"The Count" <vlad@impaler.com> wrote in message
news:3EE818B8.C6F0CD77@impaler.com...
> >
> > >
> > > Japan as America's lap dog, as usual.
> >
> > Japan can be trusted as a US Ally.
> > I have doubts about South Korea.
> >
> > USA
>
> and why does the US need allies?  We sure didn't when we decided to go to
> Iraq in the first place.
>

I believe that the US government's official position regarding going to war
with Iraq was
that they had 26 "allies" of which 4 put troops on the ground in Iraq.
I think you are mistaking the security council opposition as the whole span
of countries
in the world.