US asks for Contributions to its Warchest

national | miscellaneous | news report Wednesday November 20, 2002 17:05 by Pete Ranks

The US state dept. is to ask about 50 countries for 'contributions' in the event of a war in Iraq. Although the list of countries who are to be asked has not been published, a spokesman for the Canadian government has said that the US state dept. has sounded the proposal out with them already. Does this mean that we will now have to pay for the fuel that the US warplanes are taking on in Shannon? Just you wait and see...