Thank you, Poland:

Poland has vowed not to pull troops out of Iraq because of terrorist attacks and said it was willing to remain in command of a stabilization force there if Spain, which had been due to take over, withdrew.

..."Revising our positions on Iraq after terrorists attacks would be to admit that terrorists are stronger and that they are right (to pursue attacks)," Prime Minister Leszek Miller told a news conference in the Polish town of Tarnow.

..."If it is necessary, we will continue leading the multinational division," Polish Ambassador to NATO Jerzy M. Nowak told Reuters in Brussels. "We are prepared for that even if Spain is not able to fulfil its promise."

Determination: the world will remember and honor the Poles for it.

NOT SO FAST?: The Polish President is repeating the "we were mislead" meme, practically contradicting the prime minister and making noises about slipping out of Iraq in the short term. Disheartening, if this becomes policy. Is European support so mercurial? Is the European view of terrorism as authoritarianism so one-dimensional that weapons of mass destruction were the only reason Saddam Hussein's Iraq deserved to end?