SAND WEASELS

Arabs say no troops to Iraq

Jordan Times, Wednesday, August 6, 2003

CAIRO (AFP) — Arab foreign ministers ruled out a US request to send troops to stabilise Iraq at a meeting here Tuesday and discussed ways to end its occupation, Arab League Secretary General Amr Musa said. “There was an agreement that (sending) Arab forces cannot be considered in the current circumstances,” Musa told reporters.

“We should work to put an end to the occupation and allow the Iraqi people form a national government,” he added.

Meaning...we should sit on the sidelines and criticize the Americans but not lift a single solitary finger to help the Iraqis recover from nearly three decades of oppression and torture.

Arab brotherhood, indeed.