Friends and allies of the United States....

[NeoConMan]

The United Nations is a joke, always has been. Why we're still in it is a mystery to me.

Our true allies are rare, Great Britain being one for sure.
Australia is another, Canada seems to be hot and cold.
(We lost more draft-dodging soldiers to Canada than died in Viet Nam....)


People more aligned with our military positions are fellow members of NATO.
Think we should be able to count on them?

France and Germany showed their true colors in 2003 with their condemnation of our efforts in Iraq - not because it was the wrong thing to do.
Nope.
They feigned mock indignation to dissuade us from revealing how much ugly stuff (WMD's) they sold to the Iraqi gov't - along with the Russians.

The Madrid, Spain train bombings of March 11, 2004 (three days before their general elections) killed 191 people and wounded 1,755. That's all it took for the entire country to wimp out, show their Socialist tendencies, and dump their gov't that supported (sorta) the US efforts to combat terrorism.

NATO "friends" like France, Germany and Spain shot us in the ass.
Now a story from the Associated Press (Liberal propagandists) actually reveals what sort of double-dealing the Italians pulled on us.

Check this out;

Italy Reportedly Warned Libya of 1986 U.S. Airstrikes
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Associated Press

ROME — The Italian government gave Libya early warning of the 1986 U.S. airstrikes launched in response to a deadly attack on a disco in Germany, Libyan and Italian officials said Thursday.

Libya's Foreign Minister Abdel-Rahman Shalgam was quoted by the ANSA and Apcom news agencies as saying the Italians warned him of the raids launched from a NATO base on Italian soil because they were opposed to the action. Shalgam said the Italians informed him personally since, at the time, he was Libya's ambassador in Rome.

"I don't think I am revealing a secret if I announce that Italy informed us a day before — April 14, 1986 — that there would be an American aggression against Libya," the agencies quoted Shalgam as saying.

Shalgam was quoted as saying that the United States launched a strike from a NATO base on Lampedusa, a tiny Sicilian island close to the African coast, "against the will of the Italian government."

The agencies also quoted veteran politician Giulio Andreotti, who in 1986 was Italy's foreign minister, as saying that the attack was "a mistake" and confirming that the Socialist-led government of Bettino Craxi warned Libya.

It was not immediately clear whether Libya acted on the information.

The two politicians were speaking on the sidelines of conference in Rome.

Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan ordered airstrikes on Tripoli and Benghazi after the disco attacks that killed three, including two U.S. servicemen. The Libyans say the retaliatory attacks killed 41 people, including Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's adopted daughter, and injured 226 others.

Italy, a NATO member, kept good ties with Tripoli even as the West accused Gadhafi of supporting terrorism and slapped sanctions on the country.

U.S.-Libyan relations hit a low point in the 1980s, with Libyan-linked terrorist attacks, most notoriously the 1988 downing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, and American retaliation. At one point, Reagan called Gadhafi a "mad dog."

Relations began to improve after Gadhafi renounced weapons of mass destruction and terrorism in 2003. Libya also agreed to pay compensation to the families of victims of the Lockerbie bombing, which killed 270 people and those of the disco attack in Berlin.

Shalgam was in Rome to attend a conference at the foreign ministry on a treaty the two countries signed in August which includes $5 billion in compensation for Italy's 30-year colonial rule of Libya, from 1911-1943.

Calls to a magazine edited by Andreotti were not immediately answered Thursday evening. Calls to the Libyan Embassy also were not immediately answered.


Folks, this is from the Associated Press.
They are another Left-leaning news outlet, hostile to any American efforts to protect ourselves. I can only imagine their motive for publishing this is to showcase the supposed "folly" of our efforts, illustrate the futilility and show how foolish we are in the eyes of the rest of the world.

Anything to undermine this nation, the media will stop at nothing....