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Originally posted by Colin
Direct Fiesta. Why are you ignoring a good question?
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Having Breakfast....
Lets not kid ourselves with the " coalition of the willing " ....The best way to measure the success of that coalition ( or its legitimacy) is to evaluate:
- from which countries come the soldiers
- from which countries comes the money
We all know that the soldiers are 90% US, 7% Britts and 3% for the rest of the 40 or so countries. Already, countries have pulled out their troops. Other countries ( such as Australia, Italy) are under heavy pressure to do so from their population. Most of the EX-Soviet countries ( Hungary, Poland, etc...) are there on paper mainly, in exchange for commercial benefit, such as US aid of various sort... I already posted links to that effect, but I really don't think you need them as I consider you as an educated person.
On the money subject, we saw couintries balking out one after the other when it was time to steup up to the plate... The first Gulf War cost was paid at 90% by other countries, 10% by the US.
10% only of 60 billion : 8 billion....
I can go today on the streets here to get a petition signed that we will invade Mars.... I can get most homeless to sign it for a dime, and most intellectually challenged to do so with a nice compliment such as " you are so bright"...
The coalition countries represents a minority of the world population and of the economic power.
Ifg Bush could say l;ike you that he made a mistake or misjudged the situation, there would be hope. But at this very instant, he is again spitting out the same lies as he did yesterday and the day before... Very sad.
