DontTreadOnMe wrote:Walter Hinteler wrote:I have forgotten, who of these EU-countries besides the UK started that war.
well, as close as i remember, those that went along with it that supplied the most of anything but blathering.
u.k.
spain
australia - not e.u.
poland
i wish they hadn't. it only encouraged bush to get us into this mess.
I couldn't find any news of other countries besides the UK and Australia that joined the USA invading Iraq.
According to (open) sources, Spain sent its first troops to Iraq on the last days of December 2003.
Poland sent its first troops on August, 1, 2003 to Iraq. These Polish troops were joined by Ukrainian troops and those from Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Latvia, and from Slovakia and Lithuania.
The first 35 Italian Italian arrived in Basra on June 10, 2003.
However, I may be wrong.
Non-US Forces in Iraq - as by 30 August 2004