned the UK and Australia as allies in the coalition but neglected to mention Poland.
Seems a bit sensitive from my perspective. Kerry is correct. He made sure of that with his qualifier, “when we went in”. He could have expressed more information, by including the names of the countries that promised troops, and those that had joined up with the coalition. But when someone has only two minutes to answer a question, it seems a bit petulent to get upset with them when they don’t mention your name out of a list of 45 other countries.
What a sad, lame attempt at a troll.[/quote]
You’re an ass. It was a sad and lame attempt at humor. Read it aloud with, like, pauses where the punctuation occurs and stuff. And then kind of draw out the “uh…” as the ellipse indicates.
