I don't think that the US was necessarily looking for troops.  Not many
countries have the technology and training to integrate with US.  So I am not
sure that this is a fair way of looking at the strength of the coalition.
  -----Original Message-----
  From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 5:10 PM
  To: CF-Community
  Subject: Re: Kerry would of gone to Iraq too?

  My references were just for troop numbers in April through December 2003.

  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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