User talk:Chfairbanks

Chfairbanks 13:25, 31 May 2007 (UTC)The entry "multinational Force in Iraq" contains much useful information but is not neutral; it emphasizes points (there are many available) that would discredit the war in Iraq and the MNF. It would take much time to clean up this entry; I will confine myself to one item in it. The item "Georgia" argues that the Georgian deployment to Iraq (about to become the third largest) may be understood as a repayment for the GTEP program (not named, it should be) which created for the first time a combat-capable Georgian army. While some such motives may figure in Georgia's deployment, the United States trained the GTEP troops on the understanding that they would not be used to invade Abkhazia or South Ossetia, and the former Defense Minister, Okruashvili, was recently removed because of his threats to employ the Georgian military in South Ossetia, of which he is a native (as a source, see IWPR, RFE-RL, etc.) In fact there Georgia's deployment is overdetermined; there are many obligations to the US, given Russian pressure on Georgia, and a diffuse climate of US popularity in Georgia. I post this from Tbilisi, Georgia.