You said "mostly." I am taking issue with that. The numbers in my earlier post were the *peak* commitment of these countries and they are nowhere near "mostly," even if you add in the Ukraine, which yes, is in Europe, you are right.
Nobody but you is disparaging these countries. Or do you really think Iceland only has two soldiers? :) This is the right-wing alternate universe; the one where 2500, ok, 4000 soldiers is "mostly," not the quarter-million we are contributing :) And let me not forget that it's the universe where Ronnie fixed a steely eye on the Berlin Wall and it fell, and all the little peopel try really really hard to help us :) For some reason I am seeing the little Disney mice sewing a gown for Cinderella because she is so sweet ;) On Nov 19, 2007 4:52 PM, Robert Munn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Moldova is between Ukraine and Romania, and the language is a cousin > language of Romanian, or so I am told. The Ukrainians, btw, would be > very surprised to hear that they are not part of Europe. > > I'm not disputing the numbers of troops. The US and Britain fielded > the vast majority of the troops for the fight. Some countries, like > Ukraine, deployed specialized forces, others deployed medical units > and engineering units for civil projects. None of that changes the > fact that many other countries joined the coalition. Many of the > countries that joined simply don't have significant resources to give. > The limits of their ability to contribute should not diminish the > value of their contributions. If the right-wing alternate universe > includes honoring the contributions of our allies, sign me up. > > I'm not going to call you a communist. ;-) > > > On Nov 18, 2007 11:45 PM, Dana wrote: > > mostly? How do you figure that? I get 2423 soldiers for central and > > eastern europe, and I spotted you moldava at that, because I couldn't > > be bothered to look it up and find out where it is. It sounds like it > > might be in the balkans. You can add 1650 to that if you want to count > > the ukraine but the ukraine is not in europe. This is versus 295,000 > > british and american soldiers. > > > > NPR was talking about "the right-wing alternate universe" the other > > day and talking to you really helps me see what they are talking about > > ;) > > > > I won't even go into the whole reagan as freedom fighter mythology. > > I'm sure that will just get me called a communist or something ;) > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:246808 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
