I guess if we can't convince them going to war is the right thing to do for, y'know,
moral reasons,
cold hard cash makes a fine incentive!
President Bush is asking Congress to set up a $400 million fund to reward nations that have taken political and economic risks to join U.S.-led coalitions in Iraq and Afghanistan ... The $400 million request is part of the $80 billion supplemental war funding request Bush will send to Congress next week.
More in extension.
Most importantly, G.W. absolutely, positively does
not forget Poland! Also below is a Biden response.
"Poland has been a fantastic ally because the president and the people of Poland love freedom," Bush said during his Oval Office meeting with Kwasniewski, a staunch ally in the Iraq war. "I know the people of your country must have been thrilled when the millions of people went to the polls" in Iraq.
Democratic Sen. Joseph Biden (news, bio, voting record), D-Del., the ranking minority member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, says the fund is indicative of the administration's inability to attract more well-to-do nations to the coalition at the start of the conflict.
"It's kind of a shame," he said in a telephone interview. "The reason we're having to do this is that we never reached out to those who have the ability and capacity to do this to begin with."