March 27, 2003

Con Condi
WASHINGTON--The coalition that is currently engaged in the hard, dangerous work to disarm Iraq is strong, broad and diverse.

Nearly 50 nations are committed to ridding Saddam Hussein's regime of all its deadly, destructive and illegal weapons. To put this in perspective, the combined population of coalition countries is approximately 1.23 billion people, with a combined gross domestic product of approximately $22 trillion. These countries are from every continent on the globe, representing every major race, religion, and ethnicity in the world.
[OpinionJournal]

What crap is this? The other day I heard Fleischer giving this same shit, his country count was 34 then, at a White house press briefing.

GDP of coalliation = approx $22 trillion
GDP of the world = $31.3 trillion*

Population of the coalition = 1.23 billion
Population of India & China = 1.0 billion + 1.3 billion = 2.3 billion*

Ok fine so coalition is richer than the countries not supporting the war, but dont even get me started on the population figures. And if I remember my civics lesson correctly, it doesnt matter how rich or poor you are, in a democractic world every vote counts and has the same importance. So if you wanna put forward figures, majority of the world is against war.

Condi go and give this shit to ignorant fools from Alabama, I for one do this very complex thing called thinking.

*src: World Bank