Do those countries have a choice? You seem to forget what goes hand in hand with being 'saved' by the US/IMF/World Bank.
Loss of Sovereignty. You do what they tell you to do. And by admitting that it was smaller countries, countries that aren't at the top of the food chain in the world, countries that owe the US that took part, you prove the points of everyone in the thread who said it wasn't a true Multi National coalition. Those rose coloured glasses look nice on you though. On Nov 19, 2007 1:24 AM, 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. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Check out the new features and enhancements in the latest product release - download the "What's New PDF" now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:246693 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
