OpinionJournal October 12, 2004
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By James Taranto
Homer Nods
It seems we erred in an item yesterday in which we described Australia as the fourth-biggest member of the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq, after the U.S., Britain and Missouri. According to GlobalSecurity.org, Australia actually has only about 250 men in Iraq, and another 600 in the theater. This ranks it 13th among national contingents within Iraq (GlobalStrategy apparently includes the Missouri figures as part of the U.S.) and seventh in the overall theater. That's OK, we still love the Aussies.
Those of you who were mystified by our reference to Missouri must have been watching baseball on Friday night, when John Kerry declared in the debate: "Just given the number of people from Missouri who are in the military over there today, were a country, it would be the third largest country in the coalition, behind Great Britain and the United States. That's not a grand coalition."
Hey Sen. Kerry, way to put a swing state in its place!
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