Help needed: international support for Operation Iraqi Freedom

choosybeggar · May 22, 2004, 7:38pm

Could someone point me to data for international monetary and troop contributions for the current campaign?

Thanks

choosybeggar · May 22, 2004, 8:32pm

I was emailed this list of what every op-ed piece critical of GWB’s administration consists of:

the world looked at us with sympathy after 9/11

now the world views us as bullies or GWB squandered
world good will.

George Bush is an idiot not fit to run the only
remaining superpower.

Even though we are a small percentage of the
world’s population, we are imposing our values on
the rest of the world.

without world consensus we are doomed to fail in
Iraq.

Liberals will always refer to Saddam as Mr Hussein.

If this article was written after the prison
scandal than there is sure to be the
following, “…whatever world sympathy we had left
is gone because of the prison …” or something to
that effect.

There is going to be mentioned if this a complete
article that GWB only understands the use of force
and that is wrong because …

Terrorism is nothing more than a PR campaign.
10)Article will mention Israel and the poor oppressed
Palestinians

The person who emailed it to me maintained that they concocted this list. I doubt it. It’s too cutesy. Anyone know the source?

Ravenman · May 22, 2004, 9:07pm

Troop contributions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_Iraq#Participating_nations

This is probably the best breakdown of reconstruction pledges I have found, but be aware that a very large percentage of these grants and loans have not yet been actually donated.

http://www.forbes.com/iraq/newswire/2003/10/24/rtr1122488.html

Duck_Duck_Goose · May 22, 2004, 9:22pm

It’s not turning up on Google or Snopes, offhand, so maybe he did write it.

choosybeggar · May 23, 2004, 7:30am

Thanks for the help.

DDG, I tried the usual suspects also and came up empty. Perhaps he wrote it? I doubt it, though.