"the MNF currently deployed in Iraq are there at the invitation of the duly elected Government of Iraq"

ROFL.... elected AFTER the invasion..... hahahahahaha!

"under the terms of a perfectly legal and duly authorised UN Security Council Mandate"

ROFLMAO - passed 'when the war had been won' AFTER the invasion when George Baby told the UN and the rest of the world to eff off and that the US 'would go it alone'... the attempt to get the UN to clean up the mess Georgie Porgie and "kill 'em all" Rummy created....

ROFL... oh please stop... my sides hurt...

"despite all the bombings and specific targeting of Army and Police recruitment centres thousands of Iraqi's continue to volunteer."

It's the only real way of earning a living honestly in Iraq - sort of a 'suicide army', in a way, really....

"If the civilian population of the United States of America does to US servicemen and women currently serving in Afghanistan and Iraq what you did to your conscript army that served in Vietnam."

Ah - it was the GOVT who did that - didn't want to praise the soldiers so snuck them in undercover, no parades for 'heroes' etc - because they didn't want to wear the political fallout for having 'failed' after years of loud mouth rednecking and trying to destroy all critics of Govt 'policy'. The loyal sheep citizens just did what the govt inspired media told them to do...



"the alternative does not really bear thinking about."

Echoes of Vietnam, anyone.... now THAT's a good title for a song...