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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo, are we still waiting on the "Coalition of the Willing?" HELL NO!
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I guess a few cruise missiles and some drone strikes might be fun.
There will be a few "civilian casualties". Always is. At least the civilian casualties won't get gassed.
Hell, we know UN inspectors don't work. So they are getting out of town before sundown. Hanging out at Hans Blix's house maybe.
Maybe call this 'Operation: Strike Before We Have All The Facts"
Military Strike Weekend on CNN!
Classic!
niyad
(113,302 posts)Divernan
(15,480 posts)http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0323-07.htm
Published on Saturday, March 22, 2003 by the Mirror/UK
Coalition of the Bribed, Bullied & Blind
by Paul Gilfeather
GEORGE Bush has made great play of the "coalition of the willing" - 30 countries who support his war on Iraq.
But who are they and what are their real motives? The Daily Mirror put Bush's allies under the microscope and found a coalition of the bribed, bullied - or those simply blind to the truth. It contains some of the poorest, newest and smallest countries on the planet.
This show of support has been stitched together by bullies in Washington dangling massive bribes in front of countries which depend on financial support from other nations.
And the desperate attempt by the US to make its present coalition resemble the alliance of 34 nations which contributed tens thousands of troops in the last Gulf War in 1991 is unraveling.
I still recall a great Saturday Night Live skit where Tina Fey announced that Norway's coalition troops were returning home, with a banner behind her reading: "Welcome back, Torsten!"
Logical
(22,457 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)We're already droning a bunch of people, what's a few more.
Logical
(22,457 posts)YarnAddict
(1,850 posts)use the correct word.
col·la·tion [kuh-ley-shuhn, koh-, ko-] Show IPA
noun
1.the act of collating.
2.Bibliography . the verification of the number and order of the leaves and signatures of a volume.
3.a light meal that may be permitted on days of general fast.
4.any light meal.
5.(in a monastery) the practice of reading and conversing on the lives of the saints or the Scriptures at the close of the day.
co·a·li·tion [koh-uh-lish-uhn] Show IPA
noun
1.a combination or alliance, especially a temporary one between persons, factions, states, etc.
2.a union into one body or mass; fusion.
Origin:
160515; < Latin coalitiōn- (stem of coalitiō ), equivalent to coalit ( us ), past participle of coalēscere ( co- co- + ali-, past participle stem of alere to nourish + -tus past participle suffix) + -iōn- -ion; see coalesce
Related forms
co·a·li·tion·al, adjective
co·a·li·tion·er, noun
Synonyms
1. partnership; league.