Powell: 30 Nations in Anti-Iraq Coalition

AP ^ | 03/18/03 | BARRY SCHWEID

[Principled]

so although it's a coalition, it's a pathetic coalition. ok.

[Sangamon Kid]

Afghanistan, Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Honduras, Italy, Kuwait, Morocco, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Niger, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, South Korea, Spain, Syria Turkey, The United Arab Emirates, The United Kingdom, and the United States.

A little bit more muscle in Desert Storm. Makes you wonder why a new cast of characters is needed for this one.

[Pa' fuera]

Eritrea?

If France enters on the side of Iraq, Eritrea will neutralize them in short order.

[AlextheWise1]

The British, the only other country with a substancial DEPLOYABLE army.

Not to belittle the Israels, but they are only effective localy.
France Enland and the other minor European powers are the same. They have weak undeployable armies. Russia cannot get 3 ships to the persian gulf in four months. China will not be a real player for a decade or so. India/Pakistan and North/South Koreas forces are locked into facing eachother.

[AlextheWise1]

oops Germany not england

[DannyTN]

"Remove America and what do you have?"

You have 35 countries that have the guts to do the right thing. I take those 35 over Irrevefrance any day.

[DannyTN]

Correction ->Irrelefrance.

[Sangamon Kid]

Integrating New Allies into NATO

...In July 1999, the Polish government approved a set of regulations that will reorganize its top military leadership along the lines of the U.S. Joint Staff. Current plans call for drastically cutting the number of officers, particularly those in the higher ranks, while doubling the number of sergeants by 2003. Altogether, the military is projected to shrink from 200,400 in 2000 to 180,000 in 2003. Poland has pledged four brigades for NATO's high-readiness reaction forces and two divisions for the main defense forces.

Hmmmmmmm! 300/180,000 = .0016 or less than 1/5 of a percent.

[eyespysomething]

Although I see your point, I am not going to open myself up to this.
At the beginning of this, I think we were telling people "Look, just say you like us, we'll do all the work"

[eyespysomething]

That's a better percentage than the hordes of people protesting!

[Sangamon Kid]

You have 35 countries that have the guts to do the right thing.

35? The list includes 30 countries not counting the U.S. Are there others jumping on the bandwagon as we speak?

[Space Wrangler]

One of the former Soviet Bloc states. We were really sweating whether or not we would get their support.

[Steven W.]

Kuwait, Saudis, etc. are all on the list whether they're actually on the "official" published list or not. There are probably another 10 countries like those that are participating behind the scenes.

[Space Wrangler]

Whoops, I actually went and looked it up, and it's in Africa! Silly me. It just sounded like one of those former Soviet states. Could be a good place to station long range bombers though.

[Sefton]

If anyone is good with graphics, I'd love an 8-1/2 by 11 of the flags of these countries to stick on the back window of my car!

[Chances Are]

You don't seem to get it.

America leads. Others in this "pathetic" Coalition of the Willing follow - willingly. There is no need to remove America, because America simply is.

On the other hand, we have the pretenders from the continent and their coalition, which apparently is not all that "pathetic".

Of salient interest in this discussion of "pathetic" coalitions is the fact that in about 2 or 3 weeks, the world (and you!) is going to get a very vivid demonstration of what constitutes a "pathetic" coalition, and concurrently learn just which of these 2 coalitions proves to be the most "pathetic".

Actually, the only thing "pathetic" about this thread is your inane observation that the US is leading "one of the most pathetic coalitions" in history.

Where'd you get your history degree - the Sorbonne?

CA...

[DannyTN]

"35? The list includes 30 countries not counting the U.S"

Some that were left out.

Portugal which cosponsored the resolution. America duh. Kuwait which is the staging grounds, Qatar which is where our operations headquarters, is. Saudi Arabia which is letting us use military bases on their land.

So there are at least 35 countries willing to do the right thing, that are part of the coalition that haven't been influenced by Irrelefrance's yellow cowardice.

[DannyTN]

Maybe those other 4 are in the list of 15 countries that wanted to help but didn't want to be publicly named.

"There are 15 other nations who for one reason or another do not yet wish to be publicly named but will be supporting the coalition." Powell to reporters.

That brings us to a total of at least 46 including America, 15 of which don't wish to be named and 1 of which is post-conflict only.

[Becki]

had 10 votes on the Sec. Counsel last week for Res. #18 but held off because of the French veto?

It was Jeremy Greenstock, the British UN ambassador who said that.

Becki

[Steve Van Doorn]

how many was with us in the last war on Saddam?

Thanks