Tail Chasing

UnFairWitness links to a story that pretty much epitomizes Operation Go Cheney Ourselves:

Profuse thanks poured from Japanese politicians Tuesday following an announcement by Australian Prime Minister John Howard that his country was dispatching 450 additional troops to southern Iraq to safeguard the Self-Defense Forces providing humanitarian assistance there.

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Australians guarding Japanese in Iraq...Tex offers an alternative:

Why don't we just pile a few billion dollars up and burn them and everyone go home?