Asked by Niedziela (“Sunday,” a Catholic weekly) if he was in favour of withdrawing Polish troops from Iraq, Lechos?aw Kaczy?ski, primesident of Poland, replied:

We have gained a few things thanks to it [our engagement in Iraq]. It’s completely senseless, Polish soldiers have died there — that’s the most important thing because the life of any person is worth much more than any money. A lot of money has been gone on our action in Iraq. It costs a lot and we are financing it ourselves. It would be like investing and then withdrawing from the investment and losing everything.
(Quoted in Nie, nr. 32, 2006)

Even Bush can generally be relied on to mouth something about nation-building or weapons of mass destruction or terrorism or whatever his prompters tell him the reason of the day is.