Bush at the NATO Summit: Pot. Kettle. Black.

US President George W Bush has berated Nato members reluctant to send troops to Afghan hotspots, demanding they must accept "difficult assignments".

Speaking just before a Nato meeting in Latvia, Mr Bush said members must provide the forces the alliance needs.

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He's got some damn nerve. After pulling US troops out of Afghanistan to have them participate in the illegal, manufactured Iraq war (where, of course, he and Rumsfeld vastly misunderestimated the number of troops required resulting in this current clusterf*ck), the US military committment of troops in Afghanistan now totals a measly 11,600 and as of September, 2006, while US military spending in Iraq exceeded $379 billion, it had by contrast spent only $97 billion in Afghanistan during the past 5 years.

If Bush wants to lecture other countries about their military involvement, he should be taken out to the woodshed first so someone can give him a little lesson in reality and responsibility.