| yeah i just got that bit abt the iraqi forces.
kudos to them if it was them. you have to wonder though: how difficult an op was it? generally hostage rescue ops aren't easy and giving the job to the Iraqi army, who have been through a fair bit of late is a big call. wonder if it was a multinational exercise and they are giving the credit to the Iraqi army to increase thier rep and to get them a bit more respect.
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If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first place, to fulfil a solemn international obligation . . . an obligation of honor which no self-respecting man could possibly have repudiated. I say, secondly, we are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed in defiance of international good faith at the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.
Author: Rt. Hon. Herbert Henry Asquith
Source: Statement, to House of Commons, Declaration of War with Germany, Aug. 4, 1914
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