Thursday, March 20, 2003

The Last Powell Lie Was A Whopper


The U.S. "Coalition Of The Willing" has finally been named. In naming it U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell observed that it was a bigger group than that arrayed to support the first Gulf War in 1991. (Oooh, such a whopper!)
The list is:

"Afghanistan, Albania, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Hungary, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, the Philippines, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom and Uzbekistan.

+ 15 Nations who are providing assistance but who do not wish to be named."

We have one military ally, the U.K., and two other countries, Spain (900 troops) and Australia (2,000 troops) providing forces not to be used in offensive operations.

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