Saturday, January 22, 2005
Coalition? What Coalition?
BushCo, having watched as former COW stalwarts like Poland and Ukraine pulled out of the rapidly-worsening quagmire that is Iraq, has quietly decided to stop referring to the alleged 'Coalition of the Willing'.
Pity. Back over at Salon's Table Talk, I'd started a COW thread that has long since gone to thread heaven. It focused on comparing the human rights records of the COW members with that of Saddam Hussein.
The upshot was that of the nations with the better HR records, every single one of them had a populace that opposed the invasion of Iraq and the fact that their country's leaders had dragged them into it. There were plenty of nations whose HR records were worse and whose people didn't like the war, but the people of these nations were generally so brutalized by their leaders that they didn't dare to complain. Uzbekistan is the most infamous example of this latter category.
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