Number of countries in 1991 Gulf War coalition = 34

Number of countries presently on board = 30


I think that's plenty of support right there.

Excellent point! Let's go kick some @ss!



<!--EDIT|Big Pimpin Deac|Mar 19 2003, 02:43 PM-->

I heard on the radio this morning that there are supposedly another 15 countries who are offering backing.........if their names are left out of it. Chickens, ya think?

Big Pimpin Deac Wrote:Excellent point! Let's go kick some @ss!

Did we just agree on something?? :eek: :wave:

Baghdad, here we come!

Saddam, you bring the ******, we'll bring the whuppin!

Baghdad, here we come!

Saddam, you bring the @ss we'll bring the whuppin!



<!--EDIT|T-Monay820|Mar 20 2003, 12:12 AM-->

Quote:Number of countries in 1991 Gulf War coalition = 34

Number of countries presently on board = 30

Did Rush Limbaugh do your math for you?

In 1991, 34 countries supplied combat soldiers or other military forces toward the Gulf War. The nations included: Afghanistan, Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Honduras, Italy, Kuwait, Morocco, The Netherlands, Niger, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, South Korea, Spain, Syria, Turkey, The United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States.

These nations contributed combat soldiers in 1991:

United States (540,000)
Turkey (150,000 *)
Saudi Arabia (118,000)
United Kingdom (43,000)
United Arab Emirates (40,000)
Egypt (40,000)
Oman (25,500)
France (18,000)
Syria (17,000)
Kuwait (11,000)
Bangladesh (6,000)
Canada (4,500)
Niger (500)
Afghanistan (300)

These are the forces the world will chipping in this time:

United Kingdom: 43,000 soldiers
Australia: 2,000 solidiers
Ethopia: six slingshots

(okay, I made that last part up).

The rest of the countries have merely agreed to cheer as they watch on CNN -- if that. Colombia, apparently, was surprised to hear that it was in. This, from the Washington Post:

Quote:A senior diplomat at Colombia's embassy in Washington seemed unaware that his nation had been listed. Asked what support Colombia would contribute, the diplomat referred to a statement issued by his government Monday expressing support for stopping "the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction" and prevention of all forms of terrorism "in a timely manner."

The world is against this. Public opinion in exactly one country outside the U.S. is for this thing: Israel.



<!--EDIT|RochesterFalcon|Mar 19 2003, 11:46 PM-->

Not all the world is against it. Maybe if some of those other countries had a day like 9/11, or perhaps put up with all the crap Israel does they wouldn't be so vocal.

We should have taken the SOB out the first time we were over there. I was there and I always wondered why we didn't.


GOD Bless America!!!

Great point, RochesterFalcon. I know that we are in the vast minority in this community, but I agree with you and do not see the point in this conflict, or in deciding that we do not care what the rest of the world thinks.

bigolhawg Wrote:Great point, RochesterFalcon. I know that we are in the vast minority in this community, but I agree with you and do not see the point in this conflict, or in deciding that we do not care what the rest of the world thinks.

So how do you motion that we disarm Saddam? Embargo didn't work, inspections aren't working. So whats your recommendation? I'm all ears...

Quote: inspections aren't working.

Inspections weren't given a chance to work. Blix indicated he was making progress. He clearly wanted to continue.

If we had waited for Blix to hit a wall or for Saddam to pull something stupid -- like kicking inspectors out -- we might have rammed this thing through the Security Council. That would have quelled much dissent, including mine.

Iraq has never attacked the United States and, by all accounts, it wasn't planning to. Was it really so urgent to attack Iraq that we couldn't wait until fall?

Public opinion matters. We had it after Sept. 11, 2001. Over the last eighteen months, our president pissed it all -- and then some -- right into the wind.



<!--EDIT|RochesterFalcon|Mar 19 2003, 11:53 PM-->

Ya know - you're right.

I mean, a decade is wayyyyyyyyyyyyy too little time for him to clean up his act.

If you think Saddam will change his ways, you're a looney.

Quote:I mean, a decade is wayyyyyyyyyyyyy too little time for him to clean up his act.

He had three months.

The history is this:

1. A UN-backed coalition kicked his bootie out of Kuwait and imposed inspectors.
2. Inspectors began turning up serious evidence of WMD. Some WMD were destroyed.
3. Enthusiasm began to wane for the inspectors. They got less UN support as the years rolled on.
4. Inspectors were finally thrown out in 1998.
5. Bush, rightly, made Iraq's WMD it an issue. Inspectors went back in late last fall.

So, in reality, the inspectors had three or four months.

Quote:If you think Saddam will change his ways, you're a looney.

I don't think he would change his ways. I do think we didn't give him enough time to step on his dick, which would have moved world opinion and hopefully put the UN behind us.

RochesterFalcon Wrote:He had three months.

The history is this:

1. A UN-backed coalition kicked his bootie out of Kuwait and imposed inspectors.
2. Inspectors began turning up serious evidence of WMD. Some WMD were destroyed.
3. Enthusiasm began to wane for the inspectors. They got less UN support as the years rolled on.
4. Inspectors were finally thrown out in 1998.
5. Bush, rightly, made Iraq's WMD it an issue. Inspectors went back in late last fall.

So, in reality, the inspectors had three or four months.

Actually there have been on and off inspections since the end of the Gulf War. It gets old after a while.

rocketfootball Wrote:

RochesterFalcon Wrote:He had three months.

The history is this:

1. A UN-backed coalition kicked his bootie out of Kuwait and imposed inspectors.
2. Inspectors began turning up serious evidence of WMD. Some WMD were destroyed.
3. Enthusiasm began to wane for the inspectors. They got less UN support as the years rolled on.
4. Inspectors were finally thrown out in 1998.
5. Bush, rightly, made Iraq's WMD it an issue. Inspectors went back in late last fall.

So, in reality, the inspectors had three or four months.

Actually there have been on and off inspections since the end of the Gulf War. It gets old after a while.

Actually there have been on and off inspections since the end of the Gulf War. It gets old after a while.[/quote]
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