{"id":648,"date":"2004-10-12T23:17:15","date_gmt":"2004-10-13T03:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=648"},"modified":"2004-10-12T23:17:15","modified_gmt":"2004-10-13T03:17:15","slug":"what-about-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/?p=648","title":{"rendered":"What about Poland?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"poland.gif\" id=\"image647\" src=\"http:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/poland.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_top\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/news\/plaindealer\/index.ssf?\/base\/news\/10969702033830.xml\">Poland<\/a>        is playing around with the idea of withdrawing from the Coalition of the Willing        (US, Briton, Australia, and our friends in Rwanda). Poland would like to        see it&#8217;s troops out of Iraq by the end of 2005.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what happened to Poland&#8230;Damb the Power of the Internet(s)!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not that I&#8217;m making fun of Poland just the fact that Poland is considered        a &#8220;Key Coalition Member&#8221;. For christ sake we&#8217;re talking about Poland. The        same Poland that&#8217;s had a bad stretch dating back to September 1939 (as the        <a target=\"_top\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstones.com\/home.php\">Stones<\/a>        said: <em>When the Blitzkrieg raged and the bodies stank<\/em>). I would have        to say this Coalition of the Willing is becoming less willing all the time.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile <a target=\"_top\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washtimes.com\/world\/20040909-095934-1120r.htm\">Costa Rica<\/a> is wondering when it became a member of the Coalition of the Willing.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a target=\"_top\" href=\"http:\/\/www.costarica.com\/Home\/\">Costa Rica&#8217;s<\/a> highest court ruled that the United States cannot name this pacifist Central American country as one of its coalition partners in Iraq, and the government was preparing a letter yesterday asking Washington to remove it from the list.<br \/>\nThe White House Web site still had the country listed yesterday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The White House response: Remove the page on <a target=\"_top\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/infocus\/iraq\/coalition.html\">www.whitehouse.gov<\/a>        that lists <s>non<\/s> members of the Coalition of the Willing.  Too bad they forgot to remove the link to the <a target=\"_top\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2003\/03\/20030320-11.html\">Press Release<\/a> that still lists Costa Rica.<br \/>\nWhere the hell is Eritrea? When in doubt check the <a target=\"_top\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cia.gov\/cia\/publications\/factbook\/geos\/er.html\">CIA        Factbook<\/a>. When visiting Eritrea beware of locust swarms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poland is playing around with the idea of withdrawing from the Coalition of the Willing (US, Briton, Australia, and our friends in Rwanda). Poland would like to see it&#8217;s troops out of Iraq by the end of 2005. That&#8217;s what happened to Poland&#8230;Damb the Power of the Internet(s)! It&#8217;s not that I&#8217;m making fun of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pazIS5-as","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackhandproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}