larry
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 17:04:59 -0500, Andy Ousterhout
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Did they supply reconstruction help? People, supplies, etc...?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 4:59 PM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Re: Kerry would of gone to Iraq too?
>
> Yeah right. 30 countries, but how many troops were sent in. All but a
> very few of those countries actually supplied troops. Of the following
> countries named by Colin Powell as members of the coalition of the
> willing, how many soldiers did they send?
>
> Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Columbia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic,
> El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Honduras, Hungary,
>
> Iceland, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Lithuania, Macedonia, the Marshall
> Islands, Micronesia, Mongolia, Nicaragua, Palau, Rwanda, the Solomon
> Islands, Slovakia, Tonga, Turkey Uganda, Ukraine, or Uzbekistan?
>
> The answer is simple, none. Of the others only Australia and the UK
> sent a significant number.
>
> So much for the broad based coalition of the willing.
>
> larry
>
> On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 13:56:32 -0700 (PDT), Sam Morris
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > --- Doug White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > The US has a history from time to time of casting a
> > > veto in the Security council
> > > of the UN, so what is the difference about France?
> >
> >
> > France was one of the countries that told us Saddam
> > had WMDs, they also told us he was trying to by
> > yellowcake. They turned around and said they would
> > veto no matter what. We had no choice but to go around
> > them.
> >
> > > As far as I am concerned if it was vetoed, I would
> > > not have gone in
> > > unilaterally., that's all.
> >
> > We didn't go in unilaterally, we went in with over 30
> > countries.
> >
> > -sm
> >
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