There is a multi-national force operating in Afghanistan that can't trust us. We withdrew most of our men and money and left them somewhat handicapped. The people in Afghanistan claim things were better under the Soviets.
I made a post recently that listed many things wrong in Afghanistan.
Some have already dropped out of the coalition. Most were bribed. Uzbekistan was a member of the coalition and their leader boils his adversaries. Many of the 90 were island nations that are totally insignificant and offered no help at all. Certainly no where close to the coalition that shared in the first Iraq war.
FA37 - 16 March 2004
International Support for the Coalition in Iraq
On Adelaide radio this morning, a talkback caller asked me what was Spain’s position on Iraq and whether it was a part of the Coalition of the Willing that took military action to overthrow the regime of Saddam Hussein.
At 21 March 2003, no fewer than 48 countries supported publicly Coalition action in Iraq, including: Afghanistan, Albania, Angola, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Mongolia, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Palau, Panama, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Rwanda, Singapore, Slovakia, Solomon Islands, South Korea, Spain, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States and Uzbekistan.
While Spain openly supported the Coalition of the Willing it did not contribute troops to the military action to dislodge Saddam Hussein’s regime.
Spain is, however, one of 35 countries that have contributed a total of approximately 135,000 troops to the multinational force in Iraq: Albania, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Estonia, Georgia, Honduras, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Thailand, Ukraine, United Kingdom and United States.
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