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] Date Posted: 18:00:13 12/04/04 Sat In reply to: Ed Harris (Venezia) 's message, "Okay okay okay..." on 17:20:21 12/04/04 Sat ... was the fact that he made out as if the Coalition of the Willing was just the USA plus a bunch of irrelevant little countries that no one should care about. I.e Bush (portrayed as a complete and corrupt idiot) and basically no one else. Whatever people may think about the moral worth of our respective leaders (and about Bush's intelligence), no one ever accuses Howard and Blair of being idiots. Pretending that the UK and Australia were not involved in the war was thus a very low trick. The war may not have been very different without Australia's commitment. We sent a small number of high quality troops to operate behind enemy lines and clear the way for the invasion. They did an excellent job and have been universally praised, but there were not many of them. Without the UK, however, Bush would really have been on his own, and that would have to have played differently to the US public. Surely people would have said "hang on, no one is coming with us on this - doesn't that mean that we should ask a question or two?" [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |