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Parliament votes against new Afghan missionWednesday 07 October 2009 MPs voted by a large majority to pull Dutch troops out of Afghanistan as planned in August 2010 during a debate on Tuesday night. The motion, drawn up by Labour and ChristenUnie from the ruling coalition, was not supported by the biggest coalition party, the Christian Democrats. Labour introduced the motion following hints from CDA foreign affairs minister Maxime Verhagen last week that the Netherlands may stay after the planned withdrawal date. According to the Volkskrant, Verhagen is furious at his coalition partner parties' action. The US and Australia are keen to keep the Dutch involved in the southern province of Uruzgan and pressure is mounting on them to stay. The Netherlands has some 1,500 soldiers on active service in the southern region of Uruzgan. In total 21 Dutch soldiers have been killed in the province since the mission began in 2006. © DutchNews.nl Get the DutchNews.nl newsletter in your mailbox: Click here to subscribe
Fine. When terrorism starts knocking on Europes door, do not look to the USA for help. We have really made strides for the Afghans, but they are still in danger from the taliban. Everyone needs to help on this one. I think europe needs to be more pro-active in Afghanistan since it effects europe more than America. By Dan Gates | October 7, 2009 6:11 PM Pulling out of Afghanistan is the right thing to do...for Holland as well as other democratic nations involved in that mess of a country. Supply the anti-Taliban Afghans with all the military equipment they need to carry on the good fight, and then go. And in the future do not get involved with internecine warfare in third-world nations.It's not the West's business! By richard | October 7, 2009 9:47 PM better to send more troops, get rid of this scum sooner, end the war quickly instead of dragging on & on for years. Then we can all sit back and listen and watch the next war...Duh! By stevie | October 8, 2009 9:51 PM Place your comments: |
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Stop sending troops to the American wars! Let the USA fight a war based on lies and remove our troops today. To many lives have been lost over the American wars. We should bring the American responsible for these deaths to court, the former American president Bush and his war machine!
By Paul Martin | October 7, 2009 3:07 PM