"Bill Bonde { ''the oblique allusion in lieu of the frontal attack'')"
<tributyltinpaint@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> "S. Checker" wrote:
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>> "Bill Bonde ( 'the oblique allusion in lieu of the frontal attack' )"
<tributyltinpaint@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > There were at least as many countries involved in Bush's 2003 Iraq
>> > effort as were in the Balkans one under Clinton.
>>
>> Five countries participated (sent troops) in the invasion of Iraq: The
>> US, Austria, Poland, the UK and Denmark.
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> The Coalition of the Willing included, just in Europe, also Italy
> and Spain and Bulgaria. How many countries were in NATO in the
> Clinton years? That's all we have to do, compare that number to the
> number that were part of this even in sup****t from the government.
Why do we have to do that? Why not just compare the number of countries
that sent troops and materiel? I repeat, five countries sent troops to
invade Iraq.
>
>> The United States, the UK, Belgium, Denmark, Holland, Turkey, Spain,
>> Italy, France, and Germany all fought in the Balkans. Would you care to
>> restate your point?
>>
> Which countries provided substantial force?
>
> The fact is, isn't it,
> that only the US, UK and France have "substantial force" to provide
> and that the US provided the vast bulk of the air power during the
> actual war, which was mainly an air war. So if six people show up
> from Poland or Honduras, it's the standing with the US that counts,
> not the numbers, isn't that right?
Here's the European makeup of the IFOR group; I selected this since I
couldn't easily find UNPROFOR or KFOR stats. You want to find them, go
ahead.
Canada 1500 4%
Denmark 800 2%
France 7500 21%
Germany 4000 11%
Greece 1000 3%
Italy 2200 6%
Luxembourg 300 1%
The Netherlands 2060 6%
Norway 750 2%
****tugal 900 2%
Spain 1000 3%
Turkey 1300 4%
UK 13000 36%
So yeah, Luxembourg wasn't pulling its weight.
It was an air war, as you point out, and all of the countries I first
listed, plus Canada, sent fighters and/or bombers. That alone seems a
substantial contribution.
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