Several more countries have joined the "unilateral" alliance to liberate Iraq, including Japan, Australia and Poland
UPDATE Colin Powell said today that 30 nations have publicly expressed that they would be part of the coalition, with 15 others indicating private support. The 30 nations are:
Afghanistan
Albania
Australia
Azerbaijan
Bulgaria
Colombia
Czech Republic
Denmark
El Salvador
Eritrea
Estonia
Ethiopia
Georgia
Hungary
Italy
Japan
South Korea
Latvia
Lithuania
Macedonia
Netherlands
Nicaragua
Philippines
Poland
Romania
Slovakia
Spain
Turkey
United Kingdom
Uzbekistan
UPDATE 2 the Telegraph reminds us that when you add in the various countries that agreed to overflight rights and troop bases, the list also includes:
Bahrain
Jordan
Kuwait
Oman
Qatar
Saudi Arabia
United Arab Emirates
Now how's that for Arab brotherhood!
Never before has "going it alone" felt so unlonely.
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at March 18, 2003 05:01 PMAdd Denmark to the list.
http://patheticearthlings.blogspot.com/2003_03_16_patheticearthlings_archive.html#90936625
-- Erik
Posted by: Erik on March 18, 2003 11:37 AMOooh. And what exactly is Eritrea contributing to the cause?
How many divisions does Latvia have in the Gulf?
Except for Britain, these countries are contributing about as much as, say, you are. Less, actually, because you at least pay taxes here.
Posted by: Jon H on March 18, 2003 01:55 PMThanks for your comments, "Jon H". So, in your view of a perfect world, if the "Presidents for Life" from Cameroon and Guinea voted with us in the UNSecurity Council the action would somehow be legitimately "multilateral", but when 30 countries, most of which are functioning democracies, support us, then we are "unilateral" and illegitimate?
Posted by: Stefan Sharkansky on March 18, 2003 02:06 PMDenmark and Australia are sending troops as well as the UK.
Posted by: Yehudit on March 18, 2003 03:12 PMHow about Israel? Don't they support us? Or don't they count.
Posted by: malcolm on March 18, 2003 06:52 PMI'm surprised not to see Portugal on the list, especially because it just hosted the USA-UK-Spain summit in the Azores a couple of days ago.
Posted by: Joshua on March 18, 2003 07:21 PMYou seem to be forgetting that any coalition that does not include France is by definition "unilateral."
Posted by: Barry Meislin on March 20, 2003 10:49 PMWaw! when did the USA start being a "functioning democracy?" By the way, can you dear Stefan Sharkansky place Latvia or Eritrea in a bidimensional map? Can you even find Wyoming in tha map?
Posted by: Lucy MC on March 28, 2003 12:40 PM