Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 21:20:24 +0100
From: Jan Straathof <janstr-AT-chan.nl>
Subject: Re: Numbers Game Question


Anthony wrote:

>I guess for Krugman, "the world" does not include the following 24
>countries:
>
>Spain, Italy, Portugal, Britain, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary,
>Poland, Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia,
>Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Jordan, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar, Japan,
>Australia.

from: : http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EC06Ak02.html

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has been spinning for weeks that the
coalition is probably the largest in the history of mankind. The Bush
administration never released a full list of the coalition. The institute
did: 34 nations support the US war against Iraq. There were 33 in the
first Gulf War. As it stands, the 34 are: Albania, Armenia, Australia,
Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bulgaria, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic,
Denmark, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kuwait,
Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Oman, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal,
Qatar, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, the
United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom.

According to the study, these 34 nations represent "only about 10 percent
of the population of the world's 197 countries. Subtracting the estimated
70 percent of their populations that opinion polls show are not in favor
of war, the war supporters in the coalition of the willing countries make
up only about 3 percent of the world's population." A UN it ain't"




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