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Today the S. Korean president Roh Moo-hyun said in a televised speech that his government has decided to extend the presence of S.K. occupation forces in Iraq - the "Zaytun Division" - until the end of 2008.

And (surprise, surprise!!) Roh 'apologized' - once again - to the public. He said he and the government were very sorry for breaking the promise made a year earlier that the Zaytun Division will be withdrawn by the end of 2007. But the extension "is necessary for the alliance with the USA", Roh 'explained' according to S.K. media.

Hey, for me - likely not only for my(^^) - it sounds a kind of familiar:
During the last weeks/days of the presidential election campaign 2002 Roh Moo-hyun promised that he "never will join a (unjust) aggression and occupation against/of Iraq". In March 2003, just less than one month after Roh Moo-hyun took over the "presidential palace" in Seoul, he announced that his gov't decided to send S.K. (occupation) troops to Iraq.. "because it is necessary for our alliance with the USA" (despite the will of the majority of the S.K. people, who were complete against the US-aggression against Iraq!).

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