Bush fails again at foreign policy and continues to jepordize our troops for his imperial, short-sighted political goals.

In Rebuff to U.S., India Says It Won't Send Troops to Iraq
By JOHN KIFNER NY TIMES

NEW DELHI, July 14 -- In a sharp blow to America's postwar plans, India refused today to send peacekeeping troops to Iraq.

The Bush administration had hoped that India would send a full army division of 17,000 or more soldiers to serve in the Kurdish region around Mosul, and it had exerted considerable pressure on the government of Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to do so...

...The reasoning, Indian political observers said, was relatively simple: the war in Iraq is extremely unpopular here...





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