Via the Sydney Morning Herald, here are the thirty coalition countries (including 6 mostly Muslim nations, BTW). There are supposed to be another 15 secret supporters. Whatever this is, it ain't unilateralism. http://enewsletters.f2network.com.au/cgi-bin16/flo/y/eNvC0DGEMX0Bhi0ell0At
Our semi-literate senile lame duck prime minister is keeping us out. I guess he thinks that 13 years of diplomacy wasn't enough.
A slight correction Dennis, I believe you meant to say our "semi-mental" lame duck prime minister. I'm certain when things heat up this week, he will change his mind and send in the troops.
Here's what a FOX/MSNBC source said Monday: sourcing a State Department historian, this is the third largest coalition for war in the last 100 years. (And these are measured not by paper endorsements, but actual material support.) What were the other two larger ones? --Orson PS The Danish PM announced support for the US led war, saying it was a simple choice between supporting democracy and opposing tyranny. A day later a "peace" protester attacked him. (Things were better among the peace movement when I was a pup--protesting Carter's draft registration program: a friend of mine went to federal prison for simply refusing to "register.")
Re: Re: The Coalition I believe they were Gulf War I (with some fifty coalition members), and World War II (with around fourty-some allied nations). Not sure of the source for that information, but I think I heard that from a reporter on Fox News, as well. I could be wrong. That does not go back 100 years.
The "100 years" is likely just a memorable round number. There MAY have been more in WWI, but certainly not the the Russo-Japanese war (1905? '7?), and I can't think of any big coalition wars before then until the Napoleonic wars.... --Orson
