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"You forgot Poland" is a catch phrase based on a statement by United States President George W. Bush concerning Poland's involvement in the Iraq War during the first presidential election debate on September 30, 2004, during the 2004 U.S. presidential race. A catch phrase is a phrase or expression that is popularized, usually through repeated use, by a real person or fictional character. ...
George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States and former governor of Texas. ...
For other uses, see Iraq war (disambiguation) The Iraq War (2003-present) is an ongoing conflict in Iraq, which began with the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and continues to the present in the form of an insurgent rebellion, which is partly believed to be assisted by Muslim militant groups like...
The 2004 United States Presidential Election Debates were sponsored by the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) and concluded October 13, nearly three weeks before election scheduled for November 2, 2004. ...
September 30 is the 273rd day of the year (274th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 92 days remaining. ...
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During the debate John Kerry accused Bush of failing to gain international support for the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, saying "... when we went in, there were three countries: Great Britain, Australia and the United States. That's not a grand coalition. We can do better." Bush replied by saying "Well, actually, he forgot Poland." The issue of "forgetting Poland" may have reminded some of President Gerald Ford's statement in a 1976 televised debate. Ford did not "believe that the Poles consider themselves dominated by the Soviet Union." This was widely regarded as a crucial gaffe. John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is the junior United States Senator from Massachusetts. ...
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Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. ...
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Opinions Paraphrased as "You forgot Poland", it became a popular catch phrase among Bush detractors. The phrase was used on bumper stickers, T-shirts and other merchandise. Some people found the phrase funny because they considered the Polish contribution to the 2003 invasion of Iraq insignificant or suspected that Polish troops were not actually part of the initial March 20 invasion force, as there was a formal announcement about Polish troops departing for Iraq on March 21. Others found it funny because they were of the opinion that it was a poor rebuttal to Kerry's original point (i.e. that Bush falsely claimed that over 40 nations were "supporting" the invasion, when the number of nations that had contributed over 1,000 troops was low; therefore even if Bush's statement was entirely accurate, four nations with large troop numbers on the ground as opposed to three was still nowhere near forty). A famous non-quotation is a well-known phrase attributed to someone who, in fact, did not say it. ...
A catch phrase is a phrase or expression that is popularized, usually through repeated use, by a real person or fictional character. ...
A bumper sticker is an adhesive label or sticker with a message, meant to be attached to the bumper of an automobile for the purpose of being read by the driver or passengers in other vehicles. ...
T-Shirt A T-shirt (or tee shirt) is a shirt with short or long sleeves, a round neck, put on over the head, without pockets. ...
Poland announced that it would send about 200 troops to the Persian Gulf to take part in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. ...
March 20 is the 79th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (80th in Leap years). ...
March 21 is the 80th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (81st in leap years). ...
Polish involvement in the Iraq War - Main article: Polish involvement in the 2003 invasion of Iraq
Whether Poland was part of the invading forces became subject to a debate about the actual timelines, but at the time Bush made the comment in 2004, Poland had made a contribution of troops to Iraq. Official American and Polish sources show that 184 soldiers from the elite Polish commando units GROM and Formoza participated in the March 2003 invasion, with combat being confirmed by the Polish government on March 24. By August, 2003, Poland had become one of the major partners of the multinational force in Iraq, with 2,500 soldiers in southern Iraq. This contribution placed them behind only the United States, United Kingdom, South Korea, and Italy in terms of the number of troops contributed. A Polish Army soldier patrol leader debriefs his team after completing an afternoon patrol around the perimeter of Camp Babylon, Iraq. ...
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Official force name Other names GROM Grupa Reagowania Operacyjno-Manewrowego Polish Army GROM Force Branch Polish Army Chain of Command Directly subordinate to Polish Ministry of Defence Description Special Operations Force, rapidly deployable light infantry force. ...
March 24 is the 83rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (84th in Leap years). ...
Original 2003 March 21 list Coalition of the Willing is a phrase which has been used by the administration of US President George W. Bush to refer to the nations whose governments militarilly supported the United States position in the Iraq disarmament crisis and later the 2003 invasion of Iraq...
European software patents In late 2004, the European Union's patent law proposal, which had been criticized on the grounds that it essentially legalized software patents in the European Union, was delayed by objections from Poland. In an intentional reference to the Bush quotation, the slogan has also been used to describe this incident. The European Union (EU) Directive on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions (2002/0047/COD) was a proposal for an EU law which aimed to harmonise EU national patent laws and practices, which involved the granting of patents for computer-implemented inventions provided they meet certain criteria. ...
See also Wikisource – The Free Library – is a Wikimedia project to build a free, wiki library of source texts, along with translations of source-texts into any language and other supporting materials. ...
A Bushism is a word, phrase, pronunciation, or other linguistic configuration unique to the public speaking style of President George W. Bush. ...
Internets was originally used as shorthand for cluelessness about the Internet or about technology in general. ...
Polish Army (Polish Wojsko Polskie) is the name applied to the military forces of Poland. ...
One of the more frequent jokes on the internet is to produce a fake or joke web counter. ...
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