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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth
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To: JakeStraw who wrote (17528)8/5/2004 10:47:06 AM
From: jttmab  Read Replies (1) of 173976
 
The non-partisan GlobalSecurity.org site lists the following as current forces in Iraq or immediate surrounds:

I wouldn't say that's the right list to use. Countries like Japan didn't send in any forces for the invasion of Iraq, they followed up much later as a contributing peacekeeping force. The list of countries should be those countries that contributed troops to the initial military action, not the peacekeeping force.

Setting aside the blatant re-definition of ''unilateral'' from ''done or undertaken by one person or party'' to ''doing something without the approval of France, Germany, Russia, or China,'' let’s put the war in Iraq into historical context.

I'd prefer not to set that aside...since it's wrong. You'll note that there was not a UN vote taken to invade Iraq.

He later makes the point....

The numbers indicate that, without United Nations approval, the United States has more allied countries and more troop support than we had with United Nations approval in Korea. Yet I have never read criticism of the United States for acting unilaterally in Korea.

Well...duh...that was the difference. In the case of Iraq, there was no UN approval, while in Korea there was UN approval. Consequently, Iraq is viewed as a unilateral action by the US and Korea was not.

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