Facts about the coalition

[Liberty Lover]

The coalition of the willing continues to grow and currently consists of 45 nations.

The population of coaltion countries is approximatley 1.17 billion

The coalition represents every major race, religion and ethnicity on earth

The coalition includes nations from every continent on the globe

[Som]

Ah, Amazing what billions of dollars of foreign aid, a few nato applications, a job opening for a former politician, and general alliance obligations done anyway, can do for the concept of 'the willing'

[IzmSchism]

I think you have your facts distorted....check the OR, first, the coalition representing 1.17 billion, OK, whatever, how does roughly 1/5 th of the world represent a majority, then you must deduct the overwhelming anti vote within each country bringing this number down considerably,
Second, which of these coalition partners are going to foot the bill for this war, ummm, how about the US and the UK and we;ll leave it at that, the rest of the countries are so poor and already war torn that the only reason they suppport the US is for economic, military and political favour....theres more, but lets start with this....

[Liberty Lover]

the rest of the countries are so poor and already war torn that the only reason they suppport the US is for economic, military and political favour....theres more, but lets start with this....

They may be poor but at least they know what's good for them.

[IzmSchism]

chasing the dolla dolla bill is hardly a justification for being correct

[Pete]

Quote: from Liberty Lover on 11:42 pm on Mar. 29, 2003
the rest of the countries are so poor and already war torn that the only reason they suppport the US is for economic, military and political favour....theres more, but lets start with this....

They may be poor but at least they know what's good for them.


Yup they have witnessed Uncle Sam's creulty first hand and are afraid of it coming back again even harder.

[IzmSchism]

yes they know, thus they are one of the blind

[synthesis]

The coalition represents every major race, religion and ethnicity on earth This statement, as it stands, is quite fallacious and is, in fact, erroneous. You'd have to prove that the coalition has the support of 51% or more of all Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Muslims, whites, blacks, Arabs, Asians, Australian aborigines, Oceanians, Northern Europeans, Central Europeans, Eastern Europeans, Southern Europeans, and so on. Obviously, you can't, and therefore the coalition doesn't represent every major race, ethnicity, and religion, as that would require a majority to be true, but the coalition only includes members of... every major race, ethnicity, and religion.

By the way, I'm not quite sure what the word for a person of the islands of Oceania would be. Any ideas?

[Pete]

Polynesian.

you also missed the First Nations of the Americas.

[synthesis]

The Polynesian islands are only part of Oceania, man.

And there was an et cetera (er, an "and so on", rather) in case you didn't notice, you Canadian bastard :biggrin:

[Pete]

I noticed don't worry. I felt like being an annoying merticualt *insert word that means everything right* for a moment....so it is nto polynesian? Wierd. I'll have to look in to that.

[Xvall]

The population of coaltion countries is approximatley 1.17 billion

Too bad the majority of the coalition population doesn't want a war.