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Well, here. 'How can you say we're going it alone - - "

Well, check the casualties.

Or troop numbers. A reasonable person might note that 94.8% of the troops are wearing American uniforms.

Now, that was March, 2004. Some countries have left since then. And many do not engage in combat, will not engage in combat. Even WITH their American supplied uniforms, etc.

And, we'll never know exactly what deals were struck, but many, many of the rest are mercenaries, their governments paid for their token participation. We do know the Bushies offered Turkey $15 BILLION to participate.

I guess the issue is by what stretch of the imagination can you say the US has a meaningful coalition? It's a name, a fiction, a farce to anyone connected with reality.

Let's say that in your neighborhood, you pay 95% of all taxes collected. Would you think you were pretty much going it alone?

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