"The Coaltion of the Willing" - Afghanistan?!

[oceanpoetry]

I am reading Michael Moore's book - "Dude, Where's my Country?!" - and came across an astonishing fact - Afghanistan is top of the list of 30 countries that US named as the "Coaltion of Willing" against Iraq. As of the printing of the book, Michael Moore had not received a response from the State Department what exactly Afghanistan is contributing.

I guess this proves one thing at least: irony is far from dead.

[Columbia]

1. Afghan

I'm pretty sure that he means Hamid Karzai and whatever the government over there is called now that the Taliban was ousted in 2001.

[oceanpoetry]

2. PKU

from what I understand the Taleban backed - PKU Kurds are the ones that caught SH and left him in the hole for us to take into custody.

This is an awesome, must-read book!

[w13rd0]

3. Yes, that is what he (Bush) means...

...but what are they providing the coalition? Morale support? Coalition of the "willing" but not necessarily "able"...

[Columbia]

4. Coalition

Yeah, probably just moral support. Meaning they're ok with it. The Brits and the Aussies were the only ones who provided troops during the initial invasion from what I know. Now, you have the Polish, Japanese, Koreans, and some other random countries with troops there too.

[oceanpoetry]

6. Harmid Kazai

He has worked as a consultant for Unocal, some additional info here:
http://www.sumeria.net/politics/bushknew/followmoney.html

Follow the money, follow the oil. Same old story.

[Robbien]

9. We had to bribe the others to be willing

With Afghanistan we probably used the threat of withdrawing our troops. That is Bush's SOP. If a bribe does not work, threaten them. Of course the purse Bush takes the money from belongs to the US taxpayers.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. So is Eritrea

and the superpower of Costa Rica...

I know ironic

Speaking of what Afghanistan is providing, rocks, amunition for the trebuchets being provided by the great powers of Nicaragua and El Salvador... and manned by Eritrean crews

[Rex]

7. Afghanistan is providing a verying important training aid to our troops.

Target practice. :(

[uhhuh]

8. High grade Heroin

To keep troop morale up.