VANITY- Need the Names of the Countries That Are Supporting Us In Iraq

[GiovannaNicoletta]

Sorry for the vanity but today at work some liberals were trashing Bush over Iraq- one was touting Ted Kennedy claiming that the only reason we're in Iraq is because Saddam tried to kill Dubya's father.

That's when I lost it and said that I was sick and tired of the liberal lies about the war and that there hasn't been another attack in this country since we went into Afghanistan. I was then informed that another attack is imminent.

The conversation got around to the libs saying that we don't have any support from the world and we should just come home. I remember Rush saying that there is a thirty-one nation coalition in Iraq and when I told them that the response was "Well I haven't heard that."

If someone can list the nations that are helping us out it will be greatly appreciated!

[mewzilla]

Here's a few: UK, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Poland, Australia

[yonif]

Israel.

[Peach]

A list of some of them, how many of them and the breakdown of what 9/11 cost us economically in this country is contained in today's speech on Capitol Hill.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/988628/posts

[mewzilla]

Few more: Denmark, Hungary and the Czech
Republic, Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Latvia,
Lithuania, Macedonia, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia.

[boxerblues]

http://www.centcom.mil/Operations/Coalition/joint.htm

[Shermy]

Ask them why Clinton bombed Iraq for eight years.

[tsmith130]

These successes would not be possible without many months of preparation-planning that began before Operation Iraqi Freedom was launched. And they would not be possible without substantial international support and cooperation. I keep hearing that the U.S. should not "go it alone." Well, the U.S. is not going it alone. There are, at this moment, some 25 nations in the Coalition Provisional Authority - it is a genuinely international operation. Moreover, there are currently 32 countries with troops in Iraq today.

These include: Albania, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Estonia, Georgia, Honduras, Hungary, Italy, Kazakhstan, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia. Moldova, Mongolia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, the Philippines, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Thailand, Ukraine, and the UK.

Portugal is at this moment preparing to deploy forces to Iraq. Of the 19 NATO nations, 11 have already committed troops to Iraq. We are currently in discussions with 14 other countries that have expressed possible interest in sending forces.

[So Cal Rocket]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/03/20030321-4.html

Coalition Members




Who are the current coalition members?

President Bush is assembling a Coalition that has already begun military operations to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction, and enforce 17 UNSC resolutions.

The Coalition will also liberate the Iraqi people from one of the worst tyrants and most brutal regimes on earth.

Contributions from Coalition member nations range from: direct military participation, logistical and intelligence support, specialized chemical/biological response teams, over-flight rights, humanitarian and reconstruction aid, to political support.

Forty-eight countries are publicly committed to the Coalition, including:

Afghanistan
Albania
Angola
Australia
Azerbaijan
Bulgaria
Colombia
Costa Rica
Czech Republic
Denmark
Dominican Republic
El Salvador
Eritrea
Estonia
Ethiopia
Georgia
Honduras
Hungary
Iceland
Italy
Japan
Kuwait
Latvia
Lithuania
Macedonia
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Mongolia
Netherlands
Nicaragua
Palau
Panama
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Rwanda
Singapore
Slovakia
Solomon Islands
South Korea
Spain
Turkey
Uganda
Ukraine
United Kingdom
United States
Uzbekistan

This number is still growing, and it is no accident that many member nations of the Coalition recently escaped from the boot of a tyrant or have felt the scourge of terrorism. All Coalition member nations understand the threat Saddam Hussein's weapons pose to the world and the devastation his regime has wreaked on the Iraqi people.

The population of Coalition countries is approximately 1.23 billion people.
Coalition countries have a combined GDP of approximately $22 trillion.
Every major race, religion, ethnicity in the world is represented.
The Coalition includes nations from every continent on the globe.

[Vladivostok]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/iraq/news/20030327-10.html There's 49 of em...

[LibWhacker]

It looks like Freepers have come to the rescue again in spades, as usual, but just in case your liberal pals are really dense (and what liberal isn't really dense?), here's another source for you. :-)

[alisasny]

Forget about who is in the coalition present them this instead


'Bush's Illegal War' Questionnaire

Please answer as many of the following questions as you can, and as many with a straight face as possible. Please answer quickly as you already have all of the answers.

1. Since George W. Bush is evil, and thought by some to be far more dangerous than Saddam Hussein, could you please list the instances you are aware of where George W. Bush has ordered the murder, torture and rape of American citizens, like yourself, who oppose his presidency.

2. Could you list any sites of mass graves of American citizens ordered to be killed by the Bush administration?

3. Further, could you please list the instances you are aware of when George W. Bush has ordered the murder of members of his own family.

4. Do you feel that Saddam Hussein possessed no weapons he was specifically forbidden to have by the UN; for example, the Scud missiles he fired into Kuwait during the first two weeks of the war?

5. How do you think Saddam was able to fire weapons that he didn't have?

6. Are inspectors inspectors, or are inspectors detectives?

7. How many more months would you have given Saddam Hussein to comply with the 17 UN resolutions, passed over 12 years?

8. If you owned an apartment building, for how many months would you allow a tenant to defy you to kick him out for not paying the rent he owes?

9. If the UN, and the previous administration, were convinced Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, and used that as a basis for their actions against Iraq, how do those reasons evaporate when applied by the Bush administration?

10. If the Bush administration, led by the evil GWB, lied about weapons of mass destruction in order to go to war, why haven't we found any WMD secretly planted by the Bush administration?

11. If you feel it would be too difficult to plant WMD in Iraq, because there are too many people watching, such that no one can do anything sneaky in Iraq, then why can't we find Saddam?

12. Do you disagree with the statement..."The weapons of mass destruction used in the 9/11 attacks were box-cutters"?

13. Do you think finding an airplane fuselage in a terrorist training camp in northern Iraq means terrorists were practicing hijackings? If not, for what purpose do you think they were using the airplane?

14. Knowing what little you may know about spy satellites, what do you think Iraq was hiding using the tunnel-digging equipment they bought from the French some 5 years ago?

15. Why do you think Iraq had a 'Higher Committee for Monitoring the Inspection Teams' headed by Hussein's Vice-President, and son, Qusay?

16. The fact that Iraq trained experts to foil UN weapons inspectors is documented not just by U.S. intelligence organizations, but by those of many other countries. Why do you think Iraq needed to use these tactics, if George W. Bush is lying?

17. In 1995, Iraq admitted it had biological weapons. They declared they had, for example, 8500 liters of anthrax. Where did they all go? If Iraq destroyed them, why would there be any need for more UN resolutions after that?

18. When do you think Iraq abandoned their existing Weapons of Mass Destruction program? What do you think was their motivation for abandoning it- the 17th time the UN said 'pretty please', or the fact that it was spending too much money that could used for social programs to improve the lives of Iraqi citizens?

19. Do you think the bio-weapons lab vehicles found in Iraq were being used as lunch wagons, or as mobile auto detail trucks?

20. If a terrorist organization attacked America tomorrow by spraying anthrax over a large city, would you blame George W. Bush for not doing enough?

21. Would Hillary?

22. How many minutes after the attack do you think it would take for Hillary to appear on CNN?

23. If an illegal U.S. president declares an illegal war, wouldn't the two cancel each other out?

Bonus Question: Do you think O.J. killed Ron and Nicole, or was he the victim of a massive conspiracy to plant evidence by many separate divisions of the LAPD?

[GiovannaNicoletta]

I'm being kicked off the computer now but thanks to everyone for your help!

I'm going to print this out and bring it in to work tommorrow and make copies and hand them out to all the brilliant leftists who have no clue that the world is most certainly supporting us.

Thanks again guys. Good night!

[Mears]

Thanks for the list,I can use it too.Free Republic never ceases to astonish me!!!!

[finnman69]

Ask your friends if they get their news from jay leno or if they ever bother to use their brains and look it up.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/iraq/news/20030327-10.html

Who are the current coalition members?

President Bush is assembling a Coalition that has already begun military operations to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction, and enforce 17 UNSC resolutions.

The Coalition will also liberate the Iraqi people from one of the worst tyrants and most brutal regimes on earth.

Contributions from Coalition member nations range from: direct military participation, logistical and intelligence support, specialized chemical/biological response teams, over-flight rights, humanitarian and reconstruction aid, to political support.

Forty-nine countries are publicly committed to the Coalition, including:

Afghanistan
Albania
Angola
Australia
Azerbaijan
Bulgaria
Colombia
Costa Rica
Czech Republic
Denmark
Dominican Republic
El Salvador
Eritrea
Estonia
Ethiopia
Georgia
Honduras
Hungary
Iceland
Italy
Japan
Kuwait
Latvia
Lithuania
Macedonia
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Mongolia
Netherlands
Nicaragua
Palau
Panama
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Rwanda
Singapore
Slovakia
Solomon Islands
South Korea
Spain
Tonga
Turkey
Uganda
Ukraine
United Kingdom
United States
Uzbekistan

This number is still growing, and it is no accident that many member nations of the Coalition recently escaped from the boot of a tyrant or have felt the scourge of terrorism. All Coalition member nations understand the threat Saddam Hussein's weapons pose to the world and the devastation his regime has wreaked on the Iraqi people.

The population of Coalition countries is approximately 1.23 billion people.
Coalition countries have a combined GDP of approximately $22 trillion.
Every major race, religion, ethnicity in the world is represented.
The Coalition includes nations from every continent on the globe.

[Great Dane]

Denmark.

[Great Dane]

#9....... WOW, didn't realize there were that many.... good.

[Right_in_Virginia]

But, but....what about FRANCE? Everyone knows that no coalition is complete and no success is possible without THEM.

(/sarcasm)

[stck]

talk is cheap

actual contributions (as of end of Agust):

United States 140.000
Britain 11.000
Italy 3.000 (incl. military police, mine clearers, doctors, relief workers)
Poland 2.400
Ukraine 1.650
Spain 1.300
Australia 900
Bulgaria 500
Romania 405
Denmark 400
Czech Republic 312 (incl. medical personnel)
Hungary 300 (non-combat)
Norway 160 (mostly mine clearers)
Azerbaijan 150
Portugal 132 (police officers)
Thailand 100
Philippines 96 (non-combat)
Slovakia 85 (mine clearers)
Albania 70 (non-combat)
Georgia 69 (incl. mine specialists and doctors)
Singapore 30 (police officers)
Kazakhstan 27 (field engineers)

[shetlan]

Good discussion question. Thanks.