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Thread #94033   Message #2061550
Posted By: Teribus
26-May-07 - 07:50 PM
Thread Name: BS: Realizations about Iraq
Subject: RE: BS: Realizations about Iraq
Interesting thing Bobert, but when the United States of America entered the First World War after having sat on the sidelines for the best part of four years, Winston Churchill simply stated that on landing in France that all that was required to get America 100% behind the Allied war effort was for one single American soldier to be killed in action on the first day.

Lesson, numbers and percentages don't matter it's who's there that counts because politically that is what is counted. It still doesn't alter the fact that in 1991 the UN backed coalition had 12 countries that actually provided forces whereas GWB's coalition building efforts managed to round up 33 country's of which 22 are still deployed in theatre.