Dubya’s officials are trumpeting the fact that their "
coalition of the willing" now members 49 nations, more than
Gulf War I. Here’s how they are helping us bomb the desert.
UK: 45,000 troops
Australia: 2000 troops
Spain: 200 troops
Poland: 200 troops
Denmark: a
submarine
Morocco: 2000
monkeys to detonate
land mines (not a joke!)
Coalition members with no military forces:
Palau,
Costa Rica,
Iceland, the
Marshall Islands,
Micronesia and the
Solomon Islands. Iceland has not had a military since the 14th century.
Also included on the list are
Turkey, which refused to allow the US to use its territory for military operations, and
Afghanistan, who has plenty of problems of its own right now.
"An official at the Moroccan Embassy could not confirm the presence of monkeys in the coalition of the willing." –
Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21268-2003Mar24.html)