you could view it that way.....or maybe they could be trying to gain favor of the U.S. Isn't it always best to be the buddy of the biggest guy on the block?
I see it more as a political move, but then again I'm jaded by our own politics here. On 11/18/07, Robert Munn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Funny how the coalition was mostly made up of poor Central and Eastern > European countries who the US freed from decades of Soviet tyrrany. I > can't imagine why they would contribute troops. Maybe they actually > appreciate what the US did for them. How could it be? Could there > actually be someone in the world that thinks America has done > something good for them? Because there is hardly anyone here who does. > > On Nov 18, 2007 9:08 PM, Dana wrote: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multinational_force_in_Iraq > > > > On Nov 18, 2007 10:03 PM, Zaphod Beeblebrox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Effectively the U.S. went in with major support from G.B, but it was a > > > coalition in name only. Lot's of other countries sent token forces. > > > I'll always be glad that we were able to count on Iceland's 2 troops. > > > Heck just look at afganistans troop deployment. There you'll see a > > > true multi-national force, not some charade of one designed to make > > > the u.s. population feel like they're justified in an invastion. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion is delivering applications solutions at at top companies around the world in government. Find out how and where now http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=finder&productID=1522&loc=en_us Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:246683 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
