Rummy's kick-ass, take no prisoners coalition of the willing

Reuters reports the following countries will "likely" or "possibly" send troups to Iraq:

Spain
Poland
Ukraine
Bulgaria
Hungary
Romania
Slovakia
the Baltic states
the Philippines
Thailand
Mongolia
Fiji

The rest of the world has told Rummy to f*** off. Keep this in mind whenever he tries to talk up his "powerful" international coalition.

Somehow when I read this list I don't get the impression that the peoples of these countries will react too terribly well when its their troops being killed on a daily basis, particularly the Phillipines, where the government has a tenuous cease-fire with the consistently-bothersome Moros (or at least one of the Moro militant groups).

Even Poppy's coalition was an actual coalition and not the punchline to a barroom joke like this list.

Depleted ex-soviet republics? Well, those Mongols were pretty fierce once. Coalition of the Coerced I think.

right wing leader (but Italy is missing - what happened?).

The folks trying for the EU and Nato and WTO consessions -Ukraine,
Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, the Baltic states - are still trying to get the US to say OK to any of the above.

the Philippines wants out of any review on human rights, and wants forgiveness for kicking our military out, plus wants US investment.

Thailand's military is close to the US after all these years of bribes and drug running with the CIA.

But Mongolia, and Fiji present logic problems. Do they have a military? Why? and Why do they want to rent it out? Or is this a way to get some unemployed working?

Speaking of which it looks like we will ignore US unemployed as we pay for unemployment benefits to 30 million Iraqis.

You have to love the irony - or is it just Bush logic?

Fiji is going to be sending troops. We can all breathe a sigh of relief. :silly: :crazy: :wtf: :+

Its like the warsava pact would invade iraq