Germany and Japan, once

Usage examples of allies.

Moreover, the vast logistical efforts of the Allies had been possible only because of the enormous supplies of oil available to them.

Moreover, in the end, Saddam devised a strategy that took advantage of our own missteps and the shortcomings of our allies to undermine the policy and help speed its demise.

Even if the United States and its allies did not believe that it was the sanctions that were depriving the Iraqi people, the noise from the Arab world and within the United Nations was getting too loud.

Our Arab allies reassured Washington in its preferred course of action by promising us that Saddam was just bluffing.

Many of our allies proved perfidious, feckless, or outright duplicitous.

On some occasions, the Saudis and other regional allies have indicated that they simply would not support a U.

Kuwait and Saudi Arabia continue to support the NFZs only because the southern zone provides vital warning of an Iraqi attack, and Turkey puts up with the northern zone out of deference to its American allies and fear that Washington would retaliate regarding other key Turkish interests (Cyprus, its application for European Union membership, and so on) if it did not.

Even our British allies are tiring of the commitment to the NFZs (the French bailed out several years ago) and would like to see us drastically scale back our sorties.

At the time, this was an extremely propeace position and was seen as a betrayal by Saddam's erstwhile allies among the Arab radicals—Syria and Libya.

As if to convince him that America and its allies had turned against him, on April 10, British customs agents seized components of Gerald Bull's supergun as they were being shipped out to Iraq.

Similarly, who knows how many casualties the United States and its allies would have been willing to tolerate—although before the war, polls showed strong support even if a war resulted in 10,000 American casualties, and the administration never wavered.

Saddam believed that the United States and its coalition allies would have little stomach for a protracted struggle with him and would soon be distracted by other matters.

The upshot of the meeting was that Ambassador Albright was dispatched on a trip to a half-dozen key Security Council members and Arab allies, along with Parris and Riedel, to make the case for staying the course on containment and gauge the reaction of her audiences.

It also gave him the chance to drive the CIA and its oppositionist allies out of northern Iraq, reassert the regime's authority over its wayward northern provinces, and demonstrate his strength to the People of Iraq.

However, by exposing the splits within the Security Council and among the coalition allies, the crisis had further weakened the U.