Name An Ally, Any Ally...

Kerry is again saying that if he were President, he would have been able to bring along other allies, enough to make an impact in the $200 billion he says we're paying for the Iraq war (which he is for and against).

I keep wondering what other countries he could have gotten to contribute significant armed forces or money. Powerline points to an article in the Washington Times discussing new intelligence findings concerning France selling weapons to Saddam just months before the start of the war (the article is an excerpt from a book titled Treachery by Bill Gertz; 2 more excerpts are coming).

    The intelligence reports showing French assistance to Saddam ongoing in the late winter of 2002 helped explain why France refused to deal harshly with Iraq and blocked U.S. moves at the United Nations.

The rockets that almost killed Paul Wolfowitz in October of 2003 came from France.

 In all, between eight and 10 missiles hit the hotel. The casualties might have been higher, and included Wolfowitz, if the improvised rocket launcher had fired all the missiles.
     Because of a malfunction, 11 failed to go off...  
     Half the missiles fired at Wolfowitz's hotel were French-made Matra SNEB 68-millimeter rockets, with a range of two to three miles. The others were Russian in origin.
     The French missiles were "pristine," Navy SEAL commandos reported.
    "They were either new or kept in very good condition," said one SEAL who inspected the rocket tubes.
    The rockets were thought to have been taken from Iraq's French-made Alouette or Gazelle attack helicopters.
    The fact that new French missiles were showing up in the hands of Saddam loyalists months after the fall of Baghdad made Wolfowitz and his close aides livid.

As the above quote indicates, the French weren't the only one involved in supplying Iraq with weapons.

An initial accounting by the Pentagon in the months after the fall of Baghdad revealed that Saddam covertly acquired between 650,000 and 1 million tons of conventional weapons from foreign sources. The main suppliers were Russia, China and France.
    By contrast, the U.S. arsenal is between 1.6 million and 1.8 million tons.

Of course, Kerry claims that one of the reasons countries refused to join the coalition was because the Bush administration rejected the Kyoto protocol; he forgets to mention that a Senate resolution rejected the provisions of Kyoto and the Clinton administration never sent the treaty to the Senate for approval (via The Commons). It seems more likely that countries like France refused to join us because

As of last year, Iraq owed France an estimated $4 billion for arms and infrastructure projects, according to French government estimates. U.S. officials thought this massive debt was one reason France opposed a military operation to oust Saddam.
    The fact that illegal deals continued even as war loomed indicated France viewed Saddam's regime as a future source of income.

That last sentence is especially interesting. Gee, do you think the French were rooting against us? And do you think France actually gave a rat's ass about Kyoto? It's interesting the way liberals always seem to portray other countries as being more noble than America.

I'd like some reporter to ask Kerry: with Saddam's Iraq owing France $4 billion and China and Russia both selling arms to Iraq, what countries does Kerry think would have joined us?

Kerry keeps making blanket assertions: he'd have done it better, he'd have gotten other countries to go along, he's got a secret plan to win the war (is that one still floating around?). And the press is so busy following Democratic talking points, they can't be bothered pressing him for details.

Name the countries.