# Which countries are in the coalition ?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-countries-are-in-the-coalition/162937>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 21, 2003, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-countries-are-in-the-coalition/162937 "2003-03-21T00:04:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![ChaosGod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ac91a4/32.png) [@ChaosGod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChaosGod)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-countries-are-in-the-coalition/162937/1 "2003-03-21T00:04:54Z")

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Bush mentioned 35 countries constitute the “growing coaltion” that support the war.

Where can I find a list of these countries?

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**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-countries-are-in-the-coalition/162937/2 "2003-03-21T00:25:30Z")

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Try this recent thread:  
[This war hullaballoo: Who the heck’s with us?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=170703&highlight=coalition)

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**Author:** ![ChaosGod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ac91a4/32.png) [@ChaosGod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChaosGod)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-countries-are-in-the-coalition/162937/3 "2003-03-21T00:45:56Z")

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Thanx Squink

Reflecting upon this exerpt:  
“There are 15 other nations who for one reason or another do not yet wish to be publicly named but will be supporting the coalition.”

I suspect my government _might_ be within those spineless, adulators who don’t have the guts to speak out publicy.  
I’m so ashamed.

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**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-countries-are-in-the-coalition/162937/4 "2003-03-21T00:46:52Z")

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Also touched on in [url=http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=171302]this thread\*.

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**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-countries-are-in-the-coalition/162937/5 "2003-03-21T00:48:15Z")

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aaaaaarrrrgghhh!  
Also touched on in [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=171302).

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**Author:** ![ChaosGod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ac91a4/32.png) [@ChaosGod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChaosGod)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-countries-are-in-the-coalition/162937/6 "2003-03-21T00:51:05Z")

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On the other hand, I notice that they consider Germany to be on the coalition because it is contributing anti-chemical warefare material. I wouldn’t consider this to be an active support of the war effort, more of a humanitarian contribution.

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**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-countries-are-in-the-coalition/162937/7 "2003-03-21T00:56:41Z")

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[This Reuters story](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=584&e=1&cid=584&u=/nm/20030320/pl_nm/iraq_usa_alliance_dc) also provides some interesting tidbits about the contributions of individual coalition members.

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**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2003, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-countries-are-in-the-coalition/162937/8 "2003-03-21T02:41:04Z")

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This is being discussed in other active threads, so I’ll close this thread and direct further comment to one of the others: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=171302](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=171302)

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