On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 10:54:04 +1100, David Strike
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>On Wednesday, November 19, 2003 9:50 AM, Reef Fish wrote:
>
>(snip)
>> And UK is our ONLY real Allie in His Only War to use Saddam as
>> scapegoat for his failure to do anything about Bin Laden!
>
>Damn!  And there was me thinking that Australia had played a role!  :-)))
>
>Strike

Sorry about the few Aussies who died in Bush's Holy War.

I just posted the following in rec.travel.air from which the
"subject" came:
====================================> Australia also sent troops. Some
other countries (a rather odd collection as
> far as I remember, including some heavily dependent on US aid) declared
> their support but I don't know if any of them sent troops.

The Bush administration had lists of LARGE numbers of countries in
the coalition for the Iraq War.  If we want to be pedantic about it,
you can find a list of 54 countries <G> but how many of them are
known to anyone besides those who live there?  <BG>

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/2003/02/000354.html

@> list of 34 countries who belong to what is more appropriately
@> described as a "coalition of the coerced"

http://www.heritage.org/Research/MiddleEast/wm225.cfm
In March 2003,  the list of "The Coalition of the Willing"
included such world-power countries as

Azerbaijan
Bahrain
Croatia
Eritrea
Honduras
Latvia
Macedonia
Marshall Islands
Micronesia
Mongolia
Qatar
Rwanda
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
Uzbekistan

WOW!


As I said, UK is the "ONLY" (except to the pedantic)
Ally of the USA, as can be seen in this source:

http://lunaville.org/warcasualties/Summary.aspx

#> Military Fatalities: By Month:
#> Period   US UK Other*
#> 11-2003  64  1   20
#> 10-2003  42  1    2
#>  9-2003  31  1    1
#>  8-2003  35  6    2
#>  7-2003  46  1    0
#>  6-2003  29  6    0
#>  5-2003  37  4    0
#>  4-2003  73  6    0
#>  3-2003  65 27    0

#> US deaths since July 2nd: 217
#> (Pres. Bush announces, "Bring Them On")
#> * Other - Polish: 1 Danish: 1  Spanish: 3  Ukrainian: 3  Italian: 17
===================================


London & UK ... heeeeere I come.
Hope the trains and tube are still running when I arrive.  ;-)

ElPezNeuvo