>I never thought of it that way, but you may be onto something here.
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>The relatively insignificant (as you put it) participation of other countries in the war had no other purpose, imo, than to make this appear as the work of many nations together.
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>I'm aware that the relatives of ANYONE who died isn't happy at all no matter how much heroism bs is fed to them. The relatives of those that DIDN'T have to go to war, I'm sure are quite happy that their country's participation was, relatively speaking, so much less significant. I would be.

Although we were the biggest force in the 1991 Gulf War, we had a lot of help from the British. I am not sure of the extent of other country's involvements, but I do remember British Tornados (?) making quite a few sorties and at least one of the POWs was British. Also, British commandos were pretty active inside Iraq before the ground war started. Also, I seem to remember that the Iraqi incursion into Kaifa (?), Saudi Arabia before the ground war started was repulsed with the help of Arab forces.