Remember how hard President Bush tried to beat Kerry for failing to mention our brave Polish allies? Remember that Kerry tried to point out that Bush’s not-so-grand alliance is shrinking, not growing?
This, from a Q&A in the Sunday New York Times Magazine with Polish foreign minister Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz, pretty much speaks for itself:
Q: Poland’s defense minister, Jerzy Szmajdzinski, just announced plans to withdraw all 2,500 of your troops from Iraq next year.
A: It is not true. Our minister of defense mentioned that we would like to end our mission at the end of 2005, but that is not the official position of the government. |
And then this correction:
An interview with the foreign minister of Poland, Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz, on Page 23 of The Times Magazine today includes an outdated reference to his country’s commitment to keeping its troops in Iraq. On Friday, after the magazine had gone to press, Prime Minister Marek Belka announced that Poland would begin to withdraw troops at the beginning of 2005. |
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