Is it 40 or 50 countries have signed on? Some notables and quotables:Quote“If on every occasion we allow a ruthless dictator to go free, because we do not like war, we risk paying a very high price... That is why we must move into action. We cannot simply stand by and watch as a ruthless dictator seriously and persistently violates UN decisions. Denmark Prime Minister Rasmussen, March 21, 2003" Quote“The decision taken by the Bush Administration to complete an unfinished job is very much welcome... The task is indeed one of completing an unfinished job for the sake of the stability and security of the Middle East and the permanent removal of a serious threat without losing another opportunity. In this vein, Eritrea continues to maintain that the necessary measures must be taken without equivocation.” -- Statement by the Government of Eritrea, March 12, 2003 Quote“Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction. As long as such a regime exists, the world cannot live in peace.” -- Georgia President Eduard Shevardnadze, March 20, 2003Quote“Georgia, which is now a member of the international coalition for Iraq's disarmament, is ready to not only provide political support for the U.S., but also to provide its military infrastructure to U.S. troops." -- Georgian Government Representative Shalva Pichkhadze, March 20, 2003

Quote“From the time of the terrorist attacks on America on September 11, 2001, until last year's UN Resolution 1441, there has been a strong consciousness of the threat of weapons of mass destruction, not only against the American people, but also against the rest of the world, including the Japanese people. How to rid the world of such weapons of mass destruction is now a major challenge for the international community and will continue to be in the future. President Bush has said that the U.S. is seeking to disarm Iraq and to liberate the Iraqi people. I agree with that strategy. Japan, too, supports the policy course of President Bush.” Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi, March 20, 2003Let me see if I have this straight. An unqualified, unambiguous endorsement from a country that had the Atomic Bomb dropped on it, that lost to US forces in World War 2, of which the US killed 900,000 civilians?Remarkable.

Quote“They should act when they are right to act because the Security Council can be wrong. It was wrong in Rwanda... You might avoid war and have a worse situation... That is why I was giving a comparison with our case. People avoided a war or doing very much and it ended up with a genocide.” -- Rwanda President Paul Kagame, March 8, 2003