Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!news.daionet.gr.jp!news.yamada.gr.jp!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.esat.net!fr.ip.ndsoftware.net!proxad.net!news.tiscali.fr!fr.colt.net!writer!not-for-mail From: Jean-Marc Desperrier Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: Re: Japan shells out 100 million bucks protection money for GSDF!?! Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 20:17:17 +0100 Organization: ImagiNET / Colt Internet Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <6afefaef.0401270021.558872bc@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: host.104.92.68.195.rev.coltfrance.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: reader1.imaginet.fr 1075402747 22514 195.68.92.104 (29 Jan 2004 18:59:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@imaginet.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: 29 Jan 2004 18:59:07 GMT User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:11649 wasabi wrote: >>Koizumi (with a *huge* smile) : Thank you so much ! I was *so* worried >>of the bad consequences for me if any of the SDF member in Iraq would be >>hurt ! How much do you want ? > > How much would you pay for your life if you're country put you in > harms way just to support the worst fucking U.S. president? I'd pay a lot. But we're talking about Koizumi here. He could have said no to Bush, and that would have insured no japanese force would be injured in Irak. But he says yes, looks like lackey, gets a few japanese angry about that, then realizes if any of the soldiers gets hurt, people will think again and there will be a lot more angry people, so he pays big bucks to avoid that, the ridiculous part of paying to get soldiers protected not being his worry at all.