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Originally posted by Carrie
When did we lose our allies?
Did they suddenly pack up and leave last night? I think that would've been on the news, don't you?
Our allies in Iraq:
Britain
Australia
Japan
South Korea
the Philippines
Thailand
Italy
Spain
Poland
Denmark
Hungary
Bulgaria
Ukraine
Romania
the Netherlands
Norway
El Salvador
and 17 other countries
Where do you see, or how do you think, that we don't have allies?
News flash: France and Germany are NOT the only other two countries in the world. They just happen to be ones with back-door deals with Iraq that go against UN Sanctions that they don't want revealed (too bad - been done - oh well). They were profiting quite nicely from selling illegal weapons to Iraq against the sanctions and trading weapons/parts for oil.
While other countries were following the sanctions for a dozen years, these two countries were thumbing their nose at everyone else.
And now, again, they are thumbing their nose at everyone else.
Lucky for the Iraqis though, 35 countries thought that ending the killing was more important than protecting the secrecy of illegal deals... and now the Iraqis are free. The biggest weapon of mass destruction - Saddam Hussein himself - has been dug out of a hole and no longer threatens the Iraqi people.
So take your "one man without allies" rhetoric and stick *it* in a hole.
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They supported it because they where threatened and blackmailed or bought. Besides, those countries are doing it against the will of the majority of there population. 17 Other countries? Which ones? Out of 190 countries, you could only give me a list of no more than 20 countries?
It's Bush who's thumbing his nose at everyone else. Where are those illegal weapons btw? They must've sold him weapons worth a trillion otherwise it'd be a lot more profitable to support the invasion of Iraq.