[Flavius]

can you see how happy the msm "reporter" is : "... after three other Latin American countries pulled out their forces -- "

[johniegrad]

One reason El Salvador has agreed to stay, according to analysts, is that its three most recent elected presidents have been members of the rightist ARENA party, which has close ties with the Bush administration and shares its commitment to a proposed regional free-trade agreement.

I think the agenda of the article is less about the other nations leaving and more about trying to tie El Salvador's willingness to support troops to President Bush and illegal aliens.

The MSM understands, even if few democrats do, that some right wing support can be drawn away from the Republicans by manipulation of the immigration issues.

[seacapn]

That reminds me of this story from 2004.

Cpl. Samuel Toloza of El Salvador's Cuscatlan Battalion displays his bloodstained knife that he used to fend off Iraqi gunmen in Najaf, Iraq

[Eagles6]

"The Spaniards didn't fight and only after a long delay agreed to send armored vehicles to help evacuate the wounded."

Spain, the new france.