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ZURICH, Switzerland - What began as a routine training exercise almost ended in an embarrassing diplomatic incident after a company of Swiss soldiers got lost at night and marched into neighboring Liechtenstein.

At least the global spotlight is off W for a bit.

Reminds me of the movie "STRIPES"!

I don't recall America accidentally invading another country.

Well, either Iraq was a mistake, or the Bush administration lied about it.

Which is it DD?

Your question is a dodge.

"a routine training exercise almost ended in an embarrassing diplomatic incident"

As an American of Swiss descent, that this would be an embarrassing "diplomatic" incident seems overblown. Liechtenstein is practically a part of Switzerland, enjoying many cultural, defense and economic ties! What bothers me most, though, is that the troops got lost in the first place. What has happened to the much-vaunted heritage of Swiss "precision"? Ouch!

How?

We know today the justification for the Iraq war is not solid. That leaves us with either having done it in error, or having done it without justification. That really means somebody lied about it, otherwise the justification would be defensible.

Your statement carries the implication that we made deliberate action against Iraq no? Given that, and the dilemma I posted above, is it not then perfectly reasonable to ask what I did?

Help me out here DD. If this is a dodge, surely it is no problem to clarify that right? You do have support for your statement right? Let us hear it then.

There is no analogy between America's intentional invasion of Iraq and Switzerland's accidental invasion of Liechtenstein.

It's nonsense to call Switzerland's accidental invasion a Bushlike manuever. Being an an expert, like yourself, on logic and reasoning, you should know that.

"that this would be an embarrassing "diplomatic" incident seems overblown."

Uh yeah. Just a tad.

Ok, I'll go with that DD. Nicely done! They are not comparable.

As for the expert bit, I'm not gonna embrace that claim. I just use the tools I'm given and work hard to apply them. Where I find things to be messy, I go look for some better tools. That's all.

"There is no analogy between America's intentional invasion of Iraq and Switzerland's accidental invasion of Liechtenstein."

True. It does, however, provide an excellent spotlight and a water-tight example of our need for illegal immigration reform.

Actually, this mistake is akin to a mistake made by our government during the cold war. We flew an SR-71 over Swedish airspace and were completely surprised to find a missile locked on our spyplane. The Russians had never managed to get a lock on a Blackbird. Luckily, the neutral Swedes did not fire, and we stayed the hell away from then on.

It's about time someone did something about the horrendous civil rights violations in Lichtenstein. From trivia-library.com:

"Liechtenstein distinguishes itself by being the only independent country outside the Arab world in which women are not allowed to vote or to participate in public affairs."

I look forward to Switzerland's liberation of the women of Lichtenstein - despite the fact that Switzerland's previous justification for the invasion was discovered evidence of Lichtenstein's nuclear weapon's program, and before that the claims that the country was used as a training ground for al Quada.

Switzerland insists that the cost of the invasion and liberation (estimated at no more than $7,150) can be paid for fully by revenues by any one of Lichtenstein's many export industries (including audio and video connectors, dental products, some motor vehicles parts, prepared foodstuffs, hardware, electronic equipment, and optical products). Halliburton has received the no-bid contract to go into the country to help rebuild the dental product industry after the massive destruction caused by the invasion, and by subsequent attacks by Alemannic insurgents.

Lacking an aircraft carrier due to lack of a navy, Swiss President Micheline Calmy-Rey stood upon the Cheese float from the Harder-Potschete Festival in Interlaken to give her "Mission Accomplished" speech.