Thailand yesterday announced it will withdraw its 451 medical and engineering troops from Iraq if they are attacked, in another setback for the US-led occupation.
"We do not go there to fight. If we get killed why should we stay?" Mr Thaksin said.

"John Howard says Spain's withdrawal is the end of the world and Senator Hill says its not significant," he said. "This Government's all over the place on Iraq."

“He’s not an intellectual. He is not what I guess would be called a deep thinker.
He chastised me at one point because I said people were concerned about the
failure to find WMDs. And he said, ‘Well you travel in elite circles.’ I think he
feels there is an intellectual world and he's indicated he's not a part of it
…the fancy pants intellectual world. What he calls the elite.”
--Bob Woodward, Attribution

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Has ANYONE on the 9/11 commission or in the mainstream media questioned whether an administration that openly NEEDED (in their own words) a "Pearl Harbor" to carry out their agenda might have conveniently provoked the group that our intelligence said was planning an attack on this country?

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"American foreign policy is not understood by the vast majority of American people. And that this is due to a media that in this country is suppressed by Washington and by the owners of this media, who often tend to be corporate entities close to the [White House] and very often are arms manufacturers with a vested interest in chaos [in] the Middle East. And as a result Americans do not actually get both sides of the story." Denis Halliday, ("Denis Halliday: The former head of the U.N.'s humanitarian program in Iraq says an American invasion would be an international crime -- and would make the U.S. even less safe," Salon.com, March 20, 2002)

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The U.S. government believes it is vulnerable to a terror attack during this year's presidential election, party conventions and national holidays, and has launched a plan to beef up security, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said.