On Fri, 2 Apr 2004 08:17:56 +1200, "Richard" rlmccannathotmail.com wrote:

Don't need guns to rebuild. Perhaps that's where other countries get
confused.
NZ Defence Forces news:
http://www.nzdf.mil.nz/news/archived...-releases.html
Current deployments:
http://www.nzdf.mil.nz/operations/current-missions.html


http://www.army.mil.nz/?CHANNEL=OPER...Iraq+-+UNMOVIC
Engineers departed NZ 14/11/02. Note references to UN.
http://www.navy.mil.nz/rnzn/article.cfm?Article_ID=1409
Note words such as peacekeeping, peace talks, evacuation. Also note frequent
references to UN. NZ has found other ways to help world peace rather than
blowing everyone/thing up.


They simply hide behind Australia's skirts. Sad, really, NZ once had some
backbone. NZ is not "rebuilding" Iraq, and neither is the UN.

72 "troops" is a joke.

Al Minyard