Since so much of Kerry's position last night was about how the US was unfairly burdened with 90% of the cost and 90% of the casualties in the war, I thought it would be cool to bring forward this great article by Mark Levin w.r.t. coalition participation in Iraq vs. S. Korea.  I took Mark's numbers, popped 'em into a table & compiled some stats to make the numbers easier to compare -

This is surprising on several fronts -

• The Korean War was, by most international accounts & likely by Kerry's standards, a "Good War" to repel a hostile invading nation & it received full UN sanction.  It was even ostensibly conducted under UN Leadership.
• Levin's Korean war numbers do NOT  include S. Korean troops.   Now, it's hard to say how you'd use that stat to make a point about foreign participation in the war in either direction.
• As Levin notes, despite UN sanction and even front-line leadership, France was of minimal support in Korea and Germany non-existant.
• The differential between US Military capability vs. coalition partners is FAR greater now than it was in Korea - ostensibly, in some ways the coalition needed the additional partners far more in Korea than in Iraq
• Regardless, the US was still responsible for close to 90% of the manpower (and presumably the casualties) in Korea.
• Anyone else impressed that Ethiopia sent 1200 troops to fight in Korea?!?!