Icelanders NYT Ad Apologizes For Iraq Involvement

[Hissyspit]

...reports CNN Headline News. I can't find any link on the web to a news article. Sorry if this has been posted before.

[The Backlash Cometh]

1. Wow. kick

[rodeodance]

2. says Friday in NYT

White House Scraps 'Coalition of the Willing' List

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050122/wl_nm/bush_iraq_dc&e=1



WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House has scrapped its list of Iraq (news - web sites) allies known as the 45-member "coalition of the willing," which Washington used to back its argument that the 2003 invasion was a multilateral action, an official said on Friday.

The senior administration official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the White House replaced the coalition list with a smaller roster of 28 countries with troops in Iraq sometime after the June transfer of power to an interim Iraqi government.

........The coalition, unveiled on the eve of the invasion, consisted of 30 countries that publicly offered support for the United States and another 15 that did not want to be named as part of the group.


Former coalition member Costa Rica withdrew last September under pressure from voters who opposed the government's decision to back the invasion.


On Friday, an organization from Iceland published a full-page advertisement in the New York Times calling for its country's withdrawal from the coalition and offering apologies for its support for U.S. policy.

[calimary]

3. I think they call it the "Coalition of the Wilting."

Heck, I'd bail, too, if I'd been fool enough to sink my country into this morass, and take georgie-poo's word on things.

[Algorem]

4. ABC Reuters story,

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=432425 REYKJAVIK (Reuters) - A group of nationals from tiny Iceland slammed their government's support of the U.S.-led war in Iraq, apologizing to Iraqis in a full-page advertisement in The New York Times on Friday.

The advertisement, paid for with donations from more than 4,000 citizens which constitutes about 1.4 percent of the population, demanded "that Iceland be immediately removed from the list of invaders in the 'coalition of the willing."'

"We apologies to the Iraqi people for the Icelandic ministers' support for the invasion of Iraq," the ad said... I Love It!

[darkism]

13. Or "Coalition of the Losing" n/t

[NYC]

5. Good for them.

I hope more ads like this appear.

[rodeodance]

6. 28 nations left/ ? about 45 (think Powell said that once)

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, could not immediately say when or why the administration stopped maintaining the coalition list.

Washington now focuses instead on a list of 28 nations with forces in Iraq, known as the multi-national forces list.

The new list, maintained by the State Department, contains: Albania, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Georgia, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia, Ukraine and the United Kingdom. ....

[rodeodance]

7. a full page ad in NYT must cost a mint--but good for them

[Strabo]

8. got panicked for a second there...

...almost thought you'd forgotten Poland!

[katinmn]

9. LOL! Never forget Poland!

[NYC]

11. Armenia is sending 45 or fewer people, I think.

They will be "serving" under the Polish flag.

Don't ask me, but it looks as though Poland is subcontracting.

[xchrom]

14. mongolia?!?!

weren't they there once already?
must feel like old times.

[JohnOneillsMemory]

10. Would NYT take a full page ad from DU? Let's write it!! n/t

[cliss]

12. The reason this little experiment failed,

is because the thought vibrations of 5.999 billion people around the world focused on their dislike for it.

You see, George, thoughts are the most powerful thing in the universe. Peoples' thoughts, on a massive scale, can make things happen, or, the opposite, can cause something to fail which they don't approve of.

5.999 billion people. Just think of it, George. They were all against you. You never convinced them of the sincerity of your plans. They didn't believe you.

And now they're pulling out. It was because you in your arrogance, never counted on the power of 5,999,999,999 thinking individuals.

[Moderator]

15. duplicate topic

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1172654