Reply #103: Well, the Dutch government...

[DutchLiberal]

At present, a coalition of three parties. The Christian-Democrats (who are not that Christian anymore), the Social-Democrats (who are not that social anymore) and the Christian Union (a small very extreme Christian party the Dutch would never have believed they would someday be in government). It's the fourth cabinet in 5 years for prime-minister Balkenende.

He supported the US-led invasion in Iraq. He told us he believed Hussein had WMD's, but more and more sources tell us he knew this was not true and he supported Bush for personal gain (a few months later, fellow Christian-Democrat Jaap de Hoop Scheffer became Secretary-General at NATO). Till this day, a majority in parliament has blocked an investigation of this. Also, to this very day, Balkenende keeps insisting it was "necessary" to remove Hussein, which is of course a lie.

Our current 'Secretary of State' is what you would call a 'hawk' and the coalition is very friendly toward the Bush-administration. However, they don't like leaders like Chávez very much.