Did you hear about the UN Peacekeeper troops who will be in Iraq by the weekend in order to help out?



"Most peacekeepers, or 'blue helmets' as they are often called, are soldiers, but they are also police, doctors, nurses, pilots, engineers and others volunteered for peacekeeping duty by various governments and selected by the United Nations. When governments provide soldiers for peacekeeping duties, they retain ultimate authority over their own military forces. Peacekeeping soldiers wear their own national uniforms and do not swear allegiance to the United Nations. Generally, they are only lightly armed for self-defense. In most cases, their strongest 'weapon' is their neutrality."



Me neither.