Dude, Where's My Country_ - Michael Moore [97]
Poll numbers cited for international opposition to the war in Iraq can be found in the following: Peter Morton, “U.S. citizens at odds with world on war,” National Post, March 12, 2003; Derrick Z. Jackson, “World is saying ‘no’ to war,” Chicago Tribune, March 17, 2003; “People power on world stage,” Reuters, March 6, 2003; “Japanese premier says not always right to follow public opinion,” BBC Worldwide Monitoring, March 5, 2003; Susan Taylor Martin, “Business of war rolls on in Turkey, opposition or no,” St. Petersburg Times, March 2, 2003; and George Jones, “Poll shows most Britons still against the war,” Daily Telegraph, February 13, 2003. The not-so-twisted British view of the biggest threat to world peace comes from a survey done for The Times (London), “Bush ‘as big a threat as Saddam,’” February 23, 2003.
For a look at the role trade deals played in the “Coalition of the Willing,” see Tom Skotnicki’s “Coalition of the Winning,” Business Review Weekly, June 26, 2003, Claire Harvey’s “NZ leader seeks peace in her time,” The Weekend Australian, April 26, 2003, Linda McQuaig’s “Rebuffed president recklessly saddles up for war,” Toronto Star, March 9, 2003, and David Armstrong’s “U.S. pays back nations that supported war,” San Francisco Chronicle, May 11, 2003.
For a general view of some of the members of the “Coalition,” check out Dana Milbank’s “Many willing, but only a few are able,” Washington Post, March 25, 2003. Milbank’s article also reports on Morocco’s offer of 2,000 monkeys to help with the invasion. An interesting side-note, while the monkeys may not have made it into war, various other non-simians did. Siobhan McDonough reported in the Associated Press on April 2, 2003, that among the ranks there were chickens, pigeons, dogs and dolphins. And while Poland did come up short on farm animals, they managed to round up a few soldiers to commit to the cause, as reported in “Poland to commit up to 200 troops in war with Iraq,” Associated Press, March 17, 2003.
The estimate for the percentage of world population that the “Coalition” represented comes from Ivo Daalder’s “Bush’s coalition doesn’t add up where it counts,” Newsday, March 24, 2003 and the U.S. Census Bureau’s Population Clock, World Population estimate.
Information on the Lockheed Martin war machine comes from the following sources: “Liquidmetal Technologies and Lockheed Martin establish product development partnership,” Business Wire, January 27, 2003; Barbara Correa, “War machine grows quickly,” Daily News (Los Angeles), March 23, 2003; United States Air Force, “USAF Fact Sheet: Milstar satellite Communications System,” March 2003; Craig Covault, “Milstar pivotal to war,” Aviation Week, April 28, 2003; “Air Force launches a military communications satellite,” Associated Press, April 8, 2003; Tom McGhee, “Bibles to bomb fins,” Denver Post, April 6, 2003; Heather Draper, “Lockheed Martin set to launch 6th Milstar,” Rocky Mountain News, January 22, 2003; Dick Foster, “Springs base controls ‘eyes and ears’ of war,” Rocky Mountain News, March 22, 2003; Robert S. Dudney, “U.S. dominance in space helped win operation Iraqi Freedom,” Chattanooga Times Free Press, May 25, 2003; Richard Williamson, “Wired for war,” Rocky Mountain News, January 3, 2000; Tim Friend, “Search for bin Laden extends to Earth orbit,” USA Today, October 5, 2001; and Heather Draper, “Liftoff: Defense stocks soar,” Rocky Mountain News, October 9, 2001
Estimates for the deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan come from related projects. For Afghanistan, see Marc Herold’s “Daily Casualty Count of Afghan Civilians Killed by U.S. Bombing.” Herold is a professor at the University of New Hampshire, and his report, based on an extensive and thorough study of media reported civilian deaths from the beginning of the Afghan campaign through the present can be viewed at http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mwherold/. For the war in Iraq, an identical system was set up through the Iraq Body Count, which can be found online at